How much can you handle?
Every 18 months for the last decade, the world has doubled the data it pushes to you. Twice as much email, twice as many friend requests, twice as many sites to check, twice as many devices. When does your mind lose the ability to keep up? Then what happens? Is it already happening? Thanks to Seth Godin [...]
Is more better than less?
I read a very interesting chapter in John Maeda’s book ‘Simplicity’ today, it spoke about how in some cases, a certain kind of more is always better than less–more care, more love, and more meaningful actions. In the design world that I live in, I work to the mantra that less is more–less words, less [...]
Painting on a knife’s edge…
Amazing oil paintings by Parisian artist Francoise Nielly, who uses a palette knife to achieve the dramatic textures and bold line work that punctuates her portraits. Check out her website to see how she paints so dramatically. Oh so talented!!
Happy New Year…
A quick message of hope and happiness to all for 2010, its going to be an exciting year with the start of kindleman and we look forward to helping you all with your great ideas.
Proud to be a finalist…
A huge thanks to all our happy clients who helped vote us into the finals of the Business Achiever Awards, results are announced later in the year, fingers crossed, gulp!
New Melbourne identity…
The city of Melbourne has recently unveiled its new logo, the big M. Designed by Landor Associates in Sydney the Lord Mayor had this to say: ‘The new design will become an icon for Melbourne, synonymous with the modern, vibrant, cool city Melbourne is today and will continue to be in the future.’ There has [...]
New branding for Greenridge…
After the success of the re-brand and packaging for the Eureka product family, we were asked by marketing guru’s Johan and Caitlin of Integria (formerly Thompsons Health) to help them with a full re-brand and re-package of the Greenridge herbal family. As a group we decided on the company positioning statement ‘The Herbal Specialist’ which [...]
end of the tax year…
So here we are facing down the barrel of another tax year, so much advertising is being thrown at us along with the 50% tax break for small businesses that it starts to get a little silly. I write this as I almost got to a point today where I bought a new laptop just [...]
Jeff Han strikes again, the end of the mouse?
Microsoft has developed a coffee-table-like “surface computer” codenamed Milan, where you can interact by touch and transfer data without wires. Take a photo, place the camera on the table surface, the photo appears in the table top. Move your PDA near the photo and it is instantly uploaded onto your device. It does beg the [...]
Call for Entries – AGDA Poster Annual 2009
Sampling The Future – Society is in a continual state of flux. We are now dominated by five major global conditions: • Climate change • Dimishing fossil fuels • Climate change • Diminishing fossil fuels • Globalised economic crisis • Generational change, and • New technologies AGDA is now calling for entries for the AGDA [...]