Video of the event is found on the website of Skills Matter, the organisation gracious enough to host the event.

The slide deck as shown, followed by an ordered list of my specific notes:

Slide 2
The state of the web today.
Designers and developers have spent the last decade fighting for the desktop.
We reach a consensus. 1024×768 was a safe resolution.
Mobile web is born, not much happens, and we continue to follow the same patterns.

Slide 3
We continue to create pixel-perfect layouts for a fixed canvas.
Individual layouts for every device.
We have widescreen television, desktop, tablet, mobile.
If mobile is acknowledged, it is commonly sand-boxed and dependent on user agent.

Slide 4
Designs are cut and cropped.
Performance issues.
No content hierarchy.

Slide 7
If you do have a mobile solution:
How many devices do you cater a service or product to?
How many experiences will a user have?
What assumptions and compromises are made to this end?

Slide 8
The idea is instead:
Accept “the ebb and flow of things”.
Websites cannot be pixel-perfect.
Presentation must change from desktop to tablet, tablet to smartphone.
It is context that plays an essential role in the user experience.

Slide 9
Ethan Marcotte.
Responsive web design is: Flexible grid, flexible images, media queries.
Consistent and focused experience.

Slide 10
Use percentages, not pixels.
Create a fluid layout from a modular grid.
Set minimum and maximum widths.
The grid must resize as the browser changes.

Slide 15
Scalable images and video.

Slide 16
Scale to the design, but never above original size.

Slide 17
We’ve had media types (screen, projector, print, handheld)
CSS3 provides better ways of testing.
Media queries look at physical characteristics.
Browser viewport, device screen size, device orientation.

Slide 19
The foundation of responsive design.
Create a single site and single experience that targets the browser, not the device.
Scales to fit all device sizes and orientations.

Slide 25
Responsive web design is not the first and last solution.
There are valid reasons to create tailored mobile sites and native applications.
Bespoke experience, advanced device features, hardware access, distribution, curated content.
Responsive design fills in the gaps.

Slide 32
Beyond presentation. Impact on site performance and user experience.

Slide 35
What can you do to make your site responsive?

Slide 36
Start new. Making a site responsive retroactively is difficult.
Focus on content. Mobile first.

Slide 37
Start small.

Slide 38
Use media queries to enhance and expand the design as screen real estate grows.
Perfect example of progressive enhancement.
Set queries at common smartphone sizes, tablet, desktop.

Slide 39
Javascript for conditional loading: sidebar content, social media share buttons.
Avoids overloading mobile users with supplementary material.
This is important. Forces you to focus on necessary content.
What do your site visitors really need?

Slide 40
matchMedia.
Set breakpoint in a variable.
Add a listener to the variable.
Set functions on load or resize.

Slide 42
No shortage of good themes.
Find themes that focus on mobile first.

From 20-22 October, London was host to the TYPO 2011 conference. The conference started sixteen years ago in Berlin, continuing without interruption since. London holds the distinction as the first event held outside of Germany. The format: three days of talks with appearances by more than forty speakers. The schedule is quite ambitious. Talks begin in the early morning and continue well into the evening: there is no filler and the expectation of quality is high. Erik Spiekermann (always direct, brutally honest, wonderfully hilarious) and Adrian Shaughnessy acted as the glue of the conference, holding the space between speakers in place.

The theme of the conference is perhaps best summarised by a point Dale Herigstad made in the very first talk, later expanded upon by Tim Fendley. Spaces become places when they contain meaning; places gain definition with name. The speakers, organisers and audience members all arrived from a great many places, and the work and conversation shared amongst them reaches even further.

While I currently design and develop for the web, my background is in print. I formally studied as a Graphic Designer, schooled in the principles of the Bauhaus and Swiss design. Towards the latter half of university, I experienced the autumn years of post-modernism in design — a divergence that encouraged experimentation and insisted on questioning legibility — an experience that certainly influenced my understanding of design as much as formal modernism. The speakers who volunteered their time for this conference came from a genuine mix of design and art backgrounds. Design conferences of this scale are quite rare, and I feel quite fortunate to have had the opportunity to see the work of so many of my peers and heroes, to view the work as presented.

The quality and tempo of the conference was perhaps set by the first day of talks, a series to kick off the weekend in great anticipation.

People

Dale Herigstad. Media Space: Where is what? Where is where?

