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Brick Lane, London E1. Love the Birmingham phone number. No idea why.
Breakfast Beer and Bingo
I’ve known the wonderful Mr Bingo for many many years. In fact, this morning, he announced that the freelancing he did for Poke was his first proper creative gig (after working at Size?). Anyway, I bumped into him on Friday – he was…
My Search for an Interactive Music Video with Windows in it
Last night I was trying to find a particular interactive music video. I tried mailing a couple of people: “You know, the one where there’s a window in the middle, and objects come out of it in other windows, and I think you could buy them…
That Glasgow Airport Tee
Yeah yeah blogged it last week. Now all the kids at Dekmantel are wearing them
The Outline is an antidote to the shitweb
I don’t fully agree with all of it all the time, but The Outline is a wonderful thing. A publication that’s well written and beautifully designed for phones and computers. Loved this piece that came in the email yesterday: Productivity Is…
Tastees.nl
I spotted a fellow from WeTransfer wearing a rather snazzy ‘Cous Cous’ tshirt last night. I liked it. He told me it was from Tastees (tastees.nl I’ve removed the link because their site appears to have been hacked and is redirecting people…
Sneak into The Kennedys (a home for random creative folk)
Are you, or do you know, someone ‘creative’? Someone who’d like to come and work with us for 7-ish months? (Please forward this on to people you think might be interested). You’ll get thrown-in at the deep end of advertising — with support…
Mobile Cyber Theft of a van den Nieuwendijk
And on the subject of Jordy van den Nieuwendijk. I manged to trick him into giving me a 100% original and exclusive work. I pretended that he should have a play with my Samsung Galaxy Note and ‘see how good the stylus is’ . (Knowing full…
Typeset In The Future
Thank you @daveaddey from the Internet you’ve made my evening. Thank you for analysing fonts from sci-fi. You are wonderful. Typeset In The Future | Dedicated to fonts in sci-fi. via: metafilter
The Single Most Brilliant Single Web Page in Recent Memory
Artist David Horvitz has a load of really great things on site site. Really do go and have a poke about it’s great. The best bit is a page of things called FOR YOU… It’s a list by the artist of “THINGS FOR SALE THAT I WILL MAIL YOU” For…
Oh My Good Lord
Sophie’s brother introduced me to the work of Larry Carlson yesterday. Half of me wishes he hadn’t. It’s like a portal into a strange dimension that makes you feel kind of odd. But you can’t help sticking around to see what happens next…
Techno Viking in Oil – Painting Internet Memes
This guy paints scenes from Internet memes. He used to paint scenes from video games. But he’s moved on. You can buy them at Etsy. Unfortunately Techno Viking has sold out, or else it would be mine right now. Thanks Jonathan for the
Exactitudes
I’d spotted this exhibition in the press and then stumbled on it totally by accident in Selfridges basement this evening. It’s amazing. It’s a series of photographs of style tribes. They say: Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and…
24 hour clock
24 hour art installation
Scratch Stickers
Superb. Temporary stickers that make your bike or car look like it’s an old rustbucket to deter thieves. I spotted these in SCP the other day. Availible online from http://dominicwilcox.com
Facebook Add To Friends QR Code
This is bloody great. Facebook app + QR code. Sounds like someone playing ‘cool shit mashup’. But here something’s been made that is much greater than the sum of its parts. It’s really simple. You add the Facebook app. Click ‘make my…
The Art of Sneaker Cleaning and Sneaker Cleaning Products
I’ve veered into silliness with trainers a few times, going out of my way to find them, spending too much money on them and hoarding them badly. I’ve always known that I wasn’t a real sneakerhead though. And I had that confirmed to me when…
Scrabble Seating
I really like this ‘seating installation’ at the Bloomberg offices. Designed by Stephen Reed – see more at his site.…
Food Fight
I found this movie damn impressive, but the sound’s a tiny bit oppressive… Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles…
Who Needs Tripods?
