Tag: Architecture
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Lockdown projects — Month 2
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As the lockdown continues, we’re continuing to find ways to keep ourselves busy.
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Lockdown projects — Month 1
Each weekend during lockdown, we’re trying to make at least one new thing. These are the little projects giving us a reason to get up at the weekends.
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Our honeymoon in Mauritius (part 2)
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After spending a few days in Réunion, the second part of our honeymoon saw us staying in Mauritius.
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We cracked the Crystal Maze in Manchester
My expectations were already high. But they were surpassed. Let me emphasise this: The Crystal Maze Experience was way better than I expected. Which was already very good.
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After the Belgian Grand Prix — Days out in Spa and Brussels
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After our weekend at the Belgian Grand Prix last year, Alex and I stayed on for a few more days to explore other parts of Belgium.
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Skye high
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Straight after our wedding in February, Alex and I spent a week on the Isle of Skye for our mini moneymoon.
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33 adventures in The Designers Republic
“On July 14th 1986 The Designers Republic was declared.” Celebrating 33 years of Brain Aided Design.
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The worst design of 2016 was also the most effective
The worst design of 2016 was also the most effective — Diana Budds, Fast Company Why Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again hat, was a wildly successful design, despite being reviled by gatekeepers of good-taste design. The “undesigned” hat represented this everyman sensibility, while Hillary [Clinton]’s high-design branding — which was disciplined, systematic, and well-executed […]
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2019 is going to be brutal
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2019 is going to be brutal. Brutalist Calendar 2019 — from Blue Crow Media.
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Don’t look down
Don’t look down. At the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
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UX psychology and other skeumorphic job titles
Sometimes we have had to use metaphors from the physical world that help explain what’s going on in digital. But take things too far and it becomes counter-productive.
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The gardens where ideas grow
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The gardens where ideas grow We tend to think of musicians as architects, who fully control the sound they compose. But here, Austin Kleon outlines how it is in fact more like gardening. Top musicians like Prince, Ralf Hütter and Brian Eno appear to subscribe to this approach. Brian Eno says: One is carefully constructing […]
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You can’t start with an iteration, you can only start with an idea
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You can’t start with an iteration, you can only start with an idea We often talk about iterative developments and continuous improvement. But by using the example of King’s Cross railway station, Ben Holliday demonstrates that sometimes you need to “completely strip back previous ideas”.
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Voyage to Iceland
My second visit to Iceland made up for what I missed the first time round. But it left me still wanting more.
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Highlights from our holiday to New York
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In March, Alex and I took a trip to New York. It was such a brilliant holiday that it has taken me 9 months to write about it all.
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History and high tension: a long weekend in Berlin
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This month Alex and I took a long weekend break in Berlin. Despite almost getting caught up in something nasty, we had a brilliant time.