# Stef Lewandowski > Personal site of Stef Lewandowski — the record of things made since c. 1997, > recovered from public archives with provenance on every entry. Facts marked > «TODO» are deliberately unverified; do not fill them in. ## Sections - https://stef.io/ — the front door: what is current now (the Now room lives here; /now redirects) - https://stef.io/work — the full career record: every company founded and role held since 1995, dated, newest first - https://stef.io/archive — the whole record, counted by year, kind, room and confidence; each count links to that list - https://stef.io/archive/all — everything made, one line each, dated - https://stef.io/coverage — press, interviews and reviews about the work, by year, each linked to its entry and an archived copy - https://stef.io/field-notes — patterns mined from live practice - https://stef.io/writing — essays, new and recovered - https://stef.io/about — who Stef is: bio in his own words, the companies he names first, selected awards - https://stef.io/colophon — how this site is built ## Entries - [Very full-stack](https://stef.io/writing/very-full-stack): With AI in the loop, one person can now carry a product from brand to infrastructure. The lines are blurring, and I think that is the point. (2026) [writing/writing] - [Arcla](https://stef.io/now/arcla): AI-assisted heads-up display for video calls. (2025) [company/now] - [Assembly](https://stef.io/now/assembly): Helping families get the help their neurodivergent child needs. (2025) [role/now] - [Differentiated Homework](https://stef.io/projects/differentiated-homework): Create differentiated homework based on the needs of the student (2023) [hack/projects] - [LLMs are going great](https://stef.io/projects/llmsaregoinggreat): “A crowd-sourced collection of everything you shouldn't be building with LLMs. You're… not doing that right?” Made in twenty-four hours at the inaugural AI Hackathon London. (2023) [hack/projects] - [Autism Eyes](https://stef.io/projects/autism-eyes): An AI and VR healthtech spinout from Cleveland Clinic; as fractional CTO I helped carry the product out of the innovation lab, to its acquisition by Floreo. (2023) [project/projects] - [Aila](https://stef.io/projects/oak-ai-tools): Oak National Academy's AI lesson assistant, open to every teacher in the UK. (2023) [project/projects] - [How to scale your data team](https://stef.io/speaking/dbt-coalesce-talk): With Thomas in’t Veld of Tasman Analytics, at dbt’s Coalesce London 2022: how On Deck pulled 400-plus SaaS tools into one data platform without a data team. (2022) [talk/speaking] - [Translucent](https://stef.io/work/translucent): An early-stage fintech and data startup: a finance platform for the CFOs of multi-entity businesses. (2022) [role/work] - [Bold creativity wins](https://stef.io/speaking/ably-summit-2022-bold-creativity-wins): Creativity in practice: bringing an idea to fruition. The online school built in six days, and what happens to the ideas that don’t make it. (2022) [talk/speaking] - [On Deck](https://stef.io/work/on-deck): A San Francisco cohort-based learning platform for people with ambition, somewhere between an accelerator and an MBA. (2021) [role/work] - [Confirmic](https://stef.io/projects/confirmic): A cookie consent widget for websites, taken over from Metomic in 2021 and run under a new name. (2021) [project/projects] - [Digital Leaders Impact Awards](https://stef.io/awards/digital-leaders-2021-oak): Digital Leaders Impact Awards, for Oak National Academy (2021) [award/awards] - [Unlocking Potential (keynote)](https://stef.io/speaking/unlocking-potential-keynote): He was provocative and challenging at the same time as being positive and inspiring. He fulfilled his brief completely and was very flexible in the lead up to his keynote- flexing the content and checking with me that he was getting the messaging right. [talk/speaking] - [Oak National Academy](https://stef.io/work/oak-head-of-engineering): Wrote the first code and led the technical development of Oak's free online lessons: v1 shipped in the first lockdown, and by the second wave it was supporting 4.5 million children a week learning from home. (2020) [role/work] - [Oak National Academy](https://stef.io/work/oak-national-academy): A free online educational resource to help schools to continue providing education for students. (2020) [org/work] - [WPStatic Test](https://stef.io/projects/wpstatic-test): Proving out WP2Static so Oak National Academy could come off WordPress — flattening the site to static assets to cut its attack and performance surface. (2020) [hack/projects] - [The goal isn’t to run the marathon, it’s to become the kind of person who runs marathons](https://stef.io/writing/the-goal-isnt-to-run-the-marathon-it-s-to-become-the-kind-of-person-who-runs-marathons): Now that the London Marathon is postponed, along with lots of other races, here’s why I’m keeping going and adapting. (2020) [writing/writing] - [Emily Quinton](https://stef.io/projects/emily-quinton): Emily's personal website, built with Gatsby (2020) [hack/projects] - [Run](https://stef.io/projects/run): A Strava-powered Gatsby website for sharing a training blog (2020) [hack/projects] - [Autism, kids, self-reflection and why I’m running the London Marathon for #Autism](https://stef.io/writing/why-im-running-the-london-marathon-for-team-autism): This Summer, our two kids and I were diagnosed with autism. So what did I do? Start running, of course! Here’s why. (2020) [writing/writing] - [Independent](https://stef.io/work/fractional-cto): Startups applying AI, as their fractional CTO or lead engineer: an AI and VR healthtech spinout from Cleveland Clinic, and Aila, Oak National Academy's AI lesson assistant. (2020) [role/work] - [Perfectly](https://stef.io/projects/perfectly): A small web performance sketch: it ran Lighthouse in the cloud and measured what real visitors experienced. (2020) [hack/projects] - [Tech4Good Awards](https://stef.io/awards/tech4good-2020-oak): Tech4Good Awards Highly Commended — for Oak National Academy (2020) [award/awards] - [Makelight Router 1](https://stef.io/projects/makelight-router-1): A two-file path-routing rule set that split makelight.com between the old Heroku app and a new Next.js front end, one URL path at a time. (2019) [hack/projects] - [Graph.cool Export](https://stef.io/projects/graphcool-export): A fault-tolerant export script for Graph.cool (2019) [hack/projects] - [The ICE List](https://stef.io/culture/ice-list): An inspiring network for entrepreneurs and investors, run by its members. (2019) [role/culture] - [The ICE List](https://stef.io/projects/ice-website): Built the website for The ICE List, a volunteer-run members' network of technology founders and investors, as its Tech Lead. (2018) [project/projects] - [ING Labs](https://stef.io/work/ing-labs): ING's London innovation lab, building new ventures where finance, tech and sustainability meet. (2018) [role/work] - [React Bulma Components Next](https://stef.io/projects/react-bulma-components-next): A failing demonstration of attempting to get React Bulma Components to work with Next.js (2018) [hack/projects] - [Redis-cached Prismic API](https://stef.io/projects/redis-cached-prismic-api): A demonstration of using Redis to cache the Prismic API in a Next.js and Express app (2018) [hack/projects] - [Roboshopper](https://stef.io/projects/roboshopper): Automatically create Shopify orders in your test store using fake data (2018) [hack/projects] - [Cloudinary Cleaner](https://stef.io/projects/cloudinary-cleaner): Make a local database of your cloudinary images so you can manage deletions (2018) [hack/projects] - [Year of Colour](https://stef.io/data-art/year-of-colour): Your year on Instagram as a palette. Over a million people had theirs read. (2018) [project/data-art] - [Rainmaking Venture Studio](https://stef.io/work/rainmaking-dhl): New digital ventures in e-commerce logistics and supply chain, built with DHL Supply Chain's backing. (2017) [role/work] - [✔︎ See the kids during daylight hours](https://stef.io/writing/see-the-kids-during-daylight-hours): We should put what really matters at the heart of how we work (2017) [writing/writing] - [Introducing The Thread on Medium](https://stef.io/writing/introducing-the-thread-on-medium): For the last couple of years, Makelight, the learning community that I help run has been really growing. It’s turned into a wonderfully… (2017) [writing/writing] - [Life, Time, Value Conference](https://stef.io/speaking/ltvconf-2017-brighton): Stef Lewandowski at LTVConf 2017. (2017) [talk/speaking] - [LTV Conf podcast, episode 5](https://stef.io/speaking/ltvconf-podcast-2017): After a life-changing illness at 19, Stef vowed to create something every day. He tried agency-life and the VC-world but it turned out working alongside his wife on her passion project was the way to finally to balance their family life with their work life. (2017) [talk/speaking] - [Ephemeralds](https://stef.io/writing/ephemeralds): On the temporary nature of the things we create (2016) [writing/writing] - [Do what you love (and pay the bills)](https://stef.io/writing/do-what-you-love-and-pay-the-bills): On growing a passion project into a passion business without taking investment. (2016) [writing/writing] - [Sketching out the future](https://stef.io/speaking/ux-brighton-2016-sketching-out-the-future): A talk at UX Brighton 2016 on sketching with code: making the thing to find out whether it should exist. (2016) [talk/speaking] - [Building early-stage startups](https://stef.io/speaking/london-startup-growth-meetup-2016): A talk on building early-stage startups, while building Makelight, at the London Startup Growth Meetup. (2016) [talk/speaking] - [Europeana Foundation](https://stef.io/culture/europeana): The Dutch foundation that owns Europeana, Europe's digital cultural heritage platform. (2016) [role/culture] - [Quietly getting on with business](https://stef.io/writing/quietly-getting-on-with-business): For the last few months I’ve been unusually quiet online. (2016) [writing/writing] - [Makelight](https://stef.io/work/makelight): An online learning community for makers and creative small-business owners, led by Emily Quinton: video courses, analytics tools and a subscription community. (2016) [company/work] - [The Ephemerald](https://stef.io/speaking/monki-gras-2016-the-ephemerald): How to get things done as a serial side-project maker, at RedMonk’s Monki Gras 2016. (2016) [talk/speaking] - [Hacking happiness into the daily commute](https://stef.io/writing/hacking-happiness-into-the-daily-commute): How rethinking part of my daily routine is having an effect on how happy I feel each day (2015) [writing/writing] - [Arash Moori — Heterodyne](https://stef.io/music/type-heterodyne): Arash Moori — Heterodyne (TYPE125) (2015) [release/music] - [Gesture-controlled viewer for Andrew Lamb's Lenticular Changing Colour Ring](https://stef.io/data-art/a-sense-of-jewellery-vr): A headset piece letting exhibition visitors examine a ring too intricate for the eye — the view moved by the wearer's own hand, tracked in mid-air. (2015) [project/data-art] - [Andrea Taeggi — Mama Matrix Most Mysterious](https://stef.io/music/type-mama-matrix-most-mysterious): Andrea Taeggi — Mama Matrix Most Mysterious (TYPE126) (2015) [release/music] - [Movementality](https://stef.io/music/mix-movementality): A selection of recent electronic releases. (2015) [mix/music] - [Artifice, Intelligence](https://stef.io/music/mix-artifice-intelligence): Driverless cars, jobs replaced by robots, AI everywhere. Let's hope they like a good beat. (2015) [mix/music] - [Retribution Body — Aokigahara](https://stef.io/music/type-aokigahara): Retribution Body — Aokigahara (TYPE122) (2015) [release/music] - [Nochexxx — Plot Defender](https://stef.io/music/type-plot-defender): Nochexxx — Plot Defender (TYPE123) (2015) [release/music] - [Nao Jokes](https://stef.io/projects/nao-jokes): Collaboratively write jokes using Hackpad and have your Nao robot perform them (2015) [hack/projects] - [Rainmaking Venture Studio](https://stef.io/work/rainmaking-jlr): A venture studio to kickstart Jaguar Land Rover's InMotion newco: three teams on three areas of opportunity, each validated by building digital prototypes. (2015) [role/work] - [Smalls](https://stef.io/projects/smalls): The Smalls — “where brands and filmmakers get together to make short films”: brands post a video brief, filmmakers pitch for it. (2015) [hack/projects] - [Hack, play, learn.](https://stef.io/speaking/ux-munich-2015-hack-play-learn): A hack-first approach to prototyping ideas in parallel to find the ones that work. (2015) [talk/speaking] - [If software is eating the world, who’s running the restaurant?](https://stef.io/writing/is-a-boys-club-eating-the-world): There’s a gender gap in tech. Can we narrow it? (2015) [writing/writing] - [The Gender Setting: Flexible Technology, Narrow Sexuality](https://stef.io/speaking/futurefest-2015-the-gender-setting): A FutureFest 2015 discussion session, billed with Stef Lewandowski as “Technologist, Artist and Startup Founder”. (2015) [talk/speaking] - [Yester](https://stef.io/projects/yester): An "old news" service based on Wikipedia entries about today's date in history (2015) [hack/projects] - [Getting back to the drawing board](https://stef.io/writing/getting-back-to-the-drawing-board): I’m leaving Makeshift, so what’s next? (2015) [writing/writing] - [Ignite Accelerator](https://stef.io/culture/ignite-accelerator): One of Europe's best pre-seed accelerator programmes. (2015) [role/culture] - [High Aura'd & Mike Shiflet — Awake](https://stef.io/music/type-awake): High Aura'd & Mike Shiflet — Awake (TYPE124) (2015) [release/music] - [Colour](https://stef.io/speaking/creativemornings-ldn-colour-2015): An improvised talk about creativity using my Deck Roulette format. A series of randomised slides based on a set of images and slide titles. Whatever the computer chooses next is what you have to talk about! (2015) [talk/speaking] - [Accenture (speaking engagement)](https://stef.io/speaking/accenture-speaking-engagement): Stef was great and delivered a great presentation and the audience found it very engaging. he recieved high praise and was a very approachable guy. [talk/speaking] - [Starting with a hack](https://stef.io/speaking/futureeverything-2015-starting-with-a-hack): Software developer Stef Lewandowski kicks off the session with a talk about starting new projects, gaining ownership over your own process and keeping your business playful. (2015) [talk/speaking] - [The Memrise Prize](https://stef.io/projects/memrise-prize): Built a tool for a head-to-head research competition to find the most effective way to learn foreign vocabulary — rival academic methods tested against each other on thousands of real learners. (2015) [project/projects] - [Unicorn Hunt](https://stef.io/projects/unicorn-hunt): A job board for tech jobs, built with 3beards in London. (2015) [project/projects] - [Black To Comm — Black To Comm](https://stef.io/music/type-black-to-comm): Black To Comm — Black To Comm (TYPE120) (2014) [release/music] - [Let’s distribute the future](https://stef.io/writing/lets-distribute-the-future): What would you give a child to inspire an interest in technology? A box full of awesome things perhaps? (2014) [writing/writing] - [The Awesome Box](https://stef.io/projects/awesome-box): A custom-built flight-case filled with inspiring, hackable, educational technology, travelling from school to school a term at a time. (2014) [project/projects] - [Jon Mueller & Duane Pitre — Inverted Torch](https://stef.io/music/type-inverted-torch): Jon Mueller & Duane Pitre — Inverted Torch (TYPE121) (2014) [release/music] - [Monsters! Everywhere!](https://stef.io/writing/monsters-everywhere): Sharing my love of drawing monsters with my kids (2014) [writing/writing] - [Internet of Things, where are you?](https://stef.io/writing/internet-of-things-where-are-you): Visualising the devices around you right now (2014) [writing/writing] - [Internet Of Things, Where Are You?](https://stef.io/projects/iot-where-are-you): A WebGL visualisation of the devices and services around your device right now (2014) [hack/projects] - [Lining things up](https://stef.io/writing/lining-things-up): How do you choose your next project? (2014) [writing/writing] - [The idea funnel](https://stef.io/writing/the-idea-funnel): Is killing ideas just as important as coming up with them? (2014) [writing/writing] - [Planned Outage](https://stef.io/projects/planned-outage): A trip for tech people to turn off and get away in the wilderness, kayaking in the Norwegian fjords. (2014) [project/projects] - [Sketching with Data](https://stef.io/speaking/import-io-data-summit-2014): A 15 minute talk about the “hackableness” and malleability of data, and some of the sketchy, playful hacks I’ve been doing in my spare time that perhaps point towards an opportunity to improve how playful we can be with data. (2014) [talk/speaking] - [Drawing to think](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-drawing-to-think): Is a doodle good for the noodle? [writing/writing] - [Teh Guardian FTW!!!1!](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-tehguardian): A tiny, subtle hack on TheGuardian.com (2014) [writing/writing] - [Story Jar](https://stef.io/projects/storyjar): Inspire your kids by making up stories for them (2014) [hack/projects] - [Teh Guardian](https://stef.io/projects/tehguardian): A comedyhack that introduced misspelling's, and typos' into theguardian.com (2014) [hack/projects] - [Mike Weis — Don't Know, Just Walk](https://stef.io/music/type-dont-know-just-walk): Mike Weis — Don't Know, Just Walk (TYPE119) (2014) [release/music] - [Teach Your Kids to Create as Well as Consume Games](https://stef.io/speaking/kidcrafters-2014): A 20x20 Pecha Kucha lightning talk (I’d never used this format before!) including how to be a robot dad and how to play with Scratch. (2014) [talk/speaking] - [Are you building a hack, a product, or a