Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Axidraw
- Backup
- Bash
- Boids
- Bookmark
- Books
- Cncserver
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- FOTB
- Flocking
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Inventory
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- Roslindale
- Tools
- Transferwise
- Travel
- Ultisnips
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- adobe
- anamorph
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- ffmpeg
- fzf
- gridmarkets
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- making
- nft
- notch
- photoshop
- robots
- touchdesigner
- tw3
- tx3
- Everything
- 04.08.12 My first DIY Arduino shield made with Fritzing
Recently, whilst looking for a way to document the wiring for the little Arduino projects I make, I chanced upon a great free app called …
- 03.08.12 Stand and watch and listen: Arup's redevelopment of Kings Cross Station
"Suddenly they stop and they go, wow. And then they start to say 'how did they do this?'". Lovely film from Arup's Nigel Morris about the …
- 02.08.12 Title designer Richard Morrison: Simple is Good
"I'm reminded of the story of how Ridley Scott sold Alien with just three words – Jaws in Space."
- 31.07.12 Cecil Balmond: Narratives in Space
While I can't really say I'm a fan of the aesthetic of the Orbit, it's fascinating none the less to hear about the idea behind the design …
- 30.07.12 Erik Spiekermann: I add the sound
Love how Erik Spiekermann talks about how he can get inspiration from something that already exists, then when he draws it the next day …
- 30.07.12 Thomas Heatherwick: the new London Bus
Thomas Heatherwick talks passionately about designing the new London Bus.
- 02.07.12 Inventor Portrait: Ralph Baer, creator of the home video game console
Wonderful, inspiring and poignant film.
- 16.06.12 Conductive Dough
- 20.04.12 The Generous Man – Remembering Hillman Curtis
I first met Hillman in 1998 during a Macromedia conference being held in Paris. I'd wondered into one of the sessions not really knowing …
- 09.04.12 unCloud - Create an open wireless network and distribute stuff
- 04.04.12 Tom Hulme at TEDxCSM
Tom Hulme, Design Director at IDEO talks about Designing for Emergence. So flattered to get such a great mention too.
- 13.03.12 Conversations with Paul Rand
Art is an idea that has found its perfect form.
- 13.03.12 The scariest public information film you've ever seen, from David Lynch
From 1991, it's a film about keeping New York city clean, but it's got all the tell-tale fingerprints of being created by David Lynch.
- 08.07.11 Why I think the Desert Island Discs site is the best thing @mnwork have ever …
On Monday, whilst many in the USA were celebrating Independence Day, July 4th also marked the the eleventh birthday of [redacted]. I'm very …
- 20.06.11 Making in the browser: using a web browser to make physical things
A few years ago Andy Clarke did a presentation called Walls Come Tumbling Down where he talked about the idea of designing in the …
- 20.03.11 The best data visualisation I've ever seen
The best data visualisation I've ever seen wasn't on the web. Wasn't a limited edition A2 poster. Wasn't featured on any blog or twitter …
- 07.01.11 Some inspirational things for a Friday
It's been one of those weeks this week when I've been bumping into many wonderfully inspiring things; new things and older things. Here's a …
- 20.12.10 Use Dropbox to print to a Pogo from an iPhone automatically.
This has come out of a little project I'm currently working on that I thought was pretty handy. I've had a Polaroid Pogo printer for a …
- 02.12.10 Flickr set plugin for Indexhibit
I've made a simple little plugin for anyone using Indexhibit which will display any Flickr set of your choosing from your Flickr account. …
- 27.10.10 Why the next version of Accidental News Explorer won't be full of new features.
When I created The Accidental News Explorer I made it mainly for myself. I wanted an app to help me discover new things to read in a way …
- 29.09.10 Links from my #fotb talk
Here's a few links for some of the things I mentioned at my FOTB session: Saul Bass on the Web www.saulbass.tv Sesame Street Pinball …
- 28.08.10 My take on last night's @layertennis match with @joshuadavis
For only the second time, last night I had the honour of taking part in a Layer Tennis match, this time against the wonderful Joshua Davis. …
- 24.08.10 Creativity Abhors a Vacuum
We all have egos. The act of creating something from nothing is in itself an egotistical thing. But over the years I've learned that no …
- 03.08.10 This is why we get up in the morning
It's your shelf space; you decide what goes on your shelves.
- 19.07.10 Flash: it's not you, it's me.
I've had a long standing love affair with Flash – it's been my tool of choice for making things, experimenting with ideas and …
- 08.07.10 How many people have you upset today?
We (@mnwork) get lots of lovely emails about us and our work – which is of course very nice indeed. But we also get the occasional piece of …
- 08.07.10 Frank Gehry: be an expert in your work
"Nobody else is an expert in your work"
- 02.07.10 Web designers, stop looking at web design
The other day I was adding some podcasts to the wonderful huffduffer, a service that allows you queue podcasts up for listening later. I …
- 21.06.10 How do we "lend" our digital stuff?
Over the last year or so I've been gradually getting rid of my physical DVD collection and one-by-one ripping each film to disc. When I …
- 22.04.10 Flash as an attitude not a platform
Many years ago, when I was in a mind numbing job working in a factory, I did a night school course in Pascal programming. I'd grown up …