The GRID Architects associate on keeping up to date with the latest designs, having too many browser windows open, and Xmas shopping

David Lomax

What is your favourite website?

Check out or to keep up to date across the design world.

It鈥檚 too easy to get bogged down in architecture land and never stick your head above the parapet.

What is your worst digital habit?

Having way to many windows open on my screen. We work with 2 screens at GRID which makes it too easy a trap to fall into.

iPhone/Blackberry/Android. Which side are you on?

iPhone all the way!

Are you into social networking? (Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook etc)

All of the above. Twitter is where I get most of my news these days.

Who do you recommend to follow?

is keeping me amused at the moment. It鈥檚 probably quite wrong that I secretly like everything they post. Guess the secret is out now. I also keep up to date with the Guardian鈥檚 architecture man about town .

What is your favourite app?

is a new fun tool by Autodesk that turns a sequence of photos into a 3D model, but also the more prosaically named is brilliant for capturing and sharing panoramas you can look around using an inbuilt gyro.

What is your preferred means of communication? (eg. Email, phone, face to face, text etc)

Got to be face to face hasn鈥檛 it? Does anyone ever really say anything else? I presume it鈥檚 the mark of a dangerous sociopath 鈥�

What did you last buy online?

All of my Xmas presents. In a caf茅 in the space of about half an hour. It鈥檚 the only way in London.

PC or Mac?

I鈥檓 torn on this. My life is Mac at home and PC at work at the moment. I鈥檓 going to pass.

Guilty pleasures: Most played tunes from iTunes/Spotify?

I鈥檝e had the Alt-J album glued into my stereo for the last few months but I鈥檓 still finding it hard to turn off The English Riviera by Metronomy from last year. That鈥檚 not too guilty I don鈥檛 think, so maybe that鈥檚 a cop out.

David Lomax is an associate at GRID Architects

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