hackquaduct?](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-hackquaduct): Bridging the Hack/Product Gap (2014) [writing/writing] - [Watch: Encourage your kids to code even if you can’t yourself](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-kidcrafters): A 7 minute lightning talk at Kidcrafters (2014) [writing/writing] - [An awesome team forming](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-an-awesome-team-forming): A big welcome to some new makeshift faces [writing/writing] - [Announcing: Twitter lists of your event attendees](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-announcing-twitter-lists-for-events): We have list off! (2014) [writing/writing] - [My dad turns into a robot!](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-roboparent-2000): A tiny game you can play to encourage your kids to code (2014) [writing/writing] - [Step away from the screen](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-step-away-from-the-screen): Apply sunscreen instead? (2014) [writing/writing] - [Leancamp London 3](https://stef.io/speaking/leancamp-london-3-2014): Stef Lewandowski spoke at Leancamp London 3. (2014) [talk/speaking] - [Towards a greater understanding of technology for everyone](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-towards-a-greater-understanding-of-technology-for-everyone): In response to the response to the Year of Code (2014) [writing/writing] - [Cheers, Medium!](https://stef.io/writing/cheers-medium): You turned me into a writer (2014) [writing/writing] - [Introducing “Founder Stories”](https://stef.io/writing/introducing-founder-stories): Startup founders sharing what they’ve learnt (2014) [writing/writing] - [Leading at the code-face](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-leading-at-the-code-face): Balancing technical leadership with writing code (2014) [writing/writing] - [Learning to say “no”](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-learning-to-say-no): On becoming a non-yes man (2014) [writing/writing] - [One hundred pieces](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-one-hundred-pieces): Can I write one hundred pieces of writing in one year? (2014) [writing/writing] - [Startups—get a room!](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-startups-get-a-room): Pass the remote (2014) [writing/writing] - [Pye Corner Audio — The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 3&4](https://stef.io/music/type-the-black-mill-tapes-volumes-3-4): Pye Corner Audio — The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 3&4 (TYPE118) (2014) [release/music] - [Clore Prize](https://stef.io/awards/clore-prize-2014-awesome-box): Clore Prize — for Awesome Box (2014) [award/awards] - [Create Something Every Day](https://stef.io/speaking/do-lectures-2014-create-something-every-day): What I’ve learnt having this as my general rule for living for half my life. I did the talk as a hack by making it randomly pick from a set of slides so I didn’t know what would come next! (2014) [talk/speaking] - [Hospital Club HClub100](https://stef.io/awards/hclub100-2014-makeshift): Hospital Club HClub100 — for Makeshift (2014) [award/awards] - [Higher resolutions](https://stef.io/writing/higher-resolutions): Can you commit to doing something every day in 2014? (2013) [writing/writing] - [In conversation: Max Fraser, Stef Lewandowski and Christopher Raeburn](https://stef.io/speaking/wearable-futures-2013-in-conversation): What a collaboration between a fashion designer and a creative technologist looks like, at Wearable Futures 2013. (2013) [talk/speaking] - [Hackathon and on and on](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-hackathon-and-on-and-on): 24 hours of hacking! Crèche not included (2013) [writing/writing] - [A tiny act of feminism](https://stef.io/writing/a-tiny-act-of-feminism): Which child gets the pink beaker? (2013) [writing/writing] - [The ideas won’t run out](https://stef.io/writing/the-ideas-wont-run-out): So don’t worry if you have the idea fear (2013) [writing/writing] - [East Dulwich Forum](https://stef.io/projects/eastdulwich): A quick hack to see if the East Dulwich Forum could be more mobile-friendly and accessible (2013) [hack/projects] - [Get back to the craft](https://stef.io/writing/get-back-to-the-craft): Get back to the craft [writing/writing] - [Hey Twitter! Let me send a private link to a friend…](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-hey-twitter-let-me-send-a-private-link-to-a-friend): URL be back (2013) [writing/writing] - [Bearable Lightness](https://stef.io/music/mix-bearable-lightness): New electronic music with a human feel. (2013) [mix/music] - [Heber Primary School](https://stef.io/culture/heber-primary-school): School governor at two schools, and chair for three years at Heber Primary School in South London. (2013) [role/culture] - [This is from everyone](https://stef.io/writing/this-is-from-everyone): The Web will only be for everyone when we can say that it’s from everyone too (2013) [writing/writing] - [Will I really steal your idea?](https://stef.io/writing/will-i-really-steal-your-idea): Some people demand signed non-disclosure agreements before they will tell you their idea. I’m not one of them any more and here’s why. (2013) [writing/writing] - [Linkydink](https://stef.io/projects/linkydink): The simplest way to share links with your team (2013) [project/projects] - [Don’t just do one thing](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-don-t-just-do-one-thing): Could parallelism be an appropriate way to find the thing you should focus on? (2013) [writing/writing] - [How can we teach all the kids that want to code, how to code?](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-how-can-we-teach-all-the-kids-that-want-to-code-how-to-code): A shedcast with Clare Sutcliffe, co-founder of Code Club (2013) [writing/writing] - [How to lose form data and alienate people](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-how-to-lose-form-data-and-alienate-people): On poor form (2013) [writing/writing] - [How to send links via direct message in Twitter now they’re banned](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-how-to-send-links-via-direct-message-in-twitter-now-they-re-banned): A couple of handy hacks for getting round the ban (2013) [writing/writing] - [Magnificent failures, hand made video game cheat books and the absurdity of startups: An interview with Ryan Hoover](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-magnificent-failures-hand-made-video-game-cheat-books-and-the-absurdity-of-startups-an-interview-with-ryan-hoover): Talking shop (2013) [writing/writing] - [Make a useful thing and don’t be a dick](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-make-a-useful-thing-and-don-t-be-a-dick): Startup or upstart? (2013) [writing/writing] - [Not just another blog](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-not-just-another-blog): On making an article engine for Makeshift’s new website [writing/writing] - [On the joy of small software!](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-on-the-joy-of-small-software): Building things that just do one thing well [writing/writing] - [Shedcast #1: Stef on the early days of Makeshift](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-shedcast-1-stef-on-the-early-days-of-makeshift): The first in our series of podcast conversations from our two-story shed at Makeshift (yes you read that right) [writing/writing] - [Shedcast with Joe Scarboro](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-shedcast-with-joe-scarboro): Our first guest conversation in the Makeshift Shedscraper, with Joe from 3 Beards [writing/writing] - [Showing your work in progress](https://stef.io/writing/pieces-showing-your-work-in-progress): Show people early, get feedback, listen [writing/writing] - [Fluxion — Vibrant Forms](https://stef.io/music/type-vibrant-forms): Fluxion — Vibrant Forms (TYPE117), remastered edition, entire album on vinyl for the first time (2013) [release/music] - [A hack is worth a thousand pictures](https://stef.io/writing/a-hack-is-worth-a-thousand-pictures): Could making a prototype be better than using words and pictures to communicate your idea? (2013) [writing/writing] - [Rumbleroll](https://stef.io/projects/rumbleroll): Keep up to date with your favourite blogs (2013) [hack/projects] - [Shhare](https://stef.io/projects/shhare): Share passwords securely (2013) [hack/projects] - [Accelerating serendipity](https://stef.io/writing/accelerating-serendipity): Can you make happy accidents happen more often? (2013) [writing/writing] - [Makefulness](https://stef.io/writing/makefulness): Is seeking a state of flow what work is really about? (2013) [writing/writing] - [Cryptographics](https://stef.io/data-art/cryptographics): Cryptoquilt: quilts, prints and t-shirts that turn anything holding an image into something that also holds hidden data (2013) [hack/data-art] - [Wrangler](https://stef.io/projects/wrangler): A simple way to query and analyse data, and collaborate with your team around reports. (2013) [project/projects] - [Work Death — Phone About To Ring](https://stef.io/music/type-phone-about-to-ring): Work Death — Phone About To Ring (TYPE116), remastered and cut to vinyl (2013) [release/music] - [Internet filtering will do more harm than good](https://stef.io/writing/internet-filtering-will-do-more-harm-than-good): I’ve written to my UK Member of Parliament about new opt-out internet filtering proposals aimed at protecting children (2013) [writing/writing] - [What gets done is what gets done](https://stef.io/writing/what-gets-done-is-what-gets-done): How long working hours don’t help you in the long term (2013) [writing/writing] - [Hack, Play, Learn (Hacker News London)](https://stef.io/speaking/hn-london-hack-play-learn-2013): What we’re learning by building play, failure and parallelism into the Makeshift process. (2013) [talk/speaking] - [When to give up](https://stef.io/writing/when-to-give-up): The right course of action might be to stop what you’re doing, and regain your biggest asset – yourself. (2013) [writing/writing] - [30 days of Medium](https://stef.io/writing/30-days-of-medium): What I’ve learned from my first month writing on Medium (2013) [writing/writing] - [Learning by hacking](https://stef.io/writing/learning-by-hacking): I do hacks. Tiny prototypes for digital things that I show to people quickly. And for five years I’ve been doing, on average, one a month. I call it sketching with code. Here are some of the things I’ve learnt. (2013) [writing/writing] - [Hack it in a day](https://stef.io/writing/hack-it-in-a-day): Hack it in a day [writing/writing] - [Hire My Friend](https://stef.io/projects/hire-my-friend): A service for people who are in a job but want a new one: use your social network to find opportunities without your boss finding out. (2013) [project/projects] - [Introduction](https://stef.io/writing/introduction): Introduction [writing/writing] - [Let a thousand flowers bloom](https://stef.io/writing/let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom): Let a thousand flowers bloom [writing/writing] - [Stop feeding the beast](https://stef.io/writing/stop-feeding-the-beast): Stop feeding the beast [writing/writing] - [The Little, Big Idea](https://stef.io/writing/the-little-big-idea): How just doing the first, tiny part of your idea can help you find out what you need to do to really make it a big idea (2013) [writing/writing] - [Make it up as you go along](https://stef.io/writing/make-it-up-as-you-go-along): I’ve been making up bed-time stories for my kids.Could imagination and improvisation prepare them (and me) for the modern world? (2013) [writing/writing] - [Create something every day](https://stef.io/writing/create-something-every-day): Why I made this my rule for living, and what happens when you decide to make things all the time (2013) [writing/writing] - [Ignore the news](https://stef.io/writing/ignore-the-news): Why I gave up listening to mainstream news so I could concentrate on things that matter (2013) [writing/writing] - [Pogoid](https://stef.io/projects/pogoid): More hackable Active Record models with Postgres (2013) [hack/projects] - [Hack, Make, Shift](https://stef.io/speaking/open-innovation-conference-cardiff-2013): An overview of our stage-gate process for evaluating new ideas. (2013) [talk/speaking] - [Hacking at Do Startup](https://stef.io/writing/do-lectures-hacking): Hacking at Do Startup (2013) [writing/writing] - [Nicholas Bullen — Component Fixations](https://stef.io/music/type-component-fixations): Nicholas Bullen — Component Fixations (TYPE115) (2013) [release/music] - [A Morning with Makeshift](https://stef.io/speaking/digital-shoreditch-2013): Stef Lewandowski spoke at Digital Shoreditch Festival 2013. (2013) [talk/speaking] - [Geoff Mullen — Filtered Water](https://stef.io/music/type-filtered-water): Geoff Mullen — Filtered Water (TYPE114) (2013) [release/music] - [Hack, Play, Learn — Slides from Google Campus](https://stef.io/writing/hack-play-learn-at-google-campus): Hack, Play, Learn — Slides from Google Campus (2013) [writing/writing] - [Hack, Play, Learn (Tech Talkfest, Google Campus)](https://stef.io/speaking/tech-talkfest-hack-play-learn-2013): “Hack, Play, Learn” is the part of the Makeshift process that precedes the “Build, Measure, Learn” workflow that many people will be familiar with. (2013) [talk/speaking] - [How do you decide whether your idea is worth making?](https://stef.io/writing/ideas-worth-making): For the last few years, concentrating on “getting good at getting fast”. (2013) [writing/writing] - [Help Me Write](https://stef.io/projects/help-me-write): A very simple service aimed at bloggers and writers facing the common problem of 'what shall I write next?'. (2013) [project/projects] - [Hair Police — Mercurial Rites](https://stef.io/music/type-mercurial-rites): Hair Police — Mercurial Rites (TYPE113) (2013) [release/music] - [Shift Work](https://stef.io/music/mix-shift-work): A mix of the stuff that gives a smile when working from the wee hours to the wee hours. (2013) [mix/music] - [Listerly](https://stef.io/projects/listerly): Make and manage a list of people (2013) [project/projects] - [University of Birmingham](https://stef.io/culture/uob-court): One of the governing bodies of the University, with responsibilities including approving the appointment of the Chancellor. (2013) [role/culture] - [Sketching with Code](https://stef.io/writing/sketching-with-code-2013): Sketching with Code (2013) [writing/writing] - [Back to #startuplife with Makeshift](https://stef.io/writing/back-to-startup-life-with-makeshift): I’m doing a new thing. (2013) [writing/writing] - [Bitsy](https://stef.io/projects/bitsy): A tiny little service to help makers, musicians, designers, crafters, developers and small business owners sell their stuff directly to the people in their networks. (2013) [project/projects] - [Makeshift](https://stef.io/work/makeshift): An early London venture studio: fifty prototypes, twelve ideas, three taken further. (2013) [company/work] - [Attending](https://stef.io/projects/attending): Simple, social event pages: free to make, and guests said they were coming with one click. (2013) [hack/projects] - [Crafty Fox Box](https://stef.io/projects/crafty-fox-box): Helped Emily with design and tech around her monthly craft box subscription service. [project/projects] - [DMAURL](https://stef.io/projects/dmaurl): A one-day hack that got around Twitter only allowing white-listed URLs in direct messages (2013) [hack/projects] - [Doacourse](https://stef.io/projects/doacourse): Easy to create online courses (2013) [hack/projects] - [Flounder](https://stef.io/projects/flounder): A tiny tool for small teams that helped them follow the people they were all most connected to to their company twitter account (2013) [hack/projects] - [Hugbase](https://stef.io/projects/hugbase): Making Crunchbase more useful by adding Datahug (2013) [hack/projects] - [Product Punt](https://stef.io/projects/product-punt): A no-code, landing page hack responding to the fact that Product Hunt had lots of people who wanted to post, but couldn't (2013) [hack/projects] - [Savemates](https://stef.io/projects/savemates): Create a monthly savings group (2013) [project/projects] - [Tentoring](https://stef.io/projects/tentoring): Ten minute mentoring (2013) [hack/projects] - [The Exploralaboratorium - six week-long hacks for Comic Relief](https://stef.io/writing/exploralaboratorium-essay): The Exploralaboratorium - six week-long hacks for Comic Relief (2012) [writing/writing] - [Charlatan — Isolatarium](https://stef.io/music/type-isolatarium): Charlatan — Isolatarium (TYPE112) (2012) [release/music] - [The Startup Wife](https://stef.io/projects/startupwife): Emily wrote about her experiences of #startuplife — moving her blog to something more sensible to let her grow and improve it. (2012) [project/projects] - [Concluding thoughts on my research](https://stef.io/writing/conclusions): Concluding thoughts on the research (2012) [writing/writing] - [Getting good at getting fast](https://stef.io/writing/getting-good-at-getting-fast): I’m about to write up my research for NESTA/Clore’s paper that set me off on the task of researching culture and hacking. (2012) [writing/writing] - [Speaking in Shetland about Eigg and Geeks in Residence [video]](https://stef.io/writing/sheltand-eiggbox): Speaking in Shetland about Eigg and Geeks in Residence [video] (2012) [writing/writing] - [A place to make and do](https://stef.io/writing/a-place-to-make-and-do): A place to make and do (2012) [writing/writing] - [Telling stories with hacks](https://stef.io/writing/telling-stories-with-hacks): A couple of history hacks while on Eigg — two things that might be of use to others. (2012) [writing/writing] - [Returning to Eigg](https://stef.io/writing/returning-to-eigg): Returning to Eigg (2012) [writing/writing] - [Pete Swanson — Pro Style](https://stef.io/music/type-pro-style): Pete Swanson — Pro Style (TYPE110) (2012) [release/music] - [Croft 