Bleurgh! Writing can be tough. You’ve worked on something for ages, the process meandered all over the place, and now you need to write it up in a way that’s clear for other people. What a pain.
Well guess what!? You can read this post (this very one, you’re already…
It’s the turn of 2019 and here I am contemplating a big shift in my career. Again.
After two-and-a-half marvellous years at Cogapp I’m off again with a spring in my step to seek my fortune. Or not.
This post is going to be a bit more candid about where…
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned on Brighton Pier, it’s that seagulls are absolute bast@%~… Wait, no, it’s that flashing lights and cheesy music belong together.
So, at the last Cogapp…
Slowing down is hard to do digitally: speed is fetishised in connection speed, post rates, skimming content and almost everything else online. At Cogapp however, we’ve been thinking about ways to encourage slow looking for a while. This post offers four lovely slow looking examples, paired with sounds and…
This post follows my Four seasons of slow looking. In that post I shared four images using our new slow looking viewer. In this one, I’ll explain how to slow look other collection images from Art Institute of Chicago, Yale Center for British Art, National Gallery of Art and Bibliothèque…
If you work in a museum, gallery or the like, you will often have to collaborate across specialisms. In this post, we’ll go through some of the lessons I’ve learned (from both sides of the digital divide) about…
How strong is your museum’s website as part of the whole offer? Does it reflect your identity as an organisation? Does it appeal to your visitors? What does it really need? Are there trends to pay attention to? Others to ignore? What makes the site appealing? What mistakes can you…
Clichés about mirrors, art and emotions… so tempting to trawl through them all! Don’t worry, I won’t! Nonetheless, there is a powerful metaphor there about the way we with engage with art: taking our own feelings to it and having them reflected back.
For our #Coghack day (a hackathon —…
My colleague Gavin Mallory, has made a brilliant case for the idea that Museums are experience factories. In many ways the British Library is also a wonderful experience factory, but down in the depths of stacks they mine knowledge. At least that’s how it felt after learning about the mighty…
My habit, when thinking about anything as big, human, and numinous as stories, is to think of them in terms of deep time and the origins of humanity. Today, at The Story I seem to be amongst a mix of broadcasters, advertisers, authors, digital builders and people who work with…
