READING: For a pecha kucha talk I did at the London Design Festival, I was looking into ‘sight and design’, so reread some of Unflattening, and went looking for my copy of…
As part of this week’s London Design Festival, I was invited to take part in The Design Museum’s series of Pecha Kucha talks in the Auditorium at 100% Design at Olympia. The talks were about…
A conference; a place to confer, to exchange views. An ecosystem of perspectives, each dependent on the existence of the others, demonstrably or not.
**This is the first write-up of ‘The Hundreds’ — we decided we should blast out a quick progress update every week on how we’ve done.
We’re going to try a new thing at Smithery as an ongoing part of how we work. We’re calling it The Hundreds.
Six things I find useful for speaking at conferences
Last week, I gave a talk on Metastrategy at The Conference in Malmö. It was the ‘third act’ in a series of talks I’ve given in the last year, and I was very pleased (as much as you ever can be with your own…
Five years of Smithery, making big changes in small steps, and the story of the desk plant I bought when I first started work.
In February of the year 2000, my friend Emma and I went to Marks & Spencer down by Moorgate to buy plants for our desks. We’d…
