Martyn Perks has written about design, technology and innovation for a number of publications including spiked, Blueprint, New Media Age, the Guardian‘s arts&entertainment blog and The Big Issue magazine. He has also organised and spoken at numerous events including at the Design Council and the Design Museum. He was a contributor to The Future of Community: reports of a death greatly exaggerated, published in 2008, as well as a co-author of Big Potatoes: The London Manifesto for Innovation