Fresh & New(er)

It is official now. Today I’m leaving the Powerhouse after a long stint to take up a new role as Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. I’ll be starting at the Cooper-Hewitt on November 28 (2011). I’m looking forward to the new challenges and also the [...]

You might have noticed the web address of Fresh & New(er) has changed. We are now running at http://www.freshandnew.org and hopefully everything, including RSS feeds, is working as expected.

Late last week in time for the launch of the Janet Echelman work being suspended in the city as part of Art & About, the new version of the free Love Lace exhibition App went live in both the iTunes App Store and the Android Marketplace. The new version now allows for favouriting of works, [...]

One of the slides from my recent presentations has been generating a bit of interest so here it is in a slightly updated form – the four intersecting circles of online strategy. This is still a work in progress and I welcome your comments and feedback. The purpose of this diagram is to show that [...]

Interesting think piece by Nick Carr on energy waste and computing and the coming environmental factors that will lead to an age of ‘frugal computing’. Prickett Morgan calculates that, including secondary air-conditioning costs, the world’s PCs and servers eat up 2.5 trillion kilowatt-hours of energy every year, which, at 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, amounts to [...]

Here are the presentation slides from the ScreenSpeak Seminar at the Powerhouse Museum on the 6th May 2006. They are licensed under Creative Commons. Audio recordings of the talk : Part 1 | Part 2 Wikis, Blogs and the New World Order: The produser, the digital native and the new tools of ‘text’.  by Mike [...]

Interesting article on this year’s design trends. http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28586