Month: January 2014

  • LED light bulbs go mainstream

    Whilst LED lamps and torches have dominated outdoor and camping sales for a few years, LED light bulbs seem to have only come into their own in the UK during the past 12 months or so. I had left the UK at the end of 2012 and kept a keen eye open to what had…

  • 2014: just where is it all going?

    You can read about how I got on last year here. This year’s aka 2014 predictions in no particular order: Amazon won’t do drone delivery in 2014 –  The reasons for this are many. Drones are limited by payload, to ability to land, the amount of energy they can hold for flight time and piloting.…

  • Revlon China + more news

    Revlon China Revlon to shut down China operations – US cosmetics company Revlon says it was shutting down its operations in China to cut costs. The move will cost 1,100 people to lose their jobs. Revlon accounted for just 2 percent of the companies global revenue, so the decision to leave China must have been…

  • George Lois + more news

    George Lois 7 Pieces of “Damn Good” Creative Advice From ’60s Ad Man George Lois | Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce – George Lois came up with 5 pieces of obvious advice but worth restating. George Lois is most famous for the decade he spent as an art director at Esquire. He started…