Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

A few months ago we celebrated our very first birthday and as everyone knows, a birthday without gifts isn’t a REAL birthday. We thus decided to create the first in a series of free annual seismo-presents, to give our thanks to friends and clients for the year that has passed, and welcome everyone into the [...]

On January 29 I wrote a post on a most quintessential piece of infographics – the London Underground map, created by Henry C. Beck in 1933. As I wrote then, it’s THAT brilliant a piece of design, that not only has it become a template of how transitmaps around the world are layed out, but [...]

Mobile is really taking off at the moment. We sometimes help different venture capitalists and business angels assess new media concepts, products and services. Furthermore we often meet with entrepreneurs, mentoring and discussing business models and plans. It’s always a very interesting and fruitful experience. Not only do we get to meet brilliant and passionate [...]

Some are into Britney Spears. I am a giant fan of sticky notes. In fact so much that it sometimes feel like an obsession. I cannot walk past the Post-It shelves in a bookstore without having an extra look, and I literally never go anywhere without a few blocks of them in my backpack.
Now, unfortunately [...]

Unboxing is a rapidly growing phenomenon where people document the unpacking of their newly bought gadgets. Apple kickstarted the trend with their exquisite and cool packaging, which encouraged people to film/photograph/blog the entire unboxing moment. As the whole field around experience design matures, more and more companies acknowledge they have to differentiate themselves already on [...]

On May 5. six months worth of hard work, culminated in the conference “Film og Nye Medier – Oplevelsesøkonomi og Vækst” (Film and New Media – experience Economics and Growth), which we helped put together for Region Central Jutland and Region North Jutland. We helped plan it all, identify and pick the most exiting speakers [...]

One of the greatest (and sometimes most annoying) things about our office, is that it is located in the uttermost busy parts of town. There is always something funny, disturbing or weird happening – and we can often be seen standing at the windows, gazing at the streetlife, during lunch. It’s quite entertaining.
The past couple [...]

Logoorange recently published a list of logo designtrends of 2008, and what they write is totally spot on.
These things really does seem to be the most predominant trends in logodesign right now – delicate curves, shiny surfaces, gradients, faux 3D appearances, transparent layers and so on. The list of new/redesigned logos that employ these things [...]