Chief Interaction Officer, Possible Worldwide

Screens can define places. Historically, a shape — the rectangle — confined information and entertainment. The rectangle, the screen, is surface onto a scene. Through advancements in dimension and space, the confines of the screen begin to erode. Detached observation moves to immersive and interactive space. Gestures, metadata, contextual information, social networking, multi-planing leads to the creation of media space. Content portals, transitions and advanced interaction provide a dynamic experience in-game and media space.

Further thoughts from the TYPO Blog

Nat Hunter. Telling the right story

Creative Director, Airside

Telling the right story is as important as a narrative work. Before presenting examples of great Airside narratives, Nat Hunter told a bit of her own story. Moving from chemistry to programming — with a great cameo from the Logo turtle! — to human computer interaction (HCI), she went on to start Airside as a collective with two partners. A few of the highlighted projects:

• Demos: The Power Gap
• Virgin Atlantic: In-flight entertainment
• CafeDirect / WeFarm

The new Virgin Atlantic in-flight entertainment system is welcome. I often fly Virgin to New York and the in-flight entertainment is — whilst better than most airlines — quite a terrible experience. Currently, an awkward game controller controls the user interface; accessing any piece of media requires, at minimum, half a dozen clicks and arrows presses. The new interface works entirely through touch and gesture. Media is largely accessed with one touch. Hunter described the challenges inherent to in-flight entertainment: by the time an airline manufactures and installs it, the system is outdated. The interface is meant to last for ten years. Aside from a few questionable UI decisions (primarily, heavy gradients) the interface should stand the test of time. I am eager to experience it on my next flight.

Ms Hunter shared an anecdote about the adoption of the new video screens: success is measured by a decline in drinks purchased from the bar, implying higher engagement with the entertainment system as a result of shorter wait times and more immediate interaction.

Further thoughts from the TYPO Blog

Kutlu Çanlio?glu& Titus Nemeth. BBC’s Global Experience Langauge in 27 languages and 9 scripts

PhD Candidate, Reading University / Senior Creative Director, BBC World Service

The BBC World Service poses a unique user experience and typographic challenge to the designers and developers of the broadcasting system. BBC news is available in twenty-seven languages and nine scripts. In applying their Global Experience Language (GEL) framework to the many World Service websites, the BBC attempt to ensure a consistency of layout, local interpretations of colour and design patterns whilst maintaining a respect for the varied methods of content delivery. Brasil, as an example, rarely uses images for hard news; images are largely provided by local contributors. In Russia, all news is hard news, it is difficult to ascertain hierarchy. Bandwidth in China is unpredictable and slow: web users expect links to always open in a new window so that they may continue to load in the background. Çanlio?lu and his team often weigh accessibility and experience principles against regional expectations, continually asking the question: are the differences relevant to our approach?

The BBC join a bold, global initiative to utilise professional typography on the web, as embedded fonts. Arabic, as the flagship, is often only available in a single script released by Microsoft decades ago; a simplified representation of letterforms that ignores many cultural and linguistic subtleties. The irony, of course, is that users grew accustomed to the mistakes of the computer font and anticipate those changes over their authentic, written counterparts. The BBC selected Titus Nemeth’s Nassim typeface for Arabic-language sites. Much of the talk focused on the fascinating development of this typeface.

Further thoughts from the TYPO Blog

Jonathan Ellery. The here and the now

Founder, Browns

After a brief debate on his role as artist or designer (“design is: a brief, a client and fees”), Jonathan Ellery discussed the publishing business of his design studio, initiated in 2005. Named Browns Editions, Ellery self-publishes many of his own artist works, personal works that otherwise would be unlikely to see the light of day.

• 136 Points of Reference
• 87 (a study in typography and form)
• In and Out (an abstract journey: roots in the life of Ellery’s father)
• Constance (accompanied a performance: Ellery’s relationship with women)
• Ellery’s Theory of Neo-conservative Creationism (an abstract journey: religion and science reconciled)
• The Human Condition (a study of rings, from child innocence to dark sexuality)

I felt 136 Points of Reference was particularly interesting. A collection of objects, moments, and broadly defined things that influenced Ellery and his work at the studio. The reference points were arranged in the publication in a way to show relationships between objects; to build rhythm and context. He remarked that everyone has a constantly evolving set of references, and that we have a responsibility to acknowledge these references. Once acknowledged, set them aside and move on. In keeping the same points of reference, you and your work are at risk of becoming mere shadows of their former selves.

