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Apostrophies
I’ve noticed a couple of cool logos in the past couple of days using apostrophies as the feature. Very clever, and very nice.
Maxing out your Triangle
Interesting article on “Maxing out your Triangle” - looking at activities in our life and our motivation for doing them based on the triad of Love, Growth and Money. An interesting read.
Online Feedback
This is a fantastic example of a company working with negative feedback (of sorts) online and turning it into an advantage. Some guy found a glitch in EA Sports’ game “Tiger Woods Golf” and posted a video of his player (in the game) taking a shot while standing on top of the water in the middle of a pond.
EA Sports posted the following video on response.
Design+Build
Recently I launched a new blog titled Design+Build. It is supposed to be a much more focussed and targetted site than the shemozzle that is jordesign.com. I will be looking specifically at the role that Graphic (and Web) Design play within the architecture and built environment industry (architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, planning etc).
It has been quite interesting thinking, and writing on such a targetted topic, and there is lots of interesting stuff to be mined. So go have a look, and let me know what you think.
Fitted Sheets
If I live 170 years, I still won’t understand how to fold a fitted bed sheet. It’s like you need an extra dimension.
Geocaching on the iPhone
Groundspeak have released a geocaching app for the iphone. It looks super cool
Changes Afoot
That’s right - there are changes coming to jordesign.com. They’ll be happening slowly to begin with, but with ever increasing ferocity. You will already see the blog has been moved to a subdirectory in order to make way for the new jordesign.com
From January 2008 I will be operating as a freelancer from Jordesign.com - specialising in web and print design for the tourism, architecture and interior design industries. The new website will reflect that and include my new updated portfolio amongst other features.
But more on that later…
Geolocation
A few weeks ago Mozilla Labs announced the launch of Geode - a plugin for Firefox that will ascertain your location through wifi signal of your computer. The possible uses for this are quite astounding - geolocation of information will, I think, be the next big trend on the web.
There are already tools like Pownce and FireEagle which are both existing services that allow you to record your location from different sources (manually, or through your mobile) - they have both just added this as another method of reporting your location.
One of the concerns being raised is that of privacy, and your location being made aware to people you don’t want to know. From the look of it, Geode always asks your permission to access the information and send it to the site you are browsing, you have the opportunity to be specific, or be vague such as city or country or you can give it nothing. That SHOULD get them around any privacy issues.
As geolocation becomes more ubiquitous the possibility of receiving information that is location specific is an exciting prospect. It will be interesting to see what may turn up on the horizon.
Muppets Cake
Is this the best cake ever? I think so…
Big day Out
The Big Day Out 2009 first announcement has been made. It’s good, but not great. The more exciting news it that BigDayOut.com has finally decided it doesn’t need a splash page. Yay.
Eye blog » Letter to the editor Re: Afterword to ‘Googling the design canon’ – don’t diss the digital
And this leads to the question that if graphic design is primarily a client-driven commercial venture, how come so many history books have a disproportionate number of posters and self-published works, rather than client-based work?
Small Talk with a web designer
Small Talk with a Web Designer. Filed under “It’s funny becasue it’s true”. Web Designer seems to sounds like “Computer Expert” to a lot of people.
