Archive for the ‘Making’ Category

I’m really enjoying talking at Squared every quarter. Notionally it could be the same talk, but what I’m finding is that it’s a question I’m asking out loud all of this year, and so as I get a better grip … Continue reading →

A talk I gave last week at the inaugural Innovation Social event, held at the Google Campus on Bonhill Street in London. Some things worth noting… i) it was the first time I’d done a presentation by only writing it … Continue reading →

This is a story about experiments, Artefact Cards, Plumpton Mornings, the 50/50 Good project, visibility and apologies. The thing with experiments is that they can, and do, go wrong.  The Artefact Tulipmania experiment was one such thing that has gone … Continue reading →

I was lucky enough to be at The Do Lectures Start Up the other weekend. There are many stories to be shared from that another day, especially around the ‘start up bit’. But for now, I thought I’d share this … Continue reading →

I was just reading this about Iain’s talk at Offset last week, and saw a Sugru video from a year and a half ago I’d missed… a simple piece with Jane talking about why she’d invented it:   There’s a … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading Grant McCraken’s Culturematic this week.  I met Grant at an event last year, after Mark introduced us, and insisted that I showed Grant some Artefact Cards. “That’s a Culturematic” said Grant, holding the cards. Having not read … Continue reading →

This week, I visited the Axminster Printing Co. with Tim Milne, to see where the Artefact Cards are made.  And to meet Keith Rockett, who runs the business, and whom I’ve only ever spoken with on the phone. I took … Continue reading →

listen to ‘The future of print, from a village green near its past & present’ on Audioboo ————— It occurs that perhaps I could and should start adding a little context in text to these posts, as they appear on … Continue reading →

(This is the first proper attempt at the second of this year’s three projects… all thoughts and ideas on how to do this sort of thing better are most welcome.) Here’s a wee video I filmed last night about The … Continue reading →

I’m a big fan of what Chris Thorpe is doing with The Flexiscale Company; scanning real life rare steam trains and their trucks, and creating scale models of demand through Shapeways. We has the measure of hearing him talk about … Continue reading →