One of the current holy grails of advertising to keep the design clean and the message simple. This can be incredibly effective, a  simple image with a bold statement that stops the viewer in their tracks. An advert that is so compelling that they have to go back and read it again. This is the advert that will [...]

Architect and Interior Designer Frank Lloyd Wright left more of a legacy than most. Quite a lot more to be honest, as well as being named the “greatest American Architect of all Time” by the American Institute of Architects (who knew that they could see into the future), Wright also left some 22,000 drawings and 300,000 [...]

What do you do when you work in a medium that’s perfect for the web? Photographers have the advantage and disadvantage of not being short of any images for their websites. But what do you do when everybody’s got a website full of photographs, and these days you’d be a fool not to spend some of [...]

In previous articles we talk about the affection that people feel for books, but why do people feel so strongly about such inanimate objects? Many of us have books in our past that have influenced us strongly. Those that were not the most well written or that were popular; but those that came along at a [...]

Hold on, you’ve nearly made it to the weekend. But just to tease your brain one more time (we’re gonna celebrate) before you head off for your exciting times in the sunshine; what do Torchwood, Starflleet Academy and Omni Consumer Products have in common? I know it’s been a long week so here’s a few [...]

What would you do with a robotic exoskeleton? Rescue cats from burning buildings, save the world and win the heart of the girl/boy/? of your dreams and so on? Of course feats of derring do are related to the challenges the protagonist has to overcome. Austin Whitney, a double major in History and Political Science, chose [...]

The common or garden picnic table is something that has been ripe for reinvention for a while. As anyone who has ever enjoyed a scotch egg in the park in company of friends and family (or maybe your sworn enemies, I don’t know how you picnic) can testify, the picnic bench is a strange contraption. Convenient [...]

In the battle between books and screens the printed word has been on increasingly slippery ground recently. Yet books still hold a special place in the heart of many, something that is evident in the enthusiasm that many people treat books with. The sensation that books are more important than a simple collection of wood pulp [...]

Well it’s actually their headquarters but it’s been described by Steve ‘Big’ Jobs himself as a spaceship and if that’s good enough for him then it’s good enough for me. If you take a look at the newly released photo’s then it does indeed look like a spaceship, even one that is revolving at a [...]

How much do you spend on a phone? Though it might sometimes feel like your phone is costing you thousands of pounds it’s unlikely that it is. Unless you’ve bought the Celsius X VI II LeDix of course, in which case you’ve spent £300,000 on just the phone. I expect you’d remember the purchase, but perhaps [...]