6](https://stef.io/projects/croft6): A git-powered site for a small museum (2012) [hack/projects] - [Linetime](https://stef.io/projects/linetime): Simple visualisations of history (2012) [hack/projects] - [Hacking an Island](https://stef.io/speaking/mareel-shetland-hacking-an-island-2012): About my hacker residency on the island of Eigg. (2012) [talk/speaking] - [Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe — Timon Irnok Manta](https://stef.io/music/type-timon-irnok-manta): Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe — Timon Irnok Manta (TYPE111) (2012) [release/music] - [Digital Sizzle - a short documentary](https://stef.io/writing/digital-sizzle-documentary): Digital Sizzle - a short documentary (2012) [writing/writing] - [My Eigg residency, part two](https://stef.io/writing/plans-for-eigg-part-two): It’s the end of my second visit to Eigg and it’s been eventful! (2012) [writing/writing] - [Finance apps for a small business - what I'm using to make my life easier](https://stef.io/writing/finance-apps-for-a-small-business): Finance apps for a small business (2012) [writing/writing] - [Refocussing the residency](https://stef.io/writing/refocussing-the-residency): I’ve been thinking about what I’m supposed to achieve with my residency on Eigg this autumn, and came to some conclusions today. (2012) [writing/writing] - [Artist or Hacker?](https://stef.io/writing/artist-or-hacker): “Arthacking and exhibition to remember” is the theme of the next Digital Sizzle hackday , one of East London’s many tech industry meetup events. (2012) [writing/writing] - [Skit](https://stef.io/writing/skit-post): Skit (2012) [writing/writing] - [Data Necklace](https://stef.io/data-art/data-necklace): A laser-cut, laser-etched acrylic necklace that displays your tweets as a data visualisation. (2012) [hack/data-art] - [The Comic Relief Exploralaboratorium](https://stef.io/projects/exploralaboratorium): A two-month long series of hacks for Comic Relief — a small team installed in their HQ hacking and making digital ideas, one a week. (2012) [project/projects] - [Skit](https://stef.io/projects/skit): Use Dropbox to create and manage a small website (2012) [hack/projects] - [Bootbuckle](https://stef.io/writing/bootbuckle): A vanilla Padrino project for starting new projects. Uses Compass, Susy, HAML, Sprockets, Heroku, MongoDB, Mongoid, Memcached. (2012) [writing/writing] - [Hacking an island?](https://stef.io/writing/eiggbox-geeks-in-residence): Hacking an island? (2012) [writing/writing] - [Culture Hack East 2012 (Video)](https://stef.io/writing/culture-hack-east-2012-video): Culture Hack East 2012 (Video) (2012) [writing/writing] - [The Hack as the Message](https://stef.io/writing/the-hack-as-the-message): The Hack as the Message (2012) [writing/writing] - [Belatedly Lately](https://stef.io/music/mix-belatedly-lately): Headphone listening for fans of electronic music with a bit of humanity. (2012) [mix/music] - [Sketching with Code](https://stef.io/writing/sketching-with-code-announcement): Sketching with Code (2012) [writing/writing] - [Loosely-coupled productivity](https://stef.io/writing/loosely-coupled-productivity): A short conversation on Twitter made me realise something. (2012) [writing/writing] - [The Lockin](https://stef.io/projects/lockin): An experiment in reinvigorating the After Dark TV format for the digital age (2012) [hack/projects] - [Peter Gregson](https://stef.io/projects/petergregson): A personal site for the cellist and composer, using Songkick, Lanyrd, Soundcloud, Foursquare... (2012) [hack/projects] - [Tales you Win](https://stef.io/projects/talesyouwin): A platform for artists to create multimedia location-based stories (2012) [hack/projects] - [Ulyssize](https://stef.io/projects/ulyssize): A James Joyce Ulysses page generator (2012) [hack/projects] - [YeBay](https://stef.io/projects/yebay): Itemes of importe of which ye may purchase to thine heart's content (2012) [hack/projects] - [Hack, Play, Learn](https://stef.io/writing/hack-play-learn): Build, Measure, Learn. (2012) [writing/writing] - [How and what are cultural organisations learning from hacker culture?](https://stef.io/writing/hacker-culture): For the past few years I’ve immersed myself in the world of hack days, and become pretty interested in collaboratations between hackers and artists / cultural organisations. (2012) [writing/writing] - [Zelienople — The World Is A House On Fire](https://stef.io/music/type-the-world-is-a-house-on-fire): Zelienople — The World Is A House On Fire (TYPE108) (2012) [release/music] - [Culture Hack Scotland 2012 - 3 of my hacks](https://stef.io/writing/culture-hack-scotland-2012): Culture Hack Scotland 2012 - 3 hacks (2012) [writing/writing] - [Through the Lens of Demarco - Hack 3 for Culture Hack Scotland 2012](https://stef.io/writing/through-the-lens-of-demarco): Through the Lens of Demarco - Hack 3 for Culture Hack Scotland 2012 (2012) [writing/writing] - [Pye Corner Audio — The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 1&2](https://stef.io/music/type-the-black-mill-tapes-volumes-1-2): Pye Corner Audio — The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 1&2 (TYPE107), vinyl release (2012) [release/music] - [Loftify, a one-day hack for National Hack the Government Day](https://stef.io/writing/loftify-post): Loftify, a one-day hack for National Hack the Government Day (2012) [writing/writing] - [Playfully hacking on things that matter](https://stef.io/writing/playfully-hacking): Playfully hacking on things that matter (2012) [writing/writing] - [Sidekick Studios](https://stef.io/work/consulting-2012): A mobile skate and BMX video app funded by Red Bull, a rapid-prototyping project with Comic Relief, and Buddy, for the NHS. (2012) [role/work] - [Demarco](https://stef.io/projects/demarco): A simple HTML5 mobile/web app to showcase the work of photographer Richard Demarco (2012) [hack/projects] - [Kitty](https://stef.io/projects/kitty): How could artistic residencies be crowd-funded? (2012) [hack/projects] - [Mongotank](https://stef.io/projects/mongotank): Mongoid and Indextank sitting in a tree (2012) [hack/projects] - [Storyland](https://stef.io/projects/storyland): User-contributed stories about Scotland made readable on mobile devices (2012) [hack/projects] - [Choosing things that matter](https://stef.io/music/mix-choosing-things-that-matter): Choosing things that matter on Mixcloud (2012) [mix/music] - [Change Nation - the tech behind the scenes](https://stef.io/writing/change-nation-the-tech-behind-the-scenes): Change Nation - the tech behind the scenes (2012) [writing/writing] - [Change Nation](https://stef.io/projects/change-nation): An Ashoka initiative to address some of the societal problems that Ireland was facing. (2012) [project/projects] - [Vatican Shadow — Kneel Before Religious Icons](https://stef.io/music/type-kneel-before-religious-icons): Vatican Shadow — Kneel Before Religious Icons (TYPE105) (2012) [release/music] - [Mike Shiflet — Merciless](https://stef.io/music/type-merciless): Mike Shiflet — Merciless (TYPE098) (2012) [release/music] - [Hacking with GLA environmental data](https://stef.io/writing/hacking-with-gla-environmental-data): Hacking with GLA environmental data (2012) [writing/writing] - [Walks a Big Game](https://stef.io/music/mix-walks-a-big-game): A collection of hot-off-the-presses electronic tracks with a smattering of favourites from last year. (2012) [mix/music] - [Is it smoggy in London?](https://stef.io/projects/is-it-smoggy-in-london): Mobile and web tool to find out about pollution levels (2012) [hack/projects] - [Smoggle](https://stef.io/projects/smoggle): An urban pollution game (2012) [hack/projects] - [How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse](https://stef.io/writing/how-to-block-behavioural-adverts): How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse (2012) [writing/writing] - [Accenture: Festival of Ideas](https://stef.io/projects/accenture-festival-of-ideas): A one-day strategy event for ~1,000 staff of Accenture's Dublin office using real-time visualisation of conversation data. (2012) [project/projects] - [Business to Arts Award: Best Creative Staff Engagement](https://stef.io/awards/business-to-arts-2012-accenture): Business to Arts Award: Best Creative Staff Engagement — for Accenture: Festival of Ideas (2012) [award/awards] - [Chircle](https://stef.io/projects/chircle): A little charity idea — a single direct debit with a nice interface that let you give to charities really quickly and split up a fixed amount. (2012) [hack/projects] - [Convotate](https://stef.io/projects/convotate): A web-app to make sense of hundreds of conversations happening simultaneously at a conference or event. (2012) [project/projects] - [Dare Roulette](https://stef.io/projects/dare-roulette): Get your mates to do stupid stuff for money (2012) [hack/projects] - [Eiggbox - Geek in Residence](https://stef.io/projects/eiggbox-residency): Eigg's 'geek in residence', on the Inner Hebridean island — an artist in residence programme for technologists and designers. [project/projects] - [Fence Subscriptions](https://stef.io/projects/fence-subscriptions): A way of supporting a record label via monthly subscriptions (2012) [hack/projects] - [Find Better Problems](https://stef.io/speaking/find-better-problems-inaugural): I gave a short talk at the first Find Better Problems event. (2012) [talk/speaking] - [Red Bull Flow](https://stef.io/projects/flow): A camera app and web viewing experience for Red Bull: sequences of very short sports video clips. (2012) [project/projects] - [Fundeer](https://stef.io/projects/fundeer): Get sponsored to give your skills to Comic Relief charities (2012) [hack/projects] - [Loftify](https://stef.io/projects/loftify): Tackling the problem of poor home insulation for older people (2012) [hack/projects] - [Mega Miles](https://stef.io/projects/mega-miles): Runners raise money by running long distances (2012) [hack/projects] - [Richerlist](https://stef.io/projects/richerlist): Enrich a mailing list of emails with more data to make it more useful (2012) [hack/projects] - [Sketching with Code](https://stef.io/projects/sketchingwithcode): Research into culture hacks, and how cultural organisations were embracing hacker culture. [project/projects] - [Spotted](https://stef.io/projects/spotted): A mobile nature game (2012) [hack/projects] - [The Last Laugh](https://stef.io/projects/the-last-laugh): Put a gift to Comic Relief in your will (2012) [hack/projects] - [Topic Telly](https://stef.io/projects/topic-telly): Educational video content for Schools from Comic Relief (2012) [hack/projects] - [Wake up monsters!](https://stef.io/writing/wake-up-monsters): Wake up monsters! (2011) [writing/writing] - [Cognitive Consonance](https://stef.io/music/mix-cognitive-consonance): Cognitive Consonance on Mixcloud (2011) [mix/music] - [Screened - a map visualisation of UK film screening data](https://stef.io/writing/screened-a-map-visualisation-of-uk-film-screening-data): Screened - a map visualisation of UK film screening data (2011) [writing/writing] - [Stories from an Invisible Town](https://stef.io/projects/invisible-town): An online space for a Hoipolloi theatre project: a map of a childhood, built up story by story. (2011) [project/projects] - [Screened](https://stef.io/projects/screened): A demonstrator mapping where films of different kinds are shown around the UK, built on the BFI's archived film screening data. (2011) [hack/projects] - [Pete Swanson — Man With Potential](https://stef.io/music/type-man-with-potential): Pete Swanson — Man With Potential (TYPE101) (2011) [release/music] - [Gaining Spacial Awareness](https://stef.io/music/mix-gaining-spacial-awareness): Soundtrack to exploring London these last few weeks. (2011) [mix/music] - [Mike Shiflet — Sufferers](https://stef.io/music/type-sufferers): Mike Shiflet — Sufferers (TYPE097) (2011) [release/music] - [Aframe is a Smarta 100 winner](https://stef.io/writing/aframe-is-a-smarta-100-winner): Aframe is a Smarta 100 winner (2011) [writing/writing] - [Printing buildings where once there were newspapers](https://stef.io/music/mix-printing-buildings-where-once-there-were-newspapers): A one hour mix of hum-alongable vocal electronica. (2011) [mix/music] - [Clams Casino — Instrumentals](https://stef.io/music/type-instrumentals): Clams Casino — Instrumentals (TYPE095, double LP) (2011) [release/music] - [Aframe shortlisted for a White Bull "Bully" award](https://stef.io/writing/aframe-shortlisted-for-a-white-bull-bully-award): Aframe shortlisted for a White Bull "Bully" award (2011) [writing/writing] - [Red Horse — Red Horse](https://stef.io/music/type-red-horse): Red Horse — Red Horse (TYPE094) (2011) [release/music] - [The loss of @towerbridge from a cultural point of view](https://stef.io/writing/the-loss-of-towerbridge-from-a-cultural-point-of-view): The loss of @towerbridge from a cultural point of view (2011) [writing/writing] - [Experimenting with Ruby application stacks](https://stef.io/writing/experimenting-with-ruby-application-stacks): Experimenting with Ruby application stacks (2011) [writing/writing] - [GoGenie](https://stef.io/projects/gogenie): An ambitious project to create a structured WIKI for accessibility information, initially for all UK cultural venues. (2011) [project/projects] - [BT Nexus + Aframe = fibre-powered video collaboration](https://stef.io/writing/bt-nexus-aframe-fibre-powered-video-collaboration): BT Nexus + Aframe = fibre-powered video collaboration (2011) [writing/writing] - [IVES](https://stef.io/projects/ives): Ruby gem to access the IVES Venue ID API (2011) [hack/projects] - [*AR — Wolf Notes](https://stef.io/music/type-wolf-notes): *AR — Wolf Notes (TYPE093) (2011) [release/music] - [Ezekiel Honig — Folding In On Itself](https://stef.io/music/type-folding-in-on-itself): Ezekiel Honig — Folding In On Itself (TYPE088) (2011) [release/music] - [media140 Frontiers: Barcelona](https://stef.io/speaking/media140-frontiers-barcelona-2011): Stef Lewandowski spoke at media140 Frontiers: Barcelona. (2011) [talk/speaking] - ["Log it for me", "Tag it for me" - give us video and we give you metadata](https://stef.io/writing/log-it-for-me-tag-it-for-me): "Log it for me", "Tag it for me" - give us video and we give you metadata (2011) [writing/writing] - [Make sense of both sides of the argument - introducing Wrangl](https://stef.io/writing/make-sense-of-both-sides-of-the-argument-introducing-wrangl): Make sense of both sides of the argument - introducing Wrangl (2011) [writing/writing] - [Wrangl](https://stef.io/projects/wrangl): A simple tool that visualised two sides of an argument. (2011) [hack/projects] - [Deaf Center — Owl Splinters](https://stef.io/music/type-owl-splinters): Deaf Center — Owl Splinters (TYPE080) (2011) [release/music] - [Pretty-Textmate-Ruby-puts](https://stef.io/projects/pretty-textmate-ruby-puts): Outputs nicely formatted puts statements for Ruby developers using Textmate (2011) [hack/projects] - [My resolution: answer some questions on Stack Overflow](https://stef.io/writing/my-resolution-answer-some-questions-on-stack-overflow): Resolution: answer some questions on Stack Overflow (2011) [writing/writing] - [Culture Hack Day: CultureGrid hacks - A mobile app, JSONP API and a large image scraper](https://stef.io/writing/culture-hack-day-culturegrid-hacks): Culture Hack Day: CultureGrid hacks - A mobile app, JSONP API and a large image scraper (2011) [writing/writing] - [Culturegrid](https://stef.io/projects/culturegrid): Simple Ruby access to the CultureGrid API (2011) [hack/projects] - [CultureGrid JSONP](https://stef.io/projects/culturegridjsonp): JSONP front end to the Culturegrid XML API (2011) [hack/projects] - [Culturegridmobile](https://stef.io/projects/culturegridmobile): A mobile consumer for the CultureGrid API - several thousand cultural artefacts on your phone! (2011) [hack/projects] - [Culturescraper](https://stef.io/projects/culturescraper): A tool to grab the biggest image from a web page so you can refer to it elsewhere. (2011) [hack/projects] - [Did I mention I'm a photographer? Anatomy of an HTML5/JQuery Image gallery](https://stef.io/writing/did-i-mention-im-a-photographer-at-weekends): Did I mention I'm a photographer? Anatomy of an HTML5/JQuery Image gallery (2011) [writing/writing] - [Stefoto](https://stef.io/projects/stefoto): A neat little site for a wedding photographer — open source, usable by any photographer quite easily. (2011) [hack/projects] - [Buddy](https://stef.io/projects/buddy): A software tool that helped people deal with depression by keeping a 'mood diary' via mobile, web and SMS. [project/projects] - [Budge](https://stef.io/projects/budge): An Arduino-based game with a web-based tool for visualisation and tracking. [project/projects] - [The Europas](https://stef.io/awards/europas-2011-aframe): Europa Finalist — for Aframe (2011) [award/awards] - [FilmFlexicon](https://stef.io/projects/filmflexicon): Browse Filmflex films by their RottenTomatoes.com ratings. (2011) [hack/projects] - [Guardian MEGAs — Disruptive Technology](https://stef.io/awards/guardian-megas-2011-aframe): Finalist for Guardian MEGAs — Disruptive Technology — for Aframe (2011) [award/awards] - [Manage Places](https://stef.io/projects/manage-places): A pre-launch beta product that aimed to help people with large areas of land under management to comply with various environmental legislation. [project/projects] - [Metcha](https://stef.io/projects/metcha): Mobile serendipity accelerator (2011) [hack/projects] - [Mini Pub Crawl](https://stef.io/projects/mini-pub-crawls): Make it easy to arrange a multi-venue evening out with friends [hack/projects] - [Mixilist](https://stef.io/projects/mixilist): Youtube app for online-and-offline parties (2011) [hack/projects] - [Mo' Monsters!](https://stef.io/projects/mo-monsters): A random monster generator, the precursor to the company More Monsters (2011) [hack/projects] - [New Homely](https://stef.io/projects/new-homely): A quick mashup based on scraping Pinterest