Pizza in Korea is a unique experience compared to other countries: Packaging – unlike the UK or most other countries I have been to for that matter, pizza can come in a four-colour patterned box. Part of the reason for this is cultural, Korea like Japan puts a lot of emphasis on presentation of products [...]
Little Printer | BERG Cloud – getting buzz all over the creative London web at the moment WebOS app development chief flees to Xobni — Tech News and Analysis Netmums launches site for ‘the woman behind the mum’ | New Media Age – dealing with mum’s multiple identities Louis Vuitton Launches First Hong Kong/Macau City [...]
I was wondering along with some of my colleagues to a meeting and we got to talking about customer service and one of my colleagues told the following story: A friend of theirs was out on the tiles and tried to withdraw cash. Unfortunately the teller machine wouldn’t allow them to access their account. They [...]
Crowdsourcing has moved from a marketing gimmick to a business model for the likes of Threadlesss and Starbucks. Crowdsourcing CEO & Expert Panel: From Phenomenon to Business Model [PARC Forum] The video is hosted on Slideshare, so may not be available to all readers of this blog.
When I first saw this table it was a ‘duh’ why didn’t someone else think of this earlier. Legion is a cleaned-up crate with four industrial trolley wheels each with an individual brake on it. Fair play to made.com for coming up this coffee table.
The one-child policy loosens up in China: Shanghaiist Real estate tycoon Ren Zhiqiang wonders aloud about falling property prices: Shanghaiist Finnish researchers reduce smart phones power consumption by more than 70 percent – Aalto University found that bursting data could reduce phone power consumption 61% of single men aged 18-34 have no girlfriend; 49% of [...]
Really interesting video on Jane Jacobs and her book The Death and Life of American Cities. This feels as fresh today as it was 51 years ago when it was originally published. Jacobs provided a critique on urban renewal advocating mixed use areas, short blocks, density (it’s a city after all) and buildings of various [...]
Topping out at an impressive (and worrisome) 145 slides, the US Department of Defense have put up a good guide along with examples of how to use Flickr. Getting Started With Flickr Get your clients off the Facebook crack pipe and have them extend their brands on additional platforms. Flickr is a great place to [...]
I see so many blog posts every day with a lot of tired clip art and see presentations that often use well-worn visuals. One of the things that Flickr does really well is aggregate lots of imagery that you are free to use. A case in point is the photo documentary Documerica Project (1971-1977), the [...]
Search and aggregation to overtake B2B publishing sector revenue by 2014 | TheMediaBriefing Nokia to sell 2 million Lumia phones in Q4, Deutsche Bank says Sales of Apple’s iPhone 4S stall in South Korea as handset is deemed ‘uncompetitive’ – no advanced network capability, features are tired. (Siri doesn’t work in Korean) Home Office u-turns [...]
If you were fascinated by Helvetica and Objectified then you will like Urbanized by the same director. Urbanized does to architecture and urban planning what Objectified did to product design. There are currently screenings going on through to the end of the year in different cities, with the Barbican hosting a week of screenings in [...]
I really like this direct marketing campaign by Australian agency MercerBell for Toyota’s Camry Hybrid. They used digitally printed direct mail piece drops to send consumers to Google themselves. They had bought Google keywords for the consumers name and advertised against it (presumably for a short window based on when the mail would land). Consumers [...]
When looking at the MultiPot charging hub I was reminded of two things: 1) Apple’s classic Apple Studio Display (17 inch ADC) M7770ZM which showcased the cathode ray tube innards of a monitor which were usually sheathed in beige plastic 2) My cables and connections storage at home. I have a Rimowa pilots case which [...]
SEO for Naver – Search Engine Watch (#SEW) – Naver pioneered modern user generated content services Dezeen » South Korean road signs by Studio Dumbar – better than many designs in Asia but still not as good as the work of Kinneir & Calvert Number of weibo users hits 300 million: Shanghaiist Parks Associates CEO, [...]
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