This is far from an exclusive, it’s been featured in quite a few places. But it’s something that everyone with an interest in taking photos should see. It’s so simple. Brilliant. $1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera – Lose The Tripod – Funny…
Oh My, That’s Lovely
Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404 on Vimeo. Beautiful computer generated art, made by the supremely talented Flight 404 using Processing. Personally I think the whole thing is really helped by the use of non-computer music. If you…
Loving Love
I popped in to see the chaps at Love in Manchester today. I don’t normally just turn up in strange towns and nip round to see people, but I got nice email from them yesterday as I was on the train (completely out of the blue), so it felt…
Pownce Errors
I’m not convinced that I need Pownce (yet), but I did like their error message: I wonder if they’ve got clearance for the image use? if you’ve got a web business these days you need to have a great error page. I bet most brand…
Tutortainment or Entertorials
Connected to the entertaining demos post the other day. I love the way that these Photoshop Tutorials manage to tell a story of marital breakdown and infidelity through a bunch of nerdy design-tip-screencasts. I was laughing out loud at…
Photojojo – A Smart Thank You
If you’ve not come across photojojo and you use a digital camera a big chunk of your life is missing. They deliver some of my favourite online content. So I did an odd thing this morning, I switched from using their RSS feed to getting…
Amazing Stop Motion Wall Painting
fantoche from blu on Vimeo. Wow. Odd it doesn’t have any sound. But just incredible anyway. Check out some of the other amazing things at their blog: http://www.blublu.org/blog/. Very inspiring and humbling in equal measure.
Greg’s Show (and Marc’s Flickr)
Greg’s a very modest man and a very good coder at Poke. He’s also, it turns out, an awesome photographer. He’s got a show on at the moment which you can see here: http://www.nottingstill.co.uk/. Or you could just go to his Flickr Page and…
This Tie Is Incredible
Yes folks. This is a first for me. A blog post about a tie! I’m not a tie connoisseur, but I loved this. And I love the fact that they’ve made it a clip-on so the knot doesn’t spoil the 8-bit flatness. Genius. What a tie. Availible from…
Animation That Freaked My Groove
This guy Cyriak lives in Brighton. I’m not sure I’d like to meet him… He has got some crazy skills going on though, kind of like B3ta meets Chris Cunningham. And if that doesn’t scare you. Check this: And to prove that it’s not all scary…
Vectorizer – WOW!
Check out VectorMagic it’s a fantastic online vectorization tool (I’m not sure why but I like vectorization better with a z than an s – I’m sure I’m not allowed to choose willy nilly like that, but this time I’m just going to). Basically…
Pani Puri – Food 2.0 @ Slideshare
I love Pani Puri. So I was really delighted to see this presentation on SlideShare. | View | Upload your own My prediction for the day: Online viewing of slideshows set to overtake video by 2010. Nah, not really. But there are some really…
Love This Concept
Buzz just sent these round at work. Bins that get sealed with magazines. Perfect for lavatorial readers like me. Although I do worry about the ambient moisture in a bathroom environment causing wrinkling of the mags (from bitter…
These ARE the t-shirts you’re looking for
These T-shirts have to be some of the finest in the universe. Via Nik’s new buythistshirt.org blog.…
Forget RSI Get A Baguette
There’s been a couple of folk posting “oh no it isn’t” responses to a couple of my recent “this is really cool” posts (and to be honest rightly so). But I defy anyone to argue that this isn’t the coolest computer keyboard wrist wrest…
Google Vanity Ring
Too good. An project that looks at jewelery and status in the digital age. The creator Markus Kison says: Update of the ring as a status symbol. It shows the number of Google hits you get, when you search for the name of the person who…
Saving the World One Design at a Time
Ben’s blog is always great. But here’s a bit of greatness that you should make a special effort to read: I’m a designer, use me better – it’s Ben’s presentation from the Applied Green conference. It’s just dead good. It shows that…
The Art of Chart
I’ve blogged http://indexed.blogspot.com/ before, and by George I’m sure I’ll do it again. Coming up with seemingly endless killer doodle charts on index cards that are sweet, insightful and make me laugh is a feat that deserves regular…