to make a small single-page web-based mood board. [hack/projects] - [Nokia Pitch 'n' Win](https://stef.io/awards/nokia-pitch-n-win-2011-gogenie): Nokia Pitch 'n' Win — for Go Genie (2011) [award/awards] - [Phenomenal People](https://stef.io/projects/phenomenal-people): A quick experiment at a content site for Women of the World festival (2011) [hack/projects] - [Smarta 100](https://stef.io/awards/smarta-100-2011-aframe): Smarta 100 Winner — for Aframe (2011) [award/awards] - [Twitter Backup](https://stef.io/projects/twitter-backup): Download all your tweets as a JSON file (2011) [hack/projects] - [White Bull "Bully"](https://stef.io/awards/white-bull-bully-2011-aframe): White Bull "Bully" — for Aframe (2011) [award/awards] - [Heavy Winged — Sunspotted](https://stef.io/music/type-sunspotted): Heavy Winged — Sunspotted (TYPE076) (2010) [release/music] - [Microjsonp](https://stef.io/projects/microjsonp): Get all the microformats from a URL as JSONP (2010) [hack/projects] - [Launching a monster startup - Aframe](https://stef.io/writing/launching-a-monster-startup-aframe): Launching a monster startup - Aframe (2010) [writing/writing] - [Website-Redirect](https://stef.io/projects/website-redirect): Redirects all GET requests from www.example.com to example.com (or similar) using Sinatra (2010) [hack/projects] - [Sinmetrics](https://stef.io/projects/sinmetrics): kontagent, mixpanel, etc wrappers for sinatra (2010) [hack/projects] - [Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — Love Is A Stream](https://stef.io/music/type-love-is-a-stream): Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — Love Is A Stream (TYPE075) (2010) [release/music] - [Heroku_Memcached_Hello_World](https://stef.io/projects/heroku-memcached-hello-world): A quick test: Server Marked as Dead on Heroku (2010) [hack/projects] - [Caboodle](https://stef.io/projects/caboodle): A set of mashups for common services for Sinatra, so you could easily pull together bits from elsewhere on the web to make a website. (2010) [hack/projects] - [Introducing Caboodle](https://stef.io/writing/introducing-caboodle): Introducing Caboodle (2010) [writing/writing] - [Thomas Köner — Nunatak Teimo Permafrost](https://stef.io/music/type-nunatak-teimo-permafrost): Thomas Köner — Nunatak Teimo Permafrost (TYPE072, deluxe CD edition) (2010) [release/music] - [On — Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not](https://stef.io/music/type-something-that-has-form): On — Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not (TYPE062) (2010) [release/music] - [The North Sea — Bloodlines](https://stef.io/music/type-bloodlines): The North Sea — Bloodlines (TYPE065) (2010) [release/music] - [Sleepy](https://stef.io/projects/sleepy): Memcached API calls using Weary (2010) [hack/projects] - [Thomas Köner — Permafrost](https://stef.io/music/type-permafrost): Thomas Köner — Permafrost (TYPE071) (2010) [release/music] - [GeoPilsen](https://stef.io/projects/geopilsen): British Council hack with the people of Plzn (2010) [hack/projects] - [Many-headed](https://stef.io/projects/many-headed): A forked Ruby gem, never described. [hack/projects] - [Plzen](https://stef.io/writing/plzen): Plzen (2010) [writing/writing] - [Thomas Köner — Teimo](https://stef.io/music/type-teimo): Thomas Köner — Teimo (TYPE070) (2010) [release/music] - [Urban Ideas Bakery - Pilsen](https://stef.io/writing/urban-ideas-bakery-pilsen): Urban Ideas Bakery - Pilsen (2010) [writing/writing] - [Rene Hell — Porcelain Opera](https://stef.io/music/type-porcelain-opera): Rene Hell — Porcelain Opera (TYPE077) (2010) [release/music] - [Tesselation](https://stef.io/writing/tesselation): I’ve recently become reminded of an old fascination I had with tesselation. Earlier this year I helped Emily with a design refresh involving this pattern: (2010) [writing/writing] - [Random Play](https://stef.io/writing/random-play): Random Play (2010) [writing/writing] - [DIY-Council](https://stef.io/projects/diy-council): An easy to use alternative way of using the web for local authorities in the UK (2010) [hack/projects] - [The Alps — Le Voyage](https://stef.io/music/type-le-voyage): The Alps — Le Voyage (TYPE056) (2010) [release/music] - [Thomas Köner — Nunatak](https://stef.io/music/type-nunatak): Thomas Köner — Nunatak (TYPE069, vinyl reissue) (2010) [release/music] - [Grandma’s House – a short film](https://stef.io/writing/grandmas-house-a-short-film): Filmdash is an annual 48-hour film-making challenge where participants plan, script, shoot, edit and upload a film based on a theme and an individual brief to include certain lines of dialogue and a prop. (2010) [writing/writing] - [Monster Mountain](https://stef.io/writing/monster-mountain): I surprised a few people on Twitter on my birthday when I spent the evening doing this illustration. (2010) [writing/writing] - [Get geo-position coordinates from a UK postcode with Ruby](https://stef.io/writing/get-geo-position-coordinates-from-a-uk-postcode-with-ruby): Introducing Pat, an ultra-lightweight Ruby gem for postcode->geolocation in the UK. (2010) [writing/writing] - [Email Your Candidates](https://stef.io/projects/email-your-candidates): Send an email to the people standing for office, to ask them all the same question (2010) [hack/projects] - [Johann Johannsson — And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees](https://stef.io/music/type-and-in-the-endless-pause-there-came-the-sound-of-bees): Johann Johannsson — And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees (TYPE064) (2010) [release/music] - [Tweet an MP](https://stef.io/writing/tweet-an-mp): The Digital Economy Bill for me is the single-most anger inducing piece of proposed legislation that I’ve yet heard. (2010) [writing/writing] - [A letter to David Burrowes](https://stef.io/writing/a-letter-to-david-burrowes): A letter to David Burrowes (2010) [writing/writing] - [A letter to my MP on the day of the Digital Economy Bill second reading](https://stef.io/writing/a-letter-to-my-mp-on-the-day-of-the-digital-e): A letter to my MP on the day of the Digital Economy Bill second reading (2010) [writing/writing] - [Conversatives](https://stef.io/projects/conversatives): Comedy hack using a proxy to swap words for their opposite on the Conservatives.com website [hack/projects] - [Email your candidates](https://stef.io/writing/email-your-candidates-post): Email your candidates (2010) [writing/writing] - [I'm disappointed](https://stef.io/writing/im-disappointed): I'm disappointed (2010) [writing/writing] - [Pat](https://stef.io/projects/pat): Simple access to UK postcode geo and administrative data (2010) [hack/projects] - ["London Wedding Photographer" Emily Quinton](https://stef.io/writing/london-wedding-photographer-emily-quinton): After the recent move to London it was time to update partner Emily Quinton's site. (2010) [writing/writing] - [Indignant Senility — Plays Wagner Volume 2](https://stef.io/music/type-plays-wagner-volume-2): Indignant Senility — Plays Wagner Volume 2 (TYPE059) (2010) [release/music] - [Sylvain Chauveau — Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)](https://stef.io/music/type-singular-forms-sometimes-repeated): Sylvain Chauveau — Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) (TYPE057) (2010) [release/music] - [Link “Scientists”](https://stef.io/writing/link-scientists): I get frustrated when I see an interesting article on the web that starts with “Scientists have discovered…” and followed by a surprising new ‘fact’, backed up with a write-up, some quotes but no more information on what the research is, by whom. (2010) [writing/writing] - [Yes and…](https://stef.io/writing/yes-and): Something I’ve unconsciously been doing to avoid those kinds of conversations is to start my sentences “yes and” instead of “yes but”. (2010) [writing/writing] - [Geopinion](https://stef.io/projects/geopinion): A little app that let you gather people's opinions about places, particularly for planning. (2010) [hack/projects] - [Google-Cache-Sitemap-Downloader](https://stef.io/projects/google-cache-sitemap-downloader): Use your Google sitemap XML file to download a copy of your website from the Google Cache (2010) [hack/projects] - [Makefulness](https://stef.io/music/mix-makefulness): Aeioux - Makefulness [mix/music] - [WPRipper](https://stef.io/projects/wp-ripper): If your wordpress site died, scrape it back from the Google Cache using a sitemap (2010) [hack/projects] - [LaserBlazer](https://stef.io/projects/laserblazer): Write words in the air using your mobile (2010) [hack/projects] - [NUJ Regional Journalism Awards](https://stef.io/awards/nuj-2010-helpmeinvestigate): NUJ Regional Journalism Awards – Highly Commended (Multimedia Publisher of the Year) — for HelpMeInvestigate.com (2010) [award/awards] - [Spiro](https://stef.io/projects/spiro): Arduino spirograph drawings (2010) [hack/projects] - [Talk About Local Unawards — Best Investigation](https://stef.io/awards/talk-about-local-unawards-2010): Best Investigation at the Talk About Local Unawards — for Help Me Investigate (2010) [award/awards] - [Yellow Swans — Going Places](https://stef.io/music/type-going-places): Yellow Swans — Going Places (TYPE063) (2010) [release/music] - [The search is on – we’re hiring](https://stef.io/writing/the-search-is-on-were-hiring): I’m looking for three people to join the team at All In working on something very exciting indeed! (2009) [writing/writing] - [Ruby GEOAPI](https://stef.io/projects/geoapi): Ruby interface to GeoAPI (2009) [hack/projects] - [London C-all-in-g](https://stef.io/writing/london-c-all-in-g): Some changes are afoot, and it’s high time I blogged about it. In short - I’m going to be in London doing something exciting. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Black To Comm — Alphabet 1968](https://stef.io/music/type-alphabet-1968): Black To Comm — Alphabet 1968 (TYPE053) (2009) [release/music] - [Does BCCDIY risk devaluing digital marketing?](https://stef.io/writing/does-bccdiy-risk-devaluing-digital-marketing): Here’s an interesting criticism of BCCDIY - that it risks “devaluing the commercial aspects of digital marketing”. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Cached Resource](https://stef.io/projects/cached-resource): Transparently caches ActiveResource data in a memcached instance by extending cache_fu (2009) [hack/projects] - [Guardian: Digital technology for public services and communities could make bottom up more effective than top down](https://stef.io/writing/guardian-digital-technology-for-public-services-and-communities-could-make-bottom-up-more-effective-than-top-down): I just left this comment on an article on the Guardian site that seems to be very relevant to BCCDIY. (2009) [writing/writing] - [BCC DIY Hack Day collected memory](https://stef.io/writing/bcc-diy-hack-day-collected-memory): As the culmination of the first week of our community-powered effort to build our own website for Birmingham City Council, the BCC DIY Hack Day was a real show of how much an informal group of people can now achieve in a short space of time. (2009) [writing/writing] - [What should the Library of Birmingham be and do?](https://stef.io/writing/what-should-the-library-of-birmingham-be-and-do): What should the Library of Birmingham be and do? (2009) [writing/writing] - [Artists Taking the Lead](https://stef.io/writing/artists-taking-the-lead): I’m involved in one of the shortlisted projects for Artists Taking the Lead, which is a competitive pitch to the Arts Council who will be awarding several groups £500,000 for artistic projects to tie in with the Olympic games. (2009) [writing/writing] - [The best vampire film ever made?](https://stef.io/writing/the-best-vampire-film-ever-made): Last night I watched “Let The Right One In”, which is one of the best films I’ve seen for a long time, in any genre. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Wedding Photographer of the Year 2009](https://stef.io/writing/wedding-photographer-of-the-year-2009): I’m incredibly proud of Emily Quinton for winning the prestigious title of Wedding Photographer of the Year 2009 this month. (2009) [writing/writing] - [4IP idea: Dear Sir Madam](https://stef.io/writing/4ip-idea-dear-sir-madam): It’s a service that lets you as the ‘angry customer’ to make use of an expert tool to put together the perfect complaint letter, with little effort. (2009) [writing/writing] - [4IP Idea: Easter X](https://stef.io/writing/4ip-idea-easter-x): Easter X is a geocaching competition that will happen in Easter 2009. (2009) [writing/writing] - [4IP Idea: How to Look Good Online](https://stef.io/writing/4ip-idea-how-to-look-good-online): It’s “How to Look Good Naked” for social networking. (2009) [writing/writing] - [4IP Idea: Mismash](https://stef.io/writing/4ip-idea-mismash): Mismash: mashups that are plain wrong. (2009) [writing/writing] - [A bunch of 4IP ideas](https://stef.io/writing/a-bunch-of-4ip-ideas): Last year 4IP hit the West Midlands web scene and asked for our ideas for public service digital content and services. (2009) [writing/writing] - [A Google Wave Haiku](https://stef.io/writing/a-google-wave-haiku): I am also excited about Google Wave, and I like the way that on signing up for a developer account there was a box titled “Write a message to the Google team”. (2009) [writing/writing] - [On — Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night](https://stef.io/music/type-your-naked-ghost-comes-back-at-night): On — Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night (TYPE050) (2009) [release/music] - [New Type Records Site](https://stef.io/writing/new-type-records-site): Seven years ago John Xela and I started a label called Type. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Introducing - Help Me Investigate](https://stef.io/writing/introducing-help-me-investigate): Help Me Investigate.com is now in Private Beta, which means I can finally talk about what I’ve been busy building recently. (2009) [writing/writing] - [William Fowler Collins — Perdition Hill Radio](https://stef.io/music/type-perdition-hill-radio): William Fowler Collins — Perdition Hill Radio (TYPE046) (2009) [release/music] - [Charles on Serendipity](https://stef.io/writing/charles-on-serendipity): A very quick but enlightening conversation with Charles Hunter that’s given me some exciting angles to take in my research. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Daedelus on Serendipity](https://stef.io/writing/daedelus-on-serendipity): An interview with the musician Daedelus on the subject of ‘accelerated serendipity’, the occasion of which in itself had serendipitous qualities - someone else Tweeted, I was nearby, we hadn’t seen eachother since he stayed at my house for a show a few years ago, I had my notebook, conversation ensued. (2009) [writing/writing] - [On Serendipity](https://stef.io/writing/on-serendipity): I’ve settled on looking at the idea of ‘accelerated serendipity’, which I think actually encompasses the other topic I was considering: ‘conversational leadership’. (2009) [writing/writing] - [A letter to my MP about Ian Tomlinson](https://stef.io/writing/a-letter-to-my-mp-about-ian-tomlinson): Watching the video of the police assault on Ian Tomlinson got me very angry, so I’ve written to my MP about it. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Aframe](https://stef.io/work/aframe): A cloud video platform for people making TV programmes and films, so a production team could work together on large amounts of footage. (2009) [company/work] - [Mokira — Persona](https://stef.io/music/type-persona): Mokira — Persona (TYPE047) (2009) [release/music] - [Help me choose my leadership research topic](https://stef.io/writing/help-me-choose-my-leadership-research-topic): I have two ideas that I’ve been working up for areas to research during my Clore fellowship. (2009) [writing/writing] - [St.Boredom’s](https://stef.io/writing/stboredoms): I had an unexpected trip to hospital this week which wasn’t much fun, but I’m fine and just have ‘take it easy’ as medicinal advice to take away. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Two Big City Plan Wordles](https://stef.io/writing/two-big-city-plan-wordles): Ahead of the coming end of the Big City Plan consultation here are two Wordle illustrations of what’s being said. