Ideas and Commentary

Alongside his consulting work, Geoff writes and speaks on design and technology subjects — particularly on technology futures and automotive design. He is also researching and developing ideas about the future of engineering, design and manufacture in an ongoing project called Design2.0 — also the title and subject of his blog. For many years Geoff wrote regular columns for New Design and Interior Motives magazines. In this section there are links to a selection of Geoff's research and writing in the form of downloadable PDF files.

 

Links to writing

 

> Research Paper:

Design2.0 paper delivered to the TCT2008 conference on Coventry, UK, 21 October 2008

 

> Columns for Interior Motives, a magazine dedicated to automotive interior design:

issue 5 2008  The art of the driverless car

issue 4 2008  Of trees and cows and symbolic cuticles

issue 3 2008  Reductive: the new seductive

issue 2 2008  Flashback to the future

issue 1 2008  Roll call and assembly...

issue 5 2007  It makes you smile

issue 4 2007  When cars were girls

issue 3 2007  Designing for the 'f**k you' generation

issue 2 2007  Nature's prototypes

issue 3 2006  An invasion of privacy

issue 2 2006  Victims of fashion

 

> A few selected magazine and newspaper pieces:

The Kikkoman soy sauce bottle  February 2002, Marketing magazine

That Sinking Feeling  November 2003, Grand Designs magazine

Good Design is Boring  February 2001, Financial Times newspaper

Rapid Manufacturing  June 2007, Innovation magazine, Royal College of Art

 

 

 

 

I made this diagram to help explain and understand what a nanometer really looks like, in relation to atoms, molecules, viruses, Intel chip transistors and the like — right up to huge objects like a human hair and, heaven help us, a millimetre. Download file.