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
/2012
- 02.10.12 Meet Limor 'ladyada' Fried at Adafruit Industries!
Many of the projects I make have Adafruit parts buried inside, but more importantly the amount of stuff I've learned via the Adafruit site …
- 02.10.12 Creating a physical button to mark the now with Electric Imp
An Internet connected button allows me to mark a moment in time together with the surrounding context of what the weather was doing and …
- 12.09.12 Bill Moggridge: designing objects that allow us to grow fonder of them
From Gary Hustwit's Objectified, Bill Moggridge – creator of the first laptop and co-founder of Ideo – who passed away on 8th September …
- 28.08.12 First Steps with Electric Imp
A video demo of my first steps with the wonderful Electric Imp, creating a small, self-contained Internet connected object.
- 24.08.12 An Exploration in Craft: Tanner Goods
Lovely film from Ryan Bush on Portland's Tanner Goods.
- 15.08.12 Kenneth Grange: I love to make things
"I don't know a scallywag in our industry".
- 13.08.12 Armin Hoffman: The whole point was to do it with the minimal of means
Created for the AIGA by Dress Code, wonderful short piece on Armin Hoffman.
- 09.08.12 Code 2600 Hacker Documentary
"Everything you've ever done is recorded somewhere."
- 09.08.12 Karim Rashid: I feel like I need less and less in my life
"I think people who are sacred with an idea, and don't want to be copied, have no other ideas."
- 06.08.12 Bobby Fischer Against the World
After reading the book Bobby Fischer Goes to War a few years ago, I finally got around to watching the HBO documentary Bobby Fischer …
- 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.
- 30.07.12 Wim Crouwel's advice for young designers
"Keep your radar turning".