Anyone who works in a creative field – designer, illustrator, writer – is most likely familiar with the complicated relationship one can have with a Moleskine notebook. The leather-bound little books, featuring blank or grid paper inside, are typically available in the kinds of retail stores offering handmade paper too lovely to touch (and most [...]
I am secretly a wannabe information architect. I’m fascinated with the science behind user experience and design and love the thinking that goes into IA, even if my mind isn’t quite cut out for the rigorous organizational aspect to the job. But I still really enjoy reading IA blogs and articles, because I feel that [...]
A few months ago, the Safeway in our neighborhood underwent a renovation. We got a new gourmet family-owned market just down the street last year, and it completely changed the competitive landscape in the neighborhood. So Safeway’s corporate HQ finally decided to invest in making over our junky Safeway to resemble the new upscale prototype [...]
British Airways won an award for a newspaper ad campaign it ran to promote the fact that Terminal 5 was no longer a complete and total nightmare, thank you very much.
Conceived and executed in 24 hours, the ad campaign features one short, frills-free statement: “Yesterday at T5 average time through security was 4.7 mins.”
“This campaign [...]
Wired.com has a piece about the launch of the new high-resolution commercial satellite, GeoEye-1, which Google will be using for its various mapping applications.
Now that communities will be photographed from space in such crisp and close-up detail, will more businesses start thinking about their rooftops as prime ad real estate? Target’s already doing it with [...]
