I deactivated all my social media accounts a couple of months ago. Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedIn, the lot. It was in an effort, along with other measures, to get on top of some mental health issues I’ve been dealing with for a while. This post isn’t about living with depression though, it’s about the widerContinue reading “Conundrum de dum: musings on deactivating social media”
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Writing on writing
I’ve been thinking a lot about writing recently. Prompted by many things: it’s undergraduate dissertation time—I’ve been reading student essays for my external examiner role and internal moderation at work; having discussions with colleagues about revalidating degree courses; pondering what I’m going to write about here next. But also, because I’ve been toying with theContinue reading “Writing on writing”
Graphic commons: transmission
I found this tape in the shape of a cross on the floor of a Waitrose store at an M1 service station last weekend. Such yellow and black tape is typically synonymous as a health & safety hazard warning for when a surface is unsafe, and used “for excavation, trip hazards, low hanging objects andContinue reading “Graphic commons: transmission”
Design Twitter
This post is delayed—I was planning to commemorate 10 years of being on Twitter back in July, but other things got in the way. However, with the furore around Elon Musk’s buy-out of the site, it seems pertinent to write about Twitter now, especially as many people I follow are starting to flee the platformContinue reading “Design Twitter”
Surface exchange
During this year I’ve been growing tired of my use of Instagram, to the stage where recently when posting something, I thought to myself: “god I’m really starting to bore myself here.” I suspect this is mostly due to not getting out so much over the last couple of years, (for obvious reasons), and whenContinue reading “Surface exchange”
Virtually speaking
I recently wrote an article for Eye magazine’s blog about the wealth of online talks and interviews that have sprung up as a result of Covid-19 and lockdown. These have been a godsend to my students, and I’m sure a great many more. I go on to write about my hope that such initiatives continueContinue reading “Virtually speaking”
A question of signs
A couple of weeks ago I took the above picture at Felixstowe docks, finding it interesting to see a group of signs in what appeared to be a holding pen, waiting to be distributed as need-be around the busy port. After editing the image to post to Flickr at the weekend, I wondered what theContinue reading “A question of signs”
Led by donkeys
In living through the nightmare that is, (possibly), the final stages of the UK being in the European Union, it is difficult to see outside of the political, media and social storm that is raging around us. Looking back on this post, after whatever Brexit becomes, readers will, I suspect, be aghast at just whatContinue reading “Led by donkeys”
Nigel Ball 