February 2008
21 posts
Choosenick is moving home...
Onwards, upwards and increasingly lightweight and integrated is the dorky cry!
I’m in the process of moving the blog over to the main choosenick url on the excellent Chyrp blogging/tumblogging platform. Watch out for more writing and design content (soon, I promise!)… I’ll post another (final) update here once I’ve sorted out the last bits and bobs such as the rss feed...
“We enjoy novelty that we understand”
– The value of novelty
More Geoff - Taking innovation in the public...
More Geoff! I’ve been reading a printed copy of this:
Ready or not? Taking innovation in the public sector seriously
“The public sector is often poor at innovation from within, and poor at learning from outside. It contains many innovative people but isn’t good at harnessing their talents and imagination.”
It’s excellent, download it now. A review is likely to come here...
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“We believe that the time is ripe for a radical change to how we do service and...”
– The ever effusive polymath Geoff Mulgan outlines an exciting proposal… The Young Foundation are fascinating - a friend of mine just started an internship there - so I’ll kep an eye on this project.
Service Campus- Outline Proposal
Daily Post-it
I just set up DailyPost-it - but then I checked and it seems someone has beaten me to it. Nonetheless, I’ll persist for now. My Post-its will be different in that they will all be real Post-its used in the studio, and will all be united in their banality. Let’s see how it goes…
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Service Design Network
The Service Design Network has had a substantial facelift and rebrand.
They’ve got a really interesting download (pdf) of the ‘Service Innovation and Design Journal’. There’s other articles and projects available for review too, including these from Birgit Marger in Cologne (but why can’t you download the document!?)
I’ve always liked Prof. Marger’s...
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WatchShelly Evenson on Service System Frameworks - “The frameworks that conciously connect service touchpoints.” At the Design Research Conference.
Amazing pdf viewer
I hope this works…
Roger Martin's Publications →
Lots of great publications by business/design guru Roger Martin - “today’s business people don’t need to understand designers better, they need to become designers.” This one is particulalry good.
WatchHow to Lie with Design Research. Nice contrast to this.
Brilliant Air Crash Experience!
Last night I went to Shunt with Steve, Davina and others. We actually went to see a great band play on the underground pirate ship, but that wasn’t the best bit - The best bit was the simulated air crash experience/scary zip line into a blinding light as part of a project called Airphoria, organised the talented chaps at Aerial. As they say on their website:
“…to acknowledge...
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Interesting talk from STBY research
We had an interesting Friday Friday session with Geke van Dijk and Bas Raijmakers from STBY research. Bas showed us some video anthropology from his Design Documentaries phd thesis, and left us with a lovely poster!
From Bas’s site:
“Design documentaries are a new, visual method to discover what matters to people. They inform and inspire design processes at early stages. The method...
“Our ambitions for driving the field of service innovation are so high that I...”
– Lavrans Løvli relaunches Live|Work’s website with no small fanfare…
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