Hoxton Street Monster Supplies

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies is the fantastical shopfront for the Ministry of Stories, a pioneering children’s writing workshop. We helped to set up the project, designed the identity for the shop, as well as the products sold there, and also worked on much of the copywriting.

Inspired by the 868 National stores (Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company, The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. and others) We Made This Ltd. worked with the Ministry of Stories to come up with an inspiring environment where children can get 1-on-1 tutoring from professional writers and volunteers. All of the proceeds from the neck-bolt tighteners, thickest human snot, and tinned fear help fund the center.

Found on The Dieline

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KarmaTech - WESC

Several students in the Advanced Interface Design class at Hyper Island created KarmaTech as an embeddable RFID concept for WESC shoes.  Once you register your shoes with WESC they imagine using the technology to give you access to exclusive events, automatic location based check-ins, and fun social media interactions.  Where a platform like Nike+ is focused on performance and competition KarmaTech is simply social and fun.

If you’re interested in design, digital media or advertising and considering schools, definitely take a look at the Hyper Island program.

See a list of all the people involved in this concept.

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“If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope it didn’t cost you or your parents too much.”

The UX Design Education Scam

A well written article by Andy Rutledge on the disservice universities and higher educations are doing to students going into user experience or web-related design.  I would much rather hire someone self-taught and motivated to learn over someone who spent years learning out-dated methods and technology.

This article addresses the problem head-on, and I could not agree more.  Read The UX Design Education Scam.

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Maxing out Your Triangle I find that most people take on new jobs, projects and hobbies for three reasons: To learn something new To pay the bills Because they love doing it If you have a terrible job, come up with new ways to learn something out of it. If you have a hobby you’re super-excited about, try to turn it into a business. If you’re just starting a new gig, instill it with something you’re passionate about. Read the entire post on Maxing out Your Triangle by writer and designer Jack Cheng Via The 99 Percent

Maxing out Your Triangle

I find that most people take on new jobs, projects and hobbies for three reasons:

  1. To learn something new
  2. To pay the bills
  3. Because they love doing it

If you have a terrible job, come up with new ways to learn something out of it. If you have a hobby you’re super-excited about, try to turn it into a business. If you’re just starting a new gig, instill it with something you’re passionate about.

Read the entire post on Maxing out Your Triangle by writer and designer Jack Cheng

Via The 99 Percent

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Schools Kill Creativity

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Sir Ken Robinson.  As children we are never frightened of creatively exploring at the risk of being wrong, but we grow older our education system and culture aid in the unlearning of creativity and help children minimize the risk of being wrong.

Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for recreating an education that nurtures creativity.

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