Was I the only one to spot the irony in this? CITY DESIGN COMPANY NETS AWARD FOR HELPING FIRMS TO CUT PAPER USE Graphic design company Alder and Alder has scooped the award for best environmental company in Devon at the first annual Federation of Small Businesses Awards. The firm launched a five-step leaflet called [...]

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Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the “things” that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name. – Bill Buxton‘s personal mantra

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You go to concerts to have an experience and to be immersed in the music. The Radiohead show on Saturday night at Malahide Castle was great, but a few things conspired to not make it completely brilliant: sunlight, screens and sound. This would have been a completely different gig had Radiohead hit the stage at [...]

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It was a treat eating veggies from our own garden last year, but plowing the plot and trying to fight back the weeds was a losing battle. I made (with Gabe’s help) ten raised beds that we can line with weed fabric and sink into the existing ground for tending and growing. Constructing the beds [...]

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Three and a half films in two days … when it rains it pours. The foul weather is always good for staying indoors and seeing a few films. If I had to choose someone to defend us against terrorist attack, it would definitely be Iron Man over Gabriel Shear. Swordfish was a colossal waste of [...]

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