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Maintaining the Internet of Things

The past few days, post CES, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about the challenges of the Internet of Things. BBH Labs points out that none of these new consumer products work together, and that the result is more burden: A lack of interoperability across devices and platforms will suck our time, not give […]

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Very Recent History: 23-Jan-13

I’ve been collecting these links — hoping to do some posts on them — but, never getting around to it. Because they’re starting to get stale, thought I’d post them simply as recent and interesting  links. The changing face of computers on screen is an interesting post on how computers have been portrayed in films — […]

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Very Recent History: 26-July-12

I’ve been distracted the past couple weeks with work projects, unable to find the time to do much “real” posting. But here are a few things I’ve been reading or seeing lately (most of which I’ve posted on my twitter account) that I think are worth a look… T(ether) is a interesting AR-type system that […]

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Very Recent History: 15-Mar-11

I’ve been distracted the past week, unable to do any “real” posts, but here are a few things I’ve been reading or seeing lately that have gotten me most excited… Agencies and SWSW I’m a relative outsider to the advertising agency world, but I find their ongoing discussions of how they need to evolve in […]

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Very Recent History: 16-Feb-11

Very Recent History — some of things I’ve been reading recently. It’s always great to see transparency in the design process, so it was nice to find, via the fantastic Gym Class Magazine, the openness of Esquire Magazine’s design team. Their creative director, Richard Turley, has a Tumbler blog, and their art department’s got a Flickr […]

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Very Recent History: 14-Jan-11

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 […]

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Very Recent History: 19-Nov-10

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 […]