Further thoughts from the TYPO Blog

Tony Brook. Bred in the bone

Creative Director, Spin

Mr Brook took time at the beginning of the talk to briefly discuss two projects: the identity for Haunch of Venison and the curation/design of the Wim Crouwel exhibition at the Design Museum in London. The first appears to be a fantastic piece of reductive work: an apparent raw interpretation of the legs (the haunch) of a three-legged deer, turned to its side.

The Design Museum work was an extraordinary opportunity for Brook — a self-described “Wim Crouwel” stalker. He embraced the opportunity to meet with Crouwel, explore archives in the Netherlands. With some persuasion, Brook convinced the Design Museum to curate an exhibition. Spin visualised everything: catalogues, iOS apps, posters, invitations, exhibition signage, souvenirs.

“Bred in the bone” is a loose theory that design is shaped by the culture, heritage, economy of language and genetic makeup of those who create it. Brook used his own heritage to illustrate his point; the importance of Northern (England) culture in Halifax, Yorkshire — the places, people, language and music that leave sometimes in-discernible traces of influence in life and work.

Further thoughts from the TYPO Blog

Michael Bierut. The only important decision

Partner, Pentagram

Mr Bierut presented his showcase of work from Pentagram very much in the spirit of the conference. A sense of place for each project: work that embodies the context of the cities and landmarks in which commissioned. The title of the talk references the most important decision a designer can often make: what typeface should I use? In the highlights below, I’ve noted the typeface selected/created for each.

• Celebration, Florida (Cheltenham)
• Lower Manhattan, New York: Alliance for Downtown New York (Akzidenz Grotesk)
• Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Academy of Music (News Gothic)
• Park Avenue, Manhattan: Lever House (Lever Sans)
• Falls Church, Virginia: General Dynamics
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Harley-Davidson (Knockout)
• Floral Park, New Jersey: New York Jets (Jets Bold)
• Columbus Circle, Manhattan, New York: Museum of Arts and Design (MAD Face)
• Miami, Florida: New World Symphony
• Times Square, Manhattan, New York: The New York Times

Leave to remain

Currently, the United Kingdom grants a migrant working or studying a specific period of “leave to remain”, during which they are entitled to claim temporary residency. At the end of this time, a person may choose to renew their visa or switch to a more appropriate route — for example, a student or spouse seeking entitlement to work. After five years of continued residency, immigrants may then apply for “indefinite leave to remain” (ILR), provided they continue to meet the necessary skill requirements. While ILR is still a step removed from citizenship, it does grant permanent settlement in the UK and full access to state services. The aforementioned consultation seeks to define, at the onset of a visa application, which visas are temporary. Workers on temporary visas will not have the option to apply for ILR.

The previous, Labour government introduced the current tiered working visa system in 2008. It is now all but extinct. The Home Office, in the waning years of Gordon Brown, made incremental restrictions to tiered visas by increasing the skill requirements of incoming workers. Following the election of the Liberal Democrat / Conservative coalition, the government has systematically dismantled the visa system. The highest privileged working visa — the Tier 1 Highly Skilled Migrant — closed on 6 April 2011. Tier 4, the student visa, was significantly altered the same month in parallel to closing of the Tier 1 Post-study working visa.

The Home Office states that 84,000 migrants from outside the European Economic Area were granted indefinite leave to remain in 2010 via employment routes, a 17% increase from totals in 1997 (a year apparently relevant as it was the start of the three-term Labour government). Oft quoted reasons for reducing migration include the additional strain on services and loss of skilled jobs.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, has made it clear that the United Kingdom intends to block the flow of immigrants from outside the EEA to as few people as legally possible.

Labor

We want the brightest and best workers to come to the UK, make a strong contribution to our economy while they are here, and then return home.

Damian Green

The Home Department addresses immigrants as “workers”. The underlying rationale is that visa holders have come to the UK to advance their work and careers. This is fair reasoning. However, the assumption that people are here only to work is deeply flawed. Green ignores the strong cultural and social ties that immigrants inevitably form. Adopted homes, however fleeting, still bind. Expecting immigrants to arrive, work for a bit then neatly pack their bags disregards the life that work is bundled within. Five years can be a lifetime of experience and learning; of friendship, of love, of cultural embrace.

