On 07 July 2007 the world will witness another attempt to wake it up from the state of slumber it has fallen in with respect to environmental issues. Sponsored by many multi-billion dollar companies around the world and bring together more than 100 internationally recognized artists from a wide spectrum of genre will unite an […]
Writing
A reminder of a not-so-distant past
I found this in a local Cape Town newspaper which was commemorating Youth Day on June 16th. It reminds us of where we have come from and should warn us of the results of unchecked discrimination and where we could end up.
Official 2012 logo controversy
London England, a place many will argue is one of if not the centre of design excellence worldwide, also the winner of the bid to host the 2012 Olymic games. The Olympic Games brings with it to those cities which bid and host it a refreshment of design practices, a burst of local expression and […]
Getting Things Done – Black Belt Productivity
As usual amongst knowledge workers, there’s no shortage of buzzwords and jargon flying around out there. A few months ago, after researching design thinking methods, I came across something called G.T.D.(getting things done). Usually these type of self-help approaches turn me off due to the large volume of overly complicated methodologies and hours of reading […]
Our frightening future requires urgent action
When I arrive home after a stressful day at the office I like to put my feet up for an hour or so and watch something on the tele as many people do. Two nights in a row my viewing choices were environmentally focussed. I started with “An Inconvenient Truthâ€, a documentary/presentation style movie by […]
I’ve fixed my blog!
Ok, so I started this blog originally as a means to express myself with regard to personal topics of interest and after experimenting for a while and doing some research about blogging, developing blogs and the like I have decided to use wordpress technology to power my entire site. Upgrading was a bit of a […]