I design and build systems.
I also write books.
I teach design and entrepreneurship at universities. I build and run independent digital products, solo. Twenty years across Europe and Asia, seven of them running a consultancy in Hong Kong.
Institutes
The cosmology of Chinese characters. Not letters — visual decisions that carry meaning.
Livecorpus.instituteA cross-civilisational reading library, organised as a building you move through.
Liveathens.taipeiThe Atlas of City Experiences. Every city is good at something; none is best at everything.
LiveServices
Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for 241 jurisdictions — every date with its source.
Liveplaceintel.proProperty intelligence for Greece. You find the property; we tell you about the place.
LiveProducts
Planners generated to order for e-ink tablets. Your device, your dates, your language.
LiveNaisu PressAn independent press for digital editions. Stated method, immutable editions.
LiveOther things I'm building
Cross-border relocation intelligence
In buildLocation intelligence for property and place
In buildCorporate records, made legible
In buildA museum of written systems
In buildA language-learning corpus
In build