Design for Health

UK design firm Priestmangoode believe that healthcare could be improved by applying the same design principles to hospitals and clinics that are applied in the luxury travel trade and first class cabins in airplanes.
They have written a manifesto, which revolves around the following principles:

Healthcare doesn’t need to be in a hospital;
Buildings need to be planned [...]

Law Degree for Sale

A young, cheesed off Silicon Valley lawyer has put his law degree up for sale on Craigslist for $59,250 (the outstanding amount of the $100K student loan).
Read his reasons, which include boring colleagues and a screwed up work/aspiration balance, here.
Hat tip: @jonathanfields

Making Over Carlisle Train Station

Carlisle’s railway station platform was turned into a lounge and garden area for filming for a TV ad for DIY store homebase. Commuters enjoyed the sofas and garden landscaping that they started a Facebook page to try to keep the newly made over station as it was. The number of fans has reached 8,000+ but [...]

The Boneyard Aircraft Cemetery

Beautiful photograph of an airplane cemetery can be seen courtesy of Google Earth in The Telegraph.  The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is in Tuscon, Arizona and its four square miles are populated with partially dismantled or decommissioned aircraft, which are sometimes recycled and sometimes restored and sold on. Read more.
Via @richpayne88

Disloyalty Card

World Barista Champion Gwilym Davies has come up with an disloyalty card that encourages his customers to try the coffee of his rivals. He’s chosen eight quirky, quality coffee shops in east London – buy a coffee and get a stamp from each of them and Gwilym will give you a free coffee. It seems [...]

What Went Wrong

What Went Wrong is an eight-week online interactive series that looks at the causes of the global financial crisis, from Big Think, a “global forum connecting people and ideas,” which has an archive of video interviews with more than 600 experts including and astronaut and a former mayor of NYC. What Went Wrong [...]

Gay is the New Black

Dangerous Breed is home to political T-Shirts that make you think: the slogan that is provoking  most comment at the moment is “Gay is the New Black”, which refers to the denial of gay marriage rights in the USA. Others include “Ski Iraq” (as seen on Six Feet Under), “Gaza Strip Club” and “Petrosexual”. Get [...]

Blight Society Street Art

Help street artists sell out this Christmas by buying their prints and T-Shirts from Blight Society. With prices from £1 – £50 it could be your cheapest, and coolest, Christmas shopping spree ever. Even better, commission an original.

Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth?

PSFK flags up an interview with author John Hodgman who suggests there is a cultural shift underway from ‘jockdom’ based on family wealth and connections, to a more considered and deliberative geekdom, in which companies and countries (such as China) that recognise and reward geeks will thrive.
Read the PSFK upsum
Read the full interview in Kansas [...]

Recession Blessings

For many people getting laid off is a personal and financial disaster; for others it becomes an  enforced opportunity to try something different and discover that it makes them happier and sometimes even wealthier.  Real estate agent to pinata importer, lumber mill worker to nurse, IT recruiter to dog walker, people are changing careers and [...]