Thoughts
My thoughts on art, design, and other things of interest that inspires me
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Gateway to the Imagination
Best thing I have seen this year, reminded me of so may wonderful things… Had to display a screenshot with a link to the tweet, as the twitter embed widget doesn’t seem to want to display correctly in this theme?
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Esoteric UX
esoteric/ˌɛsəˈtɛrɪk,ˌiːsəˈtɛrɪk/adjective As a side project I was experimenting with the idea of how the language and processes of digital multimedia design have become more esoteric as it has become more specialised.
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Phase Three Service Design. Mash up Tools?
Thinking about Designing Platforms We are all designing complex digital platforms, in a harsh environment, with a large number of stakeholders and contributors. How are the tools that we have evolving to meet our needs? Do your tools change as your project evolves or are you stuck with the same customer journey map through out…
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Nasa logo redux
If the famous NASA ‘worm’ logo was ever to be brought back, maybe it could be revived in the form on this space shuttle concept, the Polymorph space shuttle design by Luigi Colani.
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Hockney
Who has an an orange football in their bath room? David Hockney.
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Stephen Willats , how tomorrow looks from then…
I saw these photo collages at the Tate modern ages ago and didn’t know what to make of them. Really struck me they were using the visual language of service design. But was very struck by their combination of messaging, diagrammatic structure and provocative text. I have spent a while looking around the internet and…
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Animals without Backbones
I came across this book cover a while ago, and thought it would be a great image to send to some one as an insult. But I got over that and in putting this collage together have been amazed by the wonderful work of the books illustrator Elizabeth Mabel Buchsbaum who was the sister of…
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Transformer
Diamond dogs …with kill appeal, Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the Ditch, just another future song, lonely little kitsch. Gala Mitchell and Ernie Thormahlen dressed up by Anthony Price, whilst David Bowie sits in one of his suits. David Bowie and Mick Ronson produced the album. everything transformed…
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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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