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Matt Webb
MD BERG London & Co-Author of Mind Hack
Profile:
Matt Webb is MD of the design studio BERG, which invents products and designs new media. Projects include Popular Science+ for the Apple iPad, solid metal phone prototypes for Nokia, a bendy map of Manhattan called Here & There, and an electronic puppet that brings you closer to your friends.
Matt speaks on design and technology, is co-author of Mind Hacks - cognitive psychology for a general audience - and if you were to sum up his design interests in one word, it would be “politeness.” He lives in London in a flat with a wonky floor.
* Photo by Phil Gyford
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My Brainfood
Websites
- Argos toy section
- browsing the toy section of the Argos website is like shooting up pure culture serum
- radar.oreilly.com
- Observations and commentary on emerging tech/culture
- wondermark.com
- To be honest I read more online comics than anything else. This is a favourite
Books
- Riders of the Purple Sage
- Author:
Description: The original Western, where every trope you've heard of was invented.
ISBN: 0708902685 - The Collapse of Complex Societies
- Author:
Description: How sometimes, for the individuals in them, it's better for big and complicated things to not be big and complicated.
ISBN: 0521340926 - Diaspora
- Author:
Description: My favourite hard sci-fi. Two new ways to be human in the first 30 pages, and a agoraphobic journey into physics that tugs at the heart strings.
ISBN: 1857984382 - Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America
- Author:
Description: The invention of world we live in.
ISBN: 026258123X - Platform for Change
- Author:
Description: How organisations work. Maybe.
ISBN: 0471061891
Organisations
- London Review of Books
- The London Review of Books is a newspaper, a website, a bookshop and cafe. What it means to be media today (plus I like the articles).
- Space Makers
- What Space Makers did with Brixton Village and the community to rejuvenate the neighbourhood is nothing short of miraculous
- BERG
- I am very happy to be part of BERG, and this is our studio website.
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