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Svarte Greiner — Kappe](https://stef.io/music/type-kappe): Svarte Greiner — Kappe (TYPE033) (2009) [release/music] - [The Culture Question: What does Birmingham need?](https://stef.io/writing/culture-question-birmingham): The Big City Plan is out for consultation, and it asks some pretty big, and open questions about the city. (2009) [writing/writing] - [5 Counter-intuitive rules for creative people](https://stef.io/writing/5-counter-intuitive-rules-for-creative-people): Here are some counter-intuitive rules that I’m following at the moment, and if you’re a ‘creative entrepreneur’ they might apply to you too: (2009) [writing/writing] - [Mix: A Gift to Future Selves](https://stef.io/writing/mix-a-gift-to-future-selves): Another in my series of experimental, filmic, soundscape, found sound, ambient, folk, classical montage mixes. (2009) [writing/writing] - [Gifts for future selves](https://stef.io/music/mix-gifts-for-future-selves): Another in a series of experimental, filmic, soundscape, found sound, ambient, folk, classical montage mixes. (2009) [mix/music] - [Twadio - “The Sound of Silence”](https://stef.io/writing/twadio-the-sound-of-silence): Announcing Twadio - The silent radio station that plays in your head (2009) [writing/writing] - [Twadio](https://stef.io/projects/twadio): A twitter-based silent radio station — a virtual DJ tweets the name of an 'ear-worm' track and you play it in your head. (2009) [hack/projects] - [BCCDIY](https://stef.io/projects/bccdiy): A community-generated version of the Birmingham City Council website, developed in two weeks flat using Ruby on Rails, tea and biscuits. (2009) [hack/projects] - [Debillitated](https://stef.io/projects/debillitated): A quick mashup to illustrate the progress of the Digital Economy Bill through the process of 'washup' in parliament. (2009) [hack/projects] - [Observer / Courvoisier The Future 500](https://stef.io/awards/future-500-2009): Top 5 in the Observer / Courvoisier The Future 500 2009 (2009) [award/awards] - [Help Me Investigate](https://stef.io/projects/help-me-investigate): A website to help those who want to investigate questions in the public interest (2009) [project/projects] - [Modern Love](https://stef.io/projects/modern-love): Mashed up Twitter and Soundcloud to make a neat label site: a new home online for Boomkat's labels. (2009) [project/projects] - [Now Try Failing](https://stef.io/speaking/now-try-failing-birmingham-business-school): A graduation ceremony talk about allowing yourself to fail so that you can succeed. (2009) [talk/speaking] - [Why Andy Burnham’s plans for censoring websites with film-style age certificates won’t work](https://stef.io/writing/andy-burnham-website-censorship): How would you feel if everything you tried to access on the internet were filtered for “unacceptable content” by government censors? (2008) [writing/writing] - [Ben made a wish and it came true](https://stef.io/writing/ben-made-a-wish-and-it-came-true): To celebrate the launch of I So Wish, Dubber and I decided to grant a random wish that someone had made. (2008) [writing/writing] - [What do you wish for in 2009?](https://stef.io/writing/what-do-you-wish-for-in-2009): If you could wish for one thing in 2009, what would it be? (2008) [writing/writing] - [“Going to be a dad” on Twitter](https://stef.io/writing/going-to-be-a-dad-on-twitter): A cute new service for new Twitter soon-to-be dads: Goingtobeadad.com (2008) [writing/writing] - [50+ Birmingham Twitter users you need to follow](https://stef.io/writing/birmingham-twitter-users): Twitter has really taken off in Birmingham (UK) this year. Here’s a list of some of the people who are using it and I think you should be connecting with you if you haven’t already! (2008) [writing/writing] - [Xela — In Bocca Al Lupo](https://stef.io/music/type-in-bocca-al-lupo): Xela — In Bocca Al Lupo (TYPE043) (2008) [release/music] - [What other brands can learn from the Courvoisier Future 500](https://stef.io/writing/courvoisier-future-500): Last week I was picked as one of the top 5 in the Future 500, which is sponsored by Courvoisier. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Hypercontext](https://stef.io/writing/hypercontext): “It’s Mr Neologism again” was the first reaction to another of my on-the-spur-of-the-moment word-coinings. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Is The Wire better than an MBA?](https://stef.io/writing/is-the-wire-better-than-an-mba): I’ve been obsessed with a TV show called The Wire for the last few months. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Introducing Tweetlet - twitter for pregnancy](https://stef.io/writing/introducing-tweetlet-twitter-for-pregnancy): Wouldn’t it be great if you could use Twitter to keep up to date with how your baby is developing during pregnancy? (2008) [writing/writing] - [Top 5 in The Future 500](https://stef.io/writing/the-future-500): I’ve been picked as one of the top 5 in the Observer newspaper’s Courvoisier The Future 500 list for 2008 (a bit of a mouthful!) (2008) [writing/writing] - [Does Birmingham need a Creative Director?](https://stef.io/writing/does-birmingham-need-a-creative-director): I was in Design Week again this week. This time for an article on an idea that’s gaining some traction in Birmingham at the moment - should the city have a creative director? (2008) [writing/writing] - [Big City Plan public consultation - who’s in?](https://stef.io/writing/big-city-plan-public-consultation-whos-in): It’s all been a bit quiet online about the Big City Plan for a while now. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Getting a fix on Serendipity](https://stef.io/writing/getting-a-fix-on-serendipity): As part of my Clore fellowship I have agreed to produce a Masters-equivalent piece of research around a particular area of ‘leadership’ that interests me. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Minority Report interfaces will soon be real](https://stef.io/writing/minority-report-interfaces-will-soon-be-real): Pretty amazing video of an experimental immersive human computer interface that has the feel of the famous Minority Report system, with music from Deaf Center on our own Type Records. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Recession busting business models](https://stef.io/writing/recession-busting-business-models): Nesta asked some of their contacts what they thought were the best business areas to be working in to weather the storm of the recession, and they’ve used a Wordle to visualise the results. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Helios — Caesura](https://stef.io/music/type-caesura): Helios — Caesura (TYPE042) (2008) [release/music] - [Koen Holtkamp — Field Rituals](https://stef.io/music/type-field-rituals): Koen Holtkamp — Field Rituals (TYPE035) (2008) [release/music] - [Hello World](https://stef.io/writing/hello-world): Today is the first day of Birmingham’s Hello World conference being held at Millennium Point. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Making a music video in 5 hours for Film Dash](https://stef.io/writing/making-a-music-video-in-5-hours-for-film-dash): This is a music video I made today for the track Ut Nos Vivicaret taken from Xela’s forthcoming album In Bocca Al Lupo, on our label Type. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Jubilee Debt Campaign, Birmingham](https://stef.io/writing/jubilee-debt-campaign-birmingham): Introducing a new blog for the Jubilee Debt Campaign in Birmingham. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Blog Action Day in Birmingham](https://stef.io/writing/blog-action-day-in-birmingham): Blog Action Day is happening for the second time this year, and is an attempt to bring together bloggers from around the world to discuss a shared issue. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Peter Broderick — Home](https://stef.io/music/type-home): Peter Broderick — Home (TYPE048, limited vinyl edition) (2008) [release/music] - [Clore begins](https://stef.io/writing/clore-begins): Clore begins (2008) [writing/writing] - [The Alps — III](https://stef.io/music/type-iii): The Alps — III (TYPE040) (2008) [release/music] - [The “One week until Clore starts” brain-dump](https://stef.io/writing/the-one-week-until-clore-starts-brain-dump): My Clore Fellowship starts in just over a week, and I’ve got lots of thoughts rolling around about what this means, and what I’ll be doing. So I’m thinking them through here… any ideas, let me know. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Clore Leadership Programme](https://stef.io/culture/clore-fellowship): A two year creative and cultural leadership programme. (2008) [role/culture] - [The Big Picture breaks a World Record (and generates a mini debate)](https://stef.io/writing/the-big-picture-breaks-a-world-record-and-generates-a-mini-debate): It’s official - the West Midlands, UK has made the world’s biggest photo-montage according to the Guinness World Records officials. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Dad’s Okay](https://stef.io/writing/dads-okay): We all had a bit of a scare last week. (2008) [writing/writing] - [5alist upgraded](https://stef.io/writing/5alist-upgraded): Andrew and I spent a few hours on 5alist.com this week, and we now have some nice new features and tweaks. (2008) [writing/writing] - [“Thank you” to the Cultural Leadership Programme](https://stef.io/writing/thank-you-to-the-cultural-leadership-programme): The Cultural Leadership Programme are generous sponsoring my Clore Fellowship, and they just released the news about the five of us that they are funding. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Birmingham from the balcony one evening](https://stef.io/writing/birmingham-from-the-balcony-one-evening): I love living where I live - in the evenings we get fantastic views of the sky over Birmingham. (2008) [writing/writing] - [5alist - Top five lists to share with your friends](https://stef.io/writing/5alist-top-five-lists-to-share-with-your-friends): Another week another rapidly-deployed Web idea from Andrew Dubber and me (with a little help from Jason). (2008) [writing/writing] - [I So Wish](https://stef.io/projects/i-so-wish): A site all about users sharing 'wishes' and helping others to make them actually happen. (2008) [project/projects] - [Goldmund — The Malady Of Elegance](https://stef.io/music/type-the-malady-of-elegance): Goldmund — The Malady Of Elegance (TYPE039) (2008) [release/music] - [Introducing Odadeo - a new site for dads](https://stef.io/writing/introducing-odadeo-a-new-site-for-dads): For Fathers’ Day 2008 I have launched the ‘private beta’ of new site that I’ve been working very hard on for the last three months. (2008) [writing/writing] - [“Please don’t discount these voices” - accepting the Webby for First Light Movies](https://stef.io/writing/dont-discount-these-voices): I’m in New York accepting a Webby award for the work that we did with First Light Movies - an organisation that enables young filmmaking all across the UK. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Why “Power or Powerless”?](https://stef.io/writing/why-power-or-powerless): I woke up this morning in New York - I’m here for the Webby Awards this evening, and to start the day I tuned into a debate that was happening courtesy of the Birmingham Post, back home in the UK. (2008) [writing/writing] - [I’m a Clore Fellow](https://stef.io/writing/clore-fellow-2): I’ve been awarded a fellowship with the Clore Leadership Programme, and today I am off to London for a day-long event welcoming the twenty-two people who are this year’s group. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Grouper — Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill](https://stef.io/music/type-dragging-a-dead-deer-up-a-hill): Grouper — Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (TYPE038) (2008) [release/music] - [Web 2.0 or Blah 2.0?](https://stef.io/writing/web-20-or-blah-20): Here’s a summary of the talk Pete Ashton and I gave in which we attempted to explain what Web 2.0 is (or is not) and how it is relevant for small creative businesses. (2008) [writing/writing] - [The New Created in Birmingham Design](https://stef.io/writing/the-new-created-in-birmingham-design): We’ve spent some time rebuilding the Created in Birmingham site, updating the design, adding some extra features and generally adding improvements throughout. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Give your homepage a mini facelift in about 3 hours](https://stef.io/writing/mini-facelift): “The plumber’s tap always drips”, or so they say. The same is true of web consultancies. (2008) [writing/writing] - [“Surface Unsigned” - How not to score a PR own goal when criticised online](https://stef.io/writing/surface-unsigned): Social media enables anyone to be a critic of anyone else and to have their criticism heard by all online, which means we must all be careful about what we say and how we act online. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Emily is being featured in Professional Photographer Magazine](https://stef.io/writing/emily-is-being-featured-in-professional-photographer-magazine): Professional Photographer Magazine asked Emily to write a second piece for them, this time a “day in the life of” piece documenting her day spent shooting a wedding and then a multi-millionaire’s birthday party. (2008) [writing/writing] - [One of my images on the first Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language](https://stef.io/writing/one-of-my-images-on-the-first-birmingham-journal-of-literature-and-language): I’ve just received my complimentary copies of the first Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, and on the cover is one of my images. (2008) [writing/writing] - [We Won a Webby Award!](https://stef.io/writing/we-won-a-webby-award): The First Light Movies website that we built at 3form has only gone and won a Webby Award! (2008) [writing/writing] - [Peter Broderick — Float](https://stef.io/music/type-float): Peter Broderick — Float (TYPE027) (2008) [release/music] - [Connect or Protect? How can we open up our ideas and keep them safe at the same time?](https://stef.io/writing/connect-or-protect-how-can-we-open-up-our-ideas-and-keep-them-safe-at-the-same-time): My new company is registered! (2008) [writing/writing] - [Common Purpose — The Entrepreneur’s Game](https://stef.io/speaking/common-purpose-navigator-2008): Yesterday I was playing a ‘dragon in the den’ at a Common Purpose event as part of their Navigator Programme on leadership development. (2008) [talk/speaking] - [Let’s take the ideas in the Big City Plan and run with them](https://stef.io/writing/lets-take-the-ideas-in-the-big-city-plan-and-run-with-them): In the first of my video blog posts I was pretty amazed by one of the comments in particular that came back and it looks like we’ve spawned a project if I can find some people to collaborate with to make it happen (open invite). (2008) [writing/writing] - [What is accelerated serendipity for?](https://stef.io/writing/what-is-accelerated-serendipity-for): In an attempt to break some of the backblog and to get me publishing more regularly, how about video for the format, and to start with how do you think we can make serendipity have real outcomes rather than just ‘nice ideas’ being generated? (2008) [writing/writing] - [WordcampUK comes to Birmingham](https://stef.io/writing/wordcampuk-comes-to-birmingham): Great news for Birmingham’s ever-growing blogging and social media scene! (2008) [writing/writing] - [10 things to ask yourself about your new web site home page layout](https://stef.io/writing/10-things-to-ask-yourself-about-your-new-web-site-home-page-layout): I’ve just been chatting to a friend of mine, Chris Garrett, about a new home page layout for his new venture - a video production company operating in the UK with international clients. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Snowladen Branches](https://stef.io/writing/snowladen-branches): I’ve been getting slow on processing my images - getting them off the camera and onto the internet. (2008) [writing/writing] - [A Webby Triple - One Nomination and Two Honorees](https://stef.io/writing/a-webby-triple-one-nomination-and-two-honorees): The announcement of this year’s tranch of Webby winners is getting ever closer, and this year I’m feeling pretty great about having a triple decker trifle of awards cake. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Peter Broderick - “Float” CD and Vinyl](https://stef.io/writing/peter-broderick-float-cd-and-vinyl): Peter Broderick’s amazing debut album is now out, and my first copies arrived on my desk today. (2008) [writing/writing] - [The pre-startup preparation](https://stef.io/writing/the-pre-startup-preparation): I only found out on Friday that I’d been given that all important ‘yes’ on the seed funding to make this thing happen, but already I’ve been making some great progress as well as encountering some pretty tough obstacles to overcome. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Birmingham Bloggers Meetup 3 - Coworking and a Social Media Cafe](https://stef.io/writing/birmingham-bloggers-meetup-3-coworking-and-a-social-media-cafe): Last night was the third of the Birmingham Bloggers Meetups, and it was an even bigger affair than the last two probably put together. (2008) [writing/writing] - [I’m blogging my new startup](https://stef.io/writing/im-blogging-my-new-startup): To coincide with my thirtieth birthday I received the exciting news that I have just received £50,000 of seed funding for my new business idea. (2008) [writing/writing] - [On turning 30 and thinking “so that was my twenties…”](https://stef.io/writing/on-turning-30-and-thinking-so-that-was-my-twenties): I’ve just turned 30. (2008) [writing/writing] - [The Post-SXSW Interactive “Brain Dump”](https://stef.io/writing/the-post-sxsw-interactive-brain-dump): Last night the crew from the SXSWM trip got together for what we were calling the ‘Post SXSW Brain Dump’ which is available as a 1 hr 15 min video on Bambuser. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Archive TV Launches](https://stef.io/writing/archive-tv-launches): I’ve been working with Cassie Leedham and Chris Garrett on the launch of a great new TV production company specialising in historical crime drama-documentaries based on true stories from newspaper and library archives. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Mass intimacy](https://stef.io/writing/mass-intimacy): In a great write-up, Daneil W. E. Light talks about a collective sense of connectivity, opened secrecy and intimacy based around the idea of ‘we’ instead of ‘i’. (2008) [writing/writing] - [SXSW Backlog](https://stef.io/writing/sxsw-backlog): Oookay…. So it’s been a bit quiet around here since I came back from SXSW Interactive. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Tagged Audio: An interview with Hugh Forrest from SXSW](https://stef.io/writing/tagged-audio-an-interview-with-hugh-forrest-from-sxsw): I have converted this recording to a ’static video’ and used Viddler to tag the timeline so that it is more searchable and scannable. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Video: Is the future of ‘online’ actually ‘offline’?](https://stef.io/writing/video-is-the-future-of-online-actually-offline): With my head fried from the SXSW Interactive experience this is a short (1:47 min) video piece of me talking about how it’s the offline impact that social media can offer that will validate out use of these technologies. (2008) [writing/writing] - [The SXSWM Gang is Back in Town](https://stef.io/writing/the-sxswm-gang-is-back-in-town): We’re variously getting over the jetlag, collating all of the information we gathered, sending emails and connecting online with the folks we met, trying to work out what to do with all of the ideas. