My New Favourite Quote
By Michael Beiruit (in conversation with Peter Merholz): It’s a dirty secret that much of what we admire in the design world is a byproduct not of “strategy” but of common sense, taste and luck. Some clients are too unnerved by ambiguity…
Is It Just Me…
Or has the language of dots next to something taken on a meaning that perhaps it didn’t have before… When I spotted this in the window of a hotel I thought to myself: “How odd that they’re promoting the fact that their facilities are only…
A Hierarchy of Blogging
As I mentioned the other day I’ve been a little slack in my blogging recently. I started having a bit of a think about my blogging behaviour to see if I could make sense of this most recent lull. I’m sure the self-analysis was partially…
It’s Nuts But Someone Had to Do It
Saw this in the pub on Saturday.
O2 Bad Web Page
The new O2, we’re out of stock of the 3G iPhone, page is bad. For a number of reasons. The whole upgrade/ordering thing was a farce, but more on that elsewhere… But worst of all is the padlock in the top right hand corner. In my book a…
Email From A Hero
I just got an email out of the blue from Don Norman. He’s a dude. He wrote a great book called the Design of Everyday Things, a book that I love dearly. Apparently he’s been using the above photo that I took years ago at the Aladdin Hotel…
upl8.tv from Poke NY
The chaps at Poke NY have just spawned a new thing of total awesomeness. Basically it’s a YouTube viewer that allows you to browse YouTube clips using just the space bar. You visit the site and start watching. If you don’t like the clip…
Balloonacy is Go! Hooray!
After lots of late nights and hard work by lots of valiant people at Poke the Orange Balloon Race is finally live and running. And it seems to be working like a dream (fingers crossed). You probably saw it obscuring the front of the site…
One Of The Greatest Quotes Ever…
It’s nice to be back… TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and…
Holiday Snaps (Well More Photos of Insects Really)
I saw lots of great bugs on holiday. Here’s some photos… I had a really nice relaxing time too. But bugs are more interesting than me and Sophie reading books by the pool. So I thought I’d share these photos instead.
See You In A Wee While
Bye for now chaps. I know I’ve not posted for a while anyway so you’re not going to notice much of a difference. But I’ll be back soon. Just in time for the launch of the Balloon Race (god I’m a shameless link-whore aren’t I?). Off for a…
Webbys 2008
Just got back from the Webbys in New York. We were over there to pick up a People’s Voice for the Orange Never Ending Web Page. There’s evidently no photo of me picking up our Webby, so here’s a picture of Richard from Moo picking up their…