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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Hidden treasure by Andy Day

First form of social:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula_ring

The story of Mr Anderson’s shears, (and the extraordinary success enjoyed by ‘English Cut’ thereafter)
http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000014.html

Hugh McLeod, the blogging pioneer who has a nice take on social media originating from a tribe in Papua New Guinea. Can’t find original talk on it, but here’s his take on the shears and ‘holy objects’. Sales for English Cut suits soared.
http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/24/toms-shears/

Year of books tv campaign, beautifully scripted, well cast etc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ehYulpCB0

Monday, February 15, 2010

Newspaper Club


This is such a good idea, since Mute was printed on the FT press back in the early 90s I have always wanted a way to do small run newspaper print jobs. Great use of post digital.

14bikeco

Monday, February 08, 2010

NFL lift off ad

Google Paris Love Ad



So many people ask how user journeys work and this ad uses a really simple technique to illustrate a users journey. Simple but works for me.

Monday, February 01, 2010

Dieter Rams at the Deisgn M




Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design makes a product understandable. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is long-lasting. Good design is thorough down to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Good design is as little design as possible. Copyright Dieter Rams, amended March 2003 and October 2009


Life & Times of Tim

Monday, November 02, 2009

Painful death of the American economic dream


This crisis has been a long time in coming, and history suggests that the period of upheaval will be long and painful, just as it was between 1914 and 1945

Larry Elliott
guardian.co.uk,
Monday 2 November 2009

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Making Worlds

ne dans la rue


theartsdesk

Newspapers are cutting back on journalists and art reviewers. Meanwhile a load off the Telegraph reviewers have started their own news desk in the form of The Arts Desk. Maybe they are onto the new model papers have been talking about for so long.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

fixing display ads


With the NY AdAge conf due in October, discussion is hotting up around display adverts.

I think display ads have to do the following:-
stop measuring click throughs, it's like checking how many people go straight from the TV set to the shop, the world doesn't work like that. Users online are exposed to many adverts and ignore most and take notice of some. That's the fact that brands need to face up to. Quality exposure time is the key part of the campaign. Unfortunately that means asking people their opinions, how ever old fashioned that may seem. Read more

what would she do?

Thursday, September 03, 2009

library book - 2008

Hand collated book by Dexter Sinister and Duncan Hamilton. Using a Riso RP3700 printer. "The resulting loosely collated book was handed out to the attendees at a conference about contemporary art book publishing at the Museum of Modern art in NYC." Duncan Hamilton Uses of Literature.

...18

The always good, if sometimes long winded DotDotDot, by Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey). No. 18 out now.