I’ve been on a bit of a speaking tour the past couple of weeks, and I’ve been growing more vested in and impassioned by my current topic every time I talk about it. What I’ve been talking about is how we can become more human, better at being human, using all the richness of data and technology that we are …
Creativity vs. Design (a Q&A)
Every now and again, a student comes to Fjord asking for input for their dissertation. Sometimes, I’m the one they end up talking to. Today, I had an e-chat with a lovely young lady who’s doing her dissertation at Goldsmith’s. She had some questions that made me think, so I thought I’d share an excerpt here (with her permission, of …
Benched. (does anyone do speech-to-Illustrator software?)
Today was going to be the day I wrote about my latest soapbox/speaking topic and invited commentary/argument, but I’m not exactly typing well, because of this stupid finger of mine. I’ll be here, swearing at Illustrator and my uncoordinated efforts to use it, if anyone needs me.
Physician, heal thyself! (on redesigning a design agency)
[NB: This was originally written for the Fjord blog, and is cross-posted here by permission] As most people who’ve worked in an agency environment well know, there’s not a lot of existential reflection in what we do – we spend so much of our time working with our clients that there’s little time left for examining ourselves. This being more …
Say what? (Musings on modern-day communication)
When I was growing up, there were only 3 modes of communication in common use: face to face, synchronous (phone), and asynchronous (snail mail). Email started to pick up around the time I started university, and over the next decade mostly replaced snail mail. Now, there’s a huge variety of ways to communicate, and each of us has our own private …