Pat Law talked about then consumer goods that she couldn’t give up, here’s my ten. Mechanical watch – surprisingly given my job I have a deep irrational distrust of electronic things. I also like the comforting glow of tritium markers on my watch if I wake up during the night. I usually rock a Rolex [...]
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Famous US physicist Richard Feynman’s talk which inspired the micro-chip and nano-technology booms was given in December 1959 and published the following year. Entitled ‘There’s plenty of room at the bottom‘ it encapsulated the challenges and opportunities of manipulating objects on a small scale. I was reminded of Feynman’s lecture when I read about the [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Interesting use of photography by Aljazeera, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Aljazeera placed this advertisement in The Independent to promote its English service. Minimalist headline and a carefully chosen picture made this [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Silk cut, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I love the way Silk Cut through crafty paper engineering have put beveled corners on their cigarette packs. Whilst the contents may kill you, the [...]
JESS3 and Eloqua created a neat infographic that helps envisage how different online communications techniques | social media vehicles relate to public relations strategies. It’s deceptively simple. Thanks to Simon Owen for flagging this up for me.
In 1977 Star Wars changed cinema-goers experience forever. Saturday Night Fever marked the acme of disco music. Home entertainment systems like hi-fi and televisions were right at the end of a long association with furniture design, hence wooden end plates were mated to aluminium facias which would have looked more at home on the Apollo [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Goat and tinsel, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I don’t know why either. Just because, I guess.
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Office mecha malfunction, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Our office mecha has got itself in the right old state, a transformation that went horribly wrong.
A friend of mine pointed out a redesigned version of the US National Rifle Association site. Regardless of your opinion on gun control, the site makes nice use of flash and online video. But all that Flash has a price, from a user’s point of view it is the time that it takes for the [...]
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