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Long haul flights are, at best, bearable. So as I attempted to get comfortable before a recent long flight I was pleasantly surprised to see some real quality and attention to detail had been paid to the delivery of the safety announcements. Rather than watching the flight attendants miming ou... read more

tags: branding, illustration, information, video

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"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” Albert Einstein. I first saw this site about a year and a half ago, and was delighted that its content was as interesting as its name was humourous. Since then its undergone a redesign, so I now submit it for yo... read more

tags: art, computer, information, research

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Eye Magazine, still the finest looking and finest reading graphic design magazine in the world, has just launched its own blog. Now you can look and learn, and read and write back... I'm particularly pleased to see that the facility to book a lunch date with Paul Davis (from the Copyright Davi... read more

tags: blog, creativity, design, image, information, literature, magazine, publishing

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I Found this nice little shockwave (does anyone still use shockwave?) app some time ago whilst doing research for an interactive project. It’s part of the Getty ‘interact 10 ways’ campaign, in which companies such as Tomato, Less Rain, Sumona etc… created apps that explore the ‘power of the image... read more

tags: collage, getty, image, information, photo, showckwave

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Just audio cassettes, loads of them. That's all. read more

tags: audio, brands, design, Gallery, information, resource

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Although it may be a game without an aim or real purpose, this is a fantastic exploration of the "hive mind" idea, with excellent visualisation of the information. As the creator explains: Human Brain Cloud - a massively multiplayer word association "game" or experiment ... or something. The i... read more

tags: connection, game, information, interactive, mmo, words

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We live in an increasingly conscientious age, all of our actions have reactions. As designers we should be leading on these issues, not just as a commercial imperative, but as part of a wider change in our approach. "Three trees is a is a not for profit enterprise set up to help everyone invol... read more

tags: community, design, education, environmental, female, information, resource, sustainability

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Bill Moggridge, celebrated cofounder of product design company IDEO, is Chairing a quite staggering array of speakers and events for the Connecting07 World Design Congress in San Francisco. This is a biannual affair, hosted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid)... read more

tags: 2007, community, conference, creativity, design, digital, education, event, information, world

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From the early 80s onwards, a colleague of mine, Tim Milne, ran Artomatic, the finest screen printing company in London, which was incidentally one of the earliest residents in Shoreditch (but that's a whole other story). By the 90s he had moved the company from Curtain Road to open a shop in Cle... read more

tags: 2.0, advertising, art, blog, branding, creativity, design, image, information, print

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