Why we should swat The Mosquito

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The launch of the Buzz Off campaign to rid Britain’s streets of a screeching ‘anti-youth gadget’ should be welcomed - and built on.

Are marketers hiding behind UGC?

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Does our infatuation with user-generated content betray a lack of creativity and conviction within the marketing industry? Martyn Perks, business consultant for cScape, asks if it's time brands took the reigns back from users.

Tracing the history of Helvetica

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

A film about a font?! Yes, and it's gripping, too, showing how a sleek typeface has encouraged good design and helped to shape big ideas.

Comment: Design in denial

Thursday, November 1, 2007

For many people today ‘good’ design doesn’t appeal; instead it must be ‘worthy’. That’s a real problem. 

Don't curb design enthusiasm

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The desire for sustainability has been reinterpreted as accepting limits and narrowing choices rather than expanding how we live, work, play. This kind of make-do-with-what-we-have ethos cannot be good for design and society.

‘It looks like Lisa Simpson giving head’

Thursday, June 7, 2007

The bizarre squashed swastika that is the London 2012 Olympics logo perfectly captures the authorities' confusion about what the Games are for.

The tyranny of technology

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Promoting healthy eating, tackling truancy, improving 'social inclusion': the great potential of IT is being used for instrumental political ends.

Taking a shortcut around the digital divide

Thursday, March 1, 2007

While digital inclusion has become a major focus for funding and social renewal, it is questionable whether IT is actually being used for the right reasons.

Battle in Print: Putting design and technology

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

The role that designers and technologists play in relation to social development is always changing.

Disabling innovation

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Setting legal standards for making websites 'accessible' to all won't help web designers, or users.

Touchy-feely toasters

Thursday, April 22, 2004

A new book argues that products should be designed around their users' emotions.

Response to the Hansard Society Commission on Parliament in the Public Eye

Thursday, April 1, 2004

There is widespread debate today about the potential of information technology (IT) to generate greater access and participation in politics. This submission considers the lessons of this debate for Parliament’s Communication Strategy and Accessibility.

What's the big idea?

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

More blogging by Britain's MPs and ministers is likely to reduce politics to the level of a webchat.

Dean and not heard

Friday, February 6, 2004

Howard Dean's virtual network was a poor substitute for political conviction.

'Ethnography' exposed

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Why do political and business leaders want to immerse themselves in our everyday lives?

What iCan can't do

Thursday, November 20, 2003

The BBC's new website will not build community or rescue democracy.

Dark-sky thinking

Thursday, October 16, 2003

If only the World Creative Forum's ideas matched the ambition of its title.

Blog-standard politics

Thursday, July 31, 2003

Could blogging MPs reinvigorate the electorate?

'A mob for no reason'

Thursday, July 3, 2003

Email gangs come together - and go away again.

Computing communities

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Software geeks are turning into social engineers.

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