Turning Trust Around

Jan. 25, 2008 in business, marketing

“I don’t believe you. Not only that, I believe you less than I did last year. To put it more clearly, I trust you less and less every year.” That’s what 2,565 consumers told the entire corporate world in October 2007.

A…

Apple. Innovative?

Jan. 22, 2008 in apple, design, ideas

Those of you who don’t live in the design world or aren’t Apple Believers might not have heard of Dieter Rams, the world-famous designer of the world-famous Apple Look… ah, urm, wait a sec.

Dieter Rams is actually a kick-ass industrial designer mostly…

Friday Afternoon Fun

Jan. 18, 2008 in design, intelligence

And now, for your entertainment ladies and gentlemen, “probably the most mathematically complex robot you could ever build” doing bizarre and apparently useless things with bits of coloured plastic. But as an example of manipulation it’s certainly convincing.

[via Boing Boing]

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The Medium is Still the Message

Jan. 15, 2008 in design, ideas, intelligence, marketing

I’ve been designing websites professionally since 1995, and never has any site I’ve worked on been discussed as much as the new Sinnerschrader site, and, to be exact, it’s not even a site at all.

Let’s get the full disclosure out…

Naked Relaunch, Part II

Jan. 14, 2008 in blog

As part of the Naked Relaunch, I’ve tweaked a few invisible things which had been irritating me for a while. While it’s unlikely that anyone would notice them at first, they’re likely to bite someone in the ass at some…

Naked Relaunch, Part I

Jan. 11, 2008 in blog, design

Warning: if you’re reading this in the feed, it won’t make much sense. You might want to have a look at the site.

Gah! What happened?! Suddenly my blog looks like crap! Right? Don’t panic. Your browser is not broken. I didn’t…

Happy Time Passing

Jan. 9, 2008 in personal

The left brain tells me it’s totally stupid to give a crap that the year is over and a new one’s begun. I mean, what’s a year? Just a measure of time invented by us hairless monkeys to make it…