Tag: analogue skills
Here’s a simple experiment. Take a wine glass and place it on a city map. With a pencil, draw around the base. Follow the circle as closely as…
Imagine a system of design team communication that supplies the right level of information and enables the appropriate level of understanding within a suitable timeframe. A way of…
Engineers have announced today some astounding new breakthroughs in their latest version of i. This technology is completely free and open-source.
I am a connoisseur of email-reduction strategies, so I share this for friends and colleagues of mine who I know are struggling with this at the moment. The…
Our nearby allotments are my local source of food and regenerative inspiration. Sharing my thoughts from this weekend’s visit when I was helping with apple pressing. While Bristol…
Today at the University of Bath I am running a workshop on Analogue Skills for Design. This workshop fuses material from my conceptual design teaching with my observations…
Once upon a time the offer of 1000 songs in your pocket – the slogan for the iPod – was so enticing. But in 2014 Apple discontinued the…
Take out a piece of paper and draw a sketch of what you can see. You will notice more than you ever would by taking a photograph. Sketching…
There’s a gap between certainty and doubt, and that is being happy not knowing. In this gap is space for discovery, serendipity, delight and the opportunity to grow…
Print out photos of your friends. Stick them on your wall. What are they doing? How can you support them? A regular reminder to give them a call….
Songs to pass the time. Songs of celebration. Songs of nostalgia. Songs that mark the seasons. Songs of work. Travelling songs. Songs that tell a story. Songs of…
Anywhere versus somewhere. Contactable versus findable. Interchangeable versus valuable. Stranger versus friend. This analogue skill first emerged for me from asking a simple question. If you have left…
One day I hope this article will be printed in a book. But until then I can be fairly sure that you will be reading it on a…
Watch the clouds. Streaming now. Telling a story of past, present and future. Of up there and down here. If you also live on the lump of rock…
What is real-world search, and why might it serve us in the digital world? The promise of a fully connected, digital paradigm is access to all the world’s…
Your loved ones. Your best friends. Your colleagues. Could you call them if you needed to? — This skill is an enabler for leaving the house with your…
Deleting apps and leaving your phone at home could be analogous to dismantling urban highways. I read earlier this week about the research that established a direct link…
Go to the station. Stand in the queue. Look at all the people and wonder where they are going. See leaflets in the rack for places you hadn’t…
From hospital waiting rooms to long-distance train journeys, the weather page is a great conversation starter for my daughter and me, full of questions about geography, mathematics, history,…
In the midst of lockdown we have created a new household tradition that brings a highlight to the week. On Saturday nights we dress for dinner, enjoy our…
I wrote earlier this week about getting a TV for the first time in 13 years. It reminds me of when I took my first flight in seven…
What if you couldn’t look stuff up online? This is a question I keep returning to. One answer is that other people might become a more important source…
I’ve been listening the BBC World Service’s podcast ’13 Minutes to the Moon’ about the Apollo space programme. Last night I listened to the episode about Apollo 8,…
Across all the of the projects I’m involved with we are working out what can go ahead and what must be postponed. A significant factor in whether to…
It’s hard to know where to start. So much has changed in the last fortnight and there is so much that I feel compelled to write about. But…
Marseille A morning walk up the steep hill to the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Gard granted me panoramic views of the city of Marseille and the…
We need distraction-free time to make progress on our creative projects. At the same time, we rely on online networks and information to nourish our ideas. The trouble…