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Week Note 12 - New Job

These notes aren't weekly. Anyway.

Annoucement. Today is my last day working at Fjord. I've been with the agency for 2.5 years and had no intention of leaving until someone offered me something bright and shiny which I couldn't pass up. So I've been working my notice for 2 months now.

This year has been a whirlwind. I've worked in all five of our offices (New York, London, Berlin, Madrid and Helsinki) boarded around 40 flights and spent 140 days out of the country. While no big record, I'm not doing it again in a hurry!

I will be based in London working for a mobile start up as head of design. I don't really know what I can say yet so I won't say anything. But I'm sure I will soon.

Ant Farming

I felt that I didn't know anough about Ant Farm so I'm reading a book about them. It's inspiring stuff. Like other collectives (of the time) such as Archigram and Push Pin the mindset was very playful. See their Cowboy Nomad manefestio (1969) below. Great Stuff.

'safety matches / kwik start energy'

Weigh It Up

Stockmann is a big fancy department store in Helsinki. These are some of their lunchtime salads. The price is established by weight as you can see. You simply browse your desired size and spend. This is so nice.

As a consumer you feel far more catered for, than from a 6.99 ubiquitous price tag. Condsidering the fact that a considerable chunk of economic thinking and a bit of behavioural science defines most prices in supermarkets this is very refreshing.

Clearly many things are bought by weight but not many are then wrapped and sold as complete items with weight choices. Normally you do this yourself. It's a shame more places can't adopt such people centred technique for pre packaged goods.

Crazy Record Sleeve no.20

Some things in this life are too incredible to be true. This is one of them.

Just For Fun

Videos like this just make you feel good about things. Isn't it great that people spend a bit of time being playful. Wonderful.

thanks Angus