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Jun 11

Copywriting is an organic part of design

When I was doing my marketing degree in London, we had a dorm colleague who was doing a masters in communications. Our dorms had shared bathrooms and kitchens and the kitchens in particular were treated very much like communal areas where people could leave some of their essentials— labelled and…

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Copywriting is an organic part of design

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May 24

Deterrence CX

There’s a term I’ve heard in movies when people speak about home defence: it’s called deterrence. Deterrence means “the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences” and the dictionary even provides a military example to clarify the meaning of this (“nuclear missiles…

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May 22

Thinking about Chat GPT with my designer hat on

When OpenAI first released Dall-E, I had a play around with it and gave up quickly. I wasn’t really sure of the value of being able to create interesting images from simple prompts and, to be fair, was not willing to invest too much of my own money trying various…

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Thinking about Chat GPT with my designer hat on

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Jan 31

What I read, watched and listened to — week 17–18 and a half

There is something about the promise that you will do something regularly that turns into a chore when you start thinking people are watching you. I started this series because it occurred to me that I was going through gigabytes of content every week and not really letting anything sink…

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Jan 22

What I read, listened to and watched — Week 15–16

What a weird start to 2023. As much as I’d like to think this is a new beginning, we’re past the pandemic, the world is being righted (again), it all still feels a bit strange. Work, home, all of these feel just a little bit off and I cannot help…

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Jan 15

What I read, listened to and watched — 13–14 (post-hiatus, Part 2)

Rrrright. Last update was a pretty long one due to my long winter hols and the fact I really didn’t do much except watch TV and listen to podcasts. To round it off, here’s my reading list from that same period and a few things I managed to sneak in…

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Jan 8

What I read, listened to and watched — 13–14 (post-hiatus, Part 1)

So, it’s 2023. Yeah, incredibly, we made it past a full-on global pandemic, a proper economic crash in the UK, and we’re successfully ignoring some genuinely scary weather like winder in my home country of Romania now being completely snow-free and “bathed” in temperatures of over 17 degrees. But life…

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Nov 27, 2022

What I read, listened to and watched — weeks 11–12

It’s getting harder. Let me tell you. Work is a bit bonkers and likely to continue like that into Christmas. There’s also life’s little bits, like prepping for the holidays, some anniversaries, having to deal with a house sale and some stress about that. It all gets in the way…

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Nov 13, 2022

What I read/ listened to and watched — Week 10–11

[Spoiler alert: not much] It’s been a couple of manic weeks. Those types of weeks when you start early and finish late and the intensity of the work day is such that you come home and your brain is buzzing with tension and at the same time so tired that…

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Oct 30, 2022

What I read, listened to and watched — Week 9

Week 9. Getting into a bit of a stride here and hoping to keep this up until Christmas when we can expect there will be an increase in yummy food consumption and a visible decrease in writing about books. At any rate, having settled back home in London, life is…

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