October 2010
102 posts
“47% of consumers are only buying clothes on sale, offer or promotion and 35% say...”
– Mintel predicts consumer trends for 2011 | Mintel
copy©unts: →
this review of advertising which has been borrowed from the internet… is rather blue, But good to see where all the big advertising agencies get their ideas from
http://copycunts.blogspot.com/2010/10/steve-grime-fabrice-ward-and-dan-sumich.html
10 tips for usability studies with kids. →
Very interesting insights in to how to user test kids, and how to get the right answers out of them
http://www.userexperience.co.nz/2010/10/10-tips-for-usability-studies-with-kids/
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New Channel 4 new branding. this is good work, but because it’s comes after the current amazing and mind blowing idents, it seams a little bit dated, before it’s even aired.
No! You can’t enter our social media competition. →
When good social media goes wrong This is a story how vodaphone PR missed the point of a social media comp
I can’t belive this part of the exchange
Vodaman: “You can’t take a photograph of Android Man and an iPhone” Me: “Why not? The competition is take a creative photo. That’s creative” Vodaman: “I want you to delete the photo of Android Man and the iPhone” Me: “Sorry mate, it’s user...
Myspace unveils major revamp →
“The old Myspace had 81 button styles, 152 page templates and 117 logos” http://www.adnews.com.au/news/myspace-unveils-major-revamp
via @smallstudio
iPad Magazine's? →
A spot on Blog post about why content needs to be designed iPad, and not to replicate the print experience.
http://www.subtraction.com/2010/10/27/my-ipad-magazine-stand
Pizza Hut exec reveals how branded app achieved 2... →
The Pizza Hut mobile commerce application is driving sales in a major way. Last year the company announced $1 million in sales just via the application.
read whole story below
http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/commerce/7877.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+homepage-news+(Mobile+Marketer++Homepage+Feed)
WatchBreathtaking video from LIVE [NIKE]this sort of initiative is what brands should be doing.
Suitably Social: How FMCG Brands Can Best Use... →
a great piece of work by RANDALL HELMS, download you copy here
http://randallhelms.com/2010/10/suitably-social
Queremos Belle & Sebastian no Rio! →
Crowd funding to get Belle and Sebastian to play Brazil. The band had no plan to play on the current tour. that was until 5 fans from Brazil set up this site http://www.queremosbasnorio.com.br/ to get them to come down. 280 tickets were sold to fans to raise the capitol and to book a 2000 seat venue. … the only problem is that this proved to popular that 17,000 people bought tickets. ...
WatchClock DJ, more great stopmotion
Watchadobe making HTML5 animation understandable for designers, check out this video more at their site http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/preview-of-the-edge-prototype-tool-for-html5-/
WatchI think I have have been in this industry for too long, when I thought Designer Slash Model was a real documentary
Unevolved Brand
can you ID a Brand when it’s only colours and Circles ?
This is rather scary. I almost didn’t post it, but it made me laugh a little. 3 small white circles to the right represent 3 letters of the brand name. The other larger circles are, well…
As hideous as it is, I reckon it’s still pretty easy to work out.
via @peteusborne
“From now I am going to only use Lorem Ipsum is going to be Gangsta Lorem...”
– http://www.lorizzle.nl/?feed=1
