Year: 2009
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Lessons
One year on from the event which triggered the worst banking crisis for decades (some say ever) and the policy makers have done very little to tackle the underlying causes of the deepest recession for 80 years. Meanwhile the Institute for Public Policy Research release a report warning that bankers are returning to old practices…
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Post Of The Month – August ’09 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Our shortlist this month is… Why Solving Other People’s Problems Is Easy by Mark McGuiness A series of Thoughts On The Agency from Paul McEnanyWhy I Do What I Do by Jon Howard 20th Century Media. The Encore… Graeme WoodSerendipity…WTF? from Tim MalbonFlip Flopping To Success by Alex BoguskyTaking Stock from…
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Birds On The Wires
"Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody…
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Post Of The Month Nominations – August ’09
…are open. So please nominate any good posts you've read that were posted in the month of August in the comments to this post. As a starter I've listed five of my own favourites, but as usual your contributions are appreciated (particularly as I've been away and not fully caught up on my August reading…
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Magazine Cover Of The Year
Every year the Magazine Publishers of America run a little award for the magazine cover of the year. These were the winners from last year. As awards go, I rather like it. Magazine covers are a consistently underated form of design IMHO, and there's real skill in combining aesthetic impact with consistency of brand image…
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Cracks
"There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen I was planning on posting about something else this morning and then I go and get an e-mail from Mario Cacciottolo telling me that it's the second birthday of his project 'Someone Once Told Me'. Driven by Mario's personal passion (he has…
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Gone Fishing
I'm taking a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks but normal service will be resumed before you know it. Have a great couple of weeks. Back soon.
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The Social Ape
"We spend almost all our time attempting to change behaviour through overt persuasion – while paying no attention to influencing the other, barely conscious ways in which people behave." Rory Sutherland Of all the marcomms (and vaguely related) books I've read over the past few years there have been a few that have really stuck…