David Emery OnlineClever Mini promotion litters streets with giant packaging
I like this a lot – super simple but very effective.
In defence of the 2012 logo, 2 years on
It’s just over 2 years since the London 2012 Olympic logo was launched to such derision. Being a prominent design blogger I wrote about it back then. I’ve just reread that post and I agree with everything I said. Which is reassuring.
Actually I think I agree even more. I like the logo even more.
I liked the logo when it was announced, and I still like the logo. It’s far better then this one, at the very least:
Folding Plug
This is mighty clever; the only plug I ever actually carry is my MacBook plug so if Apple would buy this and integrate into their cables asap that would be lovely…
Visit ➔Cafetiere
You know how your dad or someone always has a go-to joke or phrase for something? Well over the past year mine has become, “At least, it’s something to blog about.” After walking a few hundred yards in the wrong direction to go and get some Tarantula Piss and Ritz crackers from the petrol station, I took a photo of my Stan Smiths, pressed the stopwatch on, and set off; and one of my first tasks was to ford the mighty Hanna Creek. It wasn’t that tough, really; there’s a road bridge over it.
Flip Flop Flying is the blog of Craig Robinson – him of Minipops fame – and is one of my favourite reads. Lovely little normal stories.
Visit ➔Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. In ordinary times, people who do no more than describe the world around them are seen as pragmatists, while those who imagine fabulous alternative futures are viewed as radicals. The last couple of decades haven’t been ordinary, however. Inside the papers, the pragmatists were the ones simply looking out the window and noticing that the real world was increasingly resembling the unthinkable scenario. These people were treated as if they were barking mad. Meanwhile the people spinning visions of popular walled gardens and enthusiastic micropayment adoption, visions unsupported by reality, were regarded not as charlatans but saviors.
A absolute must read article. RIP the newspaper industry; long live journalism.
Visit ➔Open-washing and the Camel Open Circle …Jerk
Camel doesn’t really believe in openness — let alone grok the concept — let alone give a shit about openness — but since all the cool kids are doing it, they’re happy to co-opt the label to win points. Let the backfire begin.
At the height of cynicism, we have a company whose primary business is architecting new schemes to kill people with their death products, aligning their brand with “openness”. Consider the line crossed.
I don’t get how Camel – or their agency – thought that this work. ‘Open’ has jumped the shark quite thoroughly, although whether it was actually anything other then a pointless buzzword (see ’2.0’) is up for debate.
Visit ➔Kindle on iPhone
• No Kindle required
• Get the best reading experience available on your iPhone or iPod touch
• Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
• Automatically synchronizes your last page read between devices with Amazon Whispersync
It’s clear the Amazon means business with their online book store – they know that they’re not really cut out to be hardware manufacturer (although it’s obviously a nice side line). Their key strength is as an online retailer of content, and they obviously want to become the dominant force in this area (much like Apple with the iTunes Store). It wouldn’t surprise me if further down the road we see some kind of more formal Apple – Amazon hook up on this front (with books in the iTunes Store).
A real shame it’s not available outside the US though; I assume that – much like with the music industry – all the deals to provide content need to be done on a region-by-region basis.
Visit ➔Surviving (the inevitable) Z-Apocalypse
The first thing you want to do when you realise that people are dying, then standing back up, then trying to eat you, is get to a safe place (duh!).
Beautiful bit of illustration-come-design – I wish all of the internet looked like this.
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