May 2012
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Clerkenwell Design Week
It’s not really a week, it’s three days. But it is in the lovely Clerkenwell neighbourhood of London.
Things we checked out today:
Thinking Ergonomix is an Australian design company with a showroom on Clerkenwell Road. Nice furniture, and they were giving away free stools (pictured) which are apparently retail at £200. Oh, but you had to answer a series of difficult questions...
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This year, next year
I’ve come to the end of my time on the Foundation Diploma.
It has been stressful, intensive and tiring. But all the same, a valuable, invigorating and transformative year.
I’ve stayed away from the computer, caught an interest in illustration, learned new words like “ephemera” and “evocation”, found a lost passion for power tools, broken a screenprinting bed...
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Just Plain Text →
Bookmarking this for posterity.
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April 2012
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Thoughts on music consumption
I’ve always fantasised about being able to get refunds on tracks from iTunes that I later regret buying.
Spotify is nice, but the ads are repetitive and kitsch. Grooveshark is better. But it probably won’t be around for much longer.
Streaming services make me bitter about spending cash on iTunes.
Would it have made sense to subscribe to a streaming service instead? Probably.
My...
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via Frank: The Shape of Design Pre-Orders →
viafrank:
Hi friends, I have good news. I’ve opened up the shop to take pre-orders of my book, The Shape of Design. If you missed the Kickstarter campaign last March, now is your chance to reserve your copy before I go off and get them printed. There are some other goodies in the shop, like …
Massive admiration for this designer, writer, talker. Been looking forward to this book. Sure...
March 2012
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February 2012
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Words on the latest Twitter redesign
I tend to find myself writing now and again about major updates to popular social media websites.
Fair play that “now and again” was once in mid-2011, but when they — such redesigns — come along, they come along like a brick to the face.
And as proven many times before, the patronage of aforementioned sites tend to form loose militias around the idea that the sites...
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January 2012
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Anonymous asked: where do you go to school?
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