Mark does Movember

No it's not a fashion statement but a way of raising awareness and money for prostate cancer. Movember challenges participants to grow a moustache for the whole month of november in aid of charity. To find out more about it go to the great website www.movember.com or if you want to donate or just see an update of my facial caterpillar go to http://uk.movember.com/mospace/666696/

EcoMind Delft

Sustainable design is something that has always interested me, it’s something that I think is part of our responsibility as designers to understand, promote and implement. But it is often difficult to apply within tight deadlines and to projects where BOM cost is KING! So I jumped at the opportunity presented by South East Design to travel to Delft in the Netherlands last week and take part in a two day workshop exploring and developing new approaches to sustainability and ‘eco effectiveness’.



Above are a few images from the trip, for the Full text including the Challenges, insights and actions form the event visit the news section of the Rodd website: http://www.rodd.uk.com/news.asp?nID=91

Fascinating illustrated view of 300 years of fossil fuel dependancy in just 5 minutes.

A library for the post print era'

Having watched Ideo's Future of the Book thought piece recently it was interesting to see threads popping up on LinkedIn Future Trends group about the same subject. 

Whilst I was initially dismissive, printed books are beautiful, tactile etc surely people are unlikely to switch to digital on a wholesale basis? Perhaps I'm wrong as the next link I get is this from Fastcode 'A library for the post print era'....