What I have learnt about working holidays The cases are unpacked, the power connectors stored and the receipts organised ready for the taxman’s scrutiny. All that’s left is to plan next year’s adventure. Each year we get better at the planning and more adventurous in the execution. Here’s a checklist of what we’ve learnt about [...]

Designing in San Francisco. Visiting local design studios is one of the highlights of travelling. Sure it takes a bit of organising, but we get to kill two birds with one stone (as they say). The first is that we can chat openly to a non-competing fellow designer. The second is that we have the chance [...]

d.school prototype lab Week 2 San Francisco. Just back from a tour of the d.school at Stanford University — interesting because it’s a school that doesn’t award any degrees — it’s sort of a plug-in for other courses. Stanford University is one of oldest schools in America and celebrating it’s 125 anniversary this year. See more [...]

Working from San Francisco: week 1. It was always meant to be a working holiday but the first week could have skewed a little bit more on the “working” than the “holiday”. The end of the financial year is an important time in a major client’s calendar, so there’s lots to write, design and manage [...]