How Artificial Intelligence is the new end of days You charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your Earth and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival. - I. Robot Geoffrey Hinton, one…

A love letter to the Quantel Paintbox — In 1989 the British rock band Queen released their thirteenth studio album, ‘The Miracle’. The LP cover art, designed by Richard Gray, was a really groundbreaking creative piece of ‘Photoshopping’, with the headshots of the four band members ‘retouched’ into each other to make this weird, but realistic and striking…

How AI and machine learning are toxic for the design industry — The advancement of AI and machine learning is disturbing. It used to just be chess grandmasters that were bitchslapped by new technology. Now every industry is potentially threatened by automation.

Bringing back the finesse to digital product design I LOVE Typography. I studied it at LCP. It’s arguably one of the most underrated aspects of modern digital product design, and IMHO the most taken for granted. …

A story about reconnecting with my first true love Prologue Oh my days, I used to LOVE design. Ever since I was a spotty teenager I wanted to be a graphic designer. It’s all I ever wanted to do (I previously flirted with being a chef or helicopter pilot, but I…

Thoughts on learning piano as an adult The piano is a beautiful instrument, those 88 keys are the cheat codes to every frequency of musical happiness. Every beautiful auditory pleasure imaginable. …

How to safely navigate the murky waters of e-commerce — So this article came up on the BBC News: Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ — Which? report It seems that fake reviews are a massive issue for Amazon This bit caught my eye: ‘Amazon said it was using automated technology to weed out false reviews’. Using AI to try…

Apples new credit card, designed to disrupt both banks and credit card companies, despite literally being the photogenic 3 parent IVF child of a bank (Goldman Sachs) a credit card company (MasterCard), and Tim Apple. Apple recently launched Apple Card, an innovative, new kind of credit card created by Apple…

I have been in quite a few interviews this year, and wanted to provide a light-hearted satirical recap to explain the real meaning of some of the most prevalent questions. Is just a bit of fun so don’t @ me etc We need you to have a chemistry meeting with (insert job title here) The (insert job title here) is difficult to work…