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The Crossed Cow is The Partners blog. A collection of views, opinions and inspirations gathered from the team behind the UK's most highly awarded brand consultancy.
Category Archives: Technology
“Don’t take no as an answer, take it as a question”
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited along to the latest TEDx event in London. As we’re arranging our own TEDx event in October – TEDxNewSt – I was interested to see, first hand and up close, how they … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Campaign, Charity, Environment, Innovation, Media, Technology, Video
Tagged change, conferences, ted, TEDx, TedxNewSt
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(Two) Hundred Years of Heinz?
Why do food brands think looking to the past is the future?
Posted in Branding, Brands, Design, News, Technology, The Partners
Tagged Anniversary, Branding, Food, Future, Heinz, Past
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We are here
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
App Attack #2
Having just returned from holiday I am all a glow, not with a tan unfortunately but rather with the greyish saggy hue of someone who has spent endless hours throughout the night feeding their addiction of game-playing on their iPhone.
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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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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plinky-plonky music
So you might have heard of and seen one of these Yamaha TENORI-ON machines (in fact Nathan blogged about Little Boot’s rendition of Hot Chip’s Ready for the floor a while back now) the new instrument that mixes musical beats … Continue reading
Posted in Interactive, Music, Technology, User Experience
Tagged 2009, Art, Blog, Creative, Design, Flash, Global, Interactive, Music, play, ted
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The inner stalker in us all
Google has finally launched Google Street View for us peeps in London. Street view is an enhanced view on their maps interface that actually shows you images of a location on the map in a 3d-ish world. It’s been available … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, The Partners
Tagged Art, Google, Greenhill Rents, iPhone, location, London, maps, The Partners
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WTF for the iPhone
A cool app just appeared on the iPhone App store: WTF – or to give its full name – What The Font – is a free app that replicates the functionality of the website (of the same name) that can work out … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Tools, Toys, Typography
Tagged Bad, Free, Fun, iPhone, Poster, Typography, 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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