As I am wont to do, I've been thinking about community. Perhaps it's traveling as a tech consultant that has me on a plane and hotel as much as anything - which can (pardon the pun) drive home the sense of rootlessness, of pondering what home is like, and where ones people or community lives. ...
Lists, end of years and beginnings of new
Over on O Danny Boy, my friend and colleague Dan Saffer has a list of his favourite reads of the year. As usual it's an eclectic mix of design and non-design alike, and worth looking into for inquiring minds. As much as I hate the whole 'end of year' businesses - both the Top 10 lists as ...
Connecting dots, cups and visions
So a story from a designer friend of mine, Dan Saffer, has me thinking. This article (nd this one via Changemakers) describes how Arunachalam Muruganantham is helping women get access to sanitary napkins, and how his extraordinary persistence and vision included truly getting to understand what a ...
The Information Jewels That Surround Us
Reading my news feed from Facebook this morning, I realized how blessed I am to live in a world where the friends I know are so passionately interested in their world, and in sharing their knowledge and thoughts about it. These friends inspire me to share, learn and grow - although not necessarily ...
non-update
I would like at some point to be able to update my blog other than to say 'an update is coming' , or to say 'I'm aware of a problem with my JQuery slideshow in the portfolio' page. The code is being worked on, as is the update; if you need examples from my portfolio, or an update on how hectic ...