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Wanted: Small Ads for Hackcircus

This is the exceptional Hackcircus magazine. Hackcircus is "an artistic collective dedicated to celebrating the entertaining and engaging side of inventive thought, whether that manifests physically with wires and batteries,...

Listening to the inaudible, seeing the unseeable,

As part of our wee initiative to help Artefact Cards users see what other people are doing, Jason has sent in this idea. It's really great, illustrating how you can...

Field Kit Origins

I was just sorting through some old photos, and found this, from the Do Lectures in April 2013. It was the first time I'd tried a prototype Field Wallet, to...

Resolution Grid

I was minding my own business on twitter yesterday, as you do, when friend and long-time Artefact practitioner Ian Fitzpatrick posted up this, a picture of his New Year's Resolution...

Sixty Second Sketches

Yesterday, we started a wee thing; Sixty Second Sketches. Basically, it's about drawing more. We draw quite a lot anyway; often those wee drawings are exploratory, little probes reaching out...

Sketching for Better Outcomes

This a great short video, featuring Associate Professor Maria Yang on her work with early-stage design - really interesting to hear more about the value of sketching sooner rather than...