charlie francis
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Pottermore Christmas present
Couldn’t resist wrapping some design books for my colleagues in a Harry Potter style. Had fun mixing a vintage royal mail stamp with Hogwarts. Owl post!
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History of the Brockwell Lido
Tabitha’s history of the Brockwell Lido The Brockwell Lido has been going since 1938. We all like the Lido’s fresh water and on summer days its very nice and cool. A range of people have chosen this place because its very cooling in the summer and its busy over the years.
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Experiments in Pottermore chronology and taxonomy
When I was lucky enough to be working at Pottermore, there was a whole bunch of ‘fact checkers’ who knew the Harry Potter universe inside out, and when EW originally pitched to Pottermore Gus proposed and prototyped a ‘narrative engine’ for exploring the story. As a personal side project I thought it would be great to…
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Calder
Who has an Anthony Calder sculpture in their living room? Josep Lluís Sert
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One is starved for Technicolor up there
When Peter Carter, played by David Niven bails out of his burning plane, with no parachute and survives, it is because his angel, Conductor 71, has missed him in the english fog. Conductor 71 is dispatched to earth to convince Peter that he must return with him to heaven. Heaven is black and white and earth…
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Because I just went gay all of a sudden
Aunt: Who are you?David: Who are you?Aunt: But who are you?David: What do you want?Aunt: But who are you?David: I don’t know. I’m not quite myself today.Aunt: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.David: These aren’t my clothes.Aunt: Well, where are your clothes?David: I’ve lost my clothes.Aunt: But why are you wearing these clothes?David:…
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Ideal Mix – thoughts on the UX design process
Introduction The explosion of management theory in the 1990’s as pointed out in ‘One market under God’ by Thomas Frank, has created a situation where every one has a better theory than the previous person. This makes me nervous about writing a few posts about UX processes. So I don’t want them to be too…
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Prince Regent Pub Sign
My local pub is the Prince Regent in Herne Hill, and now that its summer its lovely to sit outside and watch the world go by. It also seems to have the biggest pub sign I have ever seen, but it seems to have worn away. Being obsessed with halftone printing I was wondering what…
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Surfing the web with Marshall McLuhan
Happenstance or coincidence for the third day in a row I have found myself talking to somebody about this page from the medium is the massage. The contrast between the businessman and all the establishment ideas he stands for and the anti-establishment act of surfing is great. But I was wondering what had happened to the…
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Space Oddity
The colours on this photo are retro because its an old photo, no instagram photo filter trickery here, the world was this colour back then? The original is here. The full credit from the NASA Image Library is: In the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charles M. Duke [left] and commander…
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