Coverage
Press, interviews and reviews about the work, and the places my own writing was carried, each one linked to the thing it is about and to an archived copy where one exists.
63 pieces
2024
Product for Learning“AI for Learning: Oak National Academy”2024about Aila
“How Oak National Academy is experimenting with GenAI to give teachers back their Sunday nights.”
Schools Week“Meet Aila, Oak Academy's new AI assistant”2024about Aila
“The "AI Lesson Assistant", called Aila, is the curriculum body's "first step to unleashing teachers' creativity", said Oak's engineering chief John Roberts.”
Education Business“Oak Academy launches AI-powered lesson assistant”2024about Aila
2023
Schools Week“Oak gets another £2m to expand AI quizzes and lesson planner”2023about Aila and Oak National Academy
“First step to 'providing every teacher with personalised artificial intelligence lesson-planning assistant', says government”
Ian Mulvany“London Generative AI hackathon - some reflections”2023about LLMs are going great
“llmsaregoinggreat - everything is scary!”
2020
Product Hunt“Year of Colour 2020 - Find out which colours you most used on Instagram this year”2020about Year of Colour
“It's a side project that I've been working on for a few years and has had about a million people use it over that time.”
2019
WeRSM“This Web App Lets You Create A Palette Of Colours Based On Your Instagram Images”2019about Year of Colour
“Created as a side-project by Stef Lewandowski... Year of Colour is a web app that lets you create a palette of colours from your Instagram photos.”
TechRadar“Generate your own 2018 Instagram palette with Year of Colour”2019about Year of Colour
“Year of Colour is a new web app that takes all the snaps you've shared over the last 12 months... and pulls out the dominant shades”
Trusted Reviews“Year of Colour breaks down your Instagram posts to help you rack up more Likes”2019about Year of Colour
“Year of Colour shows you the colours that dominate your Instagram posts during a particular period of time”
designboom“'year of colour' app by makelight generates your instagram palette from 2018”2019about Year of Colour
“The app takes information from your posts and generates an abstract color report based on your personal feed.”
PhoneArena“Turn your 2018 Instagram memories into a visual display of colored dots”2019about Year of Colour
“A new web app called Year of Colour (via The Verge) will show you... which colors appeared most often on your Instagram photos in 2018”
TechNadu“'Year of Colour' App Allows You to Look Back at Your Instagram Year Through Colors”2019about Year of Colour
“London-based venture builder Stef Lewandowski released a web app that creates mosaic patterns out of people's Instagram posts.”
Social Samosa“How to track the colors of your Instagram photos 2018 with Year Of Colour app”2019about Year of Colour
“How to track the colors of your Instagram photos 2018 with Year Of Colour app”
Genbeta“Descubre la paleta de colores que domina tu Instagram”2019about Year of Colour
“esta otra llamada Year of Colour (año de color) para descubrir tu paleta de colores en la red social durante 2018”
DutchCowboys“Year of colour: welke kleuren gebruikte jij het afgelopen jaar op Instagram”2019about Year of Colour
“De bedenker van de app is Stef Lewandowski die hem in zijn vrije tijd in elkaar wist te hacken.”
The Verge“Track the colors of your 2018 Instagram photos with this new web app”2019about Year of Colour
“The app, Year of Colour, takes your snapshots of events and moments and distills them into an abstract time capsule of colored dots.”
Product Hunt“Year of Colour - What were your Instagram colours in 2018? (#5 Product of the Day)”2019about Year of Colour
“Year of Colour is a data visualisation tool for Instagram that shows you the colours you've used in your posts throughout the year.”
2016
Art Jewelry Forum“A Sense of an Overview, Yes; A Sense of Dynamism, Less So”2016about Gesture-controlled viewer for Andrew Lamb's Lenticular Changing Colour Ring
“a tedious effort to incorporate a digital three-dimensional visualization of a ring”
2015
Quartz“I tweaked one thing about my hellish commute to turn it into a highlight of my day”2015about Hacking happiness into the daily commute
“A tiny alteration can have a surprisingly big effect on your happiness.”
2014
Medium“The Origin of Product Hunt”2014about Linkydink
“The original Product Hunt was hosted on a service called Linkydink.”
