What I really think
All posts
August 28th, 2010
Corinne Day, 1965-2010. An amazing eye for image whose style will live forever in her work and whose influence will live on in the work of those she inspired. At 16 it was a monthly pilgrimage to hit my local Yorkshire indie newspaper shop to request my copies of Face, i-D, and Dazed & Confused [...]
RIP Corinne Day
August 21st, 2010
QR codes have been around for ages but are still an under-used resource as a way of collating and transferring data from one medium to another. Now that augmented reality is fast becoming the latest buzz in the marketing sphere we might start seeing more and more barcodes being used. Here is a collection of [...]
Business cards with QR codes
August 21st, 2010
He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote, “I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village.” … Nakash saw great potential in his nephew and in 1928 arranged for Karsh to apprentice with portrait photographer John Garo in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Portrait Photography by Yousuf Karsh
June 29th, 2010
You’ve probably read up on just about everything there is to know about the phone elsewhere, so I’ve tried to provide some sentiment to the detail and share some exploratory remarks about why and how some of the features contained within it are present and correct. Dimensions I will avoid specific measurements on this post [...]
Another blog post about iPhone 4
June 27th, 2010
Hitler reacts to the iPhone 4 antenna issue and Steve Jobs’ response to customer complaints.
Hitler reacts to iPhone 4 antenna issues
June 25th, 2010
A quick mention for New York design studio Project Projects — founded in 2004 by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels. Rob Giampietro joined as a principal in 2010. Their identity work is worth a browse. OR Books WORKac More here. (Via Logo Design Love.) Original title and location of post: Project Projects
Project Projects
June 25th, 2010
In just 24 hours, Coca-Cola’s first Promoted Trend garnered 86 million impressions and an engagement rate of 6%, according to the company’s Global Interactive Marketing Vice President Carol Kruse in an interview with The Financial Times. Following in the footsteps of Disney/Pixar, Coca-Cola is the second company to reach Twitter audiences by advertising as a [...]
Coca-Cola Promoted Trend Nets 86 Million Impressions on Twitter
April 14th, 2010
Image above by Matt Hamm. So, just a quick heads up on what the new Twitter advertising ‘thing’ really is – as I understand it so far – as I hear quite a bit of speculation and hearsay about this, its potential reach, and what it means for Twitter. First, what is Twitter again? Twitter [...]
Twitter’s Promoted Tweets
March 25th, 2010
I missed lunch today. By mistake I sat making changes to laskysezine (a blog site I set up for Laskys.com) and munching through my Graze nibbles box. If you’re not spending at least one lunchtime shovelling the contents of a Graze box into your face you really are nobody in Shoreditch (and Rickmansworth) these days. [...]
Lunch time media briefing #3
February 22nd, 2010
Chairman Ting’s digital graffiti art performances at the Salt Building inside the Athlete’s Village were commissioned by The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) using Tangible Interaction’s unique digital graffiti wall technology. During one the 5 nights inside the Olympic Village Chairman Ting collaborated with U.S. Short Track Speed [...]
Chairman Ting does digital graffiti
October 2nd, 2009
These kinds of background knowledge reference sites can be so important when trying to improve your own skills as a designer/coder.
Lunchtime designer briefing #2
August 5th, 2009
Things / links and mashes that I’ve spotted so far this morning that make my fingers and toes go woooooo :)
