On the BBC Culture show this week was the Great British Design Quest, created together with the London Design Museum. The program featured twenty five of the best of british, and now it’s up to the british publicto vote for the best in 20th Century Design.
Now, of course one would expect some sort of backlash […]
This is my bus ticket.
I get the bus to and from work every morning. This is an image of the ticket i purchase and slide into a machine which registers the ticket and then proceeds to add the date and time which i used it. It also registers my journey and takes one away from […]
Starting to learn about such a broad ranged subject like psychology, you need a book which can convey the basics of an idea as well as going into a little detail at times when it is required. A book which takes some of the basics and explains them enough for you to understand them and […]
This morning I was fortunate enough to recieve a kong roller fresh into my bowl of rice krispies, just like on the adverts where the little packet falls neatly onto the top of the cereal! And yes it was kong himself!!! So i opened him up and set about trying to get this magical […]
New Scientist Online reported earlier that a probe had landed back down on earch from it’s trip up into space. It tracked down a comet and collected some space dust. Scientists will begin to make the long assessment of the particle dust within the samples collected.
Now I was thinking, wouldn’t it be cool if they […]
You have a great portfolio? But how do you get it seen?
Frequently i see magazines, websites and many other people acting upon their own free will offering great advice on how graduates can “get a better portfolio”. Whether you’re into graphic design, product design, photography, fine art, multimedia, engineering, interior or spatial, interaction or innovation, […]
The simplicity of the remote control means you can control something from a remote distance. The technology behind the little devices is genius, but how well do the controls convey an easy approach to operation?
The first remote intended to control a television was developed by Zenith Radio Corporation in the early 1950s. The remote — […]
So, Macworld Expo 2006 has been on for the whole of this week, and Apple have released information on their new Macbook Pro. But what’s so special about it.
A number of things which they are focusing on include the magnetic power cable, Intel Core Duo, improved speed and the vast increase in sheer ability from […]
Back in 2004 at my degree show i had the chance to meet Trevor Baylis. He had been a viting lecturer in the technology department for a while at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and during the degree show he chose to give an award to the most innovative student at the degree show.
Unfortunately I think […]
It’s not very often that I am captured by a book that I would actually class myself as addicted to it. I believe that it takes great content, a great writer, an interesting sway of dialogue and it also takes an interest in the subject. For me, all of these virtual boxes have been ticket […]
When i switched my mobile contract near the beginning of last year i chose a neat little popular phone which i had to wait around a week for. The phone, Samsung D500. A 1.3 megapixel camera, full colour screen, music player, speakerphone, small, neat, and it had all the functions I thought i wanted. It […]
Thoughtless Acts is a relatively new little book from Jane Fulton Suri and in partnership with IDEO. Jane Fulton Suri is worldwide Director of Human Factors Design and Research at IDEO, and much of the content for the book has been attributed to a life long view of the world, and taking note of the […]
Welcome to this, the first in hopefully a long(ish) line of written “spiel” about design, or rather my perception of design in the modern world and based around many contemporary topics.
I have started blogs before but never really intended to keep them going or to communicate more on them than just what I am doing. […]