Category: london | 倫敦 | 런던 | ロンドン
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The future starts here & other things this week
I had an amazing opportunity to see the V&A exhibition The Future Starts Here as a preview. The Future Starts Here is a collection of 100 objects that the V&A think might be indicators of the near future. smart appliances to satellites, artificial intelligence to internet culture, this exhibition brought together more than 100 objects…
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Citizen M Hotel & other things this week
Citizen M Hotel I had some meetings and discovered what a good meeting space the lobby of the Citizen M Hotel in Bankside is. The downside I managed to lose my favourite pen, that was my fault; not the hotel. Of course, that didn’t take the sting out of it. The Citizen M Hotel lobby…
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Yahoos and things this week
Catching up with fellow former Yahoos. Employees of Yahoo! were known as Yahoos. All three of us worked on the European marketing team in London at the time when web 2.0 was kicking off. It was great to see my fellow former Yahoos. We kicked around the move away from quality in online media, historic…
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Chinese devices in Asia + more news
Why the iPhone Is Losing Out to Chinese Devices in Asia – WSJ – Xiaomi has an edge in many markets because it can customize for each country while Apple creates the same products for everyone, said Jai Mani, Xiaomi’s product manager for India. – the rise of Chinese devices in Asia are picking up the…
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Super Bowl LII & other things
Super Bowl LII adverts It was the Super Bowl LII in the US which means a festival of TV advertising If Super Bowl LII had a star it would be Tide’s ad as the most interesting because of the way it let the audience ‘in’ on the advert playing off against the cliches used in…
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Hidden information design
I’ve stared at UK mainline railway station departure boards at many times over the years, yet there is hidden information design that I just caught on to. I am usually fixated on the platform number and whether it will leave on time. So it was only this week that I picked up on the hidden…
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That Trivago poster
If you’re a Londoner, the end of summer is marked by two things; the Notting Hill Carnival and Trivago’s annual advertising blitz on public transport. In media land there has been some complaints. We need to talk about the Trivago ad – a triumph of media planning over creative execution according to an op-ed written by…
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Shoreditch and other things
I’ve been a bit quiet on here this week, I was freelancing in Shoreditch, living the Nathan Barley dream with smoked salmon coffee. Here’s the things that made my day this week. It is strange that a whole area can become cliche in the way that Shoreditch has. The truth is Shoreditch isn’t even that…
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In2 Innovation Summit
In2 Innovation summit I got invited to The Holmes Report‘s In2 Innovation summit. This happened earlier in the day than The Sabre EMEA awards. Here were my takeouts from the In2 Innovation summit in no particular order: Brad Staples presentation on reputation in a fake news environment gave me deja vu. It…