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Why are we podcasting instead of using text?](https://stef.io/writing/why-are-we-podcasting-instead-of-using-text): Tom Scotney just put up an interesting blog post questioning the usefulness of the video and audio that we’ve been putting online. (2008) [writing/writing] - [“Why South By Southwest?” Video](https://stef.io/writing/why-south-by-southwest-video): Chris Kershaw from Ideas For Life has been following us on our SXSWM trip. (2008) [writing/writing] - [A great conversation with Shawn Morton from Profilactic](https://stef.io/writing/a-great-conversation-with-shawn-morton-from-profilactic): I’m not alone in thinking that Profilactic could be one of the big stories of 2008 - a service that lets you aggregate and manage all of the various feeds of information that you publish as a person and have them pulled together into a ‘lifestream’. (2008) [writing/writing] - [From “Gold Rush” to “Good Rush” - Social Media gets ethical in 2008](https://stef.io/writing/from-gold-rush-to-good-rush-social-media-gets-ethical-in-2008): If 2007 was the year of the “Social Media Gold Rush”, 2008 is the year of the “Social Media Good Rush”. (2008) [writing/writing] - [As promised… bikehugger](https://stef.io/writing/as-promised-bikehugger): We’re in a ‘want us to do stuff?’ mood so we head over to Bikehugger at the request of someone who left a message at sxswm and got an interview with a Bikehugger blogger. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Day 1 - our summary - “it’s all about conversations”](https://stef.io/writing/day-1-our-summary-its-all-about-conversations): In a brief respite from the geekery, a few of us from SXSWM got together for a chat to summarise our first day. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Dorking at Dorkbot](https://stef.io/writing/dorking-at-dorkbot): We went to the fantastic Dorkbot party and met up with the organisers. (2008) [writing/writing] - [SXSWi 2008 First Impressions](https://stef.io/writing/sxswi-2008-first-impressions): I’ve spent a lot of my time recording my conversations with people at SXSWi and I’ll be posting a few of them here. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Talking coworking, xml facial expressions and other randomness with Alex Hillman and others](https://stef.io/writing/talking-coworking-xml-facial-expressions-and-other-randomness-with-alex-hillman-and-others): SXSW is all about the conversations you have - Alex and others who drop in and out during our chat provide a great first one! (2008) [writing/writing] - [Why doesn’t Birmingham have wifi like Austin?](https://stef.io/writing/why-doesnt-birmingham-have-wifi-like-austin): A conversation with Pete Ashton at SXSW about Birmingham’s woefully inadequate and probably very expensive wifi solution, compared to the ‘everyone just make their connections free’ model that Austin has. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Follow our progress at SXSW Interactive on sxswm.com](https://stef.io/writing/follow-our-progress-at-sxsw-interactive-on-sxswmcom): I’ve organised a group of digital media types from Birmingham to go to South By South-West (SXSW) interactive (SXSWi) with the support of Digital Central. (2008) [writing/writing] - [The Art of Influence for the Arts Council](https://stef.io/writing/the-art-of-influence-for-the-arts-council): Pete and I presented at our first ‘double act’ speaking event today. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Creative Republic Launch Video](https://stef.io/writing/creative-republic-launch-video): Video from the launch of Creative Republic, with speeches from Helga Henry and Pete Ashton as well as shots from the night and a few interviews with Creative Republic board members. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Entering the Clore Leadership Programme with a Personal Organisation Chart](https://stef.io/writing/entering-the-clore-leadership-programme-with-a-personal-organisation-chart): In brief - ever tried drawing a diagram of how you fit into your work environment? (2008) [writing/writing] - [Sam Amidon at the Tin Angel, Coventry](https://stef.io/writing/sam-amidon-at-the-tin-angel-coventry): Sam Amidon, the artists behind our favourite album of this year “All is Well” was doing a show over at The Tin Angel in Coventry. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Birmingham Big City Plan - The Video](https://stef.io/writing/birmingham-big-city-plan-the-video): Given away at the Big City Plan launch yesterday was a lovely little 5 minute video by Squint Opera. (2008) [writing/writing] - [I’m blogging for the Birmingham Post](https://stef.io/writing/im-blogging-for-the-birmingham-post): In an interesting turn of events I was invited by Joanna Geary of the Birmingham Post to join their new blogging team. (2008) [writing/writing] - [I’m Tig](https://stef.io/writing/im-tig): Bounder over at BINS has set up a game of ‘blog tig’ with the following rules. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Podcast of The Big City Plan Launch](https://stef.io/writing/podcast-of-the-big-city-plan-launch): The Big City Plan launched yesterday and I was there to see (and hear) it happen. (2008) [writing/writing] - [South by South West (Midlands)](https://stef.io/writing/south-by-south-west-midlands): In short - a bunch of Birmingham digital media types are going to SXSW Interactive in Texas next week, and we are doing a ‘remote control blogging’ thing where you get to ask us to attend stuff and report back for you. (2008) [writing/writing] - [The Big City Plan Charter - Any Questions?](https://stef.io/writing/th-big-city-plan-charter-any-questions): Today is the launch of The Big City Plan Charter, a document that puts down in writing some of the ‘big ideas’ that are under consideration for the future of Birmingham. (2008) [writing/writing] - [What do the BBC leadership have to say about the future of Birmingham?](https://stef.io/writing/what-do-the-bbc-leadership-have-to-say-about-the-future-of-birmingham): In short - they’re investing in media production outside London and they see Birmingham as being important to delivering on that promise. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Rationalise Your Online Identity with Profilactic and ClaimID](https://stef.io/writing/rationalise-your-online-identity-with-profilactic-and-claimid): “Identity” is a hard-to-pin-down concept, especially when it comes to your ‘online identity’ in a world of Facebook profiles, Twitter and what seems to be becoming ‘multiple online identity disorder’. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Creative Republic Launch Party and Charter](https://stef.io/writing/creative-republic-launch-party-and-charter): Last night was the launch of Creative Republic and was a great evening. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Top 10 Usability Mistakes for Blogs - How Does Yours Rate?](https://stef.io/writing/top-10-usability-mistakes-for-blogs-how-does-yours-rate): The prolific usability guru Jacob Nielsen has a handy post called “Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes” and last night I thought I’d scope them out and see if I needed to make any changes to this site. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Birmingham Bloggers Meetup 2](https://stef.io/writing/birmingham-bloggers-meetup-2): The Birmingham Bloggers Meetup events look set for great things. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Hello new blogger!](https://stef.io/writing/hello-new-blogger): Congratulations on starting a blog - nice to have you with us! (2008) [writing/writing] - [A mixed bag week](https://stef.io/writing/a-mixed-bag-week): The last few days have been a mixed bag and I wanted to put something online about what I've been up to. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Andrew Dubber does exist](https://stef.io/writing/andrew-dubber-does-exist): I can confirm that Andrew Dubber does, in fact, exist. (2008) [writing/writing] - [How to make a Life Feed](https://stef.io/writing/how-to-make-a-life-feed): You make yourself a Life Feed — a single RSS feed that combines all of those disparate bits and bobs of content that you’re busy making and puts them all in one place for easy consumption. (2008) [writing/writing] - [3form Shortlisted for a Webby!](https://stef.io/writing/3form-shortlisted-for-a-webby): A nice start to the week - we’ve been shortlisted for a Webby award for the First Light Movies website. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Creative Republic is Open for Business!](https://stef.io/writing/creative-republic-is-open-for-business): Creative Republic is now open for business, but what is it, and what’s it for? (2008) [writing/writing] - [Emily has a photo blog](https://stef.io/writing/emily-has-a-photo-blog): Welcome to Emily, who has just joined us with her new blog at Emily Quinton Photography. (2008) [writing/writing] - [My leadership development day on the cultural leadership programme](https://stef.io/writing/my-leadership-development-day-on-the-cultural-leadership-programme): Leadership development day on the cultural leadership programme (2008) [writing/writing] - [Give Powerpoint the Bullet. Do something interesting instead](https://stef.io/writing/give-powerpoint-the-bullet-do-something-interesting-instead): Yesterday I gave a talk at Birmingham City University’s Business School on the induction day for a new course - the MSc in Business Creation and Development. (2008) [writing/writing] - [An advance preview of the new Redpoint Climbing Centre in Birmingham](https://stef.io/writing/an-advance-preview-of-the-new-redpoint-climbing-centre-in-birmingham): Tonight was the unofficial preview night for particularly keen people to see what’s been going on at the new soon-to-be-opened Redpoint Climbing Centre in Birmingham’s Gun Quarter. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Yay for Created in Birmingham! A joint Guardian Media Innovation Award](https://stef.io/writing/yay-for-created-in-birmingham-a-joint-guardian-media-innovation-award): What a nice way to start the week - Created in Birmingham has picked up some national interest and gone and hit the big-time with a big ‘ol compliment from the Guardian in the shape of a MEGA award nomination for Best Independent Blog. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Where is the Creative and Cultural Web Traffic in Birmingham (Part 2)](https://stef.io/writing/where-is-the-creative-and-cultural-web-traffic-in-birmingham-part-2): Finding out where web traffic in a city is, which are the important sites, which ones have loads of users, which ones have none is a difficult task for anyone who’s interested. (2008) [writing/writing] - [The Big Picture - A huge photography project in the West Midlands](https://stef.io/writing/the-big-picture-a-huge-photography-project-in-the-west-midlands): Today is the launch of The Big Picture. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Broadcast magazine feature on digital media in Birmingham](https://stef.io/writing/broadcast-magazine-feature-on-digital-media-in-birmingham): I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago for a piece that Broadcast magazine have written on the state of the digital media scene in Birmingham, and it’s been published today. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Birmingham Bloggers Meetup Podcast and Photos](https://stef.io/writing/birmingham-bloggers-meetup-podcast-and-photos): Thursday night saw the first ever Birmingham Bloggers Meetup happen at the Kitchen Garden Cafe in Kings Heath. I made it down for the first hour or so, and it was a small, cosy event in nice surroundings. More photos here. (2008) [writing/writing] - [How to recycle your old computer equipment in Birmingham](https://stef.io/writing/how-to-recycle-your-old-computer-equipment-in-birmingham): I’ve been getting rid of lots of old computer equipment this week. (2008) [writing/writing] - [Clore Fellowship](https://stef.io/awards/clore-fellow-2008): Clore Fellow 2008/09 (2008) [award/awards] - [Guardian Innovation Awards ('MEGA') — Best Independent Blog](https://stef.io/awards/guardian-mega-2008-created-in-birmingham): Joint-winner of inaugural Guardian Innovation Awards ('MEGA') for Best Independent Blog — for Created in Birmingham (2008) [award/awards] - [Odadeo](https://stef.io/projects/odadeo): A social site for dads, launched in a very early beta for Father's Day 2008. (2008) [project/projects] - [The Big Picture](https://stef.io/projects/the-big-picture): A web-art experiment to win the world record for the largest ever photo-montage - in fact it was the size of a football pitch. (2008) [project/projects] - [Tweetlet](https://stef.io/projects/tweetlet): A pregnancy twitter service that would direct-message you child development information in the first person (2008) [hack/projects] - [Sylvain Chauveau — The Black Book of Capitalism](https://stef.io/music/type-the-black-book-of-capitalism): Sylvain Chauveau — The Black Book of Capitalism (TYPE025), remastered reissue, on vinyl for the first time (2008) [release/music] - [University of Birmingham — School of Computer Science](https://stef.io/culture/uob-cs-advisory-board): Advising the School of Computer Science so that its research, curriculum and strategy line up with what industry needs. (2008) [role/culture] - [Webby Award Honoree (NetArt)](https://stef.io/awards/webby-2008-big-picture): Webby Award Honoree in the NetArt category — for The Big Picture (2008) [award/awards] - [Webby Award](https://stef.io/awards/webby-2008-first-light): Webby Award Winner — for First Light Movies (2008) [award/awards] - [Webby Award Honoree (NetArt)](https://stef.io/awards/webby-2008-name-in-lights): Webby Award Honoree in the NetArt category — for Name in Lights (2008) [award/awards] - [Joint World Record — The Big Picture](https://stef.io/awards/world-record-2008-big-picture): Joint World Record holder for The Big Picture 2008 (along with several thousand others) (2008) [award/awards] - [How to set up a simple professional portfolio site/blog in about four hours](https://stef.io/writing/how-to-set-up-a-simple-professional-portfolio-site-blog-in-about-four-hours): How to set up a simple professional portfolio site/blog in about four hours (2007) [writing/writing] - [Igloo Impossible](https://stef.io/writing/igloo-impossible): It’s that time of year again, and in time honoured fashion I’ve put together a little festive game for your mouse-clicking enjoyment. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Birmingham Clone Town](https://stef.io/writing/birmingham-clone-town): Birmingham is a ‘clone town’. (2007) [writing/writing] - [What is Birmingham’s Creative Direction?](https://stef.io/writing/what-is-birminghams-creative-direction): Another in my series about Birmingham’s Big City Plan. (2007) [writing/writing] - [When things just line up](https://stef.io/writing/when-things-just-line-up): I managed a day off today - it was lovely. Not a bit of work in sight. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Facebook apps are the new black](https://stef.io/writing/facebook-apps-are-the-new-black): This week I’ve somehow seemed to strike a nerve with a few of my clients by talking Facebook Applications. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Live blogging my new iPhone purchase](https://stef.io/writing/live-blogging-my-new-iphone-purchase): I’m in the Apple store Bullring right now taking early adoption to a whole new level (maybe). (2007) [writing/writing] - [3form is 3forming](https://stef.io/writing/3form-is-3forming): Over the six and half years that 3form has been running we’ve achieved a great deal, won lots of awards and worked with some great people on great projects. (2007) [writing/writing] - [How about we design Birmingham with a WIKI?](https://stef.io/writing/how-about-we-design-birmingham-with-a-wiki): Too many ideas, not enough time to write them all down before I’m on to the next thing. That’s my problem. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Created in Birmingham on Facebook](https://stef.io/writing/created-in-birmingham-on-facebook): I’ve been doing some research for a project that I’m working on at the moment that will rely on Facebook’s new system that allows people develop their own ‘applications’. You may have seen some of these - usually involving throwing pigs at eachother, trying to bite oneanother in some kind of lycanthropic fantasy involving ninjas or in the form of little bits of “that’s too much information, dude” revelations… all of this being ‘virtual’ of course. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Are my posts too long?](https://stef.io/writing/are-my-posts-too-long): Am I being too verbose? Should I be posting shorter, snappier blog posts? (2007) [writing/writing] - [Birmingham - the Big City Plan “City Team”](https://stef.io/writing/birmingham-the-big-city-plan-city-team): I’ve been invited to be part of Birmingham’s ‘City Team’ which is a group of people brought together to come up with big ideas for how Birmingham might change for the better over the coming ten to twenty-five years as part of a ‘masterplanning’ process being branded as “The Big City Plan”. (2007) [writing/writing] - [One of my photos is in the Guardian photography supplement today](https://stef.io/writing/one-of-my-photos-is-in-the-guardian-photography-supplement-today): I haven’t seen it yet, but this image was chosen with five others for inclusion in the Guardian’s photography week series of supplements. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Reporting back on Crowdsourcing](https://stef.io/writing/reporting-back-on-crowdsourcing): So - I’ve just got back from two days of discussions, speeches, presentations, private chats, video interviews, and so on. