All about Bloomberg Business Week
If I had a pound for every time someone’s recommended Bloomberg Business Week recently I’d be £5 better off. Which I could have put towards buying the latest issue of Eye in which Simon Esterson interviews BBW’s creative director Richard…
The Design of Understanding
While last Friday’s ‘Design of Understanding’ managed to pose more questions than it answered, I have no doubt that the people who have the wherewithal to find the answers – multidisciplinary in their talents, interdisciplinary in their approach – were…
Why graphic design matters
This blog post is basically a re-direct to Ben Terrett’s first blog post The Design Disease. Can’t believe I didn’t think to point to this sooner. Read it and you’ll see why – I’d hazard a guess designers will agree…
What role for design in London’s future?
Once again the latest STIR lecture didn’t disappoint with three excellent speakers from the worlds of design, engineering and business. These talks are inspiring because they make you lift your head out of your particular speciality with speakers who are…
People-centred design research
One show that comes around at the same time as all the grad shows is the one at the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for People-centred design research, this year called The Lives of Others. The emphasis is on designing products,…
Everyone helps everyone
Developers are really nice, generous people. All that open source stuff. And genuine collaboration to get a better result. Or is that just a really naive observation?
If you could collaborate
An exhibition I really enjoyed which paired up creatives with people from other disciples with the aim of questioning their conventional working methods and outcomes. If I’m honest I would have liked to see some more surprising collaborations outside the…