I’m in Istanbul
This photo isn’t supposed to represent Istanbul. It looks like a lovely city from what I’ve seen, it’s just something I can see out of my hotel window and I really liked it. For some reason I’m a big fan of diggers knocking the crap out of…
I Love Minimalist Gmail
The new themes in Gmail are mainly ghastly. But I get a kind of perverse enjoyment out of doing my emails on something that looks like a wireframe. It’s strangely soothing.
Amazon – Surprise Me Detail
I love sweet details – and I like this on Amazon.com when you’re browsing inside a book it has a ‘surprise me’ link. It’s just like opening a book in a shop at a random page. Sweet.…
Vintage Telecoms Ads
And of course you can surf the net, that BT Cellnet
Another Reason I Like The Hype Machine
Hype Machine has a nice ‘spy’ feature that shows you what’s going down with the kids. And you can cut it by location. So you can see what’s hot in different bits of the US / Canada / The World. I love the fact that they’ve put ‘Mystery…
Visa Queue Type Joy
I like the type on the queue number ticket at the Indian Visa place. It feels kind of retro / dynamic. A bit like being in a massive queue of people moving towards a visa counter…
Was Our Store Free Of Clutter?
This is truly great. I was at the checkout at the Co-Op in Seven Dials in Brighton and noticed that the card reader was asking me a question. A question with a simple yes / no answer. The overhead of me answering was almost zero. Just to…
Retro Gaming, Ant Attack and Hey Hey 16k
We’ve been having a big old nostalgia jam on the Poke mailing list, people nerding out about their first computer games / online experiences. It’s getting deep-geek. So I was looking for stuff about Ant Attack (one of the most influential…
Urban Play Amsterdam – Moving Forest
I was in Amsterdam at the weekend and was lucky enough to pass through a bunch of things that were going on as part of the Urban Play festival. I particularly liked the mobile forest. I’m not sure it was supposed to be this mobile… But…
7 Tips For Getting A Job At A Creative Company
I’m sure that lots of people have written lots of things like this lots of times before. But it’s a bunch of thoughts I’ve been having as Poke have been looking to recruit ‘creative strategy types’ (there’s a hint in there somewhere for…
A New Mix for The Autumn
Posted over on my mixing Tumblr. http://iainmixedit.tumblr.com/ I’ve misplaced the tracklist for now, but I’ll share it with y’all soon
Father Ted Read My Blog!
Well that’s not strictly true. But I was looking at my stats when I noticed some unfamiliar activity… That’s not strictly true either. But I did get some traffic from this lovely blog http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/ which is…