Posts Tagged ‘ Kirsty ’

Kirsty bought me Geometric, for being good last week. It’s gorgeous and I keep sniffing the fresh print and smiling. Printed on heavy matte stock, it features an embossed cover that’s wrapped in an American-style poster and bound with a distinctive rhythm technique. The colourful and monochrome patterns are enough to get any designer dribbling …

We are loving Spotify here at Brighenup Towers. It’s all the craze down here in Brighton and I am convinced in other towns in Europe. It is a new music streaming service. You don’t download illegal music from it, you just choose what you want to listen to and then it streams a whole album …

Those lovely people at ZuiPrezi have come up with an interesting and super cool online, nonlinear zooming presentation tool. Simply put, it lets you simply create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, pdfs, and doodles. The interface is really simple, intuitive and supports online sharing. Best of all, it works really …

Of course you know what Twitter is, right? Simply put, it’s a social networking thingy that lets people join in an omnipresent conversation about whatever is happening at any given moment. A bit like, Instant Messenger, kind of like a Blog and something like Facebook. However it’s all conducted within 140 characters or less, from …

Whether you’re dedicated broadcaster with a big twaggle, a responder who gets twitterphoric, or newbie who wants to twoingtwoing. You might need to know a little Twitter lingo, which is an unforgivable abuse of the English language…
Its really simple, in most cases, simply take the first two letters of microblogging service Twitter (thats tw) and …

The government this week is unveiling plans to remove cigarette displays from shops in an effort to stop children smoking. Alan Johnson (the health secretary, not the one from Peep Show) said that ’they (11-15 year olds) see the point of sale display and as a result of seeing it, it encourages them to take …

As marketers we have been raised on a healthy diet of various models for this and that – something to prove that something works because of the influence of another random product. So, being unable to wean ourselves away from the good old days I thought it would be fun to share this one with you. It made …

We all have to spend more and more hours in front of our computers these days. My wrists get clickly and my shoulders are up near my ears not to mention the stiffness in my legs and the inability of my back to bend to touch my toes like I could when I was 18. …

Having recently been out for lunch with a number of designers and very intelligent people from a user interface agency, my out take from this meeting - it appears that men have more t-shirts than women have shoes.
Upon further questioning it also came to light that most of the t-shirts owned were of the dull …

Print advertising is dying. It is a real shame, because personally we always thought print ads were cool. It isn’t the fault of print advertising, it’s those pesky magazines and their falling circulation. The trend for brands is to no longer spend lots of money putting adverts in magazines, because not so many people are …