Month: January 2011
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Written Images, Visual Life
So much rich and inventive stuff around at the moment. Check out this lovely film featuring an interview with Scott Schumann (aka The Sartorialist). It's part of the Visual Life project from Intel. I love the way he talks about taking time to observe, react and relate to what you're seeing (as my favourite artist…
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Cold Passion
DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo. "If I can only scrape a living, at least it's a living worth scraping. If there's no future in it, this is a present worth remembering." Mickey Smith Take ten minutes. Watch the beautiful film above for six of them. Then spend the rest reading…
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All Of My Good Ideas Are Battles
I so love this. Designer Adam Katz’s contribution to Stefan Sagmeister’s long running and brilliant “Things I Have Learned in My Life” project, featuring 1500 spray painted plastic army men stuck to a New York window. The best, most disruptive ideas are always a battle. It reminds me of that old Hugh MacLeod quote about…
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Design With Vision, Optimise With Feedback
I'm a big fan of testing and optimisation. When user feedback is so valuable, yet so readily available, and real-time, can you really justify not incorporating it into your working practices and developing a culture around test and learn? Smart, digitally focused businesses like ASOS, Netflix and Zynga have been enormously successful through doing just…
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Future Trends Innovation Briefing
Econsultancy have asked me to do their annual Future Trends Innovation Briefing in February which means I'll be doing a mini roadshow and will be in London for the morning of the 2nd, Manchester on the morning of the 9th, and Leeds on the morning of the 10th. I'm going to be talking about the…
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Fish Food
So, I've been sending out a weekly update now for the last six months and the subscriber list has been building very nicely. It's a short curated collection of digital goodness – stuff that I've come across that week and found most interesting, curious, amazing, or just liked, but often that I haven't (yet) written…
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Parsing Nature
"Visual experience, if attended to, tells us that the things of nature are uncountable but connected; unpredictable but patterned; nothing to do with us and everything to do with us." Stephen Taylor Over the Christmas break I read Alain De Botton's The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work, a fantastically evocative series of essays on a…
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Post Of The Month – December 2010 – The Winner
…and an idea. First up – it was a spirited battle in the end but delighted to say that the winner of the Post Of The Month for December 2010 is Martin Bailie's challenge to the research and insight industry: From Ad-Hoc Research to Real-Time Insight. Well done Martin – you get the props of…