January 2008

A bike for the guys at Davos to consider

January 18, 2008

This is genius. It’s a bike called the Aquaduct and it’s a pedal powered vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world. The Aquaduct was the winning entry in the Innovate or Die contest put on by Google and Specialized. The contest challenge was to build a pedal powered machine that has [...]

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An insight into the conceptual work behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics logo

January 18, 2008

Everything you create starts with an inspiration from an earlier event in your life. You might have seen something, heard something or experienced something. Now we know what the inspiration behind the logo for the 2008 Olympics was. Thanks AdArena for sharing this with us!

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Look what happens when Range Rover understands the benefits of an open iPhone OS

January 16, 2008

This is fantastic. Range Rover has taken on Apples challenge to develop new application for the iPhone. They’ve simply made it the command center of their future cars. This is mobile 3.0. Sony, Nokia, Motorola and other traditional (feels great to write that) mobile manufacturers. Watch out…or watch this. This one first turned up at [...]

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The art of signing people up

January 16, 2008

Tim Bednar at Turtle Interactive has written one of the most valuable posts/articles I’ve ever seen about signing people up. Tim has reviewed the sign up design and functionality of Freshbooks, Backpack, Dropsend, Vyew, Blinksale, Remember the Milk, Scrapblog, Crazy Egg, 30boxes, Blogger, del.icio.us, Flock, Give Meaning, Kiko, My Pick List, Titlez, CRM from Zoho, [...]

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Apple air isn’t the biggest news

January 15, 2008

This may be the most worthless reporting on the Apple Air released today. Noticed that they’ve started to use a thin font for the first time Ahhh…I know. I couldn’t resist.

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Of course I want a thinner one

January 15, 2008

When, when can I get it…

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A great SEO source

January 15, 2008

Search engine marketing is the shit if you wanna make sure your site/product/service is found on Google and other search engines. Aaron Wall, a SEO consultant has written this PDF book that you can buy of his site for 75$. While big companies happily pay him $500 hourly fees to solve their search engine ranking [...]

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HP, Wetpaint and Jake Burton made me contribute

January 12, 2008

It’s funny what makes you tick. I was reading this post on ReadWriteWeb today when this banner caught my eye. Initially it caught my eye cause I wanted to find out what HP was doing. It turned out they was using the Wetpaint wiki tool for a campaign targeted towards smaller and medium sized companies. [...]

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Varsågod. Here are my Netvibes feeds

January 11, 2008

I read somewhere that ‘sharing is caring’. So, I thought why not start 2008 with a gift to the readers of my blog. I’m using Netvibes as my startpage to keep track of things I’m interested in. My life wouldn’t work without my feeds. Thanks ALL of you that spend your time writing the things [...]

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Lego ad that makes you wanna play

January 11, 2008

This is simplicity at it’s best. Jung von Matt in Germany shows how much you can do with very little. My only concern would be that this actually makes +30 year old kids wanna buy lego rather than 10 year old ones. However…the 30 year olds are the ones that pay Source: Adsoftheworld.com

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7 rules of design

January 10, 2008

Daniel, one of our Art Directors at Foreign provided me with this simple, yet genious set of rules to follow when creating great design. Something he got from his teacher at Art School. Hope it comes in handy.

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Timeless industrial design

January 10, 2008

When I was younger I used to race the bike. At the time I didn’t really know why…but now I do. Wonderful products huh! Source: FFFound

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