Writing

It's 11:30am and Apple has failed us. The technology hooking a MacBook Pro to the giant projector on stage has temporarily vanished. The digital revolution has momentarily stalled and this is all rather unfortunate given I'm attending the 1st Alpha-ville Symposium on Post-digital culture...

To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "The Internet is big – really big – you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that’s just peanuts to the Internet..."

Five months ago during a Sunday sermon at The School of Life, design critic Alice Rawsthorn preached to a congregation of designers about the importance of 'good design'...