Service Touchpoints and the Uncanny Valley

by jmkd on May 3, 2011

Great presentation from my old RCA tutor Rory Hamilton on some useful references in service design.

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Art & Artists

by jmkd on April 20, 2011

So here’s the URL for Tate’s new collection site, Art & Artists: http://beta.tate.org.uk/art

And here’s a link to the paper about some of the challenges faced during development:

http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/papers/art_artists

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The Future of Art

February 8, 2011

The Future of Art from KS12 on Vimeo. Brilliantly put together by the team from Emergence Collective. This is altermodernism in practice, as described in theory by Ncholas Bourriard below.

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Behind the scenes of the Google Art Project

February 7, 2011

Reposted from my blog at Tate The version of Street View technology used in the galleries involved an extremely high tech and rather silly-looking trolley. It was to be pushed around the rooms at a particular speed and on a peculiar route, and seemed to me to be a marvellous combination of garden-shed and cutting-edge. [...]

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Work vs Meetings

November 22, 2010

A day filled with meetings can be exasperating, but is far from a day wasted. There are those who think an hour spent in a meeting is an hour spent somehow not working, but for me this suggests a lack of intention to be productive in the first place. And we all think we know [...]

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The A-Z of Google Instant

September 8, 2010

With Google Instant comes a new hierarchy of search: that of which result is first for each letter of the alphabet. This is a pretty special position to have, so here is the full A-Z list on launch day in the UK A is for Argos B is for BBC C is for Currys D [...]

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Welcome

October 26, 2009

The project site of James Davis, featuring a mix of personal and professional work. View Selected Projects

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