Branding disasters is a grim business but someone has to do it. Black Wednesday and Black Monday are already firmly set in the annals of financial history. But this Monday seemed a whole lot worse than these precedents or at least that’s how the media portrays it. Monday’s brand needs to reflect this severity and [...]
Was digging through some old stuff for a talk I’m doing at Designyatra in India on Saturday and found this. We made it the day after it was on TV and then forgot about it. Has a certain charm, I’m sure you’ll agree. Move your cursor left to right for full snog effect.
Fascinating
Malcolm Gladwell on hiring although the ramifications of his insights reach far beyond this subject. Good to see him speak too as like in his writing he’s very engaging.
Thanks Knotty
Ha ha. And true. Thanks Asi
After thinking and reading about the lipo-powered round the world boat trip i just picked up a story on inhabitat about a group of uk adventurers headed to Timbuktu in their 4X4, powered on biodiesel extracted from waste chocolate (the name of the substance a step before it turns into cellulite).
I kind of like [...]
Kevin Roberts is CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide (now billed as an “Ideas Company”, versus the outmoded “ad agency”). Anyways, he now writes a nice blog and yesterday posted a piece entitled “Designing a better world” in which he says some interesting things about the prevailing challenges posed by the growing environmental issue. He [...]
We thought all the low energy bulbs we saw were boring, you’d only ever put on up to ‘help.’ So Hulger tried to make a nice one, one you might actually want to have around, one which might inspire the design community to come up some inspiring and wonderful ideas to create beautiful and desirable [...]
“It’s much harder to understand what doesn’t make sense” - me.
It explains the problems we have when trying to communicate irrational things to people. When the brands and products we’re supposed to be talking about don’t actually make sense, it makes the job a lot harder. Unfortunately this is most of the time. Advertising [...]
A nicely made World Clock and counter that shows real-time growth in population, disease, war etc.
I’m talking at this thing on the 25th if anyone fancies it. It’s entitled The evolution of advertising in the age of convergence and is the second in The Convergence Conversation series.
I wrote this IKEA HACKING article for this month’s ICON……..
I wrote the following piece about cool-tech brands for the UK Coolbrands book.
I haven’t agreed with something so completely since i heard someone say “Hitler wasn’t a very nice man.” Hugh MacLeod provides us the definitive guide to “How To Be Creative“. Suddenly I’m not alone, I’m very very alone. Which is probably a good thing. Read the piece and you’ll understand what I mean.