Author: KB

  • The Bubble Project

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    Another great link from the super-powers at Ratio The Bubble Project is that simple. Get a load of speech bubble stickers. Stick them on ads. Go back later with a camera. Share online.

  • Guest Post 2: Through the Keyhole

    I realised I don’t need to go to church services anymore. All I need to do is look ‘through the keyhole’ and I recognise the ideology/theology of that place. It’s something television has exploited. And we understand it intuitively. ‘Through the keyhole’ the cameras wander around someone else’s house, from living room, to kitchen, to…

  • Freedom of Speech? My Arse!

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    I know this blog is meant to be a place to throw some dirt around, but perhaps this is too much information: one of the books that is by the crapper in our house is a collection of Alistair Cooke’s Letters from America. Pithy, perfectly lengthed pieces on everything important from 1945 to 2004. And…

  • De-lettering the Public Space

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    A week or so ago I wrote a post about how Advertising Makes Us All Poor; more recently Jonathan posted about re-imagining our public/discourse spaces and reflecting on what they say about us. In response to this, Wilf sent me links to this fascinating project where a whole street in Vienna agreed to be ‘de-lettered’…

  • What Do You Want to Change Today?

    The Japanese principle of Kaizen proposes that the best way to change an organization is in tiny incremental steps. The permission-giving starts with the management of course, but the key is that each individual worker performing their little task within the company is given the power to change their environment or working practices so that…

  • ‘Hundreds Lie Dead in the Streets’

    Occasionally you read an article that seems to carry a scent of the future, and, ever so slightly, your world is re-framed. I came across this and was left thinking, “what the…?”