The Most Creative Website Ever
I’m doing some pitchy type stuff and ran out of inspiration so I typed into Google “most creative website ever” hoping that I’d find something to inspire me. And I came to this post about the most creative website I’ve seen in a long time…
I Knew Wine Boxes Were the Future
I went to the Big Chill a few years ago and came back with a vision that the much maligned ‘Wine Box’ was in fact the perfect unit of alcohol for festivals, BBQs, etc. Unfortunately the wine they put in them is normally horrid. So I…
Toffee Cow Pat
I was in Yorkshire at the weekend in a lovely village called Hawes. In spite of all the amazing scenery and a splendid wedding that I went to, the best thing I saw all weekend were these Toffee Cow Pats. How cool!…
Another Interesting Use of Online Video
Not necessarily the most user-friendly way to show your new collection. But you can see how it kind of works. Alakazam Label have twisted prints, t-shirts and more stuff – you can check out their wares here. I like the fact that people are…
Super Supermarkets
Normally I’m a bit hurried or hassled going around the supermarket, but on Saturday I decided to have a bit of a wander and look around the shelves to see what caught my eye. I even bought some of the things I thought were interesting…
The Best Thing Online Ever
I know I do one of these ‘ best things ever’ posts quite often. But when I make them I’m usually genuinely excited. And this is no exception. Fuzzwich.com have created a really simple tool for creating and sharing animations. You don’t…
Hugh MacLeod’s On Fire
Well not literally, although he could be. Although if he was he’d probably have Twittered about it. Visit http://www.gapingvoid.com/ for his latest bout of back-of-business-card cartoonism. One that made me do a super-chuckle:…
Toshio Iwai’s Tenori-On From Yamaha
Toshio Iwai has made a load of cool audio widgety things. The thing I know best is Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS. But he’s done lots of other stuff too. I’ve just come across his latest device to hit the streets, Tenori-On, it’s a bit…
Now That’s What I Call a Table!
This has been around for a while, but someone just sent it round work again. Stunning bit of physical interface shenanigans
Protected Banksy (vs Warhol)
They just had to didn’t they: Warhol vs Banksy. Which reminds me. I’ve been meaning to have a bit of a letoff about this… It’s a bit of Banksy stencil art on a wall in Brighton (on the side of the Prince Albert pub on Trafalger St if you…
House Sign Typography
I always get overexcited by nice type on house signs. Whenever I go to Europe I’m impressed by the layouts of their flat numbers and suchlike. They always look so, well, European, and sophisticated. So when I was walking home in Brighton…
Amazing Polish Movie Posters
I love so many of these Polish Film Posters. I just like the way they’ve focussed on totally different things from the Hollywood versions. And the best thing is most of them are for sale, and they ship most places. Woo Hoo! Raiders of the…
Awesome Mechanics
If your favourite game as a kid was Mouse Trap, and you enjoyed the Honda Cog advert be prepared to waste 9.10 of your life smiling through this compilation of idents for Japanese TV show Pythagoraswitch. via: BoingBoing
Great Climate Change Video
Forget about An Inconvenient Truth, it’s all long and boring and stuff. Watch this instead… To my mind this deserves to have a lot more views than it’s had – so I’m going to make it my mission to get more people to see it. Please blog it…
What I learned from ‘We Love Technology’
&tI promised to write some more about We Love Technology 2007, but I’m not going to write that much about the content of the talks. There are much better bloggers out there doing that kind…
Logic+Emotion: Thought of the Day
Caught this great quote on the excellent Logic and Emotion blog: “Design is so popular today mostly because business sees design as connecting it to the consumer populace in a deep, fundamental and honest way. An honest way. If you are in…
Forget ‘Your Name on a Grain of Rice’…
I’ve always loved ‘your name on a grain of rice’ in fact at one point I wanted to get a collection of them. My name on a grain from every city that I visited and put them in a rice gallery in my house. But now I don’t care. I want my…
Nice USB Sticks
Actually they’re custard creams: And they’ve got Bourbon versions too! Check: www.getusb.info for more (but it doesn’t look too tricky to hack your own together out of those rubbery ‘joke’ biscuits).
