Last month I blogged that I had been invited by Adrian Shaunessey to join him on Resonance FM for his show ‘Graphic Design On The Radio’ for a social design special. The hour-long show is now up on the website for your enjoyment — listen to them here.
Clever little video from the UK branch of publisher, Dorling Kindersley. There is an interview with the creator of this film on the Penguin Blog and you can view the original inspitation for this film here.
Tickets are now available for the second Pecha Kucka Night Cardiff on Thursday 27th May. I’ll be presenting a talk entitled ‘Helping people think like a designer’, it should be a brief intro to Design Thinking, Service Design & Engagement. The night is happening at Chapter Arts and tickets are free but you do need to register, which you can do here
Pecha Kucha is a presentation format that encourages concise points, bold visuals and fun. It does this by strictly limiting presenters to 20 slides for 20 seconds each.
Last year I managed a a project at thinkpublic with The Young Foundation, Kingston PCT and The Cambridge Road Estate in Kingston, Surrey.
The project’s aim was to discover what residents living on the estate made them feel happy and healthy, by understanding these common aims and drivers the Primary Care Trust were able to make better decisions about how to deal with the long term health inequalities that existed in the area.
To engage with the local community and health services thinkpublic designed a campaign called YouCanKingston and a text message feedback system. I’m excited to say that this work has now been selected for the Creative Review Annual 2010. They have also published this year’s Annual as a very smart iPhone application.
Black Holes, Ear wax eating maggots, Beatboxing, T-Pain and Vintage Vocoders were just some of the topics discussed at TEDx Cardiff this Wednesday.
The independently organised TED event was put together by Neil Cocker and Claire Scantlebury, it was a great evening and certainly got me excited about many things I never even knew about, my highlights were:
Wendy Sadler and her excellent explination of how vocoders work. She showed some great vintage clips of the first ever vocoder performance.
Robert Simpson and his enthusiastic and simple explanation of how small and insignificant we are on earth!
DK and his Inspiration Found project, which presented his recent book project. Have a look at this here: http://gnatgnat.com
Thanks to all the organisers for the excellent line up, great venue, cheap tickets, friendly people and inspirational talks.
Without a tongue anywhere near a cheek I was emailed this by Selfridges today. I love the copy on this page “It is helpful to know our opening and closing time in order to plan your visit” amazing tip, thanks Selfridges! The other two are just as useful, I like the way tip three sounds the ones you hear on the tube in the summer during hot weather.
Amazing Love Letter project by Stephen Powers and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Joseph Frichter has started something with his stripped down Helvetimail theme for Gmail. There are now Helvetimail inspired versions of iCal, Google Reader and now Twitter.
“Twitter success is based on the simplicity of the service. However, the website, as well as various standalone Twitter clients are becoming more and more cluttered with useless features and other junk”
I couldn’t agree more – I love the simplicity of these themes and although they take a little bit of messing about to install it’s well worth it for a clean, uncluttered life.
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