February 2012
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IxDA Redux
I went to the IxDA Redux talk at Sapient’s offices in London last night. It was a series of seven 10 minute talks on the IxDA conference in Dublin, some spanning the whole conference, others focussing on a single talk.
Once again I forgot to bring a notebook with me (maybe there’s a reason I stopped doing industrial design) and so had to take down some notes on the iPhone. About half...
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January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Over the Horizon: Narratives of the Future
Last night I attended a talk at Work Gallery, London on designing for/in the future. The discussion panel was made up of James Auger, Sam Hecht and Zoe Laughlin. The three were seemingly all trying to have very different conversations, and whilst I could have listened to any one of them talk for hours on end, the discussion element of the evening didn’t work quite as planned. It was very...
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WatchPlaystation Move, Beat Sketch by Wieden + Kennedy
Illustrations by Serge Seidlitz
August 2011
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WatchControlled Chaos by Mark Oliver Adams
I like this: the foreign characters, arrows and blocks make me think of hieroglyphs, the restricted resolution makes me appreciate the ability to convey characters or meaning through a limited (5 x 9) grid, and the flickering through characters reminds me of train station ticker boards: finding short bursts of meaning through the chaos. All very charming.
July 2011
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June 2011
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