The talk Tina Roth Eisenberg gave at last night’s Pecha Kucha was videoed and it does a pretty good job of explaining what her blog is all about and how it came to be.
Pecha Kucha is a simple idea but intrigues me immensely. In Japanese it means “the sound of conversation” and involves a group of people listening to around a dozen others who each present 20 slides each for 20 seconds on whatever topic they want. Michael Johnson wrote last year about his experience of attending and presenting at a similar event in Tokyo and Michael Surtees has a decent summary of all of the presenters at the NY event.
A couple of points from Tina’s presentation jumped out at me though:
First off, the looks at the ubiquity of design in Swiss culture is something I’ve seen mentioned on her blog before, but the examples given of the butchers shops going to the effort of getting decent logos made for shops that will be seen by a handful of people, and of Swiss rubbish bags having design-effort put into them are quite fascinating.
The second thing, which got just one slide, was the explanation of how she finds things. I’ve written before about how the inspiration-gathering of others intrigue me and it’s interesting to note that Tina doesn’t use RSS readers either, but manages to keep up and process a fairly large amount of information all the same.
