The age of the static brand is coming to an end. Organisations, companies, institutions, even charities are realizing that having identity schemes that ‘flex’ and adapt to circumstances are more appropriate in the multi-channel, multi-lingual world that brands now inhabit.
And this is just what’s happening on the surface.
Article here
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This kind of thing seems a bit old fashioned but I really like The Age Project. Guess their age, it’s harder than you might think. Put it this way, I wouldn’t want to be a landlord trying to guess who is and isn’t of legal drinking age. I like to be reminded what a poor [...]
CDs are now engineered to be extremely loud. Sound quality suffers. This brief video shows the “before and after” effects of industry standard post-recording processing. It’s extremely disturbing what it does to your music.
The general term for this is “Dynamic Range Compression” and actually it has nothing to do with MP3 or AAC data compression. [...]
Another great Photo Essay from Time. This one is food around the world.
Bart kindly sent a set of inspirations kinetic projects on an email list this morning to kick the week off. The one in the image above is a kinetic piece installed on the ceiling of a dentists, presumably so patients have got something to look at whilst they’re getting their root canals plucked out.
Is it [...]
Very interesting to see what comes of Google starting to translate searches so we can start to see what’s really out there on the internet (not just the little English bit). Now we can find out what they’re really saying about us (read in slightly shaky paranoid fashion).
from the very progressive and inspiring GOOD Magazine via ikiniki
Occasionally something roles into my inbox that reminds me that ideas are bigger than budgets. This cheap ‘n’ charming book promotion site works a lot better than most mega-budget sites I’ve judged over the years.
Caught this Heat Map on Régine’s site. Set up to embarrass residents and businesses into sorting out their insulation the test borough Harningey happened to feature my gaff as seen above which seems to be somewhere in the middle between good and bad. So i feel a little bit embarrassed, but also kind of alright.
Asi sent over this site that compares scrawling world metro maps at scale. Interesting to see the different scales and formations. The Paris metro is tiny, it looks like it’s been spun by a money spider.
Sometimes technology moves forward, sometimes backward. Sometimes sideways. More here
The TED videos have been mentioned here and there quite a lot already. I’ve just been through some of them and they really are great. Just saw the zefrank one followed by Jeff Bezos who after all these years I still hadn’t seen speak (always on the front of magazines but never moving). Put a [...]
I went back to my Stubledupon account to fill out some details and took the Jungean Personality Test. Here it is. For those who know me you probably won’t be surprised. I’m interested to see how personality peer alignment effects the recommendations I am given. Maybe it won’t.
INTP - “Architect”. Greatest precision [...]
Thrillingwonder present some nice rubbery visualisations of global imbalances. (the one above is toy consumption)