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Cloudbusting, Kite Flying and Star gazing
Dundee is a magnificent city that faces extraordinary challenges and last week I spent a day talking and thinking about how the creative and cultural sector can help tackle those …
Death: A Festival for the Living
This weekend I travelled down to London to be part of a festival at the South Bank Centre. “This festival celebrates something we all have in common. Death is a subject …
Edit 2011: dig
This is Edit for the 10th time around, but the for the first time in the beautiful and mysterious area of Røros. It is an old mining town so the …
My advice to all art school students
All around the UK, Universities are welcoming their first year students through their doors – bright eyed, bushy tailed and facing a lifetime of debt, Mike Press is one of …
Dear design students
It’s hardly a secret, but there are thousands of design students in the world. Advice and opportunities are everywhere. Education and learning are very very important to me. I used …
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate.
Four hours on the train, one Snook pie and 30 blog posts later… I want to share my experience of visiting Duncan of Jordanstone last week with all of you …
Let’s eat service design cake
Snook hooked up with Richard Arnott ( also known as servicejunkie ) last time we were in London and we had a great conversation about interesting goings on in Bristol, …
Studio Unbound VI
This week Studio Unbound traveled to Dundee to kick of our sixth session. The show got off to a late start, but we were genuinely excited to be presenting to …
THE END OF DESIGN
The End of Design was the public lecture accompanying my recent Masters Exhibition. “Modern design has run its course. The challenges of our age demands a new design; in place …
Bright ideas for dark times.
The Guardian team up with IDEO to tell us why now is the time for innovative thinking and innovation. They have also revamped their website. This collaboration is an invaluable …
Breaking the cycle
Watch this: I saw this Barnardo’s campaign on the news a few minutes ago. The comments already appearing on the YouTube show contrasting opinions. One comment read: “This will eventually …
Fresh insight
I spent this morning exploring the ethnographic insights from first year students. After their introduction to ethnography last week, the class were asked to capture an insight over the weekend. …
Introducing Ethnography
Today I spent the morning introducing the first year product and media designers to Ethnography.We sent them off on a ‘quick and dirty’ task for thirty minutes to take a …
£1.6m for Designing Out Crime
The Design Council, the Home Office and the Design and Technology Alliance have unveiled a major expansion of the Designing Out Crime initiative. David Kester, chief executive of the Design …
What is design?
The Design Council is asking “What is Design?” “Service Design relies on input from several design disciplines at once.” This is a true reliance for many disciplines; the boundaries between …
