Great logos don’t always create great brands. And not all great brands carry great logos. Successful brands are created collectively by marketing, product, timing, and sometimes by pure luck. On the other hand, an artistically flawless, meticulously designed and crafted logo may or may not result in successful brand.
Facebook, GFYS!
Facebook has recently been in the spotlight for all the bad rep regarding privacy issues and deceitfulness of its policies. Yet, FB continues with its way of evildoing. Facebooks is bullying with small companies threatening them not to use the word ‘book’ in trademarks. – Facebook sues Teachbook over name similarity
That is just absurd. One more reason to say GFYS Facebook!.
In search for a Super Consumer
What’s been once called the “Information Superhighway” has become “Information Wasteland”. We’re now experiencing severe information overload to a point where the information itself ceases to be beneficial and becomes the source of confusion for many people. Anything about everything is supported or opposed mostly without clear authoritative source and is accessible to everybody who are once again left to their own devices to decide what to accept or reject. So in effect, we’re no better now than 30 or 40 years ago when we didn’t have easy access to a wealth of information about anything.
The confusion arising from too much information affects various facets of our lives. Let’s narrow down to one specific area; shopping.
Say, you’re shopping for a new car, camera, or a television. With the wealth of information and product reviews at your fingertips, you’d think that you can now become a smarter, well informed and better prepared consumer who can make wise decisions. But are you?
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Inspirations for Artists and Designers
I find this site very inspirational and thought provoking. Great galleries of modern art and photography from new and known artists: www.booooooom.com
Right…, I’m not too crazy about their choice of URL though.
User Generated Movie
User-generated content in the form of blogs, forum, video, news, social media have enormously enriched the internet in recent years. We’re now about to witness user created content take on a new medium: movies.
Making the language clear
The initial sign in page of YouTube tells me that I can sign in to YouTube using my Google or YouTube account. Clear enough. But you can’t sign in even if you have a valid Google account but not the other. It will ask you if you already have a YouTube account (well, no…, I thought I could sign-in with my Google account… ), if not it asks you to create one.
Giving users something they can use
Apple is usually sensible especially when it comes to their website design and usability. But I noticed something on Apple’s site that sort of insulted my intelligence. This happened when I was browsing their site for a new Macbook Pro. Once you drill down to the product detail you will see an image of the Macbook Pro on the right hand side. Below it are three links that let’s you view the three different sizes that MacBook Pro comes in; 13″, 15″, and 17″.
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The iPhone Cover-Up
The new iPhone 4, like generations before it, is a beautifully styled object. It appears cunningly simple at first but the amount of attention given to detail and design of each piece that make up the exterior is truly admirable. The texture, the curve, the sheen and the bevel of each button and pieces are styled and carved to make this one of the most strikingly elegant industrial design in recent years.
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DIY Macro Photography
If you’re into photography, you’ll most likely want to experiment with macro photography sooner or later. It’s fun and exciting. However, proper macro lenses can get pretty expensive. Most novices and non-professional photo enthusiasts are not likely to shell out big cash for specialty lenses. Instead, most of them resort to DIY macro tricks.
Samsung Galaxy Tab
Samsung releases a product that has potential and actually could be useful, something that Apple’s iPad never was. The Samsung Galaxy Pad is smaller than the too-big-to-be-portable-iPad and is also a phone. It packs lot of features that puts iPad to extreme shame. In comparison to the iPad, the Samsung Galaxy Pad provides consumers what they want from the get go rather than purposely holding back features for later releases in attempt to secure future sales – a strategy obviously apparent in Apple’s recent products.