A new website, siteInspire launches
I have been really hesitant to announce the launch of a website I have cobbled together, since it has been affected by MediaTemple’s recent problems. But since it’ll take me a little while to get around to dealing with the fun of moving the site to a new cluster I thought I’d post something here.
siteInspire was born out of the fact that I have tonnes of bookmarks for sites that I think are beautifully designed and I like to use as inspiration, but without any real way to organise them by tag in a visual way, nor have an easy way to build up small collections of sites I’d like to refer to for particular projects. So I created this, which I hope will be useful for others.
Take a look today, and you can follow updates on Twitter, or by signing up to the RSS feed.
When the Urban Pioneers came to visit…
Just discovered that Sian - one of the Bankside Urban Pioneers - just wrote a very touching blog post about the time they visited the YCN offices. Read it in full here. Sarah and I are really happy that they found the workshop useful. My favourite line was this: “...the office which, from the outside could be just a squat, once inside was a cosy, modern, office space…”. Ha ha! Couldn’t agree more (hopefully the office will look less of a squat once we have finished all the building work downstairs).
The Urban Pioneers is a brilliant project organised by The Architecture Foundation, that aimed to engage and empower a team of 16 – 19 year olds who live or study in Southwark to explore the area and the changes that are underfoot in Bankside. YCN helped out by developing the work in progress website, which we’ll soon be adding the finishing touches to in time for the project’s end towards the latter part of the month.