Originally uploaded by mbiddulph. I can’t take fancy “depth of field” pictures with my camera, so I told Matt to take one of my pixelblocks construction… Happy New Year everyone and much health, love, success and blogging!
Author: designswarm
Blogging since 2005.
What drives me these days.
Matt pointed me to this the other day, and it’s become really how i’m making decisions these days. I also hope to keep taking risks in my life and jumping into crazy adventures and situations, it’s so much more fun that way : )
Ché Jolie!
I need to visually entertain myself most days, so in between a bit of innovation work during the day, i created this one evening…enjoy!
Last post before xmas
Off on xmas vacation at the end of the week, but super swamped, so I thought id make you something nice for Xmas, like a card : ) Will be back for my usual dose of sarcasm, scepticism and ranting towards the end of the year. Hope you all have lots to eat and drink… Continue reading Last post before xmas
An Xtech proposal
Man, I’m really reaching new levels of geekiness. So I submitted a presentation proposal for XTech in Paris next May, fingers crossed. Title: Ceci n’est pas seulement une pipe: designing for semantic meaning in a connected world Description: Using examples of applications to illustrate the semantic disturbance that takes place when then web hacks objects… Continue reading An Xtech proposal
The year that was 2006
As we’re approaching the end of this year and I’m trying to recap this rollercoaster of a year and went back to one of those corny questionnaires that a friend from Quebec sent me a few years ago and fill it out, it’s good for the karama people! Those who are brave enough can post… Continue reading The year that was 2006
Xmas wishes
About the democracy of creation and sustainability
As soon as I started blogging, a little over a year ago now, I’ve always been interested in how my former life of industrial designer merged with the internet. I went to blogject workshops, read about the “internet of things”, went to “near field interactions” workshop, looked at Matt’s work on Second life, listen to… Continue reading About the democracy of creation and sustainability
Making in 2006
Originally uploaded by alexandra666. I made this map after thinking about the state of the act of “making” something. In my former life, I used to be an industrial designer, then dove into installation design and then interaction design and now information architecture. That roller coaster didn’t mean that I never look back. I still… Continue reading Making in 2006
Twits
I joined the bandwagon of Twitter fully aware that i would only collect a meager amount of friends on it, (since it seems fashionable around the geek arena now to jump into the same friend collecting activity as kids on myspace) but thought it was an interesting twist on Jaiku. It definitely feels like “myspace… Continue reading Twits