Lovely Install Screens
On a Mac when you install something you get this screen which normally tells you to drag the application into the applications folder. Quite often you just see the application and you have to figure it out for yourself. Good companies make…
My SpecialBike
I picked up my custom recycled bike from the guys at Specialbike last night. Unfortunately the gods decided to unleash one of the biggest thunderstorms in the universe immediately after picking it up so we got soaked. But I still love it!…
This made me laugh out loud
http://www.danieleatock.com/project/alarm-dance-3/ is my favourite, but make sure you watch them all. And you ought to read the description here that made me giggle too. In fact look at everything on Daniel Eatock’s site, it’s ruddy great.…
Aaaaaaargh. I’m Falling.
Only a French artist could say something like this: “When the social elevator is broken you have to know how to bounce. Between the take off and the fall, the man parachuted in the city learns to control his trajectory.” Stunning stunning…
There’s a YogaLadder in My Taxi
I was getting a cab the other night when I noticed a sign stuck to the window. This wasn’t the usual ‘keep your feet off the seats’ or ‘no smoking’ request. It was a press clipping. It was a copy of two articlse from the Metro and the…
My Favourite Company
Specialbike is a company in Brighton that takes old bikes and turns them into new bikes. Kind of like ‘Pimp My Cycle’ (the bike above used to be a knackered old Peugeot racer). You can tell them exactly what you want your dream bike to be…
Just Plain Wonderful
No need to say anything really… Thanks to David for the link
Go and See Alan Fletcher
I suppose that’s not really possible so visit this exhibition of his work at the Design Museum instead. I went on Saturday and it was great. Amazing to see the work of someone who’s both era-defying and defining at the same time – some of…
iPhone
I can’t not say something more about the iPhone. I’ve just seen the demos on Apple.com it’s pretty damn cool. And you have to wonder what else they can use that lovely touch-screen interface for…
Rolf on Sand
Imagine if Rolf Harris was as good with sand as he is with a stylaphone, a wobbleboard and big paintbrushes… I think that’s quite lovely.
North Kingdom Rule
Check this stunning piece of web stuff for Toyota. It’s not perfect, and there might be better ways of organising and delivering the information, but you can’t deny that the North Kingdom guys are some of the best online craftspeople in
Yahoo! Mail Championships
Here’s a little Poke project. To promote the new Yahoo! Mail we’ve set up the Yahoo! Mail World Championships. Starting with the theory that everyday challenges became competitive sport over time (e.g. hunting became Javelin throwing…
A Bookshelf That Looks Like a Book
I really like this. A shelf disguised as a book. And it’s not silly money either.…
Trains are cool
Came across this yesterday: The London to Brighton train ride in 2 mins. Reminds me of the Star Guitar video for the Chemical Brothers by Michel Gondry. I’m not sure if the music almost sounds similar too, or whether that’s just…
How lovely are these icons..?
