Female rail staff are up in arms, refusing to wear “see-through” blouses on duty. But how can designers avoid imposing ugly, impractical uniforms on workers?(via BBC NEWS | How not to design a work uniform)
Museum-ism
understanding // experimenting // augmenting // the museum experience
May23
May17
Discovery > Search. Important because we often aren’t sure what we’re really looking for… (via Introducing Google’s Knowledge Graph)
Apr26
“Curation” has been a term that gets sloshed around too much. On the web, curators emerge from as users who ultimately become tastemakers. The folks at Percolate explore what they have to say about curation: What is Curation? (by Percolate)
Apr25
Monumental state treasure-houses such as the Louvre or the Met ignore the stories of the individual. Exhibitions should become ever more intimate and local(via State museums are so antiquated | Orhan Pamuk / Hat-tip to Grace Tang)
Apr5
DIY museum guides anyone? (via Snapguide)
Apr2
BBC - The Mona Lisa Curse is an important documentary for those keen on art, economics and politics.
Mar29
Possibly useful for museum visitor research (via A fast, accurate, and affordable way to do online market research - Google Small Business)
Feb17
School of Museum Studies, at University of Leicester→
According to Bi Min, this is the de-facto place to go for museum research.
Jan25
In fact in my career, I can’t think of any project that hasn’t had its own share of failure. But in most cases I’ve been able to address the problem and iterate, or, if necessary, as they say in the startup game, ‘pivot‘. The more significant the failure, the better is its potential to be an agent of change.
Jan4
Not what I’d like to see at our museum.
At a photography exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mark Wilson of Philanthropr and Gizmodo spotted this lovely sign: “Are things so bad we’ve banned sketching?” What next, No Derivative Thoughts? (via Sketching not permitted - Boing Boing)
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