“Who can concentrate anymore?” she said, stirring her coffee. “Who reads? Do you read?” (I shook my head.) “Somebody must read, I guess. You see all these books around in store windows, and there are those clubs. Somebody’s reading,” she said. “Who? I don’t know anybody who reads.”
‘Menudo’. Where I’m Calling From, Raymond Carver.
Entries from August 2009
August 31, 2009
Talking about books #1
August 30, 2009
Clarity equals more sales
Stockholm Design Lab created these paper-packaging designs for Japanese mail order company Askul. The project aimed to ‘distinguish these products in a clear and graphical way: clarity equals more sales.’
I really admire SDL’s multidisciplinary philosophy when creating identities for their clients. Concepts are visualised through a mashup of science, architecture, communication, advertisements, design… all driven [...]
August 28, 2009
Cures what ails ya
Sometimes I get headaches. Sometimes hayfever. Sometimes blisters (long night out in too new shoes).
Treatments are always samey: boring old pills. long lists of malicious sounding ingredients. tongue ache from ‘must not taste the Paracetamol dust’ contortions.
Which is why I cheered when I heard about Help Remedies. Lovely product concept with quirky design. Labels I [...]
August 15, 2009
Useful for clarification
My love affair is with writers who are handy with a trusty parenthesis.
Dramatic and blistering, like a hard slap that forces you to pause, think and rethink. Beats an uninterrupted ampersand every time.
Nabokov and Woolf, I salute you.
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three… – Lolita, Vladimir [...]
August 12, 2009
Thanks or no thanks?
Nietzschean chic seems to be making a comeback in brand communications.
According to the Harvard Business Review and Blair Enns, companies and service providers should think twice before thanking people who actually buy their product or service. Apparently, communicating genuine gratitude transfers power in the relationship from brand to customer. Saying thank you is seen as [...]
