This Friday, thousands of people (myself included) were left without cellular and data services when O2 went down. It’s the second outage in less than three months. Back in July, O2’s response was met with universal praise for their witty fight against the barrage of “Fuck You” messages they received on Twitter. None of which […]

Light and water move in very similar ways. It’s not surprising then that the methods we use to control them are often similar. A wave is a pattern. It can easily be disrupted with another conflicting pattern – like a matt surface, or a rough texture. It’s something that we put to good use in […]

Who can tell which came first, Derek Downey’s beard or his job as the warden of the Davis Bee Sanctuary in California, but I’ve seen this kind of thing before. I once spent three months working on-site at a well known red-branded telco. Like most large open plan offices, the company’s brand colours were proudly […]

I’ve been spending a lot of time at the London Fields Lido this week. Some long overdue downtime between projects, not just because I have a not-so-secret ambition to live the life of a Miami pensioner. I’ve started to notice something strange about our local pool in that time, and that’s that people don’t go […]

Last Saturday I attended a practice hackday for BERG’s Little Printer. Thirty or so people spent the day coming up with content for the soon to be released printer, which allows users to subscribe to and create publications that are printed whenever they choose. It was a great day, with some super smart people and […]

A natural grass amphitheater spotted not far from the London Olympic site. The ring of tall dark grass is created by the Fairy Ring fungus who’s underground network of roots produce a plant growth hormone called Gibberlin

Self replicating systems will always have a point of compromise. Our legal systems are adaptive to precedent, what would happen if the expression of those legal systems, like road signs for example, were as adaptive?

Abstract linguistic branding form Adidas, or “The brand with 3 stripes”. Legalese for “anything with a stripe” or simply a way of identifying yourself in places where your brand name might be unpronounceable or unknown?

It’s not that I disagree with “Design Thinking”. I like thinking. It’s just that I don’t think design has a monopoly on it. You’d be hard pushed to find a person who doesn’t use ‘thinking’ to solve a problem. The trouble with thinking though, is that it’s got a bad rep. It’s something we do […]