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Selected Writing
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Oli Stratford
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Selected Writing


The Biggest Machine on Earth
Lean web design and the carbon footprint of online

The Only Thing Left to Design is the Foot
Why all contemporary televisions look the same
Zoonotic Spaces
Animal-borne disease and spatial design
The Tourists
A history of the NASA Mars rover programme
Sustained Assault
Technology and the marathon
A Company Voyage
Profiling Company and their dog
Nested Betters
An interview with Alexandra Daisy  Ginsberg
Don’t Cross the Streams
The algorithms of on-demand  video
Tetris Effect
Video games and addiction
Soft Work
Tedium and the office
Du français au russe en français
A history of the dinner service
The Kenneth Pint Glass
Reviewing a pint glass
Most Yellow Cars Tend to be Signal Yellow Cars
Michael Marriott and nice design

Eventually Everything Connects
Micro-profiles of Jonathan  Olivares

Cities of Spectacle
Theatre design with David Rockwell
Design on the Fly
Cruising with Lufthansa
The Driver
A 20th-century cultural history
A Blanketing Field of Cotton Poplin
Cos, minimalism and recession

Contextual Illumination
The lightbulb reconsidered
Return to Sarajevo
Bosnia’s furniture industry
Ghosts and Other Functionalities
Necromantic design
Disparate Threads
An arts centre in Tambacounda
A New Frontier
Emerging food design
Forest as Idea Generator
Woodlands’ signficance
UN North Delegates Lounge
Dutch design in New York

Photograph by Juho Huttunen, published alongside ‘A Company Voyage’ from Disegno #24.