I’d say very lovely. That picture shows really how these beautiful (free) Mac icons look inside my computer. Imagine how cool I’d look if only I could be bothered to change all my file and folder icons. Damn! My inner cool is beaten by my…
Moo.com – flickr cards
Great great great! Get your Flickr photos printed onto mini-cards (they’re like 1/2 height business cards). They look a bit like They are v2.0 of Pleasurecards (thanks Stef) which I have some of and are great quality. The application which…
Zopa Interview
Tom from Zopa said some nice things about Poke and did an email interview with me about the new Zopa site (which will soon be live, fingers crossed). It appeared in their monthly email newsletter. You can read it here if you like: This…
Alpine Entertainers
Here’s a little something from my holidays. Some photos of promotional posters from the finest entertainers that South Tyrol has to offer… Alpine Entertainers – a photoset on Flickr You see, these guys look like fun. They all look like…
Saturday Newspaper Graphics (2 of 2)
Newspaper graphic 2 of the weekend. This isn’t an infographic, it’s a visual gag from the back page of The Sun (or it could have been the Mirror). A great visual gag. I’m not sure if it’s been done before (I don’t follow football enough to…
Saturday Newspaper Graphics (1 of 2)
2 very different newspaper graphics caught my eye at the weekend when I was reading the papers in the pub. Firstly this infographic from the Guardian, it shows which European countries people Polish people are emigrating to. I looked at it…
Top 10 Presentations
Great list of the Top 10 Best Presentations Ever, a pretty tough list to compile and they’ve done a nice job. There’s a few in here that I’ve seen before, and a few that I haven’t. For Apple geeks of particular note is Steve Jobs launch of…
Stunned by Fuerzabruta
Last night I saw the best thing ever: FUERZABRUTA. It’s hard to describe what it is. Part acrobatics, part dance, part light and sound show. I’m not sure that it’s possible to describe it properly. It’s just a massive sensory overload…
Something Wonderful
On YouTube. It’s true. A thing of beauty. Simple, elegant, straightforward beauty… Via noodlepie.
Clipart Art
I’ve always had a strange passion for clipart. It’s pretty much the most lifeless form of illustration that exists. But ironically people use it to add life to presentations and documents. I have my own idea for a clipart project that I’ll…
New Design
Stan Lee suggested that maybe I should consider a new web 2.0 logo, and pointed me in the direction of the Web 2.0 logo generator. What do you reckon?…
Amazing Video – Rendezvous
I was leafing through a copy of American GQ and I spotted a short article on a video that’s become an online phenomenon. A French art film of someone driving through Paris at breakneck speed. Made with no post production or additional…
Goggles
You know those thigs that seem glaringly obvious once you’ve seen them, the ones where you go: “Damn, I wish I’d thought of that”. Well here’s one: Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim Take Google maps and turn it into the landscape for a…
Companies get 2.0ed
The YayHooray community get all over redesigning big corporations in the style of web 2.0. It’s all over Digg and del.icio.us, so you might have seen it already. But it is pretty funny (if you’re a design geek). All the cliches are there…
Trial By Blog
As I’ve mentioned before, we’re working with Zopa at the moment to do a redesign of their website. It’s a great company and a great project. I was in a meeting last week when Dave from Zopa said “Oh, I’ve stuck some of the designs on the…
Photonotes
Nik’s set up a group called ‘Boast it Notes‘ on Flickr. It’s simple really. I don’t think I should even stoop to the level of explaining it. It came about after he set up a group on Flickr called ‘Street Style’ now it’s got 63 members and…
The Stuff Designers Wish You Knew
If you’re in the business of design or working with designers you ought to read Seth’s post on how to live happily with a great designer. I know the designers I work with would like you to read it ;-) technorati tags:design
Flock Irony
Actually I’m not quite sure if it is irony. But it felt a bit like a kind of irony. I’m using my favourite thing of the day, Flock, to blog about my new favourite thing of the day, Flock. It’s basically a version of Firefox that’s been…
Gerffrye Museum
