In response to the phenomenon of knowingness that was the Keep Calm and Carry On posters, Matt Jones designed an alternative that wouldn’t take things sitting down.

A lucid argument from Evan Rudowski, CEO of subscription content portal, SubHub, for newspapers and magazines to experiment with mixed revenue models such as freemium instead of taking polarising stands for pay walls or advertising only models.

Jimmy Vamos writes on the Ruby Pseudo blog about the branding efforts surrounding the Fifa World Cup.

Foto8’s Leo Hsu has posted a writeup of commercial photographer Jonathon Worth’s experiment with the business model of Creative Commons licencing.

Interviews get a hard rap. The unacknowledged workhorse of social research spends all it’s time at work out in the field and when it returns home to the studio, it’s to hear everybody dissing it because “ethnography reveals what users do, not what they say they do.” This little phrase reveals more about the model of ethnography in design practice than anything else I’ve heard or read.

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.

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.