Gotta get down, it’s Friday, Friday, Friday. Are we still doing that? Anyway, it’s definitely Friday, and also the end of the month. But what does that mean, what does it mean? Well for some of you that means pay day, ker-ching. But what should you do with all that hard earned loot? Spend it [...]

As anyone who’s watched Mad Men knows, the idea is king. All you need to do to be a big success in advertising is turn up late to a meeting, have a scotch, and blow the clients mind with such a simple idea that only someone as complex as you could have thought of it. [...]

It’s never easy to know how to present your work. Especially in the digital age, where there are a huge number of options available. But it seems that the front runner is the website, with the portfolio increasingly slipping by the wayside. After all websites are easy to set up these days and they mean [...]

If there’s one lesson to be learnt from Lolcats it’s that cute means popular. Also that not having a working grasp of grammar won’t hold you back. But everyone likes looking at adorable things on the internet, but it’s not often that you see adorable design. Well that’s all about to change with the adorable Evolta from Panasonic. [...]

The number of ways of telling the time has increased dramatically over the past couple of centuries. From water to clockwork to our own heartbeats it seems that there’s nothing that we can’t use to make a clock. Though some are less accurate than others they do all work to a certain degree. Some might [...]

Branding is perhaps one of the most important aspects of the beer industry. It is one of the industries where the lifestyle that each brand seems to offer is as, if not more, important than the taste. Which is why it seems strange that Heineken are re-branding themselves. They’re only retouching their corporate identity whilst [...]

Forget TV spots and print ad placements, the common t-shirt is the one of the best weapons you’ve got in your marketing drawer. It’s one of the ways that Threadless grew from hanging out on a message board to a multi-million dollar business. The t-shirt is a popular marketing ploy amongst start-ups, it’s cheap, it’s [...]

It’s probably best not to count on it though when you’ve got ray guns as beautifully designed as these. The Raygun52 project has been started by Alex Griendling who is acting as an intermediary for a weapons manufacturer from the future known simply as the Company. They’re looking for designs for their weapons as they’ve been [...]

When GM modified plants first cropped up they received a mixed reaction. Though they presented a lot of benefits there were questions raised over their environmental and allergenic effect. However, the reaction to GM animals has been decidedly more positive. Of course animals have a big advantage over crops simply because they’re a lot cuter. Let’s [...]

It’s Friday, in case you hadn’t noticed, and I bet you’re all wondering how to fit in all that fun you’ve got planned for the weekend. You could always try going to space, after all the gravitational differences up there in the vast inky blackness means that time runs slightly slower. Hurray for space time, but [...]