Loose lips launch library lion logo

Last week, the New York Public Library launched its new logo, and Turnstone went along to take a look. The logo is a rather fetching lion (Patience? or Fortitude? That’s what the two on the steps at 42nd Street are called) and its launch prompted a rather lovely New York moment:
Later on the night of [...]

Women’s work: HBR’s mean girls, the cats’ meow

Before the third and last segment of Ben’s review of the Bigger Picture, a pre-Hallowe’en interlude… A few months ago we wrote Hey Ladies, about women’s experience of work, queen bees and wannabees with a paycheck. This, on a related topic from Harvard Business Review blog, caught Turnstone’s eye. It’s about working with colleagues who, short of [...]

Fast forward, Pause, Rewind, Eject

Turnstone loves to celebrate old as well as new media on these pages. We can start with the new – the incredibly beautiful visualizations that BERG London have made (our friends at Schulze and Webb and now Jones, and while we’re at it, sometimes Arnall – who’ve renamed themselves). By methods best left to their [...]

Work, not rain, stops play

Strange of us to pick a cricketing phrase for this week’s headline. Occasionally these vestigial Brit phrases burp up from nowhere. Anyway, we’re back. Excuse the silence, we had a spiffy interaction design project to work on at all hours, in collaboration with our London friends at Maoworks, and now we’re back.
Hiding from the rain, [...]

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 [...]

Good: Civics lessons for and from Silicon Valley

Turnstone’s first post about this week’s Gov2.0 Summit is now up on the Good Magazine web site. The second overview will be up there on Monday. Happy reading…

Documentary by drawing: Josh Neufeld’s “AD After the Deluge”

Back to our favorite “Words that illustrate, pictures that explain” theme here: In the Sacco, 911 Commission, Taxi07, tradition, we’re rave reviewing the latest graphic novel documentary to catch our eye: This time, it’s Josh Neufeld’s “A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge”
 - a cartoon about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Smith Mag has a nice [...]

Thinking, at capacity

Even after writing about design thinking, we’re still not entirely comfortable with the phrase “design thinking”. We’re all for reconciling design with thinking, artifacts with the concepts behind them, the salaries of makers and strategists, but the term suggests that before we conjoined design to thinking, designers got along without using their noodle somehow. How [...]

The edges go cool first

The people and projects that Turnstone encounter take us, willingly and regularly, way out of toasted-on-both-sides midtown-Manhattan. As our name suggests, we’re intrigued by what lies beneath the obvious; interesting morsels at the edges often lead us there. Most recently, we’ve dug up the following in the outer boroughs
Next week, the Design Trust hosts its [...]

How a service designer reads books

What do publishers do, and what should they do next? These two questions have been the focus of Turnstone’s attention again lately. Preparing for our talk for Random House last week, about what publishers can learn from service design, Turnstone was reminded of Publishing in Exile, a show at the Leo Baeck Institute in NYC. [...]