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2009.07.20

Booking Now!

IMG_0700 We've created a new talk on the interplay between how designers create visions of the future in sci-fi movies, and how these movies influence the design of things in real life. It spans the elements of design that go into films - sets, costumes, gadgets and devices in the form of a pub quiz...

We've performed it twice so far - once in the white-knuckle pecha kucha format (of 20 seconds x 20 slides, in case you don't know) for Made In Brunel which makes you as giddy as a kipper, and a more satisfying 30 minutes for Nokia's design team in Soho.

And a great excuse to dress up for the poster!

So grateful to be able to make things on theings we're passionate about! Happy to add new venue to our current tour dates, if you'd like to see it!

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2009.07.15

Busy, busy times

IMG_0424 We've been finishing off our book, which seems to be the vortex of all energy and attention.

Light relief, inspiration for the future and back brain thinking support has come from things like Reboot Britain last week and Media Futures the week before.

What a fabulous time we're in. Business may be horrible for us all, but there's some space being made for stunning thinking!

Have a look at Howard Rheingold's wonderful digital literacies piece from the Reboot event, here is link to the videos. Got to meet the superb River Simple guy too. Stunning!

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Nick Durrant

  • Nick Durrant has worked in interaction design for over a decade.

    After several years in Silicon Valley, via Taligent, IBM, and 280 Inc. developing group, collaboration environment, and social software such as 'Places for project teams' and 'Meeting Centre' he returned to the UK to bring interaction design strategy to Metadesign, Icon MediaLab and Futurebrand Digital. Client work at from this time includes research, strategy and design for Bristol Legible City , Orange, Skoda, Bosch, Telia, GSK, MSDW, Bank of America, Artranspennine 98, Netaid UN/Cisco, Telefonica, Lastminute.com, UPC/Chello, and Peoplecom. Bristol Legible City won an environmental design effectiveness award and is widely held up as a best-practise example in urban design.

    His design research projects include 'The bubble engine - Net Archaeologies, Web Geographies, and Active Networking – Issue Network Mapping at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, in 1999, and FLIRT, location-based recreational media, at the RCA and Helsinki in 1998.

    More recently Nick has been a Visiting Professor to Innocence/Interbrand, an 'Agent Provocateur' for Orange, and an ongoing Advisor to, and Mentor for, the Design Council's Humanising Technology project. He graduated from the Computer Related Design programme at the Royal College of Art in 1994.

    Contact Nick via: nick at plotsite dot net

Gill Wildman

  • Gill Wildman's passion is the design of people-centred systems.

    Gill believes businesses and other organisations need to realise the value of both end-user participation and interdisciplinary collaboration to succeed with their innovation strategies and design initiatives. Her early work, as a researcher and developer of local services, used the community development approach, which emphasises linking local networks and agencies to user-needs. This was amplified and extended by the pioneering use of social visualisations, and other design methods. Later, expanding on these practices as a designer, and then as a strategic design management consultant, Gill has influenced the direction of many public and private sector organisations.

    The Humanising Technology initiative for the Design Council introduced user-centred design approaches to early-stage UK technology start-ups and brokered collaborations between many talented designers and scientists.

    Gill was Assistant Director of the Design, Strategy and Innovation MA at Brunel University, has been active in shaping the definition of Service Design for the British Standards Institute, and is currently an Industry board member for Innovative Product Design and Interactive Media Design at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee.

    Contact Gill via: gill at plotsite dot net

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