Tom is on holiday. Matt Jones was with the RCA Design Interactions programme on Monday launching a brief on the Future of Etiquette, in collaboration with T-Mobile. He’s currently in Berlin with that. Aside from that: Ashdown; helping Schulze with Bonnier; gentle biz dev.
Schulze is gently biz deving too, on top of developing last week’s [...]
My talk at DxF2009 in Utrecht last week was an hour’s wander around the idea of Time, particularly historical and cultural ideas of time.
My focus was time as a material for interaction design that we should deconstruct and reconstruct in order to create products and services that take advantage of new real-time web technologies.
DxF2009, [...]
Matt’s mentioned in the past few summaries of weeks that I’ve been working on ‘material exploration’ for a project called Ashdown. I wanted to expand a little on what material exploration looks like for code and what it feels like to me, because it feels like a strange and foreign territory at times. This is [...]
We’re extremely happy to be included alongside friends and colleagues such as SixToStart, Poke and Dunne & Raby – as well as in the company of such established design industry heavyweights as SeymourPowell in the UK Trade & Investment “Creative Industries” supplement in November’s Monocle magazine.
I’m into cybernetics. Or rather: I think that the cybernetics movement of mid last century is the hidden nexus of interconnected postwar history.
The 1946 Macy Conference is kind an aleph moment. In attendance were people intrinsically involved in computers and prosthesis (the collaboration of man and machine), modern anthropology and modern neuroscience (what it means [...]
As Webb has mentioned in this week’s update, I’m leading a project in the studio called Ashdown, which is in it’s very early stages.
One of the things we need is a researcher to undertake a small sub-project for a few weeks, to help us understand the territory we’re designing for.
Have a read of the mini-brief [...]
I’m back. Holidays are good, I can thoroughly recommend them. And if you’re interested in the talk, Escalante, I gave while I was away, you can listen to the MP3 recording and see the bibliography.
Thanks Matt Jones for giving the week 226 and week 227 updates while I was away! He’s funnier but I talk [...]
A few years ago I read a book called Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam. It introduced me to the term social capital.
Social capital is an abstract measure that wraps up how many people you know, the information flow in your network, how many people owe you favours, that kind of thing.
High social capital goes hand [...]
Autumn arrived abruptly in our studios last week, and we weren’t the only people feeling it.
Our friends upstairs at Pachube are wiring up the world for real-time sensor-data sharing, and so were able to see the sudden addition of electric heaters in the building through the spike in the graph below…
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