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Ten principles for good design - Dieter Rams

1. Good design is innovative. 2. Good design makes a product useful. 3. Good design is aesthetic. 4. Good design makes a product understandable. 5. Good design is unobtrusive. 6. Good design is honest. 7. Good design is long-lasting. 8. Good design is thorough down to the last detail. 9. Good design is environmentally friendly. 10. Good design is as little design as possible. Via David Airey

Jul 28th

Quick thought

I think I should tumble more…

Jul 20th

Nexus One Is Dead

If theres one thing we all agree on in the office, its that mobile technology is the future. These days phones are being used more and more for things they never set out on day one to be used for, making calls. Today we can browse the internet anywhere, video chat, play games, take photos, record video, blog and plenty more. At the moment for me there are a few main competitors in this...

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Jun 25th

iPhone

Got the new one thank you very much :-)

Jun 24th

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May 19th

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Very Interesting Multi-touch 3D Social Media Visualization created by Pepsi (I would guess it was paid for by pepsi and created out of house). Very interesting idea and could be the closest thing to predict how we are going to interact with social media in the future - in our living rooms, on our large multi touch TV’s Via @rich_mitch on twitter

May 6th

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“Since ‘gmail’ is 50% fewer characters than ‘googlemail’...”

– wrote software engineer Greg Bullock on Google’s Gmail blog via BBC News

May 4th

EA Marketing Fail

I was just on youtube and noticed the advert at the top for the new Fifa World Cup game - of which i have played the demo and didn’t mind, but at the end of the day i have Fifa 10, anyway before this turns into a game review… so i watched the trailer to see how they had attempted to jazz the game up. As expected they tried to and failed to. What caught my attention was the quote that...

Apr 30th

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Apr 23rd

Please keep Pacman munching!

liquid24: Today we have created a Pacman game on the pavement half way along St.Marys Gate in the Cathedral Quarter Derby. It’s for everyone so please go along and find it. When you discover it- move Pacman along and add the white dots elsewhere, this way we keep Pacman munching his way along the street. but beware of the ghosts! We hope very much that you will go and find it and keep Pacman...

Apr 22nd

Pothole Banksy

One of my guilty pleasures in life if reading The Sun’s website, i see it as “the news” but fun, in the same way i see professional wrestling as Eastenders but fun. How ever I was fairly surprised when they featured a story perfect to our industry and a prime example of what what would have been perfect advertising if only this guy had of been a gardener and not a...

Apr 22nd

Apr 14th

Beautiful Bike

When i head up to York at the weekend to pick up my new and first car, i will also be picking up 2 frame/complete bikes i have kicking about in my mums garage, and i would quite like to tern one of them into a bike like this: Anyhow, got my mum down for the weekend, so i’ll be busy entertaining but i wish everyone a fun and sunny weekend. Matt x

Apr 9th

Magners Irish Cider Adverts

We just wanted to share with you the new Magners adverts incase you hadn’t seem them on the box yet. They’re new series of adverts titled “There’s method in the Magners” are truly inspired, they are a goy to watch again and again which is something you dont often say unless its a strong visual piece like say Sony’s bouncing balls advert. A big thumbs up from L24...

Apr 9th

If Carlsberg Made Job's →

Funny news story on how Carlsberg staff have kicked off cause they are no longer allowed to drink all day on the job. They are now restricted to only drinking on their lunch breaks. This inc’s drivers.

Apr 8th

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Easy Needle

Most of you won’t know - I say that like people actually read my blog - that i have a strong passion for product design stemming from taking it at college and my love of all things designed to solve a problem. Thats why I Love this: Read more about it at Yanko Designs

Apr 8th

New Use For The iPad

For those of you excited by the iPad heres yet another use for it i bet you never saw coming, for those of you who think the iPads useless… then heres a use for it. Read more on the iBookend at Yanko Design

Apr 8th

Mar 24th

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Just a small time lapse of me (matt) doing some work on a flyer for a client (RPL Umbrella Services)

Mar 24th

Mar 19th

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DJ shadow - The Outsider (Typographic animation) via @NAXMIX Really nice piece of type animation with great narration on top

Mar 19th

Mar 17th

Liquid24: The branding 10 commandments →

The Liquid24 10 brand commandments 1) Thou shalt respect the almighty power of the ‘brand’ 2) Thou shalt not assume a logo is your ‘brand’ 3) Branding of this type does NOT involve a red hot piece of metal (accidents can happen) 4) Thou shalt remember your brand is a much about your behaviour…

Mar 11th

“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly...”

– Steve Jobs, Apple CEO

Mar 9th

Just a quick note...

for anyone that actually reads what i put on hear, i would just like to explain that i haven’t had time to put any design or a good title to my blog yet so please done judge it on design yet, just content please. that is all. ^— actually quite a good design

Mar 9th

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Interesting look into what could be the future of analytics and how those of us in the know can use that data. “Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?”

Mar 9th

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Theo Jansen This guy is amazing, i think he truly is one of the greatest inventors in modern history, its a shame he doesn’t get recognized for that.

Mar 9th

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Oh BTW Sorry...

Im still getting use to Tumblr and some times it tells me i have a post waiting to be posted, and when i click through and post it, it turns out i have already posted it, so it lied, so you will have to bare with me.

Mar 3rd

Amazing Short Film: Logorama

Im quite an avid follower of LogoDesignLove a website run by David Airey and im sure you will see me giving him and his site a lot of credit in this blog, the first of which is a film he has found called Logorama which is up for the best short film at the Oscars. Not only does it combine a million logo’s into it in a very clever fashion, it also has actually quite a good story line, well...

Mar 3rd

That gets a ReTweet! RT @oMikeo: Beautiful series of drum and bass posters http://bit.ly/a9VWeu

Mar 2nd