Hoipolloi Theatre blog“Beware of noise”2014about Stories from an Invisible Town
“when we raised this with the developer we'd worked with … we received a warning: beware of noise”
postPerspective“Review: The Aframe cloud platform”2014about Aframe
“Aframe has definitely put effort into pausing, stopping, and restarting uploads because some cloud-based workflows say they can pause, stop, and restart but they really can't.”
2013
Ryan Hoover“The Wisdom Of The 20-Minute Startup”2013about Linkydink and Makeshift
“After noodling over a few ideas, I was reminded of Linkydink, a link-sharing tool by the friendly folks at Makeshift.”
The Next Web“10 Web Apps to Help you Plan and Promote a Great Event”2013about Attending
“Attending is a simple, social event platform, allowing guests to effortlessly confirm attendance with a single click.”
Lifehacker“How to Make Happy Accidents Happen More Often”2013about Accelerating serendipity
Fast Company“Hire My Friend Makes Sure Your Boss Doesn't Find Out You're Job Hunting”2013about Hire My Friend
“London-based Makeshift launched a service to help full-timers discreetly look for work by leveraging their network of friends.”
TechCrunch“New London Startup Lab Makeshift Gives Birth To Its First MVP: HireMyFriend”2013about Hire My Friend and Makeshift
“Makeshift, a new "Startup Lab" in London's Eastern tech cluster, has now produced its first product, HireMyFriend.”
The Next Web“Want a new job but don't want to alert your current boss? Hire My Friend may well be for you”2013about Hire My Friend
“Makeshift, which describes itself as "a new kind of startup studio" based in London, has today launched Hire My Friend to "give a leg up to the little guy".”
BetaBeat“Startup Rundown: Tyra Banks' Wallet Smizes at a New Startup and Uber Makes Your Friends Share Your Cab Fare”2013about Hire My Friend
2012
Hoipolloi Theatre blog“Following the audience's lead”2012about Stories from an Invisible Town
“we listened to feedback, and have created Hugh Hughes FM”
The Next Web“TNW at IBC: Aframe's CTO Tim Burton on video production in the cloud”2012about Aframe
“Aframe is a cloud-based video asset management system built with production people in mind.”
Toby Harris“change nation » day 0”2012about Change Nation - the tech behind the scenes and Change Nation
“stef has an excellent write-up on his site”
2011
Smarta“60-second start-up: Aframe”2011about Aframe
Televisual“Tapeless system like Facebook”2011about Aframe
“The way it works is that, on location, rushes are uploaded onto your Aframe space where anyone in the production team can access the production pages to review the content, leave comments and so on.”
2010
Columbia Journalism Review“Q & A: Paul Bradshaw, Founder of Help Me Investigate”2010about Help Me Investigate
“CJR assistant editor Lauren Kirchner spoke with Bradshaw about Help Me Investigate, a project he launched last summer that invites readers to suggest local governance issues for each other to investigate”
2009
Birmingham Post“Volunteers build 'improved' version of Birmingham City Council's website”2009about BCCDIY
“A group of volunteers is building a rival version of Birmingham City Council's website”
Journalism.co.uk“Help Me Investigate: How working collaboratively can benefit journalists”2009about Help Me Investigate
“it was the first piece of journalism to come out of the Help Me Investigate project, a couple of months after it was kickstarted with public funding from 4ip and a local media body”
PBS MediaShift“Help Me Investigate: Paul Bradshaw on Crowdsourcing Investigative Reporting”2009about Help Me Investigate
“announced that a project he's been working on for 18 months called Help Me Investigate won funding to build a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism”
2008
Eye Magazine“Type, tart cards, T-shirts and crosses”2008about Plus International Design Festival
“Lectures throughout the festival were packed, and not just for those by marquee names such as Jonathan Barnbrook and Steve Bell.”
Design Week“Plus Design festival set to get under way”2008about Plus International Design Festival
“The four-day graphic and typography event, now in its third year, will host a series of workshops, exhibitions, lectures and events focusing on the theme of ‘hybrid’.”
