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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.
Tag Archives: Technology
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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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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Objectified
Hot on the heels of Helvetica the movie, comes a new feature length documentary from Gary Hustwit entitled: Objectified – a film about industrial design. It explores everything from the toothbrush to the latest tech gadgets and generally “cool” objects. The film investigates our relationship … Continue reading
Posted in Experience Design, Hardware, Product Design, Products, Technology, Toys
Tagged 2009, Art, Conversation, Creative, Design, Designers, Film, Fun, industrial, iPhone, iPod, Technology
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Fontsuffle for font geeks
This little app from FontSHop, FontSuffle looks kinda useful. What would make it very, very useful, is it it could do font regognition. ‘What’s that font’, fire up app, point camera, snap….. ‘Garamond’.
Posted in Technology, Tools, Typography
Tagged Apps, Digital, iPhone, iPod, Technology, Tools
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Branding Tech Startups
So I’m keen to talk to people in the Tech Startup space about Branding. Questions like: How important is your Brand? How did you come up with it? How much do you spend on it? Do you see it evolving … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Strategy, Branding, Brands, Business, Digital, Technology
Tagged Art, brand, Branding, Brands, Business, Digital, logo, People, Products, Technology, ted
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