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 [...]

“Best Square Wins” Goes Public

Turnstone is delighted to report that one of our favorite grad school exercises is busting out of the classroom next week: “Best Square Wins”, an educational ‘graphics exercise crossed with Survivor’, will be played out to the general public on Tuesday next week, as part of “The Public School for Architecture”, a project for public [...]

Reporting Back from The Bigger Picture (3): Got any small change?

Here’s the third and final installment of Ben Reizenstein’s round up from The Bigger Picture, part of nef’s Day of Interdependence, which took place last weekend in London: 
I don’t catch the name of the woman who is suddenly standing next to the queue, talking to us, her captive audience, about local currencies in the Welsh [...]

Reporting back from The Bigger Picture (1)

While Turnstone is off to polish a class syllabus, and a massive master (Ms?) list of the trickle-turned-into-a-flood responses to our question about women in tech, it gives us great pleasure to hand the mic over to a guest contributor.
We dedicate the next three posts to a detailed review of the new economics foundation’s Day [...]

Tell us: Which women maker/thinkers do you most rate?

Who are the women under 40* you most admire for doing cool stuff in tech-focused innovation and education, science, product and service design, bio- and medical research, gaming, digital publishing right now? 
We’ll tell you why we’re asking soon. We’ve already lined up a shortlist, but if you’d like to volunteer your peers, your self or [...]

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 [...]

Artist: Sounds a bit like ‘activist’

It’s that time of year, after the summer sag, before halloween then holiday mayhem, when every man and his erudite dog has a right-on event going this weekend. While NEF’s Day of Interdependence (mentioned here a post or two ago) takes place in London on Saturday (we’ll have a report from there next week), Eyebeam [...]

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 Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence

Last week, a reader of the Turnstone blog posed the question, what’s the next big thing for New York? Zooming out from the Mayoral election myopia for a second, we were looking around for answers to this question, and came across this, from the New Economics Foundation in the UK:
On October 24, London’s South Bank [...]

Turnstone Turns Three!

This week, Turnstone turns three!
Thanks to clients, Constellation co-stars, friends, readers, referees and all who’ve kept Turnstone in flight.
We’ve survived trips in what felt like all 13000 NYC yellow cabs (more on that next week), countless rides on the full length of the 7 train line (more of what comes of that in 2010), a [...]