Mayor of Media

In July, Mayor Bloomberg announced eight NY-wide initiatives to boost the city’s media industries. Amongst them, a Big App competition, a call for institutions to run a NYC Media Lab (think Stanford D-school/MIT Media Lab does Manhattan?), and a call for a consultant to oversee a program for fledgling media (and tech, green and other [...]

You Know More Than You Think You Do

 
The UK Royal Society of Arts Director of Design has just released a pamphlet on design and resourcefulness, called You Know More Than You Think Do. The key idea here is that the can-do approach that design calls on is something everyone has, and can harness in their everyday life, whether trained as a designer [...]

What does the tag cloud reveal about design and British society?

Our friend, and designer of beautiful books, Miko McGinty, has recently led Turnstone to the great UK Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Design and Society blog. It’s a treasure trove for those of us in Brooklyn needing a regular whiff of that very British sense of creativity-with-responsibility. We’ll see if we can catch up with its author [...]

Design for Data, la semaine dernière

We will pass through Paris on our way to the Istituto Europeo di Design next month, but boo, we just missed Design for Data, held there last week.
Sponsored by the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) and the OECD, the program featured a keynote called, “What, if …? Tools to help the public make difficult [...]

Not just a better “off” button for NYC cab media

Thanks to all the interaction designers, architects, New York cab riders who submitted ideas in response to Turnstone’s survey-by-tweet about Yellow Cab screens last week. And no, we didn’t quote the “Porn. Duh” response as a primary recommendation, but we did convey many sensible suggestions from respondents from Ideo, NYU Stern School of Business, ITP, [...]

War stories from Plot

The High Priest and Priestess of Design Narrative, Mr Durrant and Ms Wildman of UK design consultancy, Plot, are compiling a book of war stories about design management. And you can participate. Keep it clean: Your clients read the internets.

The Assured Dutch of Shoreditch

They say necessity is the mother of invention. The mother of invention turns out to be quite glamorous. Perhaps keeping printing costs down and greening the glossy magazine business is the new luxe trend in this recession: The constraints bring with it some fancy tech innovation: Clear magazine has just moved to publishing all its [...]

Chin Up! A Go Bag for New York’s New Jobless

As a final assignment, graduate students taking the Service Design for Public Space (SDPS) class at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program this spring presented
Chin Up! GO4: A Go Bag for New York’s Recently Laid-Off.
GO4 is not a bag for products but contains other concerns: It’s a suite of services for New York’s newly jobless, from the [...]

Design Management, España

We’re delighted to announce that the Istituto Europeo di Design – the European Institute of Design – has invited Turnstone to present to their Design Management students in July. Thanks to an introduction from our friends and colleagues at Fuelfor, we’re off to sunny Spain next month to share design lessons from NYC and reflect [...]

Why…Tweet…How?

A tweet from Liz Danzico took us on an interesting thought trail last week. She quoted Ideo’s tips for creating a 21st-century classroom experience, from this month’s Metropolis magazine. Specifically she called out,
“If you want to design for the future, be an anthropologist, not an archaeologist”.
But what we drew from this was not to [...]