• This is the on-line home of Carolina Short and Tomás García Ferrari. As such, is a collectively created mental space from where we do Interaction and Information Design for a selected list of friends, clients and enterprises – see our history in brief. It is also a reservoir of ideas, texts, videos and things that capture our attention.

Design and optimism

In the introduction to the Design conference Changing the Change (Torino 10th, 11th, 12th July 2008) the designer Ezio Manzini talked about new design knowledge…

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 4 April, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , , .

Linked Data and the future of the Web

On 4 Februray 2009 at TED Sir Tim Berners-Lee unfolded his ideas about the past, present and future of the Web.

First of all, it …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 19 March, 2009. Filed under In video and tagged , , .

World Builder


World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

A man who builds a virtual world for his beloved girl. A simple and beautiful story – …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 8 March, 2009. Filed under In video and tagged , .

Notes on The Sixth Language

Robert K. Logan, a Faculty member of the Department of Physics at University of Toronto, writes on several topics that are relative to our …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 29 January, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , .

History of the Internet


History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

A very nice documentary film – with an infographic style – about the origins of the …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 7 January, 2009. Filed under In video and tagged , .

I Met The Walrus

Many years ago, in 1969, a back then 14 years old boy named Jerry Levitan enters a hotel room in Toronto and convinced John Lennon…

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 19 August, 2008. Filed under In video and tagged , .

The true face of Leonardo

TED is one of my favorites reservoirs of brightness and wittiness. In this case, the artist Siegfried Woldhek gives a short talk – 4.18 minutes …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 14 August, 2008. Filed under In video and tagged , .

Britain from above

The BBC has created a multiplatform project to show a different perspective of the country. The project consists of a website, a book, a …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 12 August, 2008. Filed under In video and tagged , , .

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the Web

Kevin Kelly (founding executive editor of Wired magazine) gave an interesting talk at TED.

The lead idea is that the web as we know …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 10 August, 2008. Filed under In video and tagged , , .

Hervé Lebret at Ifest08

The author of «Start up: What we may still learn from Silicon Valley» gave a talk on Ifest08. His ideas are very interesting. He …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 1 August, 2008. Filed under In video and tagged , .