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News from Runnymede

By Dan Lockton ⋅ October 20, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

All sketches from John Thompson & Partners’ ‘Runnymede Campus Community Planning Broadsheet’ and photographs of the public presentation. Apologies for the variations in image quality and colour balance.
This post’s overdue but I wanted to have some real news (and images) rather than pure speculation.

The future of academic exposure?

By Dan Lockton ⋅ October 10, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

A lot of research is published each year.
Now that I’m a student again, I’ve got access (via Athens) to a vastly increased amount of academic journals, papers and so on. Far more than I could have done ‘legitimately’ without that Athens login, aside from travelling from library to library to library. And while it’s good [...]

Bye-bye 9rules

By Dan Lockton ⋅ October 5, 2007 ⋅ 17 comments

Around ten months ago, this site was accepted into 9rules, a diverse network of blogs which, at the time, had this aim:
9rules is a community of the best weblogs in the world on a variety of topics. We started 9rules to give passionate writers more exposure and to help readers find great blogs on their [...]

New, more concrete opportunities

By Dan Lockton ⋅ September 14, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

School of Engineering & Design, Tower A, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex.
After a month of lifting and shifting boxes, frantic cleaning, driving lots of different vehicles, and dealing with bureaucracy, I’ve now moved house and started my PhD at Brunel; with broadband now set up, and enough space to sit with a laptop amid the not-yet-unpacked [...]

Unscheduled intermission

By Dan Lockton ⋅ August 20, 2007 ⋅ 10 comments

I know, I know a third of all blog posts indexed by Technorati are “apologies for the lack of posts recently,” and this is no exception.
I haven’t posted on the blog in the last week, mainly due to being very busy with work – I’ve unexpectedly been back at Tangerine in London (left) helping [...]

Freelancing Part 3: The Ben Wilson Interview

By Dan Lockton ⋅ August 12, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series I looked at some aspects of what it’s like being a freelance designer / engineer / maker, and some of the things I’ve learned along the way. Lots of freelancers have blogs, and sites such as Freelance Switch and Sologig News draw together some very interesting (and [...]

Electro-Bonding: Part 1 of many

By Dan Lockton ⋅ August 11, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

While it hasn’t often come across on this blog, due to most of the focus being on architectures of control, I am, both personally and professionally, very interested in lightweight transport – its design, use and potential.

Self-regarding nonsense

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 3, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

As so often, slow on the uptake, I‘ve – or rather, this blog has – been tagged with a couple of blog memes*, and I really ought to respond. Hey, if I can find time to help Dr Charles Soludo transfer his funds**, I can find time for this.

Runnymede Memorial: Part 1

By Dan Lockton ⋅ May 29, 2007 ⋅ 22 comments

This post is the start of a series that will only be of interest to a few readers, but it’s about a subject that means a lot to me, and about a place which, in one way or another, has had an impact on design, and design education, in the UK and beyond. Brunel University [...]

Friday quote: Writer’s Block

By Dan Lockton ⋅ April 20, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Scott Adams (via Seth Godin):
I think writer’s block is when you say to yourself, “I could write something, but it wouldn’t be good enough.” There’s no such thing as a complete inability to write a sentence.
He’s right, of course: it’s the fear of failure, of incompetence, or the fear of being perceived as incompetent, which [...]

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