I wanted to get some thoughts down about the work I do, so took the opportunity to make a tiny 8 page Riso printed booklet called WHAT IS SERVICE DESIGN (chapter 0). The start of an exciting new genre — service design memoir? — it was nice to start writing and drawing without a plan,…
When I’m not drawing comics, I work as a service designer helping organisations improve by providing them with research, mapping and visual explainers showing them what’s going on with their service. I find myself working a lot with legacy organisations (old places. could be businesses, or govt bureaucracies) that have been around for a long…
Went to a talk about youth mental health, scribed it. Relevant to work I’m doing at my day job right now.
A secret list protects 1500 Australian companies from having to disclose any tax information to regulators. If you own a company on this list, you get complete tax secrecy. I read Heath Aston in the SMH on this last week; he says as a result, there’s an underground economy in buying and selling these valuable…
“Scribing”, otherwise known as “graphic recording”, “graphic facilitation”, etc, is where an event is captured, often in real time, by an artist using words and pictures. You can be employed to do this, though I often do it on paper for my own benefit at conferences or talks I attend. This year I’ve had more…
On Wednesday I started doing my taxes by tallying up my income for 2013/14. Because this is so exciting, I live-tweeted it. This year’s count is unusual in that, most years, I am employed on a full time contract for at least part of the year. This one, not. — David Blumenstein (@nakedfella) June 25,…