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IDEO, design, the everyday

December 20, 2009February 26, 2025 by Michael Shanks

This is the first in a series of commentaries on a class running at Stanford, Winter Quarter 2010 – “Transformative Design” ENGR 231 – [Link] I made a visit to IDEO last week, the design consultancy with its head office in downtown Palo Alto, by Stanford. I’m teaching a class next term with one of…

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ghost in the mirror 2

December 15, 2008 by Michael Shanks

Daguerreotype c 1850. Oblique view. See the project Ghosts in the machine.

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Shadforth, Durham UK

May 31, 2008 by Michael Shanks

Dawn. For Christina Unwin and Richard Hingley.

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Routin Lin

May 5, 2008February 26, 2025 by Michael Shanks

Northumberland UK drag – pan | shift – zoom in | control- zoom out Beneath the hill fort; around from the rock carvings. (Please be patient with a long load time – I think it is worth it)

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epigraphy #3

April 25, 2008 by Michael Shanks

Bamburgh, Northumberland

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Flodden Field

July 17, 2007 by Michael Shanks

In the tracks of northern antiquaries, summer 2007 September 9 1513: in the low rolling hills of north Northumberland an invading Scottish army was defeated in the bloodiest ever encounter between England and Scotland. James IV, King of the Scots, nine of his Earls, fourteen Lords of Parliament, five Highland Chiefs and 10,000 men at…

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