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Authenticity of Place](https://stef.io/speaking/authenticity-of-place-big-city-plan): I was one of a handful of speakers at the initiation event around the next ten years of regeneration of the city of Birmingham. My word was “Authenticity”, which is something easily lost in a project of this kind. (2007) [talk/speaking] - [Autumn Recovery](https://stef.io/writing/autumn-recovery): I’m starting to think that this modern life we live is more and more becoming a constant blur of overlapping interventions, interferences, opportunities and threats. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Plus Festival 07 - Moving Type Found](https://stef.io/writing/plus-festival-07-moving-type-found): As a first post on Plus 2007, here is a series of ‘found type’ photographs I took during the event. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Plus Festival: Live Pacman front-pages YouTube](https://stef.io/writing/plus-festival-live-pacman-front-pages-youtube): One of the funnier parts of the Plus Festival was the ‘live pacman’ game that was running for most of the five days. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Crowdsourcing scales up - Who wants to redesign Birmingham?](https://stef.io/writing/crowdsourcing-scales-up-who-wants-to-redesign-birmingham): The meeting was one of the first of what looks set to be a year-long series of meetings, discussions, public debates and events all based around what is being called the “Birmingham City Centre Masterplan”. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Doing The National Wedding Show](https://stef.io/writing/doing-the-national-wedding-show): I spent the weekend helping Emily with her stand at the National Wedding Show at the NEC. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Plus Festival 2007 Opens](https://stef.io/writing/plus-festival-2007-opens): After a year of work, we’re all very proud to announce that Plus - the international design festival opens its doors at 10am tomorrow for five days of inspirational design events, perfomances, talks by leading designers, exhibitions, interactive installations, even a real-life version of Pacman played out by humans and cameras! (2007) [writing/writing] - [Backlog!](https://stef.io/writing/backlog): Taking some inspiration from the recent postal strike, I think I’ve also generated a backlog of bloggable bits and bobs to post here. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Shortlisted for an RTS award](https://stef.io/writing/shortlisted-for-an-rts-award): We found out on Friday (yes I know I’m slow) that our work at 3form with Maverick for Channel 4 on the 4Tips project has been shortlisted for a Royal Television Society Innovation award! (2007) [writing/writing] - [Ten 4 Magazine Issue 7 is out](https://stef.io/writing/ten-4-magazine-issue-7-is-out): Issue 7 of Ten 4 Magazine is out, and the images I shot at the Channel 4 Inspiration Sessions day are in it. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Letters Letters — Letters Letters](https://stef.io/music/type-letters-letters): Letters Letters — Letters Letters (TYPE022) (2007) [release/music] - [Autumn](https://stef.io/writing/autumn): There’s something about that particular light you experience when walking under old trees on a cold, blustery day’s end, with a clear sky overhead and leaves scattering underfoot that summons memories of years past and thoughts of the future. (2007) [writing/writing] - [30 albums on Type](https://stef.io/writing/30-albums-on-type): This month sees the release of TYPE30. Thirty albums in five years isn’t bad going really. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Deaf Center and Skallander photos](https://stef.io/writing/deaf-center-and-skallander-photos): Some photos from the Skallander / Deaf Center show in Manchester at the Sacred Trinity Church, Salford. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Type Records and Red Deer Club Present…](https://stef.io/writing/type-records-and-red-deer-club-present): Tonight is our Type Records night in Manchester with a line up to be proud of. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Boosted](https://stef.io/writing/boosted): Yesterday I spent a couple of hours facilitating a panel at a one day mini conference called Boosted. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Artfest: Luminarium Levity II by Architects of Air](https://stef.io/writing/artfest-luminarium-levity-ii-by-architects-of-air): The other highlight of this year’s Artsfest for me was the Architects of Air piece in Eastside called Levity II. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Artsfest: Friday was a Blast](https://stef.io/writing/artsfest-friday-was-a-blast): ArtsFest, Birmingham’s free arts festival (and Europe’s largest apparently, if that means anything) kicked off on Friday with a fantastic piece of performance art/theatre/engineering/pyrotechnics/steampunkery called Blast. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Back from holiday - here are a couple of new sites](https://stef.io/writing/back-from-holiday-here-are-a-couple-of-new-sites): Before going away, we managed to get a couple of projects finished. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Sylvain Chauveau — S.](https://stef.io/music/type-s): Sylvain Chauveau — S. (TYPE030), mini-album (2007) [release/music] - [Change your wireless router password right now](https://stef.io/writing/change-your-wireless-router-password-right-now): Yesterday I was honoured to attend my first School of Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board meeting at Birmingham University. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Moseley Folk Festival is Lovely with a capital L](https://stef.io/writing/moseley-folk-festival-is-lovely-with-a-capital-l): Today we took the day out and went to Moseley Folk Festival which is running in Moseley Private Park all weekend. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Compton Verney](https://stef.io/writing/compton-verney): At last week’s Bank Holiday we had a day out at Compton Verney, which was lovely. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Khonnor in shock TV appearance (sort of)](https://stef.io/writing/khonnor-in-shock-tv-appearance-sort-of): If you were particularly observant you might have noticed that last night’s episode of the IT Crowd on Channel 4 had an assortment of Type goodies on the set in the background, including Khonnor’s Burning Palace seven inch. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Emily’s Birmingham wedding photography business](https://stef.io/writing/emilys-birmingham-wedding-photography-business): This weekend I spent some time helping Emily out with an update to the website for her Birmingham based wedding photography business, surprisingly called Emily Quinton Photography. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Create something day 6 and 7: Peter Broderick – Float](https://stef.io/writing/create-something-day-6-7-peter-broderick-float): John Xela and I spent the weekend talking about our ideas for the artwork for the new album “Float” by Peter Broderick coming out on Type in a few months. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Create something day 5: A rebrand?](https://stef.io/writing/create-something-day-5-a-rebrand): I’m posting this on Sunday - day seven of my “create something” week. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Create something day 4: A Certain Ambiguity](https://stef.io/writing/create-something-day-4-a-certain-ambiguity): The news today is that Penguin Books’ Indian branch have decided to use one of my Flickr photos in the cover of one of their books - A Certain Ambiguity by Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Create something day 3: Searching for bokeh](https://stef.io/writing/create-something-day-3-searching-for-bokeh): Summer seems to be upon us for a short while, so I took a few minutes out of the day to find some nice bokeh in and around Moseley/Kings Heath on my way into work. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Create something day 2: Get your people to blog my people](https://stef.io/writing/create-something-day-2-get-your-people-to-blog-my-people): My second day of creating something every day for a week. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Create Something Day 1: Splot](https://stef.io/writing/create-something-day-1-splot): To be honest, Monday was a very silly choice of day to start my “create something new every day for a week” idea. (2007) [writing/writing] - [I am going to create something every day for a week](https://stef.io/writing/i-am-going-to-create-something-every-day-for-a-week): For the past few years, I’ve had a pretty simple personal rule that I try to abide by every day. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Nought for the Day](https://stef.io/writing/nought-for-the-day): Did you know that atheists, agnostics and humanists are banned from expressing their thoughts on Thought for the Day? (2007) [writing/writing] - [Am I getting behind the curve?](https://stef.io/writing/am-i-getting-behind-the-curve): Yesterday I took part in a survey I found through the Digital Birmingham site, called the Digital Curve. (2007) [writing/writing] - [“How are you doing?”… “Oh, busy”](https://stef.io/writing/how-are-you-doing-oh-busy): I’ve been to a few events over the last week and I’ve started breaking my rule of not using the word “busy” to describe what I’m up to. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Fierce Ten out of Ten](https://stef.io/writing/fierce-ten-out-of-ten): Many congratulations to the Fierce! team who deservedly won the Birmingham Creative City Award for Best Brand on Thursday. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Sofia without Stefan](https://stef.io/writing/sofia-without-stefan): This week I was in Sofia, attending the funeral of a trusted friend and work colleague at 3form, the designer Stefan Marinov, who died very suddenly and unexpectedly last week. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Is Birmingham “Getting it?” - Creativity and Culture feature in the West Midlands Power 50](https://stef.io/writing/is-birmingham-getting-it-creativity-and-culture-feature-in-the-west-midlands-power-50): Yesterday evening was the launch of the Birmingham Post’s much anticipated supplement, the “Power 50 - Who is really shaping the future of the West Midlands?” at Birmingham Future’s AGM. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Skallander — Skallander](https://stef.io/music/type-skallander): Skallander — Skallander (TYPE023) (2007) [release/music] - [Out of Hours: To Blog or not to Blog](https://stef.io/writing/out-of-hours-to-blog-or-not-to-blog): This evening I’m heading over to the Light House in Wolverhampton for a get-together and some informal discussion on the ‘whys’ and ‘wherefores’ of blogging. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Illuminate](https://stef.io/writing/illuminate): I’ve had the pleasure of being involved in Plus - Birmingham’s international design festival for over a year now. (2007) [writing/writing] - [100% Geek](https://stef.io/writing/100-geek): This week I attended the bTWEEN conference on interactive media in Bradford. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Oh No Logo – an article for the Birmingham Post](https://stef.io/writing/oh-no-logo-an-article-for-the-birmingham-post): Following the blog post I wrote about the new 2012 Olympics identity, I was invited to write a short piece for the Birmingham Post which was published today. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Where’s the creative and cultural web traffic in Birmingham?](https://stef.io/writing/wheres-the-creative-and-cultural-web-traffic-in-birmingham): About six months ago I came up with the idea of setting up a blog to talk about all the creative and cultural things happening in Birmingham (UK), where I live. I’m a relatively busy man so I hooked up with Pete Ashton, blogger extraordinaire, who was thinking along similar lines so we got the thing off the ground - Created in Birmingham. (2007) [writing/writing] - [The London 2012 ident - a flop of Olympic proportions?](https://stef.io/writing/the-london-2012-ident-a-flop-of-olympic-proportions): The new ident for the London 2012 Olympics has just been launched. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Name in Lights: And the winner is… Una White](https://stef.io/writing/name-in-lights-and-the-winner-is-una-white): The winner of the Name in Lights project was announced last night at a champagne reception in Birmingham city centre. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Ten4 Magazine Feature - The Sound of Selling](https://stef.io/writing/ten4-magazine-feature-the-sound-of-selling): Ten4 Magazine have uploaded a selection of features for Issue 6, due out soon. (2007) [writing/writing] - [A List Apart Web Design Survey](https://stef.io/writing/a-list-apart-web-design-survey): A List Apart (I think I last looked at this site some time around 2000) are running a web design survey. (2007) [writing/writing] - [The Creative Inbox](https://stef.io/writing/the-creative-inbox): Good sources of information are few and far between, and with the constant rise of RSS feeds and email lists I’m often feeling overwhelmed with ‘input’. (2007) [writing/writing] - [In the Back of the Real](https://stef.io/music/mix-in-the-back-of-the-real): One in a series of mixes for the Type Records radio series. (2007) [mix/music] - [The North Sea — Exquisite Idols](https://stef.io/music/type-exquisite-idols): The North Sea — Exquisite Idols (TYPE021) (2007) [release/music] - [Going grey](https://stef.io/writing/going-grey): Well, it was bound to happen sooner rather than later but as of today I am now officially past it… (2007) [writing/writing] - [10 sites that make running a business easier](https://stef.io/writing/10-sites-that-make-running-a-business-easier): For the launch of the new Digital Central website, I’ve written a feature on useful web tools for business. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Getting some inspiration](https://stef.io/writing/getting-some-inspiration): Yesterday I was one of the partipants at (and the photographer for) the Channel 4 Inspiration Session on Design and Multimedia organised by Ten4 Magazine and 4Talent. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Spring is here and Flickr is back](https://stef.io/writing/spring-is-here-and-flickr-is-back): I’ve spent the last few weeks without Flickr. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Fierce! Festival hits 10 years](https://stef.io/writing/fierce-festival-hits-10-years): This year’s Fierce! programme has been announced. (2007) [writing/writing] - [All my mixes in one podcast](https://stef.io/writing/all-my-mixes-in-one-podcast): This weekend I’ve collected all of the music mixes I have published on the web into one podcast. (2007) [writing/writing] - [A new lens for Spring](https://stef.io/writing/a-new-lens-for-spring): While I was in Hong Kong I bought us a new lens and we’re both really happy with it. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Grouper — Way Their Crept](https://stef.io/music/type-way-their-crept): Grouper — Way Their Crept (TYPE020) (2007) [release/music] - [Home](https://stef.io/writing/home): It’s been a long month… I’m happy to be home again. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Portable Film Festival - an interview](https://stef.io/writing/portable-film-festival-an-interview): While I was at SXSW I had the opportunity to have a chat with Andrew Apostola, the Creative Director of the successful Australian ‘virtual film festival’ Portable. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Use your webcam to make video micro-content](https://stef.io/writing/use-your-webcam-to-make-video-micro-content): On the last day of SXSW2007, Texas I was hanging out with the guys from Viddler and we decided to do an SXSW video wrap up. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Impressions of Hong Kong](https://stef.io/writing/impressions-of-hong-kong): I’m back in the UK after an intense few weeks, first in Texas, then Hong Kong. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Hong Kong - Receiving our Digital Pioneers awards](https://stef.io/writing/hong-kong-receiving-our-digital-pioneers-awards): I’ve been made to feel really welcome here in Hong Kong. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Kong Kong - Behind the Scenes at Happy Valley](https://stef.io/writing/kong-kong-behind-the-scenes-at-happy-valley): To top off a great day, last night we had a behind-the-scenes tour of Happy Valley, Hong Kong’s horse racing stadium. (2007) [writing/writing] - [In conversation with Scott Ross](https://stef.io/writing/in-conversation-with-scott-ross): I was lucky enough to have a chat with Scott Ross, CEO of Digital Domain. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Hong Kong - Cyberport](https://stef.io/writing/hong-kong-cyberport): And so begins our Digital Pioneers programme in Hong Kong. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Digital Pioneers arrive in Hong Kong](https://stef.io/writing/digital-pioneers-arrive-in-hong-kong): I’m here as part of a project called Digital Pioneers with the British Council. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Hong Kong Day Two – Bokeh](https://stef.io/writing/hong-kong-day-two-bokeh): Sunday in Hong Kong feels much like any other day with its bustling urban sprawl during the day and Bladerunneresque neon blaze by night. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Name in Lights is going viral](https://stef.io/writing/name-in-lights-is-going-viral): I’ve just looked through the statistics for the Name in Lights site that we launched before I went out to Texas last week. