Month: September 2008
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Wario Land – Shake It
Can't stop watching this – it's brilliant.
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Modern Branding
Good concise presentation from Adrian at Zeus Jones who, as I've said before, really do get it. This reminds us not only how prescient John Grant's thinking was and is, but also finishes by questioning whether it's possible to create truly different products with the same processes, disciplines and people, and even whether our customers…
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56 Leonard St, Tribeca
Liking this from 'A Daily Dose of Architecture'. A lot. A new development by Herzog & de Meuron (them of the bird's nest) in Tribeca, NY. Just look at that. Most skyscrapers are all smooth lines. This is, well, it's almost pixelated. Like the sort of towers you'd build out of lego as a kid.…
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Think Tank
Yonks ago Russell used to do a thing called Post of the Month – people nominating what they thought were the best posts of the past month and then opening it up for a vote. He stopped doing it sometime ago and I kind of miss it not being around. It would always throw up…
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Opportunity
"Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens. You're probably working on a job or project right now and saying 'This is boring, let's just deal with it and get it over…
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Blackdown
Early, Sunday morning. Up above, the skies were cloudless. I've missed blue skies.
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Marketing In A Meltdown
Charles is right. It's slightly odd that there is not more chatter amongst ad people about the current turmoil in the financial markets. The breadth and depth of the tumult this week is leading to some pretty fundamental questions being asked about the way things are done. This infographic from the New York Times kind…
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Seasteading
"Buy land. They've stopped making it." Mark Twain Here's an interesting diversion. If all the news about the current turmoil in financial markets is getting you down, perhaps you might consider really getting away from it all and going and living out at sea. The idea might not be as far removed from reality as…