Green Economy Thoughts Published in India | 3 January 2014

Happy New Year! 2014 kicks off with an article on innovation and the green economy published in the newsletter Southasiadisasters.net. It covers the current state of the green economy and the role innovation should play in making the green economy more relevant and more successful. Drawing on what has been learned in producing the magazine Southern Innovator, it ties in well with the upcoming fifth issue of Southern Innovator on the theme of waste and recycling (see posts below).

Keep checking back to learn more about what is in store for Southern Innovator in 2014. The sixth issue is on the theme of science, technology and innovation. Don’t make the mistake of failing to get involved and support the magazine as we gather research resources for this issue.

Southern Innovator 4 in southasiadisasters.net.

Southern Innovator Ready for UN General Assembly | 26 September 2012

Print hard copies of Southern Innovator‘s third issue are now available in New York. And just in time for the UN General Assembly, which is meeting this week. While this is not the intended audience for Southern Innovator, I hope it proves an inspiring read for those attending the General Assembly. Issues 4 and 5 are in development and will be published in 2012.

Southern Innovator magazine's third issue.

Bringing Modern Design to British Healthcare | 7 November 2010

Expertise: Strategy, vision, team leadership, managing suppliers, design vision, digital strategy, content creation, editing, project management, innovation, child health, public health, modernising large institutions. 

Location: London, UK 2001 to 2003

Project Manager: David South

Charity Content Coordinator: Ramita Navai

Click here to view images for this case study: CASE STUDY 5: GOSH/ICH Child Health Portal | 2001 - 2003 Images

From 2001 to 2003, I led a transformational project simultaneously bringing a modern child health web portal and a modern online brand image, to the UK’s top children’s hospital. For younger people, it will be difficult to recall how out of step the UK was with the wider developments in new media and design at the start of the 2000s. My work in Mongolia, an isolated Northeastern Asian nation undergoing the worst post-WWII economic crisis in the 1990s, proved valuable in guiding the GOSH Child Health Portal project. Understanding the value of the internet as a communications tool, and how critical design and strategy were to the successful use of this technology, came about from raw need. The combination of geographical isolation and the urgent desire to communicate with the wider world, meant innovation was the only route to take. I dug out this image from the archive that sums it up nicely: on the left is before the launch, on the right after the launch:

Another key element to the success of the project was communication. It was highly unusual at the time for a health service project to so publicly and transparently communicate its progress and achievements. At every stage and milestone, the project team informed the wider public, the national and international media and colleagues and patients and their families about what was happening and what needed to be done. Below is a typical excerpt from the hospital’s newsletter:

Fast-paced and award-winning, the GOSH Child Health Portal deployed a number of techniques pioneered in my work in Mongolia. It partnered with high-quality content-makers such as the BBC and drew on the talent and expertise embedded in the organisation. It created a cascading cycle of success and achievement. Some of the design from the project is below:

© David South Consulting 2017

New Magazine! | 13 October 2010

Just back from a trip to Canada and am headlong into the production of a new magazine. The magazine is being made in collaboration with Icelandic graphic designer and illustrator Solveig Rolfsdottir. As the magazine progresses, I shall post more on the blog about its creative journey and details about its launch.

© David South Consulting 2017

New Website on the Way | 16 September 2010

With summer break now behind us, and the autumn gradually unfolding (the pace seems slower with the economic uncertainties all around), my new public website is being assembled. Icelandic graphic designer Solveig Rolfsdottir is working on the project and I hope this is the beginning of many more collaborations.

David South Consulting Prototype Website Design 2010

David South Consulting branding and Squarespace website by Graphic Designer and Illustrator Solveig Rolfsdottir. 

 

© David South Consulting 2017