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Alongside the part of my phone that actually makes calls (the old fashioned bit), my Google Maps app is probably one of my most used. It’s become indispensable in the same way that being able to text once was. What … Continue reading
iPad – the future of publishing?
After years of waiting, Apple and Steve Jobs have finally announced the worst best kept secret in gadget history – the iPad. Ever since Jobs and Co. created the iPhone, there has been intense speculation that Apple were going to … Continue reading
Posted in Digital, Experience Design, Innovation, Interactive, News, Product Design, Technology, User Experience, User Interface
Tagged Digital, experience, Future, Interactive, iPad, iPhone, iPod, News, Newspapers, Publishing
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An ill-informed post about b2c social media interactions and the legal issues therein
OK, so I say ill-informed as I’m not up to date on the latest UK legislation, my knowledge is a couple of years out of date, so please excuse me if this is utter guff, however something occurred to me … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Brand Strategy, Business, Campaign, Digital
Tagged Agency, Art, Business, experience, Fun, People, Social Media, ted, Tools, Twitter, Work
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My talk at the recent D&AD pub night
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a D&AD pub night held at the Hoxton Pony, called: An Apple A Day: Technology in design. The D&AD pub nights are informal presentations by designers to designers, based around a particular topic, … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Design, Digital, Graphic Design, Technology
Tagged 2009, Art, brand, Brief, D&AD, DandAD, Design, Designers, Digital, Education, experience, Lectures, People, pub night, Technology, ted, Video
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Missed opportunity
So I love these new ads for Intel, having worked for them in the past agency side, these ads are certainly a move on from where they were, and I love the human ‘bong’ at the end, but why oh … Continue reading
One day all computers will be like this
Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.
Posted in Digital, Experience Design, User Experience, User Interface
Tagged Application, Flash
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Life, Death, Passion, iPhone
Our friends at the National Gallery just released their first iPhone/iPod touch application aimed at bringing a taster of the eminence, elegance and inclusiveness of the largest collection of Western European paintings straight into the 21st century and right into your … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Digital, Interactive, Toys, User Experience, User Interface
Tagged 2009, 50p, Application, Art, brand, Branding, Flash, Free, Identity, iPhone, iPod, London, Paint, the National Gallery, The Partners, Video, Work
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Simple, the new complex
Apparently we all now want a return to simplicity. We’ve been seduced by technology to busy our brains with making things more and more complex, including, ahem, banking. Paul Johnson writes about how the Western car industry suffered because of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, Digital, Product Design, Technology, User Experience, User Interface
Tagged Design, Designers, Japanese, Technology
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Fast Backwards?
I hate it when people moan about ‘copycat/rip-off design’… Usually, that is, because I believe that fundamentally all designers want to be original. I try and give the ‘benefit of the doubt’ or ‘assume ignorance’ whenever it’s possible to do … Continue reading
Posted in Brands, Design, Digital, Graphic Design, Logos, Marketing, Media, Motion Graphics, Technology, The Partners, Typography, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged Design, Designers, Fun, Identity, logo, People, play
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so while we’re talking about music…
I came across the Tenori-On via Ian at Crackunit. What is a Tenori-On you say? ‘Media artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha have collaborated to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, TENORI-ON. A 16×16 matrix of LED … Continue reading