February 2010
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Brand Thoughts: Fashionista
After publishing with a blackletter logo since 2007, Fashionista decided it was time to reconside and redesign its stoic face as well as swap its back-end CMS from Movable Type to Wordpress.
The old logo was this oversized, domineering, gothic lettering thing that said “spiky, aggressive, old-school news brand.” That’s not what Fashionista is. The editors of Fashionista are excellent...
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DIGITAL DESIGNER WANTED @ WOLFF OLINS
We are a brand business. At Wolff Olins we advise organizations to create a new future that delivers spectacular growth. Branding has changed. Consumers no longer believe what brands say, but what they do. So growth means not just looking different, but creating new. New businesses, new experiences, new products, and new services. All together inspired by the brand. We do branding: brand...
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Socializing the Mobile Interface
A smarter phone
Microsoft’s revamping of their mobile platform interface is a significant stomp into the land of usable interface that Apple has ruled since the launch of the iPhone. Zune is an excellent platform that was hindered by Apple’s dominance. For us Apple obsessed fools that felt fantastic but the truth of the matter is that the design and interface of Zune was insightful...
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Dubai: No Drama?
A lot has been said about Dubai recently; the meltdown, the mass exodus, the panic and the future, but what about actual tremors felt inside the walls of the most famous of all the Emirates? Well, the answer is very few have been felt at all. Life goes on, nothing has really changed, the media here has been conspicuous in its absence of anything related to Dubai world and its non-ability to pay...
Collaborative Innovation
Businesses are starting to build on the tremendous new opportunities to collaborate and totally change the way we innovate. Most innovation will be created in collaborations outside of businesses, not within. We will achieve this by being enabled, encouraged, and directed to find new ideas in the wider world, with like-minded people. Our ability to generate new ideas for products and...
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Space.
“Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time.
Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time.
Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time.
It’s time we gave this some thought.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Check out this interesting article on unused, wasted space on the New York Times Opinion page.
(Britt Bulla)
