Nought for the Day

This morning I was listening to Radio 4’s Today programme as I tend to do most days (digital radio available on the new Virgin box? Great), and as usual I was enjoying my dose of highly relevant, considered, factual programming, as well as a cup of coffee and a scan of my Google Reader.
That [...]

Am I getting behind the curve?

Yesterday I took part in a survey I found through the Digital Birmingham site, called the Digital Curve.
It’s a lighthearted attempt to encourage people to use digital technology and to find out where they sit in comparison to other people when it comes to their ‘digital savviness’.
So, I answered a series of questions about how [...]

“How are you doing?”… “Oh, busy”

I’ve been to a few events over the last week and I’ve started breaking my rule of not using the word “busy” to describe what I’m up to. I don’t know about you, but a while ago I became irritated by the banality of this little word.
To describe yourself as “busy” is becoming increasingly silly [...]

Fierce Ten out of Ten

Many congratulations to the Fierce! team who deservedly won the Birmingham Creative City Award for Best Brand on Thursday.
For ten years they’ve been developing an international-level annual performance festival and this year they decided to push their brand forward a few notches, and it’s for this brand refresh that they won the award. Great stuff.

Sofia without Stefan

This week I was in Sofia, attending the funeral of a trusted friend and work colleague at 3form, the designer Stefan Marinov, who died very suddenly and unexpectedly last week.
We’re all pulling together some words to explain what happened, which we’ll be adding to the 3fom site, but in the mean time I’ve uploaded some [...]