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11
Aug

Visualising the spoken word with dictographic notation

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In 1996, while in my third year at Cent­ral St Mar­tins col­lege of design, I devised a basic nota­tional sys­tem for  visu­al­ising the spoken word. The sys­tem which I named “dic­to­graphy” adap­ted aspects of stand­ard musical nota­tion as well as typo­graphic con­ven­tions. Since the first ver­sion I have fur­ther expan­ded dic­to­graphy into a more com­plete nota­tion sys­tem. Tech­nor­ati: design, idea, […]

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19
Dec

Real change happens at the grass roots, not in a conference centre

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This even­ing I sat in increas­ingly slack-jawed fury, gawp­ing at the news com­ing in about the sham­bolic COP15 con­fer­ence. It was bewil­der­ing and har­row­ing. No, in fact, that doesn’t do it justice. Words com­pletely fail to cap­ture just how incensed I am with the fail­ure in lead­er­ship. Tech­nor­ati: 10:10, cli­mat­e­change, envir­on­ment, polit­ics, sus­tain­ab­il­ity, transition

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