Smithery doubles to make Artefact Cards shrink
May 24, 2013

So, for the summer Smithery has become two people… I’d like you all to say hello to Fraser Hamilton, who’s going into the final year of his Industrial Design degree at Loughborough in the Autumn. He’s just finished up a...

Make Things Like Tony Stark
May 20, 2013

A talk I gave last week at the inaugural Innovation Social event, held at the Google Campus on Bonhill Street in London. Some things worth noting… i) it was the first time I’d done a presentation by only writing it...

Why I messed up the Artefact Tulipmania experiment…
May 12, 2013

This is a story about experiments, Artefact Cards, Plumpton Mornings, the 50/50 Good project, visibility and apologies. The thing with experiments is that they can, and do, go wrong.  The Artefact Tulipmania experiment was one such thing that has gone...

Tulipmania: The Original Product Description
May 12, 2013

This was the original product entry for Tulipmania, the 2013 Spring Artefact Cards edition.  It went badly wrong, though, and has therefore changed.... --------------------- Tulipmania was an economic phenomenon we perhaps know most about from Charles Mackay's 1841 book Extraordinary...