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Show Time

 

Poster by Timothy Tyndale Brockbank

The Central Saint Martins show is really good. Kings Cross, open until Sunday. You should go.

 

Local History of Small Dorset Towns - Update

 

Told you.

Never Mind the Bollards / Public Image London

Went to see Never Mind the Bollards this week.

There were some interesting bits. I wasn't sure whether Public London: 10 years of transforming spaces was part of the same thing. So that's slightly confusing. But it's all just walking around Instagraming stuff so no harm done.

 

Some observations.

Slowly, cutting across different timelines and agendas, stuff is getting better. 

This big, public stuff takes a long time. It's not complicated, it's just hard.

I love stories like this one below.

I'll talk about this type of stuff in my talk at Sheffield Design Week this morning. See you there.

Calculating the split - nice touch

 

I'm starting to see more of this sort of thing in the world. Reminds me of this from Google.

It's like a dumber Google Now. The language and the immediacy make it feel like personalisation, but it's not really. Simple, predictable, useful calculations. 

We'll see more of this pattern.

Or you could have put the buttons in the right order in the first place

Fashion trends

He's a good Chancellor.

Chelsea Flower Show

 

I always wanted to go to the Chelsea Flower Show. I went this year. Now I never have to go again.

 

Explore. Dream. Discover.

I saw this terrible ad in a terrible magazine and immediately thought 'that's never a Mark Twain quote'.

He never wrote like a terrible copywriter writing a brand values. In fact, people in general never wrote in that odd one word per sentence way in the old days. Did. They? And those words, feels too much like the Everyday Contemporary Luxury style of copywriting you see on housing developments these days. Never a Twain quote.

Turns out he might have written it as part of a much longer piece, but probably not.

" 'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.'

This quote has been attributed to Mark Twain, but the attribution cannot be verified. The quote should not be regarded as authentic."

More here.

Anyway.