Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2013
A Red Planet All Of Our Very Own
Check out these eerily beautiful landscape photographs by Richard Mosse using a rare technique produced by Kodak Aerochrome, a product developed for military use. via Design Boom Continue reading
Skate Escalation – Kilian Martin
It’s Sunday, let’s take 5… Love this, sublime. Music by Patrick Watson. Continue reading
The Future Of Learning
Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help design the School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from each other — using resources and mentoring from the Cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE). Continue reading
Shopping Till The Penny Drops… Then What?
Having worked for some years as a design and retail consultant, I have been dismayed by the over-saturation of faceless, spirit-less high streets and shopping centres throughout the UK, as a shopper as well as a professional. Where visiting large towns or city centres such as Reading, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, London or even farther, cities … Continue reading
Touching The Void – SpaceTop 3D Computer Unveiled
A transparent computer allowing users to reach inside and touch digital content has been unveiled at the TED 2013 conference in Los Angeles. TED fellow Jinha Lee has been working on the SpaceTop 3D Desktop – a system which consists of a transparent LED display with built-in cameras that track the user’s gestures and eye … Continue reading
Guuurl
We’re listening to ‘Guuurl’ by Lapalux from the new album ‘Nostalchic’ Continue reading
Highbrow Thinking From The Low-Tech Factory
Come see, play and debate at Hotel Droog, Amsterdam on March 21st 2013… Highbrow Thinking from the Low-Tech Factory – read more on Second Sight‘s blog. Continue reading
Engagement @ 4.0…
The Second Sight Saturday session #1 starts with introductions – a small, mixed group with varied professional and personal backgrounds including politics, design, publishing, comms and advertising, all from the Netherlands… and me. A good start. We hear from course leaders Andrea Wiegman and Truus Dokter who speak about their careers in Trends, about Second … Continue reading
The Radical …
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain, Notebook 1935 Continue reading
Curated Futures 