Studio leylines One of the things that was easier, writing these notes about the studio back in 2009, was that the room was smaller. There’s something about stewing in each other’s pheromones. You share moods. If the week was tiring, you were all tired. If you had the sherbet fizz of excitement in your belly, [...]

Tom is hammering away at Schooloscope. He’s off at a conference about play and invention next week, so hoping to get this month’s feature release cooked before then. Nick and Matt B are in the other room, working together on new product development. They’re aiming to take a tech proof of concept to minimum viable [...]

Project update time. Client work. Trumbull (a little project with the BBC) is heading towards prototype. The production tools on the back-end of Mag+ are about to have a significant improvement, and the app is soon to have its next feature release — after a particularly tough development cycle. Schooloscope is a week or so [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve done a weeknote. It’s been busy! Mag+ continues. The first iPad app on the platform, Popular Science+, got a cracking write-up on the Apple website: The magazine of tomorrow. Nick and Lei are working on the next version of the app, and on scaling up. James is working on [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve done a weeknote. Deadlines, exhaustion, seismic events both real and psychic have conspired against us, but still – very remiss of us. We’ll try and resume normal service as soon as possible. Busy times, a full studio, a lot on deck. Week 255. Off we go. The week started [...]

El Morro launches in a few hours, so in a minute I’ll be writing an intro blog post to go along with the publicity. I got the pre-launch shakes last night. It’s the best feeling. We had a delayed All Hands on Thursday, because on Tuesday so many people were out: Matt J, Matt B [...]

I’m writing these notes late. Really it’s week 250 already — we had our All Hands at noon. Opening it I said “it’s week 250. Halfway through!” I don’t know what made me say that. We’ll see! I’m on the Central Line on my way to White City for a consultancy gig with the BBC. [...]

What the studio looks like at almost 4pm on Friday 12 March: Campbell is in the small room at the end, working on editorial layouts and user interface assets, both part of the El Morro project. Also in the small room is Timo. He’s working on editorial in InDesign and how to encode this in [...]

I’m at home with a glass of red wine at my new desk. I’m writing these notes late. It’s already week 248. Jack and Matt J were in Berlin briefly last week, on a media design consultancy gig. I’ll quote from The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan/Quentin Fiore (1967) for a second: The wheel [...]

Projects progress. There are many people working on El Morro, which has become a number of streams; Ashdown is finding its identity as a marketable product; Kendrick is closing in on launch; Trumbull has a product description and a design/development timeline; Service+ is wrapping up; and there’s some short consultancy in Germany next week. Processes [...]