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Making Things People Want beats Making People Want Things – AdTech 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
I’m talking at AdTech 2013 in London (Wednesday 11th & Thursday 12th September); I’m on Thursday morning at 10am. Dan at AdTech asked if I’d write a little setup piece for my talk on Making People Wa...
Sprite: Sweet Bird of Youth 26 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
I had a bottle of Sprite on the beach today; it’s all they had, my friend bought it for me. Written across the front of the bottle, above the name, is a word. It’s needy, pleading. “Rediscover Sprit...
Forget Tone of Voice; Find A Certain Tone of Action 23 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
I had the pleasure of speaking at the first ever Folksy Summer School a couple of weeks ago, to their burgeoning community of Designer-Makers about brands and ideas around how to talk about themselves...
Don’t meet your heroes. Work with them. Presenting Artefact Cards for Hiut Denim… 23 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
David at Hiut Denim asked me earlier in the year “would you like to do something together for our second year book?” I eagerly said yes. Fast forward a couple on months, and the new year book has ju...
Data, Telemetry & Whimsy 23 Aug 2013 | 01:55 pm
I saw this music device yesterday. It has a 4 banks of 10 Perspex blocks, each bank representing a different musical element (drums, bass, vocals and so on), and the ten blocks within each being diff...
The Axminster Font 23 Aug 2013 | 04:44 am
Seeing as this is my first blog post for The Smithery I think I’ll try to keep it short and sweet. When the idea for me to initially write this blog post was brought up John and I agreed that we would...
“It’s Genius; it’s Moleskine for Post-its” 22 Aug 2013 | 01:23 am
“It’s genius, it’s Moleskine for Post-its” So said Matt Sadler, my friend and fellow graduate of the IPA Excellence Diploma’ of Artefact Cards, as we caught up for the first time in AGES tonight. I ...
3M doing Google Time. In the Seventies. 20 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
I popped in to see Curtis and Emily last week. “I’ve got something you’ll love” says Curtis, and brings out this… It’s from 1985, and is a book from Herman Miller (most famous, perhaps, for the E...
VIDEO: Artefact Cards at UXCafe 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
I was invited to talk about the Artefact Cards at UXCafe in London a couple of weeks ago – it’s perfect the most precise and concise I’ve been in describing the Artefact Cards, which is a very good th...
CONTAINER: Unleashed 19 Aug 2013 | 02:43 pm
I received my Artist’s proof of CONTAINER last week, the exploration of what form might look for the future of magazines curated, produced and edited by Tim Milne from ARTOMATIC. I was delighted to b...
