Comics
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
Dayjob
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)
Dayjob
A design colleague working with kids in mandatory quarantine asked for suggestions as to ways to gamify the process of giving children coronavirus nasal swab tests, preferably using paper (as it’s disposable). This was my first thought. COVID-19 swabs for kids: an interaction from David Blumenstein on Vimeo.
Comics
I created this to help explain the COVID-19 disease in my local area (Melbourne, Aus). It's adapted from government health info (Department of Health, 16 Mar 2020). If you think it would help you, you're welcome to use it; download A4, poster and socmed versions
Dayjob
How would you do useful design if you thought you were being seen as the “class antagonist†of the people you’re designing for? That’s a question that comes up for me when I discuss design with normal people (to whom, it’s worth remembering, HCD and service design mean absolutely nothing).
Comics
My new comic can be read online [http://www.freemoneyplease.com/] now. It's called Free Money, Please. I spent several months working on it -- including a lot of interviews and transcription! * [http://nakedfella.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/bitcoin_015-1024x705.jpg] * [http://nakedfella.c
Dayjob
Download 180816_david_abccanberra_666.mp3 I ran a very successful Drawing for Story workshop in Canberra, and spoke to ABC Radio that morning about it. Unlike most times I appear in the media, I had a good time and am not completely embarrassed at my poor performance (ask me
Dayjob
A colleague had to pike so I got to pop along to the second day of the Service Design conference run last week by UX Australia. Only caught the morning sessions (had to get back to work) but what I saw was very good. Here's my sketchnotes.
Dayjob
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.
Animation
My day job at the moment is animating on the second series of Dogstar! The same trailer, in Japanese: I worked on the original series a few years back. As Australian kids TV goes, it's pretty shit-hot (this means "good"). So Michael V (my deskmate)
Animation
This week is a big week: it's ANTI-PROCRASTO WEEK. My workload lightens up a bit this week so I'm setting myself some tasks to take care of, the stuff that gets pushed back when I'm being paid to draw talking penises or animate
Animation
I'm animating freelance on one episode of an animated TV series. The way this works is that I receive an allocation of shots to animate, and refer to the storyboards for a guide as to how I go about it. The board artist on this episode is lazy.