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Stretch Hummers in Texas](https://stef.io/writing/stretch-hummers-in-texas): I was really shocked that in somewhere like Texas, with its history of close connection with the oil industry there was very little awareness of the environmental issues that we hear about every day in the UK. (2007) [writing/writing] - [SXSW - The Great British Booze-Up](https://stef.io/writing/sxsw-the-great-british-booze-up): I went down to a party thrown by Clearleft, Boagworld and @media 2007 called the “Great British Booze-up”. (2007) [writing/writing] - [SXSW - Colin Devroe of Viddler gives me the lowdown on how to grow a video sharing site](https://stef.io/writing/sxsw-colin-devroe-of-viddler-gives-me-the-lowdown-on-how-to-grow-a-video-sharing-site): I finally met up with Colin Devroe from the online video sharing site Viddler. (2007) [writing/writing] - [SXSW - Fortune telling with Chris Messina: the future of online identity](https://stef.io/writing/sxsw-fortune-telling-with-chris-messina-the-future-of-online-identity): I had an interesting discussion with Chris Messina, one of the brains behind the OpenID project. (2007) [writing/writing] - [SXSW - Lego playpen](https://stef.io/writing/sxsw-lego-playpen): There’s a Lego playpen for anyone tired of talking about ‘building’ things in the digital sense and get some real hands on fun… funny that this seems to be more popular with the adults than the kids! (2007) [writing/writing] - [SXSW - The $100 laptop](https://stef.io/writing/sxsw-the-100-laptop): There was a chance to play with a new ultra-lightweight $100 laptop. (2007) [writing/writing] - [SXSW – the iPod guide](https://stef.io/writing/sxsw-the-ipod-guide): This is a great idea – an application that installs all the festival event info onto your ipod, so you can carry it around in your pocket instead of a huge booklet. (2007) [writing/writing] - [SXSW - Urban regeneration](https://stef.io/writing/sxsw-urban-regeneration): I took a short walk around Austin, TX while I’m at SXSW… the streets are quiet, traffic is calm and they there was an eerily quiet demolition site in amongst the bland architecture. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Live blogging SXSWi](https://stef.io/writing/live-blogging-sxswi): I’m starting to find other people blogging SXSW… first up it’s Coline Devroe who’s already finding out about free beer and t-shirts! (2007) [writing/writing] - [Do Schools Kill Creativity?](https://stef.io/writing/do-schools-kill-creativity): A fantastic talk by Sir Ken Robinson on the importance of creativity in education. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Celluloid Dreams in Digital Times](https://stef.io/music/mix-celluloid-dreams-in-digital-times): A 1 hour mix of experimental, cinematic electronic and acoustic music. (2007) [mix/music] - [Get your Name in Lights](https://stef.io/writing/get-your-name-in-lights): Fierce! Festival launches its Name in Lights project today and we’ve been working into the night to do our best with the new website. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Name in Lights](https://stef.io/data-art/name-in-lights): A UK-wide competition for a member of the public to have their name made into fifteen-foot Hollywood-style lettering and lit up on a Birmingham landmark. (2007) [project/data-art] - [Sharing the Web - Mouse, Camera, Action](https://stef.io/writing/sharing-the-web-mouse-camera-action): I was interviewed yesterday by Dr. Simon Davey on behalf of the Media Trust New Media Thinktank and the ICT hub for an article to be published in their forthcoming newsletter. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Is having your music licensed in a TV ad “selling out?”](https://stef.io/writing/is-having-your-music-licensed-in-a-tv-ad-selling-out): Over the Christmas break we had some success at Type when a track from one of our artists was used in the latest Honda advert. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Futurology for the Cultural sector](https://stef.io/writing/futurology-for-the-cultural-sector): I was asked by Ben Payne from the Birmingham Rep to put forward some thoughts on a significant issue that the cultural sector will face within ten years. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Synaesthesia](https://stef.io/writing/synaesthesia): I am currently working towards a photography accreditation with the Royal Photographic Society (Associateship). (2007) [writing/writing] - [Creative Republic](https://stef.io/culture/creative-republic): An independent, representative group for the creative and cultural industries of Birmingham and the region. (2007) [project/culture] - [“Photo Finish” for Channel 4’s 4Talent](https://stef.io/writing/photo-finish-for-channel-4s-4talent): The guys at Channel 4 have started a new site called 4Talent and I was invited to put together a “how-to” guide for photographers looking at setting up a portfolio site using free tools and software like Flickr and Wordpress. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Common Purpose - Matrix Programme - Track the Money Day](https://stef.io/writing/common-purpose-matrix-programme-track-the-money-day): Matrix – an 11-day programme, starting with a two-day residential course and then one day a month. (2007) [writing/writing] - [Fierce! Festival Ltd.](https://stef.io/culture/fierce-festival): An annual festival of cutting-edge performing arts across the West Midlands, UK. (2007) [company/culture] - [bTween Festival Quickfire](https://stef.io/awards/btween-quickfire-2007): bTween Festival Quickfire Winner 2007 (2007) [award/awards] - [British Council Digital Pioneer](https://stef.io/awards/digital-pioneer-2007): British Council Digital Pioneer 2007 (2007) [award/awards] - [Emily Quinton Photography](https://stef.io/projects/emily-quinton-photography): Wedding and portrait photography website. (2007) [project/projects] - [First Light Movies](https://stef.io/projects/first-light-movies): Website rebuild for a UK-wide fund for inspiring young film (2007) [project/projects] - [Jamie At Home](https://stef.io/projects/jamie-at-home): Tips sharing platform for Channel 4's Jamie Oliver series. (2007) [project/projects] - [Birmingham Post's Power 50](https://stef.io/awards/power-50-2007): #20 in the Birmingham Post's Power 50 – 2007 (2007) [award/awards] - [Royal Television Society Innovation Award — User Generated Content](https://stef.io/awards/rts-2007-4tips): Finalist for Royal Television Society Innovation Award – User Generated Content — for 4tips (with Maverick TV) (2007) [award/awards] - [St George's School, Edgbaston](https://stef.io/culture/st-georges-school-trustee): School governor of St. George's School - Birmingham's first fully co-educational independent day school for ages 2½ to 18 years. (2006) [role/culture] - [Svarte Greiner — Knive](https://stef.io/music/type-knive): Svarte Greiner — Knive (TYPE016) (2006) [release/music] - [Xela — The Dead Sea](https://stef.io/music/type-the-dead-sea): Xela — The Dead Sea (TYPE018) (2006) [release/music] - [Mountaineer — When The Air Is Bright They Shine](https://stef.io/music/type-when-the-air-is-bright-they-shine): Mountaineer — When The Air Is Bright They Shine (TYPE014) (2006) [release/music] - [Ryan Teague — Coins & Crosses](https://stef.io/music/type-coins-crosses): Ryan Teague — Coins & Crosses (TYPE015) (2006) [release/music] - [Are we Sleepwalking?](https://stef.io/music/mix-are-we-sleepwalking): Are we Sleepwalking? on Mixcloud (2006) [mix/music] - [Ryan Teague](https://stef.io/writing/ryan-teague): Ryan Teague, one of Type Records’ critically acclaimed artists wanted to be able to run his own blog and promote his work, so we set him up with a small, simply designed blog site using the fantastic open source WordPress blogging system. (2006) [writing/writing] - [Channel 4 IdeasFactory / Nesta - “Photo Finish”](https://stef.io/writing/channel-4-ideasfactory-nesta-photo-finish): Photographer and web designer Stefan Lewandowski - whose clients include Vivienne Westwood and the V&A - will explore the huge potential in gaining international recognition for your work through the Internet. (2006) [writing/writing] - [Helios — Eingya](https://stef.io/music/type-eingya): Helios — Eingya (TYPE011) (2006) [release/music] - [The North Sea & Rameses III — Night Of The Ankou](https://stef.io/music/type-night-of-the-ankou): The North Sea & Rameses III — Night Of The Ankou (TYPE012) (2006) [release/music] - [Sickoakes — Seawards](https://stef.io/music/type-seawards): Sickoakes — Seawards (TYPE010) (2006) [release/music] - [Plus International Design Festival](https://stef.io/culture/plus-expo): Plus was an international festival of design held annually in Birmingham. (2006) [company/culture] - [A new photoblog](https://stef.io/writing/a-new-photoblog): Having been banging on about how amazing blogging and photoblogging is, I’ve finally found the time to set up my own little piece of the web. (2006) [writing/writing] - [Channel 4 IdeasFactory / Nesta - Creative Hub launch](https://stef.io/writing/channel-4-ideasfactory-nesta-creative-hub-launch): I gave a speech at the launch night of the Creative Hub series of events. (2006) [writing/writing] - [Alumnus of the Year, Birmingham University](https://stef.io/awards/alumnus-of-the-year-2006): Alumnus of the Year, Birmingham University 2006-07 (2006) [award/awards] - [Created in Birmingham](https://stef.io/projects/created-in-birmingham): Blog about the creative and cultural city of Birmingham. (2006) [project/projects] - [Midaircondo — Shopping For Images](https://stef.io/music/type-shopping-for-images): Midaircondo — Shopping For Images (TYPE008) (2005) [release/music] - [Julien Neto — Le Fumeur De Ciel](https://stef.io/music/type-le-fumeur-de-ciel): Julien Neto — Le Fumeur De Ciel (TYPE006) (2005) [release/music] - [Sonar 2005: Type Records showcase](https://stef.io/writing/sonar-2005-type-records-showcase): A few of us from Type flew over to perform at the Sonar festival in Barcelona. (2005) [writing/writing] - [Ryan Teague — Six Preludes](https://stef.io/music/type-six-preludes): Ryan Teague — Six Preludes (TYEP002) (2005) [release/music] - [Sanso-Xtro — Sentimentalist](https://stef.io/music/type-sentimentalist): Sanso-Xtro — Sentimentalist (TYPE007) (2005) [release/music] - [Goldmund — Corduroy Road](https://stef.io/music/type-corduroy-road): Goldmund — Corduroy Road (TYPE005) (2005) [release/music] - [V&A Arts and Crafts](https://stef.io/projects/va-arts-and-crafts): The V&A's International Arts and Crafts exhibition microsite: a virtual tour in QuickTime VR, a zooming object viewer, and a tile designer that drew over 14,000 visitors' designs. (2005) [project/projects] - [Birmingham Young Professional of the Year](https://stef.io/awards/byp-of-the-year-2005): Birmingham Young Professional of the Year 2005-06 (2005) [award/awards] - [Champion of Industry, Mustard](https://stef.io/awards/champion-of-industry-2005): Champion of Industry, Mustard 2005 (top 1% high growth companies in West Midlands, UK) — for 3form (2005) [award/awards] - [Birmingham Small Business of the Year (Birmingham Creative City Awards)](https://stef.io/awards/creative-city-small-business-2005): Birmingham Small Business of the Year 2005-06 (Birmingham Creative City Awards) — for 3form (2005) [award/awards] - [Channel 4 Ideas Factory Creative Class Award](https://stef.io/awards/creative-class-2005): Channel 4 Ideas Factory Creative Class Award Winner 2005-6 — for 3form / Type Records (2005) [award/awards] - [O2 / Arena magazine — Entrepreneur of the Year in Birmingham](https://stef.io/awards/entrepreneur-of-the-year-2005): O2 / Arena magazine – Shortlisted for Entrepreneur of the Year in Birmingham (2005) (2005) [award/awards] - [Museums on the Web conference (V&A Arts and Crafts)](https://stef.io/speaking/museums-and-the-web-va-2005): Presented at Museums on the Web conference. (2005) [talk/speaking] - [Thought Processes](https://stef.io/music/mix-thought-processes): Thought Processes on Mixcloud (2004) [mix/music] - [Khonnor — Handwriting](https://stef.io/music/type-handwriting): Khonnor — Handwriting (TYPE003) (2004) [release/music] - [Logreybeam — It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism](https://stef.io/music/type-it-s-all-just-another-aspect-of-mannerism): Logreybeam — It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism (TYPE004) (2004) [release/music] - [Strings As Lines](https://stef.io/music/mix-strings-as-lines): A mix of postrock, classical, electronic and soundscape records - from the past, from the present and future releases from Type. (2004) [mix/music] - [Reference Points](https://stef.io/music/mix-reference-points): An hour-long mix of cinematic electronic, soundscape and classical music. (2004) [mix/music] - [Bern](https://stef.io/music/mix-bern): Bern on Mixcloud (2004) [mix/music] - [Neo Ouija showcase, Bern](https://stef.io/writing/neo-ouija-showcase-bern): A recording from the Neo Ouija Showcase at Dachstock Reitschule, Bern, Switzerland of minimal and warm electronica. (2004) [writing/writing] - [LINE / ACG Snowballing](https://stef.io/projects/line-acg-snowballing): A flash game for the LINE / Nike ACG UK ski team [project/projects] - [Deaf Center — Neon City](https://stef.io/music/type-neon-city): Deaf Center — Neon City (TYEP001) (2004) [release/music] - [Mokira — Album](https://stef.io/music/type-album): Mokira — Album (TYPE002) (2004) [release/music] - [BBC Midlands Today](https://stef.io/projects/bbc-midlands-today): A touchscreen game for the Public Space at the BBC's new Birmingham home (2004) [project/projects] - [Birmingham Creative City Award for Outstanding Innovation](https://stef.io/awards/creative-city-innovation-2004): Birmingham Creative City Award for Outstanding Innovation 2004 — for 3form (2004) [award/awards] - [Doctor Freeze](https://stef.io/projects/doctor-freeze): A six level platform game developed for Jersey Insight. [project/projects] - [Khonnor - I See Stars](https://stef.io/projects/khonnor-i-see-stars): A Flash game to promote the new Khonnor album "Handwriting" (2004) [project/projects] - [Mustard Award for Best New Start-Up in Birmingham](https://stef.io/awards/mustard-startup-2004): Mustard Award for Best New Start-Up in Birmingham 2004 — for 3form (2004) [award/awards] - [RJ Valeo — September](https://stef.io/music/type-september): RJ Valeo — September (TYPE001), mini album (2003) [release/music] - [Type Sampler](https://stef.io/writing/type-sampler): This was the original hour-long sampler when we started Type and is a mix of music that was forthcoming at the time, as well as some unreleased material that never saw the light of day, including one of my tracks (8 minutes in) called “The sun, the sky, the sea”. (2003) [writing/writing] - [Default at the Bull’s Head, Birmingham](https://stef.io/writing/default-at-the-bulls-head-birmingham): A recording from one of our regular, now defunct Default events that took place in the then newly-renovated Bull’s Head in Moseley, Birmingham, UK. (2003) [writing/writing] - [Mansion Impossible](https://stef.io/projects/mansion-impossible): An addictive, free property trading game: buy and sell houses on your way up the property ladder, making enough cash to get the $10 Million mansion. [project/projects] - [Type](https://stef.io/music/type): An experimental record label co-founded with John Xela. (2003) [project/music] - [3edit](https://stef.io/projects/3edit): A website updating system that let site owners keep their own website up-to-date quickly and easily. [project/projects] - [Default](https://stef.io/projects/default): A 'warm electronica' night in Birmingham with various electronica musicians performing. [project/projects] - [VivienneWestwood.com](https://stef.io/projects/vivienne-westwood-site): A content-managed website for this international fashion house (2002) [project/projects] - [3form](https://stef.io/work/3form): A design and web agency set up with Antonio Gould whilst at uni. (2001) [company/work] - [Sprite Freestyle Arena](https://stef.io/projects/sprite-freestyle-arena): Promotional site for a £500,000 extreme snow sports arena at the Sheffield Ski Village. (2001) [project/projects] - [Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery website](https://stef.io/projects/bmag-site): A showcase for Birmingham's world class collections of Art, History and Science. [project/projects] - [Type Records website and graphics](https://stef.io/projects/type-records): A new website and graphic package for a fresh new UK electronica label (2001) [project/projects] - [Gold Award for Best Non-Profit Organisation Website — World Media Festival Hamburg](https://stef.io/awards/world-media-festival-2001): Gold Award for Best Non-Profit Organisation Website – World Media Festival Hamburg 2001 — for the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery website (2001) [award/awards] - [NASTA — Best Title Sequence](https://stef.io/awards/nasta-2000): NASTA winner of Best Title Sequence 2000 — with Toby Harris as VJ crew "Robots in Disguise" (2000) [award/awards] - [White Noise Central](https://stef.io/projects/white-noise-central): Art and literary site focussing on the travels of two music writers. (2000) [project/projects] - [WebXpress](https://stef.io/work/webxpress-creative-director): A web agency; I was responsible for all of the company's visual output. (1999) [role/work] - [BSc Computer Science and Software Engineering](https://stef.io/work/bsc-computer-science-birmingham): University of Birmingham. (1996) [education/work] - [Robots in Disguise](https://stef.io/projects/robots-in-disguise): VJ crew with Toby Harris — seven years of live visuals at some pretty great shows around the country (1996) [project/projects] - [Freelance](https://stef.io/work/freelance-era): Sold my first web project before university and freelanced through a Computer Science degree: animations, video graphics, websites, micro games. (1995) [role/work] - [Writing elsewhere](https://stef.io/writing/external-writing): Occasional articles and essays, mostly on Medium [writing/writing] - [Fibers](https://stef.io/now/fibers): A session registry and knowledge loop for AI-agent-heavy development. [project/now]