The proposal makes no care for these links to community; coldly rational, it either denies the existence of friendship and possibility outside of work or expects the swift burning of bridges. Damian Green’s words amplifies an understanding that people are resources: temporary bodies to fill temporary roles.

Contribution

In striking contrast, Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, is pushing an initiative to reform immigration in the United States, acknowledging the essential role of immigrants in America’s economic and cultural growth. Bloomberg proposes more temporary and permanent working visas for highly skilled migrants, new entrepreneur visas and expanded green cards.

We will not remain a global superpower if we continue to close our doors to people who want to come here to work hard, start businesses, and pursue the American dream. The American dream cannot survive if we keep telling the dreamers to go elsewhere.

Michael Bloomberg

His initiative is a stark difference to the policies of the coalition government in the United Kingdom, and indeed to opinion in many parts of the United States. Yet his honesty and openness hits at a truth that many have been content to ignore. The immigration debate so often focuses on illegal persons that it rarely recognizes the economic and intellectual boon that stems from legal paths of migration. Globalization has allowed business and innovation to flourish, yet our borders are being closed to a generation of makers and thinkers.

Choice

The proposal (document), if passed, will come into effect in 2014. It is unclear whether immigrants already in the United Kingdom would be affected by the changes. The Home Office is keeping an open consultation until 9 September.

I did not move to the United Kingdom with the intent to settle permanently. The prospect of permanent settlement, however, is incentive for me to stay.

I have lived in this country for two years and already have a sincere appreciation for my work experience, my friends, the culture, this city. I understand how difficult it could be in one year to leave all of that behind. The same decision three years on is a choice I would hope to earn: a choice I believe all legal immigrants deserve.

Our interaction with the web has fundamentally shifted. Online content is accessible through a ever-expanding and myriad range of devices in a nearly unlimited set of surroundings. The conversation is no longer concerned with desktop or mobile users. Consider: a person might read a news article on their smartphone while at work, with limited connectivity, as a workaround to company security policies. Someone else might view a slideshow of images, listen to audio or watch a video on a notebook or tablet while making the daily commute. It is now an incorrect and potentially disadvantageous mindset that makes assumptions based on device capability or context.

Instead, the conversation has moved from the limitations of device and technology to the adaptability afforded with design that is responsive. Pixel-perfect layout in favor of flexible structure with fluid content and media. Design in search of commonalities, not differences.

Response

A Brief History

One year ago, Ethan Marcotte published an article titled Responsive Web Design (A List Apart, 25 May 2010). It has proven hugely influential and a fundamental starting point for responsive design strategy. His central argument is that while it is often tempting to develop mobile-specific versions of a website for a client with sandboxed and curated domains, the approach can quickly become a tremendous burden. How many devices do you specialize for? Which mobile browser do you target, at what resolution and what screen size? Before long, a developer could be asked to provide completely different experiences for a dozen devices: catered solutions for an iPhone, HTC running Android or Windows 7, a Blackberry. The solution is to adapt to the one thing that is predictable and unchanging: viewing size.

Rather than tailoring disconnected designs to each of an ever-increasing number of web devices, we can treat them as facets of the same experience. We can design for an optimal viewing experience, but embed standards-based technologies into our designs to make them not only more flexible, but more adaptive to the media that renders them. In short, we need to practice responsive web design. Ethan Marcotte

Consistency of experience

Experience is key. Users change the way they access content frequently; numerous times daily. We expect the user interface to remain consistent, if not exact as we move from desktop to mobile, video game console to tablet. As a sort of testament to this need, Facebook has recently announced the rollout of one unified interface for all 250 million of its mobile site users.

Fluid Design & Media Queries

How does a website become responsive? HTML and CSS are the building blocks of the web: the structure to hold our rich content and the styling essential to bring it to life. Historically, CSS has supported a method for scoping presentation to devices with media types — a way of adapting stylesheets for screen, print, or handheld devices. These are, however, quite limited and ill-fitting as the definition of what is appropriate for each becomes less obvious.

As Ethan Marcotte explains, the upcoming CSS3 specification includes a very powerful method of querying device characteristics. These expressions, or Media Queries, check for the conditions of specific media features. A media query could, for example, inquire on the current width of a browser, the maximum or minimum screen size of a portable device, aspect-ratio, color, resolution or device orientation. By preparing a stylesheet to adapt to the changing conditions of a visual or tactile device, websites become truly responsive.

