I’ve been thinking for a while about contributing to the latest design craze among my peers: cities. I’m not an architect but I like cities as a user, as a designer, and I thought I’d write very short bursts about what I like about them, having lived for years in some of the best and… Continue reading A City Experience: Canvases
Category: Rants
Maybe slightly unrelated to my thesis but pretty descriptive of my brainspace during the year.
Design's role in the descending economy
So I find myself more and more motivated to blog as a way to scratch an intellectual itch triggered just today by visiting the V&A’s Cold War Modern exhibition and coming back home to read the Guardian’s interview of Philippe Starck, Terrence Conran and Kirstie Allsopp. As I walked through the Victoria and Albert’s completely… Continue reading Design's role in the descending economy
Something worth blogging about
I don’t like women and technology events but i would blog any day about women I admire in technology. Actually so should you. Common now, I’m sure we could up the numbers on women attending tech conferences in no time! Additionally in the spirit of Anne Galloway’s brilliant chart on women in ubicomp from in… Continue reading Something worth blogging about
Personal ubiquity
It took me a while to digest Janne’s post on why ubicomp is a broken concept, mostly because on principal I tend to disagree. It’s also a bit in response to Tom Coates’s altered version of his talk with Matt Jones that he gave at Foocamp called “Personal Informatics”. Firstly I think the starting point… Continue reading Personal ubiquity
Fighting the war against terror by blowing air up your shirt
Just went through 2 “secondary security” checks at San Francisco airport today and got introduced to this delightful contraption. “To collect microscopic particles for analysis, the EntryScan3 takes advantage of a natural upward airflow around the body called the “human convection plume.” By not using forced airflow from a fan-which stirs up dust and other… Continue reading Fighting the war against terror by blowing air up your shirt
Etsy is shit
Not that I’m known for being inflammatory but this is total bullshit. In short, our Topoware store was shut, because we weren’t craft enough it seems. No warning, no nothing, just a snappy email once the store had already been shutdown. What sort of customer service is this? If you sell on Etsy and don’t… Continue reading Etsy is shit
The other 50%
I don’t follow politics that closely, usually because I’m never quite sure which ones I should be following but I must admit I had hoped Hillary would win the DMC. They speak of the glass ceiling. I feel it every day as a woman at the head of a small technology company. “Where are the… Continue reading The other 50%
We get the leaders we deserve
It’s election day tomorrow in London and it’s been sort of entertaining and depressing at the same time to follow the campaign (I’ve been keeping track of the one on the other side of the pond through the excellent Bagnews notes). It’s almost like we’re collectively confused about the difference between entertainment and politics. Chris’s… Continue reading We get the leaders we deserve
Made of fail
This really depresses me. I think issues of sustainability are quickly going to have to move beyond the Treehugger attitude that “every little counts”, because our way of life and the economics attached to it is literally killing people as we speak. It really isn’t going to cut it to act as if we weren’t… Continue reading Made of fail
Bored? Why don't you become a designer!
Spotted on the world’s favorite waste of time: FB.