Very Recent History – some of things I’ve been reading recently. The Death of Bohemia Mel Exon, at BBH Labs, wrote a great post about how, as the creative world moves faster and faster, “we need a little time to digest; work out what’s a fad versus what’s really interesting.” He used a quote from William Gibson, which I thought was quite nice — and cautionary: “Bohemias. Alternative subcultures. They were a crucial aspect of industrial…
 
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Very Recent History – a view of things I’ve been reading recently… It feels like the past week has been an online flurry of intense ideas and conversations. It started with Helen Walters post (which, technically, was from last week) Design and Business: The Bottom Line. It’s lengthy, but it’s a great perspective on what designers need to do avoid the future where the design “discipline will be written off as just one more failed…
 
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