The problem with Sony is that the equipment worthwhile happening is aimed at professional audiences and quite hard to get hold of. Their consumer-orientated products generally feel cheap: whilst the electronics and components are top notch, case materials and mechanical engineering usually feel shoddy in comparison to the likes of Denon, Pioneer or TEAC. The [...]
Oh Yeah? Prove It. | Altitude Branding | Brand Elevation through Social Media MacHeist » Bundle Is Microsoft Set to Abandon its Top-Down Zune Approach? Welcome To Your Social Economy | Digital China Guide Macne Nana – for a anime version of the girly T-Pain sound Otto Wooden Fan : Swizz Style – Designer Products [...]
Oystercard culturejammed, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I noticed this sticker just off Oxford Street on the way home this evening. The Oystercard design familiar to every Londoner has been modified into a protest against surveillance by ‘The Man’. The Oystercard system keeps a record of journeys providing an electronic track, at least in theory.
During the 1980s with the rise of the video cassette recorder (VCR), the reduction in costs of the devices due to the VHS vs. Beta war and an uncertain economic climate consumers started to stay at home in what was later called cocooning. The internet extended this as a trend as community interaction increasingly happens [...]
BBC NEWS | Nintendo Wii sales hit 50 million – fastest selling games console in history Made in design – cool contemporary design stuff Smartphone Sales to Keep Growing The Sorry State of the Newspaper Industry: Advertising Income Fell 16.6% in 2008 – ReadWriteWeb Skynet search – really nice search hack by university students Qaiku [...]
I thought I would share with you the gist of a Facebook wall conversation that I had with Gi Fernando because he articulates in a few sentences what I would write in a few paragraphs. I had posted that I was thinking about social media monitoring for a client. Working agencyside makes this more complicated [...]
Science and Tech Ads – a set on Flickr - why aren’t technology ads this cool any more? A List Apart: Articles: The Elegance of Imperfection – wabi sabi and web design animoto – the end of slideshows Marketing, Reality check for mobile and social media, ASIA PACIFIC | Market-interactive.com Sun pips guardian.co.uk as UK’s most [...]
Thanks to PSFK. Continuous partial attention is the term used by Linda Stone to explain our modern always-on behaviour and how it differs from multi-tasking. Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, [...]
I haven’t noticed this before but Red Bull ring-pulls now have their iconic bull logo stamped out of the ring-pull. Packaging companies are always looking to lighten their cans, less aluminum allows them to reduce the cost per item. Since they would be turning out millions of items per given year, they can use expensive [...]
iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent Microsoft Hit With New Patent Lawsuit: Windows Update – will PointCast be cited as prior art? 50 Free Press Release Submission Websites – thanks to Rax for the heads up on this BLiNQ Report Debunks Facebook App Myths - tells us [...]
The future is launching in the UK!, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. It made me smile to see the promise of ‘the future’ emblazoned across the bottom of a bright yellow envelope. Will there be enough to write about from a European perspective? Will the UK team meet the US edition’s standards in graphic design and [...]
SMEBS – Social Media Expert Burnout Syndrome. It was a while since I wrote about RSS fatigue, now with FriendFeed, Twitter, Plurk etc there are even more social media services to keep on top of. A nice tongue-in-cheek video clip about it. Kudos to Kris Hoet for this gem.
HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research Pixelmator - light version of Photoshop Hong Kong and Macau squabble | No politics, please | The Economist – Macau seems to be getting prissy with some of Hong Kong’s people. How China sees the world | The Economist Corner Office – The Manager of Change at Xerox [...]
The Conquest of Cool looks at the 60′s counterculture revolution from the perspective of the advertising and consumer goods industry. Thomas Franks manages to square the circle, showing how the hippies that hated The Man influenced modern society. Frank draws on the parallels of how Bill Bernbach started to think differently about advertising and the [...]
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