2009
TechPresident.com, Fall 2009
The Laws of USA-bility, According to Scott Thomas (Former Design Director, Obama for America)
A review of a talk by former Design Director, Obama for America, to the graduate students of the SVA IxD MFA program
Good magazine, Fall 2009
Civics lessons for and from Silicon Valley, at the Gov 2.0 Summit
and
How designers will re-engineer our relationship with government
Two reviews of the O’Reilly Gov2.0 Summit and Expo, Washington DC, September 2009.
Clear magazine, May/June, issue 31
The latest issue of Clear magazine features a profile of maverick (yes, we’ll have that word back in our vocabulary now, thanks) Dutch ad agency exports, KK Outlet. KKO is the bold little Brit sister of Amsterdam-based agency, KesselsKramer. It’s on page 30, or page 32 of the zinio version.
Design Council Magazine, Issue 6
Urban Legends: Five ways to redesign a city (sign up with DCM to read full article online)
A feature highlighting five examples of inspiring ways in which emergent, interaction design thinking improve various cities around the world, from Helsinki, San Francisco, London and elsewhere.
Urban Omnibus
The post-Postopolis Post
Rachel’s shared review of the urban/blog design conference, Postopolis LA, with Alissa Walker
Urban Omnibus
One Sticky at a Time
An inaugural post (by invitation) to the forum of the Architectural League’s new blog, Urban Omnibus. May it soar like Design Observer.
2008
User Experience magazine
Taxi!
A lead feature in the mass transit special of this, the the journal of the Usability Professionals’ Association, about service design for New York’s yellow cabs, Turnstone’s favorite subject. You may need a UPA password to download the pdf version of the article, or email the UPA to request a print copy or ask us.
Clear magazine
Vitruvius Would Be Proud
A preview of DesignMiami/08, which runs parallel to Art Basel Miami in the first week of December. The feature gives an overview of galleries representing work for the first time this year, and gives props to architects, Aranda\Lasch, who’ve designed a pavilion to house all these design objects as art artifacts.
More Intelligent Life
Will Your Vote Count?
A pre-election review of Vote & Live!’s screening of Steal Back Your Vote and Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections in the final week of the campaign, including a Q&A with the SBYV comic book editor, Zachary Roberts.
Design Council Magazine, Issue 5:
Ten ways your business can profit from design
A feature showcasing ten case studies that demonstrate how various businesses (small, medium and large enterprises, across a range of sectors) apply design principles and practice to increase their effectiveness. Soon to be republished by Creative Choices UK.
Design Council Magazine, Issue 4:
White collar or no collar: The choice for designers
Following on from the previous article reviewing the UK’s Design Skills Report, this feature identifies what effective leaders have in common with designers and reveals that though not all creative professionals need or want to trade our craft skills for management roles, some definitely have what it takes to manage our peers, join the board, steer an organization and maybe even wear a suit (tie optional).
2007
Design Council Magazine, Issue 3:
Why British designers need an extreme makeover: What designers actually do
A feature reviewing the UK’s Design Skills Report. The headline was not the author’s choice; read on and you’ll see she argues not so much for an Extreme Makeover but only for a Nip and Tuck, if US reality TV show titles must be the measure of our professional fitness…
Good Magazine
Design As A Verb, and How Do We Not Trash The Place?, feature and insights in Good’s September anniversary design issue.
Ready for its close up
A review of the movie, Helvetica, celebrating the 50th anniversary of a typeface. Now in print and online in the Summer 2007/issue 64 of Eye magazine, the international review of graphic design.
Taxi07
Roads Forward
A 160-page report for The City of New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission,
soon to be published as a project of The Design Trust for Public Space, where Turnstone’s Creative Director has been a Technology Fellow and co-editor of this report over the past year. More about that here, to come in Projects.
2006
Are you being served?
A feature about retail experience design, or what shops are for now you can buy everything online, for The Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine.
2005
All Together Now
An essay about creative collaboration and collaborative creativity, for the Adobe Design Center Think Tank.
2004 and earlier
Promises, promises
A review of the 2001 Superhumanism conference in London, for Frieze issue 61, September 2001, is now available again, on the Frieze online archive, no subscription/sign-in required.
Adventures in Tangible Computing
Rachel Abrams’ 1999 MA essay on tangible computing, focusing on the work of Durrell Bishop, is still available by request. If you refer to this work in your own research or publications, please reference the source appropriately. Please email to request a copy.
Further links to other articles and publication details to follow soon.
