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 XML, 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 is an [...]

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 are [...]

It’s one of those weeks where I find it hard to remember what’s happened.
Jack and Matt J are in San Francisco, so there have been a lot of Skype calls between us.
Timo is here too, working on El Morro. He’s sitting in the second room which is called Statham. Campbell is in Statham too. He [...]

It’s Saturday and I’m at my kitchen table with a cup of tea. I enjoy working Saturdays so long as they’re optional. So far I’ve sketched the latest rev of an XML specification, drawn a cartoon of a workflow and written a commentary on it, replied to a few emails (though I’m still way behind), [...]

It is 6.30 pm in a foreign city and I have taken five minutes to write this note. Jack, Matt J and I are with clients in a workshop that began Saturday noon, after waking to leave London earlier than 5 am, and it will continue until Monday night. Over the last week, nobody in [...]

Tuesday was super incredible. Kari’s been studio manager for three whole days (she works one day a week), and she’s already running payroll. She’s an incredible cultural fit, I’m really pleased.
Also Tuesday I was surrounded by conversations about different projects. Kendrick! Ashdown! Bonnier! The studio can tip from total silence to conversations bubbling about multiple [...]

Nik, one of the builders, was in this morning smoothing out some of the plastering work here at the new studio, and Robbie, the electrician, came in to move the light-switches around. He also swapped the florescent tubes out for much brighter, bluer ones. The old ones were yellow, like the 1970s.
Our 10am all-hands today [...]

A brand new studio, but it feels really quiet. Nick is on holiday for the week. Matt Jones was in New York participating in the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium earlier this week, which focussed on “city as platform.” He’s currently in San Francisco with Jack, who is also on the road, working with Bonnier [...]

It’s the first week back of the new year and it’s taken me until Friday night to write this post. We have begun the new year both in a new studio, and in medias res.
Sorry, that’s kind of fancy. I mean we are in the midst of things.
Straight away.
Ashdown hit alpha before Christmas and we’ve [...]