February 2012
3 posts
Wufoo - free online forms. Might come in handy →
Ira Glass on creative judgement
This helps me when I am kicking myself in frustration…
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into...
"our firm's reputation for providing quality... →
Handy search for anyone writing corporate copy
January 2012
4 posts
Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas - Core77 →
Perfect article for a qualified geographer working at TribalDDB. (Btw, that’s me.)
Advice to Sink in Slowly →
Posters to encourage and guide students. Appeals to me too.
December 2011
2 posts
How to read a book
There is a book on how to read a book. Originally written by Mortimer Adler in 1940 and revised with Charles van Doren in 1972 they say:
When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in clothes or furniture when you buy and pay for them. But the act of purchase is actually only the prelude to possession in the case of a book. Full ownership of a book only comes when...
Recrafting the classic Norton logo →
An old article but I love the pen-tracing paper-scalpel approach. Lovely work, to boot.
November 2011
1 post
Great site for smartphone data from Google ipsos... →
October 2011
3 posts
The key to getting more people to classical music?... →
Great article about getting the basic customer experience right and sacrificing uneconomic audiences.
Okay, Now I Get It: Here's Why Apple Launched The... →
Seems obvious when it’s put like this
Snowclone is the new black, stupid →
Watch out, I’ll be using this in meetings
September 2011
7 posts
Had enough of brands being quirky and twee? Me... →
Create websites without writing code. Adobe muse.... →
Download a beta here
Pizza Express refresh design →
two interesting videos from a national treasure about their current update.
Emotional Ads Work Best | Neuromarketing →
Something John Lewis implicitly understand
August 2011
5 posts
QR advertising on a chopper →
Subaru "badge of ownership" →
Balls of steel guerilla marketing →
Freebie t-shirts handed out at a right wing festival reveal different message when washed…
Promote your company online but be quick →
Some sensible stuff in here from the bloke that did *that* Flipboard ad
May 2011
3 posts
Real music decades
60s = 63 to 67 - The Fabs 70s = 68 to 82 - Beards 80s = 82 to 87 - Culture club etc 90s = 88 onwards - Dance music
From David Hepworth of Smash Hits
If a UK firm only suited people whose surnames... →
Can design save a faded seaside town in Wales? →
April 2011
3 posts
Free infographic tools...nice →
Identifying Metal by its spark →
I hope this comes in useful one day.
1 tag
Why condom sales soar in a recession →
March 2011
8 posts
Moleskine brand - pretentious but interesting... →
From WWF to WTF via PDF →
Focus on the "why" and the "who," not the "what"...
New users tend to have exactly two questions when presented with a new social-web thingie: Why should I care, and who else is using it? Features — the what and the how — don’t matter until those two primary x-factors are addressed. From http://bit.ly/f2NTXv
The best thing I've seen on the internet, no... →
I had an idea of an online way of putting your memories together. It was going to be called “Witness” after my friend’s father said that all of his witnesses had died, so he couldn’t reminisce anymore. This is that idea, done two hundred times better than I could ever have dreamed.
Eco-usb drive. I can't see where the gubbins go... →
February 2011
8 posts
Turn pictures into posters →
Got to be useful for a pitch on a budget
That Post It story (again) →
Descriptive online feedback forms →
Much better than “like”
Are you happy? →
Lovely axe website. The big tree-cutting ones. Not... →
Stuff that bombed in research
According to mentalflossr.tumblr.com:
First National City Bank (now Citibank) tested an early version of the ATM in the 1960s. According to a write-up of the experiment, “It seems the only people using the machines were a small number of prostitutes and gamblers who didn’t want to deal with tellers face to face.”
One of television’s most popular shows weren’t exactly met with enthusiasm....
Customer Lifetime Value Tool →
Another handy tool
No Right Brain Left Behind » The Plan →
ooooh this is really good.
January 2011
13 posts
Deciphering your credit card number →
In case you ever wondered
Sample Size Calculator →
Handy. If you need that kind of thing.
