I have spent a few weeks working on the The National Grid project, specifically working out whether creating handmade diagrams might create a different context for how people engage with them. To begin with I enjoyed the process of making the watercolour images—valuing that my amateur painting skills invited a particular kind of playfulness and [...]
Have been in bed with a fever for a few days and in that morning light—when I am denying that the night is over—I have been daydreaming a critique of the National Grid project. I was thinking about how important it seems to try and have one clear succinct message in the images / narrative [...]
Am about to start a new project and feel I need to take stock of the last few weeks to work out where to begin. I have been invited to submit a piece to Luke and Jonty’s The National Grid publication—and the project they were interested in was the designing design schools if I were [...]
Okay here I am banging on about Terry’s Reservoir paper yet again…and I am sure there is another entry in there just about the fact that when I reread the paper I pick up on different things…but when I went back to understand his idea of centripetal / centrifugal more I was reaquainted with his [...]
Anne also put me on to the Institute of Figuring and aside from the fact that I love the word “figuring” (To Figure: to form or shape, to trace, to reckon or calculate, to represent in a diagram or picture, to ornament or adorn with a design or pattern) I also like the way they [...]