Strategy

Small screen strategy

Responsive design is not about “designing for mobile.” But it’s not about “designing for the desktop,” either. Rather, it’s about adopting a more flexible, device-agnostic approach to designing for the web. Fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries are the tools we use to get a bit closer to that somewhat abstract-sounding philosophy. Ethan Marcotte

In defining a mobile offering, it is important to make decisions driven by research, user needs and content strategy. Media queries are not mobile solutions in and of themselves. For many client projects, a catered mobile experience — often deliberately sectioned within a m.website.com or mobile.website.com domain — is entirely appropriate and necessary. Mobile users expect content delivered quickly, with easily accessible links and navigation; without embellishment, in an interface designed for small screens.

Time and budget may not always allow for specialization. For a website that does not sell a product or require much interaction, a partitioned mobile website is more often a hindrance than a benefit. In these cases, designing a website to respond rather than redirect is an attractive and viable option. This approach is more than simply agreeing that some effort is better than none: the alternative is pushing a design envisioned for the ideals of the desktop onto users, forcing them to navigate an entirely unsuitable interface.

Luke Wroblewski, a recognized product designer, has long championed the notion of designing for Mobile First. By starting with an assumption of limited capabilities, restrictions force designers to focus on content and hierarchy. Onto that, layers of rich detail and extended functionality are added as the capabilities of the device improve. It’s a keystone to the philosophy of Progressive Enhancement. Focus on accessibility and usability first, then build on the experience.

Movement

Responsive web design is not synonymous with a mobile offering. It is a design approach for creating fluid, adaptable and self-aware websites unconcerned with device limitations. Responsive design is design for content: a multi-resolution, standards-compliant cradle for the hierarchy of written word and rich media. There are absolutely valid cases where a client’s website would be better served by a device-specific, sand-boxed website designed explicitly for mobile behaviors. Research, user needs, and content strategy inform the decision on which approach is best for your audience.

These are very exciting times for the web. The rise of HTML5, CSS3, Web Typography, and touch interfaces have stripped away former browser limitations. Going forward, our experience with the web can only be hindered by choosing not to embrace emerging technologies.

How can you refine and expand your current offering? How will responsive design affect the way you plan and build a project with changing criteria?

This article is the first in a series posted to Studio :: Headshift. It is followed by Design for the changing web: Our response.

Poor composition, haphazard arrangement; the orange and white check pattern of the bedspread beneath it all.

Impressed with the amount of quality items in the tote bag — posters, notebooks, stickers, candies, graphics and papers — I hastily arranged everything into a sort of aesthetic garbage pile and snapped off two shots. It was a moment of documentation, if anything.

On the return from Lisbon, I selected a set of photographs from the trip which I felt best captured the experience. A quick upload to Flickr, with appropriate Creative Commons licences and tags. It was the ‘uxlx‘ tag that garnered the most attention. The curators of UX Lisbon tracked the social media response to the conference, and quite effectively promoted the results. They were quick to integrate public-sourced photographs back into their website for future events. Including, a sneak peek of the gift bag conference attendees receive.

Less than a year later, that photograph has reached over one thousand unique views: the large majority of referrers are from ux-lx.com.

In retrospect, had I known the image would prove so popular I might have taken the time to arrange a proper shot. It’s nearly taken for granted that the power and influence of social media can return such gains from very little effort. Significant exposure on the wings of quick and dirty categorization — accidental success. Consider the possibilities inherent with consistent effort, energy and focus.

This is my Moleskine notebook. I have a number of Moleskines in any number of formats and sizes, but this is the only one that matters. I purchased it four years ago. It contains notes, sketches, recipes, hand-drawn maps, addresses, phone numbers and countless half-formed thoughts written in moments of inspiration or intoxication. So much information, in fact, that I have exhausted the available writing surface. The notebook is set to be retired this week; an identical Moleskine will replace it. The pages of the new notebook will slowly fill, the spine will deteriorate and everything will start anew.

a useful or valuable possession or quality of a country, organization or person

Cambridge University Press

a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively

Oxford English Dictionary Press

To many, the understanding of resources has been in the context of raw materials: oil, minerals, currency and other tradable commodities. The definitions above appear vague enough to accommodate both the traditional idea of resources and more modern appreciations. If we take some liberty with the definitions I could, in fact, be “a valuable asset of an organization”. Unfortunately, the word asset itself is tricky, referring to either positive virtues and strengths or conversely, property and goods. A “useful possession drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively”? Less appealing.