Domestic Archaeology at the Geffrye – I pass by this odd little museum every day on the way to work, or at least I have for the past few months since I’ve been in my new flat. I rarely look at it. And have never been in. But now I’m going…
Jealous Animals
Jealous Animals. I’m not quite sure why I love this site so much. But I do. It’s a really simple little site. Hardly a transformational opportunity to engage the user. It doesn’t rely on the normal whiz bang of a lot of web suff. It’s just…
Flickr Enabled LCD Frame
ThinkGeek :: eStarling Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled LCD Frame I’ve seen this kind of thing before and there’s something really nice about the thought of having a frame that you can subscribe to a Flickr RSS feed of your photographs, or…
Reflecting on Reflections
As Cal rightly says, reflections are going to end up as the blink tag of web 2.0 (or perhaps one of them). I started using Keynote instead of Powerpoint and was excited to find that it had a automatic reflection generator. I got bored of…
I like adverts with good words
This is one of a set of adverts for Tate Britain that I like a great deal. They use words well. I stopped to read them. I enjoyed the reading. I felt better for having read it at the end. The Judges at Cannes seemed to like them too. For…
We Feel Fine
It’s taken me a while to put together this post. It’s been sitting in my drafts folder since early last week, and in the meantime lots of you have probably seen wefeelfine.org. I’ll try to summarise why I think it’s such an important site…
Interview With Me
Piers asked me a few probing questions about Poke‘s Webby winners. I answered them as best I could. Hope it all makes sense. Seemed to at the time of writing. Inspiration From IF! : Interview With Iain Tait, Poke
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy Video
Cool Hunting blog the Gnarls Barkley video for UK chart smash number one hit – Crazy. It’s top. A really simple idea beautifully executed. Based around a morphing set of Rorschach ink blots it’s a worthy accompaniment to the track. I don’t…
Webby Awards
This year’s Webby Award winners have just been announced. And I’m chuffed to say that Poke have managed to bag a couple. One for Talking Point for Orange, and a People’s Voice for Feed Me Better for Jamie Oliver. I’m personally really…
Sphere – Blog Search
Sphere: a useful new blog search engine. Seems to index things very fast. My posts from yesterday were already in there. It’s got a particularly nifty ‘custom date range’ function which shows time and volume of posts in a nice way…
Animated Gifs
I love animated gifs. They’re wonderful things. 10 years ago you couldn’t really have animation on the web without them. So I was glad to read on we make money not art, that someone’s put together a show in SF that celebrates the art of…
Ugly Design Works
This is an interesting debate. I think I might not share it with some of my colleagues for fear of inciting a mini-riot Ugly Design Works… Most Web Designers Miss the Point. I do think there’s some truth in it though (eBay anyone?). It…
Flickr Mashups
I’m pretty sure I’m way behind the curve on these (as per usual). But here’s a couple of amazing uses of the Flickr API (if you don’t know what an API is, this might help. Or then again, it might leave you baffled). Tagnautica – A really…
New MacBook Pro
I’m very lucky. I got a new computer. It’s a shiny new Intel-based MacBook Pro. I have to say I’ve not noticed that I’m getting more work done in a shorter period of time. But I’m sure I will eventually, perhaps. My favourite feature is…
Tivoli iSongBook
I really like this new Tivoli iSongBook, it’s an iPod speaker system plus radio (edit: I’ve just realised it’s not new at all). There’s so many iPod speaker systems out there, but none of them really do it for me. Even the lastest Apple…
PEZ MP3 Player
Who cares about Apple, Creative Labs, Sony and all those guys. Surely the best MP3 players simply have to be made by Pez. It’s got a tiny memory, looks really flmsy, the battery life is bound to be shocking. But there’s something strangely…
Feedburner – RSS + nice touches
I’m now going to attempt a cunning blog maneuver, I’m going to try and join two recent posts together (admittedly in a bit of a clumsy way). Feedburner is a really cool service for bloggers or web site owners. It allows you to make your…
Smart Error Page – Odeo
You know those pages that come up when a web page has moved, or you’ve typed the address in wrong? (For the technically minded they’re called 404 errors, but you don’t really need to know that unless you’re in the business). You don’t see…
Aaaaargh!
