I’m giving out a prize in about half an hour to whoever made the best thing today at Hack the Government day in the lovely offices of the Guardian. In spite (I say this as I’m surrounded by very serious looking data wranglers) of not being a coder, I made something too. Number 10 has… Continue reading Rewiredstate "hack": a new petitions site design for Number 10
About cities: future of cities workshop at LIFT
Some strange and loose notes taken during the workshop organised by Daniel Kaplan from FING and from Anne Galloway and Dan Hill‘s talk at LIFT 09. – Things we ask of cities include: – Make us safe – Make us meet – Make us green – Make us equal Maybe cities are a state of… Continue reading About cities: future of cities workshop at LIFT
More than this: or why I've decided to stop using Twitter
Following from what was a weepy post a week ago, I’ve decided to stop using Twitter once I reach 2000 updates (about 150 to go). I remember the evening I started using it, sometime in November 2006 when I was staying at Ben’s on Herengracht in Amsterdam. He sent me an invite and I looked… Continue reading More than this: or why I've decided to stop using Twitter
To those young blessed souls
I’ve been invited to lead a sort of online discussion for the near-graduation 4th year students of the BA in Industrial design in Montreal. I was in their position in 2004 which seems like so ages ago and I remember the feeling. I felt like I was sortof on the brink of an abyss, the… Continue reading To those young blessed souls
Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations
Russell Davies had the lovely idea of proposing a project around speculative modeling with the Lyddle End series. I received a Lock Side Stores. This is my response in the form of imagery and conversations taking place in 2050. 1. An afternoon at the Science Museum – So this is it? – Yeh – ….… Continue reading Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations
The problem with starting a company
Is that you forget to build an actual circle of friends around you. Friends that you can get a drink with after work, friends who want to have coffee with you on weekends. I want friends to have a chat with. Twitter isn’t friends. Facebook isn’t friends. Flickr isn’t friends. After nearly 2 years in… Continue reading The problem with starting a company
Know your food
After Open Sauces in November, I got interested in food again, especially the way food is presented and communicated in the context of supermarkets. There’s something deeply depressing about the presentation of fruits and veg in the UK and there is also something cultural about that presentation. When I lived in Italy, access to certain… Continue reading Know your food
Design's role in the descending economy
So I find myself more and more motivated to blog as a way to scratch an intellectual itch triggered just today by visiting the V&A’s Cold War Modern exhibition and coming back home to read the Guardian’s interview of Philippe Starck, Terrence Conran and Kirstie Allsopp. As I walked through the Victoria and Albert’s completely… Continue reading Design's role in the descending economy
Something worth blogging about
I don’t like women and technology events but i would blog any day about women I admire in technology. Actually so should you. Common now, I’m sure we could up the numbers on women attending tech conferences in no time! Additionally in the spirit of Anne Galloway’s brilliant chart on women in ubicomp from in… Continue reading Something worth blogging about
For ordinary people
This is just the best example of British wit, sarcasm and social commentary.