IDEO, design, the everyday

This is the first in a series of commentaries on a class running at Stanford, Winter Quarter 2010 – “Transformative Design” ENGR 231 – [Link] I made a visit to IDEO last week, the design consultancy with its head office in downtown Palo Alto, by Stanford. I’m teaching a class next term with one of [...]
Routin Lin

Northumberland UK drag – pan | shift – zoom in | control- zoom out Beneath the hill fort; around from the rock carvings. (Please be patient with a long load time – I think it is worth it)
Flodden Field

In the tracks of northern antiquaries, summer 2007 September 9 1513: in the low rolling hills of north Northumberland an invading Scottish army was defeated in the bloodiest ever encounter between England and Scotland. James IV, King of the Scots, nine of his Earls, fourteen Lords of Parliament, five Highland Chiefs and 10,000 men at [...]
Bamburgh UK

Site of the court of the Kingdom of Northumbria – at its height in the seventh and eighth centuries.
gravestone, Bamburgh, Joyous Garde

Northumberland UK In the graveyard of Saint Aidan’s church – built in the 13th century. Founded c635.





