Artefact Cards Blog

The Do Lectures: notes from a field

I was lucky enough to be at The Do Lectures Start Up the other weekend. There are many stories to be shared from that another day, especially around the ‘start...

Draw what you’re thinking about

I’m reading ‘The Thinking Hand’ by Juhanni Pallasmaa again. A great passage from it: “Sketching and drawing are spatial and haptic exercises that fuse the external reality of space and...

Thinking about my Creative Process

I was honoured when Tina Bernstein asked if I would be interested in contributing to the Creative Process series of guest blog posts on Colour Living – of course I...

The Perils of Inadvertently Making a Cuturematic

I’ve been reading Grant McCracken’s Culturematic this week.  I met Grant at an event last year, after Mark introduced us, and insisted that I showed Grant some Artefact Cards. “That’s...

A Factory Visit, and the Future of Print

This week, I visited the Axminster Printing Co. with Tim Milne, to see where the Artefact Cards are made.  And to meet Keith Rockett, who runs the business, and whom...

Stop Motion Animation, YEAH

Before Christmas, I mentioned a brilliant, leftfield project I started working on with Andy Hunns at Clinic; part strategist, part illustrator, helping Clinic describe their process. Well, we’re done…. click...