For a lover of cities and an inveterate optimist, a curiously persistent thread over the years here has the destruction of cities. From an older entry on visions of deserted cities in films to later entries on drowned worlds in...

Digital economy bill: A punishing future "While Finland enshrines web access as a human right, this bill legislates plans to deprive users of access. It will force internet service providers to become copyright police, obliging them to provide lists...

Documentaries of bliss "Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance"), made in 1982, is the classic of its kind: a compilation of ravishing footage of cities and natural wonders, seen at night and in the blaze of...

Picture Show: Breach "In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. These visions of western soldiers at...

Links in Print: Story of a Beautiful Failure "In January 2009 we were invited to take part in a paid pitch for the print redesign for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. All in all five agencies took part in the pitch. We were the only UX oriented...

Bondi caveman's cliff-top home demolished "Waverley Council is demolishing the ramshackle cliff-top dwelling of alleged rapist Peter James Paul Millhouse, also known as the "Bondi caveman". It is understood the operation began this morning after the...