Once engaged emotionally we are, by nature, curious: Savage Beauty

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to make it to the ‘Savage Beauty’ exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibition is a showcase of the work of fashion designer Alexander McQueen and those that collaborated with him throughout his career. The exhibition was put together with impressive speed by The [...]

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What could Museums learn from the Scrabble app?

I don’t know about you but every now and then I have one of those little moments when I’m using an app where I suddenly spot the difference between the translation of a service onto mobile and a truly mobile service – you know that moment when you see just how smart someone is, how [...]

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Return on Investment: Apps and Audiences

During this economic squeeze organisations are being asked more and more to demonstrate good value. For a commercial organisation this is pretty easy – it’s a numbers game where we can simply compare the investment made to the profit generated. But as we know, in a cultural organisation ‘profit’ might be anything from more visitors [...]

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What could we learn about mobile from 90′s web design?

I have an apology to make. In the late 90’s I used to make websites. Armed with a basic understanding of HTML, a blueberry iMac and a dodgy copy of Flash. I hit the web design industry just as everyone realised that the internet was something really interesting and useful and possibly, even ‘The Future’. [...]

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