Virgin Radio have another one of their infuriating but brilliant ‘see how many artists you can spot‘ thingies. This time it’s moving video not just an image. Unfortunately I can’t keep up, it’s too quick for my puny brain. I’m a big fan…
Run London – RouteFinder
Funnily enough a second post about an AKQA piece of work in one day, they must be doing something right. And in this case they really are: Run London – RouteFinder. An extension of the undoubtedly great brand property Run London, this time…
Diablogue: Life takes….
Diablogue (a new find on the blog trail; thanks Russell) pointed me in the direction of a new online Visa campaign produced by AKQA. Life Takes Visa As the Diablogue guys say there’s some sweet moments in there. But I can’t help but feel…
Wall Stickers
I ran into these the other day on the ThinkGeek site. Giant Robot Stickers. I thought they were pretty special. So I did a bit of digging around and found that they make loads of cool removable wall stickers. Blik is the name of the…
LED Throwies
Simple, cheap and pretty. These LED Throwies stick to any metal surface and make it look pretty. Can imagine some really nice interactive type applications with these at the core. Check the video at the Graffiti Research Lab (their re-use…
Islam is OK sticker
Saw a couple of these stickers around the place on my way to work this morning. Nice to see a bit of non-extremism in the hood.…
Going Underground
Is it really possible to overlay music onto the London Underground map? Each line representing a genre, giving proximity and intersections real meanings? Sounds bloody impossible to me. But someone’s given it a red-hot go. Nice work –…
PowerPoint Kills
I’m not someone that believes PowerPoint is inherently evil, it’s not. It has some flaws (as does most software), but I reckon the thing that hurts it the most is the use of templates. The whole thing is set up with bullet points as the…
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Picture Alarm Clock
From we make money not art: Wake up with a picture. A lovely re-working of a vintage alarm clock. Not the most user friendly thing in the world, but nice.…
BlockJam
I was checking out a BoingBoing post on LED puzzle blocks which look pretty awesome in themselves. But there’s a footnote that links to a Sony project called BlockJam which just blew me away. (Check the video of the prototype). It’s a…
Intersting Instalations
Intersting instalations by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. I’m always interested in public space instalations – this guy’s latest project in the East Midlands looks to be really impressive. For a start he claims to be using the world’s most powerful…
Bouncy Balls!
Sony Bouncy Balls TV advert. For me this is one of the greatest ads of recent times. Not only is it a thing of great beauty. It’s executed brilliantly. It demonstrates, in a way that everyone can understand, the key product benefit. Oh…
Hulger and Skype
Nik, one of my co-partners at Poke has, in my opinion, finally nailed a proper useful-use for his Hulger Phones. Although an interesting design statement and a humerous novelty when attached to a mobile, I don’t think anyone would really…
Talking Point for Orange
Here’s a little something I’ve been working on for a good while now TalkingPoint for Orange. It’s a hybrid between a poll and a discussion forum. The objective being to give people a chance to leave their opinions on issues in an…
Alife Pump Tennis
Cool Hunting: Alife Pump Tennis – trainers made out of tennis ball material. And they’re Pumps too. Yoiks.
Geeks Gotta Have It
An amazing multi-charger cum light – imagine a world free of chargers, where cables are neatly stored away, out of sight. And, in its place, a wonderous ambient light source. This is the item that a whole planet of geeks’ girlfriends have…
43 – The Magic Number
Well there’s 43 Things which I’m a huge fan of – a community based around ambitions and things we’d like to do, genius. And really nicely done. Then there’s 43 Places – a community rooted in the places that we’ve visited (or would like to…
Collaborative writing online
Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare. Well that’s what they say! It really is a lovely little collaborative app – great if you’re trying to do the old ‘to and fro’ with a bit of copy. Those…
Papa Stour
I don’t know why really, but I love this little site. It’s only wee, but it’s perfectly formed. Kind of like one of thost little boutique shops where everything has been hand picked by a shopkeeper who cares. It’s just nicely designed…