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 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Workplace’
October 28, 2009
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen
As explained in the post preceding this one, we have been canvassing designers, technologists, academics, all sorts for their suggestions of girl geeks they admire.
Thanks to all who responded so enthusiastically. Turnstone is overwhelmed, inspired and grateful to you for taking the time to send names of the girl geeks, in response to our earlier [...]
October 23, 2009
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 [...]
June 17, 2009
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 [...]
May 14, 2009
Hey, Ladies
Over the coming weeks, we’ll be posting a few more nuggets of outside inspiration alongside Turnstone’s usual work-in-progress, because there’s just so much research piling up back here, and some suprising themes and preoccupations are emerging.
One is about women, another about the workplace, and another about women at work. An interview with Gloria Steinem at [...]
