“dirty levi’s and the land of old myths”
Veda Partalo, planning director for Fallon ad agency, views American marketing through American values to subtly change the Cadillac image.
making something delightful
The founders of Gojee have some interesting ideas about how the web will work after the convergence of desktop, laptop, tablet and phone. In addition to bringing content down to its essence, they believe the web should be “delightful, emotional and fast” and they’re working on a cartoon project that will make the site more emotional and help them tell stories.
don’t go half-way
via The Seductive Danger Of Half Measures, by Aaron Harris on TechCrunch: Keeping a conscious eye on what the point of a test or iteration is, not just to itself, but to your overall plan and mission how building a…
old-timey infographics from the london underground
The London Transport Museum has put up a collection of 7,000 posters dating back to the 1930′s for users to browse, allowing them to search by artist, theme, date and color (or colour, as the case may be). The collection…
boingboing reviews catbut coffee
Cat-butt coffee: A critical review via. Boing Boing. Kopi Luwak sells for $420 pee pound. “[It] is very different from that cheap, gauche coffee you and I drink every day. This is because each hand-harvested bean of Kopi Luwak has…
the deck for nonprofits and social good
If you’re in the creative, design and web field you know The Deck — you probably love The Deck. The Deck is a targeted and hugely successful ad network that places small, unobtrusive ads on very select blogs and independent…
random links found through feedly
This is where I have to give a big shout out to Feedly, my RSS reader of choice, that every morning feeds me a fresh page of content based on my Google Reader subscriptions. Feedly presents the best content from…
a readability triptych from brent simmons
Anyone interested in publishing words on the internet, or reading words that are published on the internet, should read the three essential pieces below from Mac developer Brent Simmons (he publishes the inessential blog). I’ve pulled out some nuggets that…
if you can’t convince them, mock them
Let me start off by saying this: Hey Samsung, go fuck yourselves. If you made a better phone than the iPhone, people would buy it — I would be the first in line to get it. But, you don’t, so…
four keys to apple’s success
Focus— “It means saying no, not saying yes. We do very few things at Apple. We are $100bn in revenue with very few products. There are only so many grade A players. If you spread yourself out over too many…
