25 July 2009
Ted Global Notes.
Sketched notes from the ted global live stream at Wieden and Kennedy the other day. Trying a more visual approach to note taking.
24 July 2009
9.00-5.00 Design
**POSTPONED DUE TO GOOD WEATHER**
This project is born from a number of ideas. The first was a desire to work on my self made brief of exploring potential (see image below for full brief). It is also from a desire to better understand the design process; can it become something very strict and mechanically, with rigorously imposed deadlines and advancement points. I feel the typical response is to think of it as something very organic and "felt" but is this just a lazy attitude hidden behind the so very powerful notion of "creative process".
I was also thinking about design in the work environment, and how it seems that most design studios never manage to maintain consistent working hours, and if they would be more productive places if they did.
On a personal level, although I am often hard working, I have a tendency to give up as soon as things get hard, so I wanted to set a brief where that was simply not an option, and if I fail with an idea, I try something else.
So below there is also a schedule, I have built in an extra hour at lunch time to publish what I have discovered upto that point, so my day is technically 9-6, although the hour from 1 until 2 is to be considered as invisible. I will be as strict as possible with time keeping.
Any feedback on the schedule/ brief/ etc is welcome and if anyone wants to get involved either helping me, doing their own 9-5 using my brief or setting their own brief then please do come along. All the Wickham Road facilities are available for use, there is loads of space and the doors are open. (I might even provide lunch!) Ring, tweet, etc.
Schedule to come
This project is born from a number of ideas. The first was a desire to work on my self made brief of exploring potential (see image below for full brief). It is also from a desire to better understand the design process; can it become something very strict and mechanically, with rigorously imposed deadlines and advancement points. I feel the typical response is to think of it as something very organic and "felt" but is this just a lazy attitude hidden behind the so very powerful notion of "creative process".
I was also thinking about design in the work environment, and how it seems that most design studios never manage to maintain consistent working hours, and if they would be more productive places if they did.
On a personal level, although I am often hard working, I have a tendency to give up as soon as things get hard, so I wanted to set a brief where that was simply not an option, and if I fail with an idea, I try something else.
So below there is also a schedule, I have built in an extra hour at lunch time to publish what I have discovered upto that point, so my day is technically 9-6, although the hour from 1 until 2 is to be considered as invisible. I will be as strict as possible with time keeping.
Any feedback on the schedule/ brief/ etc is welcome and if anyone wants to get involved either helping me, doing their own 9-5 using my brief or setting their own brief then please do come along. All the Wickham Road facilities are available for use, there is loads of space and the doors are open. (I might even provide lunch!) Ring, tweet, etc.
Schedule to come
15 July 2009
Some ruminations on the internet and the birth of time travel.
As humans of the twenty first century we are forming an intricate and almost seamless virtual representation of our world as it is now. Every human is like a node, recording and documenting their time and place and uploading it to the network to form a virtual representation; a digital collage of the now. Whether it is visual, aural or text based, we have an endless compendium.
Imagine a man sat in a room in front of a large screen, five hundred years from now. Using sophisticated searches he asks to see Curtain Road, London July 15th 2009 10am. Every video, photo, update and blog is checked for relevance and presented to him, he spins the clock forward 2 hours, the search engine refines and re-presents. The wealth and breath of information available to him would bring him very close to a complete sense of place and time. But more pertinently, in his current life, he is so accustomed to this virtual world that the experience is not diminished by being disembodied.
In effect we are building the ‘real world’ of the future here at the birth of the network, and in that world we are defining the rules. By building the world(s) of the future, we are choosing to embed time travel as a given. Google street view already shows us the potential to explore previously physical spaces, how often will they re-photograph and archive planet earth, making it layered not only by space, but also by time?
To put it another way, imagine a person from before the twentieth century, being put into the same space, given the same detailed information and then try convincing him that he didn’t transcend time.
So it seems almost facile to say that our perceptions change and prevent us from seeing what humans have created. Time travel is upon us, just not as predicted; we won’t need worm holes and particle acceleration where we’re going.
Imagine a man sat in a room in front of a large screen, five hundred years from now. Using sophisticated searches he asks to see Curtain Road, London July 15th 2009 10am. Every video, photo, update and blog is checked for relevance and presented to him, he spins the clock forward 2 hours, the search engine refines and re-presents. The wealth and breath of information available to him would bring him very close to a complete sense of place and time. But more pertinently, in his current life, he is so accustomed to this virtual world that the experience is not diminished by being disembodied.
In effect we are building the ‘real world’ of the future here at the birth of the network, and in that world we are defining the rules. By building the world(s) of the future, we are choosing to embed time travel as a given. Google street view already shows us the potential to explore previously physical spaces, how often will they re-photograph and archive planet earth, making it layered not only by space, but also by time?
To put it another way, imagine a person from before the twentieth century, being put into the same space, given the same detailed information and then try convincing him that he didn’t transcend time.
So it seems almost facile to say that our perceptions change and prevent us from seeing what humans have created. Time travel is upon us, just not as predicted; we won’t need worm holes and particle acceleration where we’re going.
1 July 2009
Typographic Posters
My sister (Rachael) is about to begin a residency in Holland as part of an art collective and she wanted some suggestions for a poster. These were what I made. Links to the place and final poster to come.
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