{"id":31332,"date":"2011-02-24T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-sitting-in-the-cafe-of-the-design-museum-in\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:25:43","slug":"im-sitting-in-the-cafe-of-the-design-museum-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-sitting-in-the-cafe-of-the-design-museum-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31332 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-sitting-in-the-cafe-of-the-design-museum-in\/attachment\/31333\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lg9qxpZBaS1qescwho1_75sq.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m sitting in the cafe of the Design Museum in London, writing explanatory text for my two accepted nominations for its Designs Of The Year exhibition. I had put forward three nominations. The third, unaccepted, design was a game. It&rsquo;s the third year that I&rsquo;ve been asked to nominate and the third year that the console game I&rsquo;ve submitted as an exceptional work of design has been left off the long-list. Previous years have seen the Wii make the grade &#8211; albeit in the product design category &#8211; and I&rsquo;m proud to have managed to get both Media Molecule&rsquo;s digital toybox, LittleBigPlanet, and Area\/Code&rsquo;s educational Flash game, Sharkrunners (in which players track actual GPS-located sharks in the Pacific), into the honours in the past. But it&rsquo;s meagre representation for one of the biggest cultural forms of the 21st century. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/blogs\/are-games-design\">Are Games Design? | Edge Magazine<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m sitting in the cafe of the Design Museum in London, writing explanatory text for my two accepted nominations for its Designs Of The Year exhibition. I had put forward three nominations. The third, unaccepted, design was a game. It&rsquo;s the third year that I&rsquo;ve been asked to nominate and the third year that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-89m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31334,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332\/revisions\/31334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}