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FEB 01, 2024


IT'S TIME FOR RHYME





One of the Matts has made a clock that tells the time in AI poems. Hallelujah,
they even rhyme. 

It's cute and funny and beautiful and you should take a look on Kickstarter.
I've backed it.

You probably know this already because it's been featured in loads of places
(yay!) so I've timed another post to remind you to take a look just before the
deadline on 29th February.

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JAN 29, 2024


HUGE CHRISTO IN CENTRAL MANCHESTER

Looking for somewhere in Manchester I stumbled upon what looks like a massive
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in central Manchester.

It's not, obvs, but it still looks incredibly dramatic. It's just scaffolding
and renovations and the Manchester Evening News covered it a year ago. As you'd
expect, our good friends at Scaff Mag have the juicy details; a bespoke and
highly technical 90m high clock tower scaffold, 450m of staircases (enough to
reach the summit of the Empire State Building) and "10,000m2 of the most complex
temporary weather protection roofs the industry has ever seen".

Stunning.





 

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JAN 17, 2024


A WORK POST

Remember when Russell used to do that ☝️ all the time?

 

A bit of work for a change. Here's a link to the Public Digital newsletter, we
do one every month but this is a special edition on the Post Office scandal.
It's a round up of the best articles and commentary on this issue with some
extra insights from PD people that have worked on large public sector IT
projects. 

Public Digital newsletter: Post Office Special Edition 

 

Here you can sign up to our regular newsletter.

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JAN 03, 2024


VERY GOOD SIGN FOR THE LONDON BLACK CAB BUILDING

I must have cycled past this building hundreds of times and yet only today in
the year of 2024 did I notice this magnificent (yet obvious) sign. 

We must take this as a good omen.



Although it was dark when this photo was taken the building is black in the
daylight too. The office houses the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association.

For my listeners not familiar with London taxis here is a photo of one with the
distinctive yellow sign on the roof, it lights up when the cab is available.
This one was designed by Kenneth Grange, more on him in this old blog post
Kenneth Grange - Making Britain Modern.



 

 

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NOV 17, 2023


"COMPANIES MAKE THEIR BIGGEST MISTAKES WHEN THINGS ARE GOING WELL."

Someone told me this recently. I think it was said by John Bartle of BBH fame.
Saving here.

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NOV 08, 2023


IS THERE AN AI THAT'S GOOD AT LETTERING?

And spelling? I'd love to know.









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NOV 07, 2023


“BUY TWO, GET TWO FREE”

This is a great blog post.

Like blog posts from the olden days it starts off being about nothing. It
meanders around a bit and has real photos of real things in real life. Then just
as you finish it you realise it was actually quite profound in the way normal
everyday life is.

But read it for the story about the "baffling “Buy Two, Get Two Free”
promotion".

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NOV 06, 2023


DESIGN RESEARCH URLS #21




102. This analysis by the FT of central bank logos is incredible 'A
comprehensive taxonomy of central bank logos, with jokes'

But this article 'sellside research notes ranked by aesthetics, not content' by
the same crew is more important. Central bank logos are a bit irrelevant to be
honest but research is designed to be read. If you can't read it, that's a
problem. See also 'The solutions to all our problems may be buried in PDFs that
nobody reads'  a recent report by the World Bank. 

 



103. Norman Foster has a new monograph published by Taschen. It's gorgeous. It's
also £350. The limited edition, numbered, signed one is £3,000.



104. Neville Brody has a new book out, the Graphic Language of Neville Brody 3.
That's £35. The Graphic Language 1 (1988) and 2 (1996) were hugely influential
to designers of my age. Fond memories.



105. Es has a new book out, An Atlas of Es Devlin. That's £85 and has the most
interesting paper engineering of the lot.

Monographs, eh? All are RDIs, Foster, Brody, Devlin.



106. The world’s largest stadiums – in pictures.

107. An AI Johnny Cash sings Taylor Swift on TikTok. Perfect.

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OCT 31, 2023


RANDOMLY ACCESSED MEMORIES: 3

I was ironing. We must have been going out, no other reason I would be ironing,
but then we were always going out so I've no idea why this night was different.

It was hard to find room to iron in that kitchen. It wasn't a small kitchen but
it was messy, cluttered, full of stuff that shouldn't be in a kitchen like a
basketball and broken glass (related).

We lived halfway up a very steep hill in a 2up, 2 down house with a second 2up
floor. Four of us.

I found room in the kitchen, or most likely I made room, and I was ironing. I
had Radio 1 on (probably this) and I heard Wonderwall for the first time. I
remember being struck by the powerful starkness of the opening vocals compared
to the rest of Oasis's songs. The kitchen was cold and the sound echoed off the
hard surfaces. I loved it from the first few seconds. 

Wonderwall was released on the 30th October 1995, 28 years ago yesterday.

Originally I thought this memory must have been from then. Except Wonderwall was
on the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? which we all bought on the day it
was released on the 2nd October 1995, so the dates must be slightly off. It was
definitely the second year at Uni (1995) and it was definitely in the house on
Arboretum Avenue (second and third years) so it must have been September or
October. Maybe.

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STRONG CULTURE OF COMMUNICATION CRITICISM

I went to Glasgow the other day and saw this piece of comms on the side of a
bin. Down at the botoom, someone's written some feedback in the grime. Have a
closer look.



They're right, it doesn't really work. You can see the thinking, river, boats,
pirates, pirate jokes. Meh. It's not clear enough (or clever enough) to be worth
the reader's effort. Nice to see this sort of thing called out in situ though.
More people should do that. More efficient than blogging.

Also in Glasgow there are a lot of signs saying 'People Make Glasgow Greener'
and I couldn't help thinking that it's the people who are the problem.

Anyway.

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