From the pages of my notebooks - Ideas that got the chop.

Dublin is full of empty retail spaces. As was the fashion, they all have full glass fronts and no letterbox provision. A gap was left under doors for the postman to slide mail in.
It would be great to slide in a flat packed object that could be raised inside, just as they do with ships in bottles. Maybe something organic like seeds in a planter. Maybe a boat. Maybe fill the room with a huge balloon. Or maybe file charcoal dust into the space and blow it in.
I never have the time to do these things. But art is ideas and these are mine.

My phone did this when I wasn’t looking

I have wanted to do a series of imagined spaces from a recession-depressed viewpoint, based on this.

Type sketches

As of yet this is not strictly speaking a lost cause. It is still in (almost) development.

The idea is to reduce ink and paper use by creating a lingua franca of fonts, to be supplied on all computers. It may be ugly, but the idea is the key. It is for in-house proofs and prints where beauty is not called for, just efficiency. Since I first began work on this, others have had the same idea, and got the job done, most notably John Maeda and Spranq. Where this differs is in discarding parts of the font itself, including shaving off curves, condensing, cutting some horizontals and even some verticals. It is harshly geometric and could be used to save paint on naval inscriptions down to tiny legal notices. As I said though, its not beautiful.

…but swine flu

sorry.