Last week, arriving the day before D&AD began i spent a few hours at the British Library, there is an incerdible exhibition of Science Fiction, book covers http://www.bl.uk/sciencefiction some really interesting designs here going way back into the 19th and even 16th century, though it is mainly 20th century material.
Across the hall was another exhibition i hadn't known about before my arrival http://www.growingknowledge.bl.uk/ that i thought was worth sharing with you all. lots to digest here and fortunately the majority of it is also online. One big area of development is the semantic web, applications that can interogate every detail of a text on-line and cross reference it with your own research to find common links.
This software http://www.mendeley.com/
looks interesting.
Also bumped into Kayla yesterday and she told me about this site http://www.academia.edu/ i have jojned up and also invited all of you via the site to also join.
I also saw The Hardy Tree, its behind St Pancras on a church site that incredibly dayes back to the 4th Century though the tree is far younger.
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