“WordPress is just a load of data”
A friend and I were recently discussing what format to use for her website. We came across this article ‘Using Templates to Design Killer Blogs’ from Feast (istock photo), which I thought was worth posting up for a think. Read more…
Education and service. Let’s hit the high street
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was reading RSA’s Design and Society‘Social Animals: tomorrow’s designers in today’s world by Sophia Parker, which makes a good case for incorporating service design into the design education curriculum. Parker argues that “education is at risk of failing its socially-driven students on two counts. Read more…
Design thinks
Last week I attended Service Design Thinks 3: Service Design from Scratch. It was the first one of the Service Design Thinks events that I come along to. I was really interested to see what the speakers Dr James Munro from Patient Opinion,investor Zaeem Maqsood from, First Capital and entrepreneurs Sophia Parker and Katie Harris from, The Resolution Foundation and Esro had to say about their experiences. Read more…
Jailbrake! Social Innovation Camp
I spent last weekend 26-28th March with a bunch of really amazing people prototyping an idea that proposes a solution to reduce re-offending rates amongst young offenders. This was the brief set this year at Jailbrake, the Social Innovation Camp, supported by NESTA. Read more…
What the F*** is social media
I’ve been reading a bit about social media lately and doing some really interesting research on it, thanks to my latest post with Prospect. I came across the presentation “What the F*** is Social Media?” over the weekend. It was a presentation done a year ago and now has been updated and re-published. Has lots of juicy facts about social media impact and users. The first slide opens with “Social media is like teen sex. Read more…
Starck up
It’s been a while since I posted anything and have had this one in my head for some time. However, just now sat down and emptied my thoughts….I have to admit that years ago, maybe early 90′s I was a huge fan of Philippe Starck- until I found out what design means to me – or at least what it means to me until now. And I suppose that is what design is all about: evolving, changing, progressing. Read more…
Graphic Monkey
A job advert I read a few days ago for a Middleweight/Senior Creative Designer started with “Looking for a highly creative designer / photoshop guru……You will be comfortable creating polished imagery at the drop of a hat, resisting the free food… And why does this creative recruitment agency feel the need to put the word ‘creative’ in front of ‘designer’. I would assume they know the definition of what a designer is and does. Read more…
Creative economy?
’300,000 graduates will be unemployed this June, of which 20,000 belong to the creative industries’ states Prof. Lorraine Gamman, director of Design Against Crime Research Centre from University of the Arts London. Slightly before this statement, you can watch Dame Liz Forgan, chair of the Arts Council England, acknowledge how the creative industries (and the recent creative graduates) will be an important part of the post-recession recovery. Read more…
Winner of ELIA design brief
Jotta, design and art community interviewed me after found winner of ELIA‘s (The European League of Institutes of the Arts) Neu Now festival identity design, through their marketplace. I spoke to jotta about ‘adapting to the challenges of London and the value of perseverance’. Read interview here. After winning the logo, ELIA asked me to also design Read more…
Pirate Utopia
Goldsmith’s design show space at the New Designers Show and where the title of this post comes from, was truly inspirational. To be honest, it was the only bit of the exhibition I fully enjoyed. There were no objects, no designs, but a pile of sticky notes and papers hanging, stuck, pinned down and just all over the place. Read more…