I’m glad someone thought deeply about the popularity of ‘hits different‘ which I’m too old to say without wincing / the Hjalli method of raising boys and girls differently in nursery to improve equality is quite something / I was at Fixfest last week thinking it’s been 10 years since NESTA looked at the makerspace… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #98
Sunday Scraps #97
I’ve been hanging out at Somerset House it was weird to see a cupboard labelled the West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library overnight / insert.art is an interesting digital magazine / Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia’s surrealist inspired videography is the kind of stuff AI wish it could come up with / remembering… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #97
A case for better (environmental) signs
A former colleague, Stef Webb is rightly obsessed with site notices. I’m obsessed with public signage about the natural world. Often terrible, temporary and inaccessible, they’re an expression of our eco-anxiety, magical thinking and ambivalence about our place in the natural world. Here are some examples from my own walks and hikes in London of… Continue reading A case for better (environmental) signs
The change tax? (looking at the cost of the perimenopause)
I’ve been reading the excellent The Price of Life and was so inspired I thought I would take a sober look at the cost of changing hormones. Because noone is writing about this in the Guardian but they should. Before being ‘allowed’ to start HRT*: £4074/year 2 big bottles of magnesium tablets to try to… Continue reading The change tax? (looking at the cost of the perimenopause)
Project Mordenite (what if Small Language Models improved the way we hire? )
A couple of months ago, after writing a few blog posts about hiring and job descriptions, I started working on an idea with Jim Kosem and Matt Webb. We called it Project Mordenite. Here are some of the ideas we had: The importance of being specific: The more senior a role, the more tempting it… Continue reading Project Mordenite (what if Small Language Models improved the way we hire? )
Sunday Scraps #96
Someone should make a documentary based on the life of Hong Kong photographer Nancy Sheung / I don’t understand what the eel collective does but it sounds interesting / bookmarking this article on car-free Devon for future long weekends / a friend told me about asafoetida in indian cuisine / theheat.io climate conference in Oxford… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #96
Out of sight, out of mind (thoughts on professional practice for designers)
I’ve been offering free CV reviews for graduates and thinking about ‘professional practice’. The proliferation of design diplomas means new graduates are spat out of a one year degree with a weaker portfolio than most and an inflated expectation of how much work is out there for them. If there are plenty of design courses,… Continue reading Out of sight, out of mind (thoughts on professional practice for designers)
Sunday Scraps #95
The anxiety of living makes us want to judge, be sure, have a stance, definitively decide. Having a fixed, rigid system of belief can be a great relief. – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain If you want a quiet week, don’t read the history of Mandatory Palestine / I loved this short… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #95
Sunday Scraps #94
I wish I’d grown up with Pina Bausch / instead you can find me at Julie’s jive classes on Monday nights / going to watch this 1994 documentary about the late Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène / the inventor of the television lived in Crystal Palace near a Tecton beauty / there’s a clock museum down… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #94
Sunday Scraps #93
I committed a horrible faux pas today. I apologised to those concerned of course but in those moments I remind myself of this 17th century nun’s prayer / I’m annoyed I missed this exhibition about shade / thinking about popping into Bruxelles to see the Fondation Folon on a daytrip / beautiful AI ‘painted’ typography… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #93