Here are all the things you can read in the ‘Articles’ section

How to add multiple email addresses to one Gmail account on your iPhone or iPad

The following information was written and provided by Nick Cernis, from his website http://modernerd.com/. You can read the full article from Nick here. I’ve just taken the salient points and added them below in the interest of sharing the information as widely as possible. Open the Settings app:  Tap ‘Mail, Contacts, Calendars’:  Tap ‘Add Account…’:  Tap ‘Other’ (NOT [...]

How to get unlimited storage out of a free 2GB Dropbox account.

These days you are nobody if you don’t have some form of cloud based storage or file share going on. Don’t blush – you have a Gmail account right? Cool, so all your Gmail email is stored in a cloud. Phew! But what about storing your most used files online – ready to access from [...]

WTF

Argentina-based design company Estudio Minga has produced, designed and published the WTF? series. The following eleven illustrations are beautifully minimal yet tell a whole and interesting story that is easily interpreted and understood. They work well as individual pieces but come together as a larger body and through line of action. [Spotted on 11 Cleverly Designed [...]

She Really Likes It

new world symphony

Agape Featuring Nadia Harris “She really likes It” Live Rehearsal with Members of the New World Symphony from Erwin Georgi on Vimeo. Agape Featuring Nadia Harris with Members of the New World Symphony “She really likes It” Erick Paredes DuBStep ReMix Orchestral Arrangements by Sam Hyken Live Rehearsal Performance www.SustainableRecordings.com Filmed & Edited by Erwin [...]

Business cards with QR codes

New QR Code Business Card

QR codes have been around for ages but are still an under-used resource as a way of collating and transferring data from one medium to another. Now that augmented reality is fast becoming the latest buzz in the marketing sphere we might start seeing more and more barcodes being used. Here is a collection of [...]

Another blog post about iPhone 4

Holding the iPhone 4G in my hand

You’ve probably read up on just about everything there is to know about the phone elsewhere, so I’ve tried to provide some sentiment to the detail and share some exploratory remarks about why and how some of the features contained within it are present and correct. Dimensions I will avoid specific measurements on this post [...]

Project Projects

OR Books logo

A quick mention for New York design studio Project Projects — founded in 2004 by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels. Rob Giampietro joined as a principal in 2010. Their identity work is worth a browse. OR Books WORKac More here. (Via Logo Design Love.) Original title and location of post: Project Projects

Coca-Cola Promoted Trend Nets 86 Million Impressions on Twitter

In just 24 hours, Coca-Cola’s first Promoted Trend garnered 86 million impressions and an engagement rate of 6%, according to the company’s Global Interactive Marketing Vice President Carol Kruse in an interview with The Financial Times. Following in the footsteps of Disney/Pixar, Coca-Cola is the second company to reach Twitter audiences by advertising as a [...]

Twitter’s Promoted Tweets

Twitter bird logo icon illustration

Image above by Matt Hamm. So, just a quick heads up on what the new Twitter advertising ‘thing’ really is – as I understand it so far – as I hear quite a bit of speculation and hearsay about this, its potential reach, and what it means for Twitter. First, what is Twitter again? Twitter [...]

Lunch time media briefing #3

55 km/h

I missed lunch today. By mistake I sat making changes to laskysezine (a blog site I set up for Laskys.com) and munching through my Graze nibbles box. If you’re not spending at least one lunchtime shovelling the contents of a Graze box into your face you really are nobody in Shoreditch (and Rickmansworth) these days. [...]

Chairman Ting does digital graffiti

Digital mosaic

Chairman Ting’s digital graffiti art performances at the Salt Building inside the Athlete’s Village were commissioned by The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) using Tangible Interaction’s unique digital graffiti wall technology. During one the 5 nights inside the Olympic Village Chairman Ting collaborated with U.S. Short Track Speed [...]

Lunchtime designer briefing #2

Palais Cafe Bar

These kinds of background knowledge reference sites can be so important when trying to improve your own skills as a designer/coder.