December 23rd, 2009 by Matt Webb · No Comments

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Growth Assembly, by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Sascha Pohflepp.
Worldwide shipping of manufactured things is very inefficient. Why not ship devices and utensils in a single envelope? As seeds.
As ideas.

December 23rd, 2009 by Matt Webb · 7 Comments

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Officially we’re closed this week. But on Monday we packed up the old studio, and yesterday Tom, Matt B, Tom Taylor (from RIG) and I moved all our collective stuff 100 yards down the road and piled it up in the new place.
I ache!
But it feels great. Imagine that in a Tony the Tiger voice. [...]

December 18th, 2009 by Matt Webb · No Comments

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I started writing this yesterday, waiting for an appointment at the bank. Forms to sign. The business specialist was double-booked — I had to wait and wasn’t in a good temper about it. Bad karma: I double-booked myself later, and didn’t realise I was supposed to be meeting Ben about cybernetics. When he phoned me, [...]

I’ve got something I want to share with you.
We’ve been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles.
Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable [...]

December 11th, 2009 by Tom Armitage · No Comments

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The future of 1982, that is.
Rick Dickinson, of Dickinson Associates, has uploaded a whole portfolio of images to Flickr – both illustrations and photographs – from his work designing the hardware for the ZX Spectrum. You can view the whole set here.
It’s a lovely slice of British technology history – designing what the home computing [...]

December 11th, 2009 by Matt Webb · No Comments

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Schulze is on holiday. Matt Jones is with Bonnier R&D in San Francisco, delivering the films the team produced for this stage, and kicking off the next. The films are gorgeous and spot on. Tom is bringing Ashdown to life (we’ll have a friends+family alpha for the end of next week).
I am on the bounce.
Matt [...]

December 2nd, 2009 by Matt Webb · 2 Comments

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The building work on the new studio started Monday. There are walls going up. Earlier today Schulze chose where the new plug sockets go. I understand the internal glazing is going to look wonderful.
Things are underway.
Let me speak about that for a minute.
There’s a time, in projects, where you’re in the middle. You can see [...]

December 1st, 2009 by Matt Webb · 2 Comments

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The suite of UK education products we’ve been designing and building, codenamed Ashdown, is also known as School Report Card.
I am extremely happy to say, today, that Ashdown is funded by an investment from 4iP/Channel 4. Read 4iP’s reasons for investing, and what TechCrunch Europe find interesting.
For us, it’s the ideal project: Ashdown has to [...]

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