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I’ve bored so many people talking about how the mechanics of web stuff conveys emotional content. In fact I sent a thousand people to sleep at Design Indaba in Cape Town a few years ago trying to tell designers to consider the structure, functions, and implementations of web applications because the way they work are [...]

Do you remember the moment when adverts got better than the TV shows between them? Perhaps one day spam will be better than the stuff on the web. Here’s a nice one I got this morning from Russia trying to sell me screws through the persuasive use of a painted naked lady. Needless to [...]

Jonathan Harris is a major dude. Have a look at his work. There have always been big names floating around on the overlap between technology and art but rarely have there been practitioners as fully formed. His work is technically accomplished and innovative as are the aesthetics and yet the work isn’t about either. The [...]

I love ebay, mainly because more than any recycling wheelybin, it has created a sustainable and enjoyable cycle of re-use. But it is responsible for these ubiquitous, dumb ads. Type anything in to google and ebay will apparently have it for sale. They even have a “What is a haiku” for sale. Please comment if [...]

Sorry to use wank industry abbreviation. There you were thinking we were looking for a music CD album like Phil Collins’ semenal No Jacket Required. But no we’re looking for a creative director.

It’s nice when the thing that makes your day happens in the morning so you get to enjoy the whole of your made day. Linerider made my day today. It is a great, compelling, very simple game that went round the other week. But now people are uploading their tracks onto google vids. This one [...]

No PIG havn’t set up some trendy lifestyle motel in native Milan where they’ve drafted in some just-about-to-break designers and architects to deliver “A New Cuntcept of Urbane Living.” They’ve just pulled together all their great, formerly disparate stuff under the one roof of PIGMOTEL. How’s your Italian?