I’m catching up on a week of madness and found7 steps to a green product and Bruce Sterling’s Anatomy of a spime diagram that Matt Jones commented on. Funnily enough both speak about similar things. The Metropolis article highlights a methodology when designing a product: the right materials, clean and green production, etc. Bruce’s diagram… Continue reading The internet of things doesn't have any users
Month: October 2007
Scary
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Where is home?
I grew up all over the place (Paris, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Canada) and continued to relocate in my adult life (Italy, Holland, now UK) and many of my closest friends have had similar experiences. This got me thinking that the fashionable community of frequent travelers might not necessarily equate the community of frequent re-locators.… Continue reading Where is home?
Xmas suggestion #1
Subtlety was never my thing :) Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories: A collection of sustainable design essays.
Sustainability through education?
I like to think that design schools don’t just teach good creative thinking but also good habits that shape you as a professional later on and skills that can influence the profession in general. I’ve been co-teaching one day a week at the University for the Creative Arts and in a way it’s been quite… Continue reading Sustainability through education?
Do you live in a house or a home?
(or random thoughts about the Internet of Things) Is our idea of home at odds with the idea of ubicomp? Are we ready to be a “user” all the time? You don’t need to “interact” with a chair or should the technology be smart enough to know when to intervene or not? Should we be… Continue reading Do you live in a house or a home?
Big a&% table
Thanks Chris.
Free(lance) your mind
It makes me chuckle to eavesdrop on people who have pre-conceived ideas of what it’s like to freelance. “Oh I don’t want a 9-5 job” they say. Yes that’s true, if you freelance you will be working ALL THE TIME if you’re not careful. Most of your time will be spent looking for those “next… Continue reading Free(lance) your mind
Visions of the future
As echos of Half-Life 2 from the other room force me into headphones mode, it made me think about the ways in which entertainment likes to make us see the future. Games, comics (hmm, sorry graphic novels) and movies show us a future where things have gone wrong, dystopian, weird and dark. In design however,… Continue reading Visions of the future
to&fro
Since I’m involved with way too much technology, leading activities for tinker.it! in London, and helping out Tom with thinking about the future internet of things, I suppose it’s only normal I’m also spending time on technology-light projects as well. I worked on to&fro(muji) with Dave last August and we submitted the idea to the… Continue reading to&fro