Monday, September 21st, 2009
We’ve had a Kindle 2 lying around the office for a while, but we never really got round to actually getting anything worth reading on to it. During the weekend I finally transferred a bunch of Gutenberg books to it, along with the new Dan Brown book.
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
As writen earlier, both the Dutch and the Brits were lucky last year, concerning the coins in their pockets. The Dutch because they had a very very cool sparkling new 5Euro coin introduced, and the Brits because they also had new and very cool coins introduced – a six coin set, ranging from 1p to [...]
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Eversince Pepsi introduced the companys new identity, it has been subject to quite a lot of debate, mockery and eHate. Actually I even wrote about it myself – here (not hatefully though).
The sparks HAD cooled down over time, but now the whole thing has caught fire onceagain. Yesterday somebody published the Pepsi band guidelines for [...]
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
So, 2008 is coming to an end, and it’s time to sum it all up. Below is the stuff that I’ve found most interesting in the past year – good and bad. The list is totally disorganised, and thus not really a list. In these times of recession, I find it well in place though, [...]
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
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 [...]
Friday, June 13th, 2008
It’s a bit like starting the family reunion dinner toast with the words “I am not a great speaker…”. Well, perhaps not, but everybody around the table know what to expect for the next 20 minutes – at least. A popular entry remark among a good deal of mediocre futurists is: ”It is difficult to [...]