Hey, Mister Tech President

Turnstone went to listen in on a talk in SVA’s IxD series last week, by Scott Thomas, who is Former Design Director of Obama For America. We wrote up this review for TechPresident, one of the blogs hosted by the Personal Democracy Forum, just in time to plug Mr Thomas’ fancy-looking Designing Obama, a tome [...]

The reading experience, re-ignited by the Kindle

Frog Designer, and fellow Faculty at the SVA IxD program, Robert Fabricant, has just published this on the wobbly future of the Kindle. Turnstone’s friend, Anthony Gottlieb, someone who arguably timed the arc of his life in journalism perfectly, also recently wrote this amusing and clever piece about mistakes on the eponymous e-reader. Read on. In [...]

Democracity in action: DIYCity and NYC.is

Susannah Vila, a public policy student at Columbia, has recently released the beta of NYC.is, that invites participant readers to choose, vote up/down on stories they consider important news about New York City. At first glance, we’re thinking of it as the pretty, informed, mutant lovechild of Digg (we love their Labs) and Gothamist. A [...]

Media Futures Conference: Beyond Broadcast

Nico Macdonald, tireless steward of the UK design community, is running the Media Futures conference in London again this year, on July 3.
It promises a solid line0up of speakers, including some heavyweights (Richard Sambrook, BBC Global News Director; Jan-Christoph Zoels, guru of Sapient during Web 0.5-1.0 and erstwhile of Ivrea, now at Experientia), some of [...]

It’s Raining Brainiacs (1)

The Map Office, part of our design enterprise partnership, Constellation, just posted a little video of their fantastic interface-generating, project and asset management tool, the MiG. Take a look here.
Yes, this is a shameless promo post. Because they’re rocket scientists in our midst:
They have “harnessed their creative thinking to offer our forward-thinking clients access to [...]