Snippets with a range of researchers from Luis Arnal at Insitum through to Sue Nosworthy at EmSense.

Domino’s pizzas report a significant growth in sales in the first half of this year. What is helping to drive this trend?

- less people eating out and more people searching for a cost effective meal (causal dining)
- increased online exposure with links to social networking sites such as Four Square (online sales account for more than 30% of delivery sales)

A short overview of the internet:

• Average number of emails sent per day in 2009 247 billion (significant majority spam)
• 234 million websites (Dec 09)
• 27.4 million tweets per day (Nov 2009)

A set of thirty interviews (Thirty Conversations on Design) with designers, architects and authors.  The participants were asked two question: “What single example of design inspires you most? and What problem should design solve next?”