By stef
(Photo by Emily Quinton)
I’ve been picked as one of the top 5 in the Observer newspaper’s Courvoisier The Future 500 list for 2008 (a bit of a mouthful!) I know I’m always breaking Seth Goldin’s “A blog is about the reader, not the writer” rule so apologies for the trumpet-blowing.
There’s a great article in the [...]
By stef
I was in Design Week again this week. This time for an article on an idea that’s gaining some traction in Birmingham at the moment - should the city have a creative director?
Here’s the article:
‘It would have to be an eclectic, embracing, inclusive person for it to be a success. If it was a disciplinarian, [...]
By stef
By Striatic on Flickr
It’s all been a bit quiet online about the Big City Plan for a while now. Other than Birmingham Central’s summaries, I haven’t seen much (maybe I’m looking in the wrong place?).
I was beginning to think I was never going to get any text content to get my teeth into to start [...]
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By stef
As part of my Clore fellowship I have agreed to produce a Masters-equivalent piece of research around a particular area of ‘leadership’ that interests me.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since our first residential course, and with our next one coming up this weekend, I thought I would post what I’ve come up [...]
By stef
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Pretty amazing video of an experimental immersive human computer interface that has the feel of the famous Minority Report system, with music from Deaf Center on our own Type Records.
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