Best wishes for happy festivities and a lovely new year!

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Service Design as the Creation of Active Brand

Service Design looks to me to be sitting at a point of bifurcation. The recent launch of a dedicated journal, many conferences, an almost non-stop stream of discussion on numerous blogs and social networks, and an explosion of practitioners are opening the concept to new definitions.

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Nearness from timo on Vimeo.

Nearness by Touch and Berg

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Design + research

I really like this essay on design and research by Paul Graham. It’s an elegant exploration of what’s different between design and what he describes as an active, exploratory form of research.

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Around the moon seven times: getting to grips with big numbers

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Everybody should climb Fuji-san once

I’ve nursed a desire to climb Fuji-san for a number of years and this year’s Japan trip coincided with the summer climbing season so I made plans to complete the pilgrimage with Gaku, a friend who grew up in the prefecture surrounding Japan’s tallest mountain but had never climbed it.

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Top of Japan

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Tokyo check-in

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That’s what everyday is like in our studio!

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It’s Nice That - 18th June 2009

It’s Nice That is a talented team of publishing inspiring work from across the creative sphere. They run a monthly talk, each event hosted by a guest speaker who brings two friends to showcase recent projects or thoughts.

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ABOUT GNVA

Welcome to GNVA.

This the online hub of artist/researcher/designer Jaimes Nel.

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