Monthly Archives: October 2007

Autumn Recovery

Emily and I have both been knocked sideways by a very nasty bug for the last week… I won’t bore (or revolt) you with the details.
Suffice to say that we took turns playing the sick and bed-ridden patient, luckily with only a day’s overlap where were both under the weather with a demanding little daughter [...]

By stef | Posted October 30, 2007 in Blog, Photo | Comments (0)

Plus Festival 07: Alex sets up Illuminate

Alexandre Parré of Typevents puts the finishing touches to the Illuminate interactive light installation which was exhibited at Plus this year.
Tags: plusfestival07, illuminate

By stef | Posted October 25, 2007 in Blog, Photo | Comments (0)

Where is Birmingham’s next wave of leaders coming from?

Another day, another exciting and inspirational heads-together-round-a-table meeting of minds.
Today I was invited to join the “Emerging Leaders Forum” (pedants - don’t worry, I think ‘Leaders’ is plural and no possession of ‘Forum’ is implied), an event where a group of twenty or so people roughly defined as ‘young-ish people who make things happen [...]

By stef | Posted October 24, 2007 in Birmingham | Comments (2)

Plus Festival: Live Pacman front-pages YouTube

One of the funnier parts of the Plus Festival was the ‘live pacman’ game that was running for most of the five days. Here’s a cool little video that just front-paged YouTube! Go ghost, go!

By stef | Posted October 24, 2007 in Blog | Comments (1)

Plus Festival 07 - Moving Type Found

As a first post on Plus 2007, here is a series of ‘found type’ photographs I took during the event.
The conference theme was ‘moving type’ - type as in typography, letterforms, fonts, etc. - and I spent some time exploring the event and the area of Floodgate Street in Digbeth where it was happening.
Some of [...]

By stef | Posted October 24, 2007 in Blog, Photo | Comments (1)