July 23, 2007
2007 International Design Excellence Awards
"Winners from 20 countries took gold, silver, and bronze prizes for service innovation in banking, creating broad corporate and brand strategies, bolstering sustainability via electric cars, and remaking hammers and wrenches in new, better forms" - some nice eye candy
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Phatic Communication
Grant McCracken looks at how social networks work. An interesting heads-up to the 'Ambient Intimacy' of Twitter and the 'Hi, remember me, I'm ok' of Facebook - Phatic Communication, the puzzle of exhaust data.
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July 20, 2007
The Eternal Glow
The new monument completed in time for the third anniversary of the March 11, 2004, attacks in Madrid. A luminous three-story monument built out of 150,000 curved glass blocks glued together with a liquid-acrylic material hardened by ultraviolet lamps - The Eternal Glow
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Defining Web 3.0
In the rush to define the next big thing, here is Web 3.0
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Megan Jaegerman's brilliant news graphics
Information designer Edward Tufte looks at the exceptional information design graphics of Megan Jaegerman
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Digital Shoplifting
In Japan more and more people are using their phone cams to snap shots of outfits and haircuts from magazines while they browse in bookshops. This is now being seen by those in the publishing industry as "information theft" and feel they are being cheated out of valuable sales.
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July 14, 2007
Stealth Advertising
A new study from the University of Oregon has found that local news broadcasts are being infiltrated by advertising at around the same rate that DVR users skip ads. They found that 90 percent of the newscasts contained at least one instance of stealth advertising, including product placement within stories.
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July 12, 2007
Designers of the Future - Front
Previously mentioned on Miosite here, here and here. Front design have now been named Designer of the Future at Design Miami/Basel 2007
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Changing the rules of Typography
Live Ink have developed an interesting take on typographic formatting using what they call Visual-syntactic formatting" or VSTF. Is this the new typographic era?
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Turning your film into a Hitchcock Thriller
12 basic steps to turning your film into a Hitchcock masterpiece.
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Typographica's Favourite Fonts for 2006
Typographica lists 23 of their favourite fonts for 2006
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July 04, 2007
Broadcasting, a question of trust
On 3rd July Michael Grade CBE, Executive Chairman, ITV gave a speech outlining the declining trust viewers have for broadcast media. He believes 'old media' need to have a 'zero tolerance' of deceit or it will lose to the flood of digital media that is engulfing the industry.
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Business Process = Design Process
The radical speed that is changing the way business is conducted is the same as which drives the process of design (innovation). Bruce Nussbaum recently spoke at Innovation Night at the Royal College of Art in London and his interesting talk is now available on BusinessWeek
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