In conversation, we speak of needing “[x amount of resources] for [a particular task, function or result]” eg “one barrel of oil for production of twenty gallons of petrol”. Accordingly, we could assign “eight developers and one designer for completion of this project”. This likely has roots in labor as part of the factors of production, the idea of human capital.

I am not a resource.

There has existed a “human resources” department in corporate environments for as long as I can remember. The omniscient, bureaucratic HR Department. I suspect it is an American concept (apologies). Largely, the terminology was self-contained; uninspired and only vaguely insulting. However, the idea of a human resource and application of this label has subsequently spread through software, presentations and into speeches and conferences. It has crept into everyday language, and we think little of it.

Launching a software application for the recording of timesheets, holidays, projects and budget management what might one expect to find in a section labeled “Resources”? Perhaps contextual information — available funds, calendars, time allocation or office supplies. Today, more likely a list of employees. Employees and their availability, narrowed to precise decimal percentages.

This has likely been accepted because it is removed of context. We pretend not to refer to manufacturing, energy or trading. Given such context, it feels abhorrent to address individuals as resources. This lingering association may be uncomfortable, but words constantly change context, adapt to evolving conditions. The more grievous sin lies in the application. We have begun to not only apply the term to people, but apply the underlying concepts as well. We are objectifying one another, reducing ourselves to tangible commodities.

The phrases are common enough. We are assigning resources to a project. We have resourced this person. This project is low on resources. We need to discuss your resourcing this week.

People are provided with necessary resources; are people necessary resources?

In writing this, I expected to unearth a large number of existing articles decrying the use the term. After an (admittedly cursory) search, I found few results. It’s difficult to imagine many people promoting the practice. Is the label so ubiquitous that we have become complacent?

Are we comfortable being put in parallel to material objects subject to ownership and distribution?
If the answer to that seems obvious, why is the terminology still part of our daily vocabulary? Even those who loathe the word continue to use it. It would suggest a general acceptance (or acceptance through apathy) that we are finite objects moved and managed as needed; pear-shaped pegs reluctantly hammered into uniform patterns.

Resourcing leads to numbers. Resourcing promotes cold efficiency and optimization. There are far too many variables (distractions, priorities, the creative process, unforeseen problems such as illness or unavailability) to slot people into calculations and charts. Allotting someone to tasks that neatly total 100% is a guarantee for failure.

Are we willing to agree to change course and perhaps consider alternatives that recognize us for what we are — human beings?

What are the possibilities?

If we are referring to people, I can’t see much reason for using anything other than person or individual. Consider including an individual’s job role if the former is not specific enough.

How do we engage people on a project? Perhaps by booking, reserving or scheduling.
We probably don’t wish to be allotted, arranged, programmed, contracted, or locked in.

Our language is rich with synonyms — synonyms with humane origins.

Find them, and bring them to conversation.

Immigration policy is an incredibly complex issue and I suspect living through an upheaval of the law will affect my own views concerning immigration in the United States. There are, of course, fundamental differences between migrants living in a country legally to those who have made a life illegally. However, the issue becomes clouded on both sides in calling for deportation or stricter rules whilst already trying to make a life for yourself in a country you aren’t a born citizen of.

It’s unsettling to see the door I walked through sealed off behind me. This isn’t the first change to the application. One month after my approval, the government set the visa skill requirements to a level I could never have applied to. I felt extraordinarily fortunate at the time — now, all the more.

Returning to my flat afterwards, I compared the two lists fully expecting a few discrepancies. Remarkably, there were none.

I suspect this method is not bulletproof — accuracy would likely drop with larger and more detailed amounts of information over a longer span of time between writing and recall. However, perhaps worth consideration on your next trip to the market.

There are extraordinary cases, as with anything. Largely however, we are building and maintaining superficial and haphazard relationships.

I have more often found inspiration in fleeting, chance encounters; moments of genuine intimacy. We are pouring our lives into empty boxes.

Knowledge sharing is something altogether different.

Excessive voyeurism and exhibitionism building towards a sort of paranoia and neurosis, primal need for acceptance.

We forget warmth and affection.