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Rain Brooks posted - 16/02/10
In September 2009 my younger sister, Josie, was diagnosed with leukaemia. The sudden onset of such a serious and life threatening illness shocked and terrified my family and I. I now want to do anything I can to prevent this terrible illness from destroying more lives.
I do not believe that anything can be more terrifying than hearing the diagnosis of cancer, which is why on 6th March 2010 at Perranporth airfield I will be falling 12,000 feet in order to raise money for Leukaemia Research (www.llresearch.org.uk).
Please give generously to help fight this destructive disease which can affect anyone, of any age, and rip lives apart.
www.justgiving.com/jumpforjosie
On behalf of Josie, other leukaemia sufferers who will be helped by your generosity, and also our family,
Thank you.
Chris posted - 11/02/10
After a pensive moment the other day I thought to myself that I wasn't doing enough to make sure that the environment and human civilisation didn't crumble in my lifetime. With this sense of my own inaction I decided to google "How to save the world..." I came across this blog article entitled "How Drupal will save the world".
I thought that Kieran, Mark and anyone from the 'dark side' of web development would get a kick out of one of their own praising the work that they do!
Read the whole article here: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/how-drupal-will-save-world
Chris posted - 08/02/10
Last week Andrea Siodmok, Programme Director of Dott Cornwall sent us a great quote she had come across whilst reading about the Davos summit.
In an article in Design Week entitled 'A tool for humanity', Angus Montgomery discusses the influence design could have on world events with a series of designers and facilitators.
In the article Montgomery interviews Brian Collins, founder of US design consultancy Collins and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Design:
"In Collins’ opinion, it is design’s ability to ‘connect strategy to craft’ that has made it such an important discipline for the Davos business leaders. ‘Davos has a massive appetite for design,’ he says, ‘particularly the way we [the GACD] are framing it.’
Last November, the GACD launched a manifesto at a WEF meeting in Dubai which states, ‘At a time of crisis and unprecedented change in every area of our lives - economic, political, environmental, societal and in science and technology - design is more valuable than ever. The crisis comes at a time when design has evolved. Once a tool of consumption chiefly involved in the production of objects and images, design is now engaging with developing and building systems and strategies, and in changing behaviour, often in collaboration with different disciplines.’"
Lee posted - 07/02/10
Chris posted - 03/02/10
Wow! We were just sitting in the studio looking out on what (let's face it) is a pretty grey afternoon.
No sooner had we said: "Isn't it a bit dull and damp?", a couple of riot vans turn up, deposit about 20 policemen with door breaking equipment and who then walked round the corner.
A couple of minutes later and the alleged madam of a brothel in Woodland Road was lead away by three plain clothes police.
How exciting!