Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Special Tone of Voice award to Apple’s Siri on the new iPhone 4S
They’ve *really* thought this through.
Find all the gems at shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Own a colour, save a life
Dulux has launched a website initiative with Unicef in which users are asked to buy one of the 16.7 million colours that a smartphone screen can display in order to help the charity.
Through the website ownacolour.com, the public, for a donation of at least £1, can put their name to their favourite colour and see themselves featured up alongside famous donors.
I bought 'Heartbeat Red':
Source: Creative Review
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Facebook finally launches iPad app
Facebook has finally taken the wraps off its long-awaited app for the iPad, extending its presence in mobile devices.
The app features a new layout for the site, with games, apps, groups and lists in a left-hand menu, and messages and notifications at the top of every screen.
It is available in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
Facebook's iPhone app is the most downloaded iPhone app to date and with mobile usage of the social network rising, its move to tablet devices has been hotly anticipated.
Source: MediaWeek
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Latest Ad from T-Mobile - The Parking Ticket
A departure from T-Mobile's previous flash-mob style adverts, but just as good...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
LDF 2011: design from all angles
LDF posters
This year's London Design Festival opened at the weekend, complete with an identity by Domenic Lippa and his team at Pentagram; their fifth iteration for the annual event...
The design is hooked around the phrase 'design from all angles'. Lippa and team created the identity by printing text on pieces of paper, folding them and then photographing them from different angles. "The differing angles enable the 2011 festival to have a flexible identity across the whole gamut of events whilst maintaining a consistent look and feel," say Pentagram. "Once more the identity leverages its ownership of red in order to create maximum impact."
More details of what's on when at londondesignfestival.com.
LDF guides
LDF invites
LDF badges
LDF map
Source: Mark Sinclair at Creative Review
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
BBC unveils new touch screen inspired bbc.co.uk homepage
The BBC has unveiled a new version of the bbc.co.uk. homepage It’s in beta, but is looking good and serves as a reminder of how much the BBC offers.
The new look now sports sliding screens, that are clearly inspired by touch screen phones and tablet computers, that sweep across the page allowing visitors to easily navigate a lot of content much.
The BBC home page has a big job to do in fighting to keep its traffic. At the moment it attracts 9 million unique users a week, but like all portal type homepages that is declining.
I personally never visit it, going instead straight to news, to BBC iPlayer via search and social links.
The change to the homepage comes after the BBC announced its plans to reorganise the BBC’s online service into ten product areas in January 2011 and also announced a 25% budget reduction for BBC Online, which resulted in 360 jobs losses over the next two years.
Would like great on an iPad but does it lack buzz?
You know this would look great on an iPad and that might be part of its problem as it is really designed for that more than your average PC. But that said I like the way it is very easy to navigate and design wise it draws you around the page. It is easy to jump around.
What I don’t like is that it feels utterly divorced from the web and social media. I know it has a most popular, but there is no sense of what people are saying about BBC programmes. In essence there is not buzz. There is no sign of social networking or social media at all that I noticed. I think you really have to have something of that.
Key changes
Some of the things the new look allows visitors to do include setting local preferences for information that is local to them, including news, weather and TV schedules.
The at-a-glance guide to top stories from BBC News and Sport and highlights from across BBC TV, Radio and Online.
You can choose the headings that appeal to see much more of what interests you (such as entertainment, news and sport). You can also see what stories and programmes are proving popular with other BBC users in terms of most read, watched and listened.
And of course, you can see what is being broadcast on TV and Radio right now, and look ahead to plan your viewing and listening.
You can find more out about the BBC Homepage here.
Source: The Wall
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Colour picker pen by jinsu park
Korean designer jinsu park has designed a concept pen that adopts the eyedropper tool from Photoshop for real life. The colour picker pen enables colours in the environment to be scanned and instantly used for drawing.
The sensor detects the colour and matches it to the colour display. Then the RGB cartridge located within the pen mixes the inks together to create the colour that has been scanned. 
Source: Design Boom
Thursday, September 8, 2011
The best responses to celebrities on Twitter
Merciless responses to celebrity tweets can be very satisfying...
Source: Happy Place
Monday, September 5, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
G-d I love these chairs
In the run up to the London Design Festival, the London Transport Museum has teamed up with design company Squint to pay homage to some of the iconic moquette patterns used on the tube, including the bold District Line pattern designed by Misha Black back in 1978, as well as the unmistakable Green Line moquette. These colourful bespoke chairs feature a mix of archive moquette mixed with bold and beautiful contemporary velvet.
This collaboration between London Transport Museum and Squint looks set to continue with specially commissioned furniture, which will be available to buy from the London Transport Museum shop from September onwards. The first chair in the collection will be shown at Tent London between 22nd and 25th September where the chair will be entered into a prize draw and won by a Tent visitor to the stand. Good luck if you get to visit…
Source: Achica Living
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