July 2012
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88 years of Olympic logos →
Is it just me, or does it look like 1976 is giving us the finger?
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Twit + wit
Existential tweets from the monster mash-up that is Kim Kardashian and Søren Kierkegaard. Sobering and darkly hysterical.
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“words are pegs to hang ideas on”
– Henry Ward Beecher
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“DAVID BRANCACCIO: There’s a little sweet moment, I’ve got to say, in...”
– Kurt Vonnegut on the meaning of life and how to wring a story out of the most mundane of things: marriage and stationery.
This is an excerpt from the transcript of a PBS show NOW, which screened in 2005. The book they’re referring to is A Man Without a Country
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The man who wrote that beautiful, bonkers, utterly... →
Frank Cottrell Boyce, screenwriter and children’s author, shares his experience of working on the opening ceremony.
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Around the world in a lifetime. →
Just an inspirational amazing adventure.
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WatchMissing London today. Big Time. I’ll simply have to make do with a jug of Pimm’s after work and the joy of this witty tribute from IDEO London.
*Swedish sigh* London, London, London. Shut up about bloody London will you?
I might. But not for a while. The thing is, you might not have heard, but the Olympics start today - in London!
The management regrets to inform you that Sarah is...
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As the Brits would say, these guys are taking the... →
rchahn:
Roll’n along with the theme of Olympic brand protection.
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http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670119/pictures-of-mil... →
Interesting portraiture of Swedish Millennials (born in the 1980s) with all their possessions taken by one of their own, Sannah Kvist. Unsurprisingly, IKEA bags score in 1/3 of the shots.
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“For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”
– When I thought of it as a notice pinned to a board, Ernest Hemingway’s famous six-word story was the saddest I’d read but now that it sounds like an eBay item headline it doesn’t achieve the same level of pathos.
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What other people write
The 2013 IKEA Catalogue is starting to make its presence known on the Internet, which makes my days much more exciting. I search and poke around to see which products people blog about, what images are being spread, what people write, etc.
Today, I found this from the Los Angeles Times.
And it made me chuckle. That is all. Happy Monday.
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Blogging through Spain
It’s my first day back at work after a two week trek around various parts of Spain. Being a recent transplant from North America, this was my first experience taking a full two weeks of vacation from work (if you don’t count the agonizing days between jobs as a freelancer, which I definitely don’t count). So - being able to take vacation is nice.
I used a cool tool while I...
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Brandalism
A kick-arse project to reclaim some of the excessive visual noise on Britain’s streets, Brandalism (@BrandalismUK) is a collaborative production currently consisting of 25 artists from 8 countries. Blending street art and activism through hijacking outdoor advertising hoardings, the project recently replaced around 50 billboards (out of Britain’s 100,000) with art work intended to...
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WatchOne from the lab at ChickenBrainKen, a young agency in Spain who previously caught my eye for creating their logo from their hair, thus creating a new portmanteau, pelogo (pelo = hair in Spanish). Graduates from IED Madrid, if you want to know what or who the heck ChickenBrainKen is, there’s an interview with the founders over here.
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Can following your heart and remaining true to your community be enough to stay afloat in today’s social media landscape? It seems the answer is yes, that is, if you’re David Karp, the 26-year-old founder of Tumblr. I found his profile in The New York Times Sunday Magazine refreshing. But only time will tell if Karp can incorporate advertising without compromising his vision of...
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Strelka - ideas to change the world
Exciting to see that David Erixon, co-founder of Hyper Island and one of my favourite clients to work with from my London days (where he was brand director at Vodafone), is now involved with Strelka Institute in Moscow.
Strelka doesn’t do formal education. It’s a place and a system designed to “transform Russia’s physical and social environment, with cities being the platform...
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Act young, stay young.
What makes us old? And can we stop it from happening? It’s the zillion-dollar question, and scientists at Arizona State University think they’ve found a big clue. But bad luck beauty brands, it seems the answer isn’t a chemical compound to be packaged up as premium-priced potions.
No, it seems the answer might be simple: stop acting your age.
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photo: Marco Ovando
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The BILLY effect
The Journal of Consumer Research recently found that when customers put a product together themselves, they like it more. They call it “The IKEA Effect.”
This reminded me of the BILLY bookcase I assembled when I first moved to Sweden. During construction, the backboard bit somehow found its way to the front side resulting in eleven, very apparent holes on the uppermost shelf.
“It’s...
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World Wide Words: Pleased as Punch →
Word and phrase origins amuse me greatly. It reminds me that language, by its very nature, is not a thing to be preserved, revered and feared, but used, adapted and loved.
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Storytelling gets fancy
See you later, storytelling. It’s VISUAL NARRATIVE time.
It’s official: you, too, can be a certified storyteller visual narrator now that New York’s School of Visual Arts is accepting applications for a new program addressing ‘the artist as author: an evolutionary approach to storytelling on a graduate level.’
Three 8-week intensive summer programs plus two academic...
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yes, it’s appropriate to appropriate →
melaniraeschultz:
If you are an avid tweeter you’ve likely noticed the phenomena of eerily similar tweets filling your timeline. Whether it’s a sudden rash of tweets about the evils of mayonnaise or what you can do with the lemons life hands you, tweet themes crop up all the time.
One thing inspires…
