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My wife and I found this little gem at the Ephemera Fair, which we visted a few weeks ago. It's an early pattern book for Lego, a multipage document of inspiration and instruction, all without any words what-so-ever..well a few, but hardly enough to make it an English only document, as the small amount of translation required would have been printed on a 'text black' layer anyway.
I love the way that lego patterns both instruct and inspire at the same time. The pattern book helps give you new ideas for constructions, but the unit nature of lego and the construction plans shown in the book, give you a step-by-step route to new methods and techniques of making things which you can then fold into your own designs.
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I have been looking at a lot of Augmented Reality (AR) stuff with James Alliban recently, on a project we are working on together and testing out a lot of AR stuff, mainly through a mobile interface. The thing which always seems to me to be a major hurdle with this... Read more
I spent a day sketching service design concepts for a new client I am working with at MIG. However, sitting opposite Murat, we started talking about the IBM RFID commercial and how I thought that perhaps shopping might not be the only place for it. Embedding RFID scanners into other devices... Read more
Almost all my computing is mobile. I don't have a desktop computer and work primarily on a laptop. This I plug in to a second monitor in the studio, or I lug it to the next in-house gig. But Googles recent re-design of its weather information (as it announced here on... Read more
Sony has just announced that it is shutting their detroit CD plant, and inevitably what accompanies such an announcement are the usual questions regarding whether this will mark the first point at which Compact Discs are removed as a music (and later data) storage device, going the way of (in computing... Read more
We have recently completed an identity and blog deployment for a new film production company, Wingbeat Pictures. With the business, still in its infancy, the mark drew upon the owners explicit love of old school cinema, and the large studio, such as MGM and 20 Century fox, that were... Read more
Recently, I produced a process document with regards to the UX design process we engage in when working with our ‘extensive’ list of clients. The function of this document was to describe to a potential client, what our approach and alongside that, to show what makes this approach relatively unique.... Read more
Hello. Bottlerocket is the commercial studio of Tim Allan, focusing on digital design for web, mobile and applications. We are London based an our work spans IA, UX, interface design, programming.
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