Archive for January, 2011
Obsessed with Facebook
Posted on 14. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
We’re not big fans of stats. Failed to see the point at university and still are a little hazy as to what they actually mean in the greater scheme of things. But if you’re been trying to convince your executive head of IT that you in the marketing department need to have access to Facebook as part of your daily research routine – here are some stats to support your argument.
The 750 million photos over the New Year’s weekend may just swing it for ya’.
Geriatric Couture meets laptop cover
Posted on 13. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Granny goes tech
Years ago we had a Foof bag for our old Apple iBook that protected it pretty well and we liked the fact that it was made of fabric instead of the usual plastic or wetsuit material [will the laptop be going surfing anytime soon?] that you find commercially.
Following this morning’s post regarding the Top 20 trends for 2011 – we got a surprise delivery from IsaBeauPeep of this hand-crocheted laptop cover that’s made of squares that wouldn’t be out-of-sorts on an old-school Atari game.
It’s like finding your granny on Facebook. Pretty retro-rad.
Predicting the Top 20 trends for 2011
Posted on 13. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
According to Trend Hunter – here are the Top 20 trends for 2011 in fashion, design, pop culture, eco, tech and advertising.
Our favourite picks from the list are: Projection mapping [20], Interactive Retail [19] Tangible Printing [11] Geriatric Couture [4] Perpetual Adaptation [3] Discrete Consumerism powered by brand experiences [1]
How a fantasy reality can literally save the planet
Posted on 12. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
People are spending in excess of 3 million hours a week solving complex puzzles, impossible riddles and problems usually reserved for quantum physics professors, all for no payment.
Where you may ask?
In a universe far from here called Gaming. Jane McGonigal presents her ideas as to how we can save the planet by just asking these people for their help. But what it it about gaming that is so addictive for so many? We believe it’s the physiological trip of an augmented reality experience. Let’s face it – most people’s experience of reality sucks. For a few bucks you can change that by either buying a hit of heroin or getting a copy of Call of Duty. The designing of those experiences are, at this stage, still limited to very restrictive platforms, but the future is the development of those platforms into ever more life-like applications. ARGs and consumer brand experience design and development that brands can tap into are still in their infancy.
The Matrix? You betcha!
Film: The revenge of the electric car
Posted on 11. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Considering that our offices are in the same building that South Africa’s first and only electric car is being designed and constructed – it would be a crying shame for us not to see this movie about the cut-throat world of electric car production.
We personally believe that the future will bypass cars altogether and jump straight ahead to teleportation, but any excuse to stuff our faces with salty popcorn and beer is always welcome. No word as to when it will be showing in South Africa as yet, but keep your eyes glued to the Labia.
[thanks Karl]
Starbucks starts 2011 with a new logo
Posted on 11. Jan, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
More logo - less wordy
Perhaps the Starbucks staff were tired of the old logo or Starbucks is planning on being a brand that is much more than just coffee in the future – whatever the reason, the company has enveiled its new logo.
Gone are the words Starbucks and Coffee. Bigger and greener is the friendly-looking mermaid that has two tails following an unfortunate accident with a radioactive isotope from the Puget Sound.
Very subtle
We like it. Globalisation and African exploitation has never looked so pretty. Now all we need is for the Seahawks to make it to the Super Bowl and Seattle’s reemergence onto the world stage after the death of grunge will be complete.
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