A natural take on cutbacks

The BBC posted an article today I wrote about the way that biomimicry can be used as an integrated design platform to create a completely different, improved set of outcomes than the one that we're currently headed towards.

You can find the article here

There were so many words from speakers at last weekend from people as diverse as Bill Drummond, Euan Semple, Gerd Leonhard, Jay Rogers, Paula Le Dieu and David Allen all talked of the way that we need to move from the Ego System to the Eco System (Gerd's words) in one way or another - taking wider perspectives, crowd sourcing, letting go rather than controlling.

The future starts here. First Do talks up on Monday

Books in the age of the iPad

Craig Mod is a designer, thinker and writer based out of Tokyo who is speaking at this year's Do Lectures. In this article, he robustly challenges the idea that 'flying dead trees around the world' is a good thing, and suggests that the first, and best thing to start pushing up daisies is the  'disposable' book - the supermarket and holiday reads that fill bookshelf space and landfill, but not your mind.

I'd have to agree.