I had a fairly shocking meeting with a man who was supposedly interested in redesigning Youth centres in the UK. This sounded great to me especially because the landscape of childhood now, with the addition of technology, is very different from my own. Growing up in the 80s I only had contact with technology later… Continue reading Why I believe in people
Not my country please…
A few days ago, some of my ex-idii colleagues started an email back and forth about the general state of affairs in the US with a ridiculous dose of Canadian-envy. I hate these types of conversations. People like to think of Canada as a “sleeping giant” in my industry, generally though we’re usually thought of… Continue reading Not my country please…
Fresh Start online
Finally Fresh Start is online! Nearly 2 years after the initial (7 weeks) project we’ve been working hard to present this to the Emergence poster sessionin Pittsburgh and Dave went and also live-blogged the event. Loads of interesting thoughts.
Something to work on
I have been traveling quite a lot in my life and i think that i will work on illustrating my travels in different ways. One must note that I am only including my moves and not my touristic traveling. So as I leave Amsterdam tomorrow, this will be my 14th move… ouch… So this is… Continue reading Something to work on
Ode to the material world
I’m cleaning my stuff for the flight tomorrow and came across this torn bit of paper that’s a printout off of someone’s work… need to find the source… “Like Marcel who narrates through his recollections of places and things in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, visual connections between objects and memory are as much a… Continue reading Ode to the material world
Illustrating a service design process
I wont be attending Emergence but I had the pleasure on working on illustrating our design process for the poster session where Fresh Start will be presented and i suddenly found it a fascinating exercise. How do you represent what starts out by being boxes and arrows and make it compelling? I had to think… Continue reading Illustrating a service design process
My Dutch favorites
Here is an eclectic collection of my favorite spots of Amsterdam after the past 2 months of explorations: 1. Dutch bikes (even if i barely owned one), they’re just so damn beautiful. 2. Japanese Pancake World, pancakes the true japanses way, the only restaurant in Europe. 3. Cafe Latei on Zeedijk 143, a very cute… Continue reading My Dutch favorites
Fresh Start @ Emergence
More than a year ago, I worked, along with Dave Chiu and Haiyan Zhang on designing Fresh Start a service design project to prevent obesity that I am very proud of. The elevator pitch for it is: “Two friends sign up for the Fresh Start service and make a commitment to cook with each other… Continue reading Fresh Start @ Emergence
2D > 3D > 2D
I love the mixture here, a plain piece of paper made into a sculpture, beautifully photographed… so sexy. via Core 77.
Activity update
I am now sitting in my cozy Amsterdam apartment for the last week and I thought I’d update you fine folks as to what I’m up to in the next month or so. First and foremost I’ll be relocating (thanks to a project with Blast) to Newbury, near London, for the month of Septmeber and… Continue reading Activity update