Ninety

Posted by Damien on October 18, 2009

This week ended with a fresh coat of paint on the walls and everything the office owned pushed into the center of it. Amazing that it takes only thirty minutes to pile everything up into a tall and bundled mess, but a day or two to untangle it. I still can’t find one of the monitor’s power cables and keep walking into that old G4 tower, of which I won’t take the hint and move out of the way, in spite of the damage it is inflicting on me. But the walls look nice. And white.

We got a delicious stack of It’s Nice That magazines from the UK. Each one came with a limited edition Rob Ryan print. More photos and details of the new magazine soon. I’m not entirely sure why I bought five of them. Perhaps its secretly because I’ve always wanted my own William Stout-like bookstore.

During the week, Sara continued to hunt down a perfect large block of wood to drop her new 20 by 20 project into. Looks like she’s going to buy a block and have it CNC’d correctly for her new piece. Looking forward to that outing.

This week I had an interesting conversation with a friend of Central’s in Edmonton, around how to create a practical vision for a city in order to raise tens of millions of dollars for multiple design projects. Using a similar approach to our work on the Future of Fish project. There’s a wonderful boldness to this idea and project that is quite invigorating and special. Looking forward to more developments there.

Two weeks left to the Future of Fish project, and the team are focused on the business models and functions of the several solutions we’ve developed. We’ll publish two more issues on the Future of Fish web site, and then once the Packard Foundation and Ashoka have seen our final solutions, we’ll hopefully be able to put something online that describes the outcome of the project.

The week ahead sees some continued work on the product development, some first sketches of a new brand we’ve been musing on for several years now, contracts with a factory, probably putting the office back together all week and we’re working with Gino Zahnd on some writing for us.

If you happen to find that monitor cable I’m looking for, please do let me know.