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The Internet Fridge delusion
I sat through a debate on Tuesday night that was more interesting for its audience and positioning than it was for its addressing of the motion -- 'the internet needs magazines more than magazines need the internet.'...
Posted on October 23, 2008 11:25 AM |
Hell yeah!
I saw Helvetica, the film last night with some like-minded typography wonks from The Guardian, and can say that it's entertaining, informative, revealing and suprisingly funny....
Posted on September 20, 2007 2:06 PM |
Chocoholic
My taste for fine chocolate is well known, but it reached its apogee this week when I purchashed a one of Rococo Chocolate's 'Artisan Bars'. These are handcrafted, organic bars of rich, dark chocolate, flavoured with botanical ingredients. I went for the cardamom flavoured bar. It was delicious....
Posted on June 30, 2007 9:41 AM |
The Damned
A quick post to note how much I admire the jacket design of David Peace's remarkable novel "The Damned Utd"....
Posted on June 18, 2007 1:11 PM |
Innovate! And vote for me?
I've submitted a poster design to the competition to find an artwork celebrating the theme of "Innovation" for the Manchester International Festival, to be exhibited and distributed at the festival and around the UK. The Manchester International Festival is......
Posted on May 16, 2007 7:48 PM |
Guardian redesign
The Guardian today debuted its long overdue redesign, albeit restricted mainly to the homepage prior to a network wide rollout. I wonder if they chose today specifically for the launch, with the widespread prediction of Tony Blair's resignation announcement certain to cause a peak in traffic. Good timing, whether it was intentional or not....
Posted on May 10, 2007 2:19 PM |
Is Google Maps killing web design?
I'm currently working on several new websites which share a common theme - the data therein is predominantly displayed on a map. The development process has raised major design and interaction issues - is the map a navigation tool? should it interact with the existing site navigaton? does the site work equally as well without the map, or should it? All these questions will be discussed many times over the coming months....
Posted on April 22, 2007 9:05 PM |
Hard Currency
I found an interesting Photoshop feature when I was writing my previous entry on the new design for the twenty pound note....
Posted on March 20, 2007 9:31 PM | Tagged with: currency,design,photoshop,sterling
What's The Score
The new £20 notes have been issued - I was surprised by one when I withdrew cash from an ATM on my return from Morroco. I always love seeing the new designs. Currencies implicitly reflect the values and standards of their central issuing bank, and by extension those of the nation they finance....
Posted on March 20, 2007 5:10 PM |
Chola - Sacred Bronzes of Southern India
Part two of my sculptural journey, which began with the Rodin show at the Royal Academy, is the Chola exhibition at the same venue - subtitled "Sacred Bronzes of Southern India"....
Posted on January 25, 2007 12:28 AM |
Thinking about Rodin
I went to see the Rodin exhibition at the Royal Academy recently. I have to admit I knew absolutely nothing about Rodin prior to going. For this reason the explanatory texts throughout the gallery rooms proved informative and indispensible in......
Posted on January 13, 2007 12:29 PM |
Ad rock
According to nearly every survey going, users hate ads. All sorts of things annoy them - popups, sound, flashing etc. And when they're not getting annoyed at ads, users are ignoring them. Banner ads, skyscrapers, MPUs, Google ads. They generate......
Continue reading Ad rock.Posted on July 24, 2006 5:24 PM |
A Portrait of Everything
I can throughly recommend Nigel Cooke's exhibition "A Portrait of Everything" at the South London Gallery. In it, his work continues his trademark style of short depth of field, low horizon landscapes, the "back wall" of the painting taking......
Continue reading A Portrait of Everything.Posted on April 11, 2006 12:18 AM |
Delete this
Gmail finally got a delete button! While the concept is anathema to Google's search-based email model, and accordingly important to their keyword-based advertising model, they've obviously listened to their end-users and implemented a more intuitive and efficient delete process.......
Continue reading Delete this.Posted on March 27, 2006 12:47 PM |
Designing a Corporate Intranet from Scratch, Part 2
Well, it turns out that information architecture, usability and accessibility aren't high on the list of priorities where I work. In fact the single defining factor in the design of the new intranet turns out to be speed of deployment......
Continue reading Designing a Corporate Intranet from Scratch, Part 2.Posted on February 10, 2006 1:27 PM |
Designing a Corporate Intranet from Scratch
Just a teaser for what you've got to look forward to here. Over the next few weeks and months I'm going to be part of a group charged with redesigning our corporate intranet. This project has the added complication of......
Posted on January 17, 2006 5:25 PM |
Oh-deon
Just how bad can a website get? How bad is the Odeon's website? I don't know where to start. I've been checking it occasionally for a number of months, and in all that time it has never improved. Here I......
Continue reading Oh-deon.Posted on January 13, 2006 5:13 PM |
Observations on the Observer
I've been a keen reader of the Observer for a number of years until recently switching to The Independent. This desertion was almost entirely due to the Independant's change in format to a smaller, tabloid size. Both papers are equally......
Continue reading Observations on the Observer.Posted on January 10, 2006 6:53 PM |
