Follow-up: the Y

Whenever we reach over a hundred comments in a single post it’s typically an indication of not just the popularity of a given brand but also of the attachment (positive or negative) we have to the identity of that brand. Last week’s the Y... 

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Sony is seeking an Art Director in San Francisco

Art Director Sony San Francisco Sony Network Entertainment + Sony Ericsson - Human Interface Design team is seeking a technology forward, confident, personable, Art Director who is a Designer at heart, someone who has a passion for mobile lifestyles... 

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Belgium’s Post Loses Horn, Caps

Originally established in 1830 as Les Postes, the postal service of Belgium has grown to be its second largest employer, and since 1992 it has been known as simply De Poste-La Poste (”The Post” in Dutch and French). In 2006, Post Danmark... 

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The Otto Bock Science Centre of Medical Technology by Gnadinger Architekten

words Manijeh Verghese ? Amid the glassy modernism and old stone buildings that populate the Berlin cityscape, the new Science Center for Medical Technology by Gnadinger Architekten joins the ranks of recent projects that merge architecture and science.... 

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Augmented Hyper-Reality: Immersing yourself in (Branded) Infographics

Augmented reality is all the hype know, in particular with the technology ditching the required goggles for cool mobile phones screens, and the like. The short movie below offers a future vision of augmenting your normal vision in the kitchen when commercial... 

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First Brno TypeTalks

Rob Keller sitting to my right in a Brno jazz bar. Photo by Martin T. Pecina Rob Keller sitting to my right in a Brno jazz bar. Photo by Martin T. Pecina. Do you know the old expression, “getting there is half the fun?” When it came time... 

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Vopnabúríð

Learning about “fabric pornography” with designer Sruli Recht in his Reykjavik studio Photos by James Ryang With Sruli Recht ’s “nonproducts” and personal preoccupations housed in shelves and resting on workbenches crafted... 

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Win an MICL scholarship at City University

City University identity by Chris Mitchell CR and Design Week have teamed up with London’s City University to offer one reader the chance to win a free scholarship on its Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership course, starting this September.... 

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Cannes Lions 2010: The Winners

  So the Cannes Lions advertising festival is all over for another year…   So the Cannes Lions advertising festival is all over for another year… but who carried away the coveted golden Lions? And what do they reveal about the current... 

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Homer Simpson’s Duff Beer: Barley, Hops, and Cultural Stories?

We were in Rome a few weeks ago - essentially the bonus portion of my trip to Munich to speak about culture at the UPA conference . Turns out it’s cheaper to buy separate return tickets San Francisco-to-Rome and Rome-to-Munich, giving us an extra... 

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