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This was a wee inteeview for the Artefact Cards blog I carried out on email with Emily Barnes of Folksy (they’re also on twitter as @folksy).  Usually I keep the Artefact Cards interviews over there, but this turned into an interesting discourse on invisible economies, so it fits right at home on the Smithery blog [...]

Make Things People Want & The Hollow Factory… from John V Willshire   A talk I gave on 27th November at IAB France / Hyper Island workshop in Paris… it’s set off all sorts of new thoughts too, more of … Continue reading →

Mr James Box of Clearleft invited me to talk with Alan Colville at Skillswap last night, as part of the Brighton Digital Festival 2012.  I’ve wrote a newer version of the Make Things People Want presentation for it.  With moar … Continue reading →

Wherever I’ve worked, I’ve always been keen on getting out of the work space, and more importantly the work flow, and learning new things. Field trips, as we would have all might have known them at school.  Though you don’t … Continue reading →

I get the feeling that the Olympics are going to throw up lots of interesting talking points over the next few weeks.  Such as this:   That’s LOCOG Chief Exec Paul Deighton apologising for the South Korean flag being shown … Continue reading →

Luke Robert Mason at ARE2012…

There’s nothing like an idle walk around a car boot sale to get a sense of a our shift in consumption over the past decade or so. There’s nothing inherently valuable, just the things that are on the edge of … Continue reading →

(This is Part III of an ongoing series: Part I here, Part II here)   What do marketers know about making things?  Marketing folks and their agencies are simply the airy-fairy brand whisperers, are they not? They don’t like getting … Continue reading →

“This is the proposition that the basic and irreversible function of an industrial economy is the making of things; that the more things it makes the bigger will be the income, whether dollar or real; and hence that the key … Continue reading →

Firestarters, funded and hosted by Google, curated by Neil Perkin, continues to deliver inspiration in spades. Or buckets, actually. A bucket holds more than a spade. Tonight’s event was about entrepreneurship, and featured David Hieatt (of Howies, The Do Lectures, … Continue reading →