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Week 178

Signing out of my hotel in London today I made the mistake of putting the date down as September. Not yet, Bryan. Not yet. But this calendar mishap does reveal my state of mind. As our...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
August 18th, 2012
       

Weeks 174-177

This took longer than it should have. We've been back from the summer holidays for a solid week now, but as you can see there is some lag getting back into the habit of writing. Last time I was just...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
August 12th, 2012
     

Weeks 171-173

As I write this, my mind is a few days in the future, thinking about Friday at 9:30 when we will kick off "official" HDL 2012 activities. That's a rather serious-sounding way of saying that Justin...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
July 18th, 2012

Week 170

Summer was here, but then it left. We're back to gray and rainy skies. This has given me license to indulge, temporarily, some of the more arcane reaches of our team discourse. It starts...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
June 25th, 2012

Week 168-169

And another two-for-one, which illustrates a) that we're busy, which is good, and b) that for many of us, holidays are approaching rapidly, like a broad sweep of clear blue sky appearing on the...
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Posted by Dan Hill
June 20th, 2012
   

Weeks 166-167

When a weeknote stretches to two weeks, we're flat out. This is a two-week-note. Marco's in Chicago with the mayor, Dan's in Milan giving a lecture at the Politecnico, and Justin's about to...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
June 1st, 2012

How to: Legible Practice

During the past week or so we've been hosted visitors from three continents who are curious about strategic design at Sitra. In each of these discussions we've touched on something that we call...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
May 28th, 2012
 

Week 165

Hello, it's me again, and so predictably this is a few days late.  Before I run through last week's events, I thought I'd share this. Bryan tweeted a Dezeen article about the new Shard tower in...
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Posted by Dan Hill
May 23rd, 2012

Moikka from Kalle

As Dan already mentioned in his previous post, I just recently started here at the Strategic Design Unit as an intern. Currently I'm studying marketing at the University of Helsinki's Viikki campus....
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Posted by Kalle Freese
May 23rd, 2012

Week 164

OK, latenote for last week. The highlight was perhaps a great conversation with various representatives of Canada's Social Innovation Generation partnership (SIG), who were in the neighbourhood...
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Posted by Dan Hill
May 15th, 2012
     

Week 163

What we learned in #163 is that Berlin has jumped straight to summer while Helsinki is taking its time with spring. A quick update to keep up the tempo, but not as much depth as usual because Dan and...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
May 9th, 2012
   

Week 162

As I return to Finland after some time in the US I'm writing in the sky, but not skywriting. Does seem like fun though, to fly in big broad strokes and puff-puff-puff slogans out of smoke with the...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
May 2nd, 2012
   

Week 161

A week spent looking inwards and outwards. Lots of work with Sitra colleagues last week - across public affairs and communications; talking to the business development team; moving forward with our...
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Posted by Dan Hill
April 19th, 2012

Week 160

Always with the latenote. OK, last week was busy. Bryan and I met with the City of Helsinki's Chief Information Officer Markku Raito RE Brickstarter. It was a good, engaged conversation; I'd met...
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Posted by Dan Hill
April 17th, 2012

Week 159

Logistics were on the docket this week. Amongst other things, we've been finalizing some hirings that have been in the pipeline for a long while and laying down a bit of structure for the three month...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
April 10th, 2012
 

Week 158

Flying over Lake Eyre, northerly out of Adelaide. This week, the weeknote is really brought to you by Adelaide and Melbourne Design Lab, rather than Helsinki Design Lab. I've been in...
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Posted by Dan Hill
April 3rd, 2012
     

Week 157

Week 157, and a touch of 158 if we're being honest, was mostly about getting things out the door. Almost by coincidence, we finally launched new websites for the Design Exchange Programme and...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
March 27th, 2012
     

Week 156

That pile of snow from last week? Still there. And not only that, it's snowing as I type, so the thing is growing. Dan remarked the other day that during this time of year it feels like everyone is...
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Posted by Bryan Boyer
March 19th, 2012
   

Week 154

Aalto University School of Art & Design, Arabianranta campus. A very busy but productive week, which started in a snowstorm at Aalto University, where I was running a 2-day workshop on...
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Posted by Dan Hill
March 7th, 2012
   

Week 151

Tilting at windmills. If you look very very closely at the photo above, you'll see a string of windmills on the horizon, set against the perfect blue sky. This is Högsåra, an...
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Posted by Dan Hill
February 13th, 2012
   
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