I feel betrayed and I’m not even sure why. I got an email the other day from Flickr and I thought, hmm that’s unusual. And this is what I got: “Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member, On March 15th we’ll be discontinuing the old email-based Flickr sign in system. From that point on, everyone will… Continue reading Betrayal 2.0
Student's service design projects
The week is finally over and my student’s work was great! I invited them to post all of their service ideas online and will be updating this post with the links as time goes by. They also conducted a short interview, nothing none of you don’t already know. We didn’t really get to the core… Continue reading Student's service design projects
Interaction design semantic discussions
Interesting how this all started with a simple email conversation with Régine talking about some conversations I was having with ex-students and observers in London about the Interim show at the RCA and then WHAM… everything explodes… she writes no less than 6 posts about the show and a whole vibrant and slightly aggressive conversation… Continue reading Interaction design semantic discussions
Service design workshop in Antwerp
You can find the details of the workshop i’m conducting on service design with industrial design students on the workshop blog. My introduction presentation here (pdf) Closing presentation here here. Enjoy!
designswarm update
I finally de-lazied a bit and am slowly putting up videos of my past works, there are a lot of them but with Youtube I no longer have any excuse : P The Hungries videos.
From Helsinki with love and curiosity
Ok so this was the least carbon neutral flight ever, but I spent 16 hours in Helsinki and my camera was acting up so some key words/things for me to remember form the little I saw: – I’m definitely staying at the Klaus K hotel again. – They only serve brown sugar – They can’t… Continue reading From Helsinki with love and curiosity
Service design workshop brief
As I mentioned previously I’ll be teaching a service design workshop at the Higher Institute of Product Development in Antwerp next week. This is the brief I wrote for them: “Industrial designers, in light of our growing environmental concerns, are being asked to be more and more “green” or eco-friendly, choose the right materials to… Continue reading Service design workshop brief
Quote of the day
“You do not interfere in the affairs of a friendly country, you do not wish for the dismantling of a friendly country. Canada does not wish for the dismantling of France and France certainly does not wish for the dismantling of Canada.” My country is entertaining.
Damn shame
The building in which i spent a year (should have spent 2) is for rent…. there are no words for the anger and bitterness i feel. Via the excellent Experientia.
I call it iBitch
So i created a new expression/category/tag for my virtual life… i call it iBitch. So from now on end, anything i find that rants, critiques or talks about Apple products, i will put under that category… no matter if positive or negative, because in the world of blogging, noone’s really right or wrong, its about… Continue reading I call it iBitch