Design Weekthe piece2008about 3form
“Stef Lewandowski, board member of Creative Republic and managing director of digital agency 3Form, says he started to think about the role of a creative director in 2006”
ITV“Tonight: Credit Crunch Winners”2008about Odadeo
“Former Dragon's Den star Richard Farleigh meets the savvy entrepreneurs who are turning the current financial crisis into a money-making opportunity”
The New York Times“Twittering From the Cradle”2008about Odadeo
“He joined Odadeo, a site still in beta that allows dads to blog on behalf of baby as well as meet other fathers.”
Mashable“Father's Day Beta Launch: Odadeo”2008about Odadeo
“The name's Odadeo, it's presently in private beta mode, and it's all about helping patriarchs of the world keep in touch with their children.”
Broadcast“Digital leader”2008about 3form
“Stef Lewandowski is proprietor of digital development and design company 3 Form, which he set up in 2001.”
2007
Design Week“Plus event opens in Birmingham”2007about Plus International Design Festival
“Plus takes place at the Wild Building, Floodgate Street, Digbeth from 17 to 21 October.”
Design Week“Birmingham set to host merged Plus festival”2007about Plus International Design Festival
“French architect Alexandre Parré will create the overall design of the festival, organised by exhibition specialists Plus Expo and Typevents.”
Financial Times“Giving creative businesses a vital leg-up to the next level”2007about 3form
“The 28-year-old runs 3form, a Birmingham-based agency specialising in web design, online gaming and interactive tools, with clients including Vivienne Westwood and lastminute.com.”
2006
Type Records news“Honda: More Forward ad”2006about Goldmund — Corduroy Road
“Goldmund's track 'Ba' from the album Corduroy Road has been chosen for the music for Honda's latest UK TV commercial. The ad features Honda's latest scientific breakthrough, the robot Asimo, which is apparently capable of realtime human-like movements - fascinating to watch.”
Honda newsroom“ASIMO Debuts in UK Advertising Campaign”2006about Goldmund — Corduroy Road
“The 90 second TV advertisement, which premieres on 15th December, follows ASIMO on a journey of discovery through the corridors and exhibits of a science museum.”
YouTube“HONDA, "Museum" / "Asimo"”2006about Goldmund — Corduroy Road
Museums and the Web 2006“Encouraging Visitor Involvement on the V&A website”2006about V&A Arts and Crafts
“This Flash interactive was an extremely popular part of an Arts and Crafts exhibition microsite”
V&A Annual Review 2005/6“Online”2006about V&A Arts and Crafts
“the International Arts and Crafts site displayed over 14,000 contributors' new tile designs”
2005
MTV Europe“This Is Our Music”2005about Khonnor — Handwriting
“The week following the release of the album Khonnor's parents still hadn't been told that their son had made a record and that some guys from MTV Europe were in town doing a documentary on him.”
YouTube“Khonnor: This is Our Music (documentary, 2005)”2005about Khonnor — Handwriting
YouTube“midaircondo - serenade”2005about Midaircondo — Shopping For Images
2002
Creative Review“USED - Browser 3.0”2002about White Noise Central
“In Print: White Noise Central featured in the new book "Browser 3.0" from Creative Review magazine.”
1999
Browser 2.0“Reload - Browser 2.0 - The Internet Design Project”1999about 3form
“Work featured in this web design showcase book.”
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Toby Harris“Accenture Festival of Ideas”about Accenture: Festival of Ideas and Business to Arts Award: Best Creative Staff Engagement and Convotate
“900 consultants related their own experience to the direction set by the executive team.”
Nesta“Buddy: from Sidekick Studios and the South London and Maudsley Mental Health Trust”about Buddy
“Buddy is a daily digital diary where users can record their mood and what they did that day via SMS.”
Journalismfund Europe“Not like an old-fashioned journalist”about Help Me Investigate
“In Birmingham Paul Bradshaw and his team behind the website Help Me Investigate is playing with the idea.”
New America“How Oak National Academy Is Transforming Classrooms with AI and OER”about Aila
“I am also really proud that we were able to develop and launch our AI-powered lesson assistant, Aila. This was the first publicly funded generative AI tool available to the public in the UK.”
Tes“Oak to get ‘up to £2m’ to develop AI teacher assistants”about Aila
“The government said the new investment in its national online learning resource provider is the “first step” towards providing every teacher with a “personalised AI lesson-planning assistant”.”