The Thinking Marketer

“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would [...]

Working around the clock, cell phones in the middle of the night, googling this and that. How do we reconcile our physical needs with our virtual bodies? Katarina Häll’s graduation project is a comment on a world spinning faster and faster. The Poem cup offers a moment of reflection, a meditative break in the rush [...]

I have a troubled relationship with Germaine Greer. Sometimes I like her, sometimes I don’t.
When she reviews Stephen Bayley on Woman as Design, I like her very much. Especially for this quote:
“By having fig leaves painted over the genitalia of Adam and Eve, they [the Council of Trent] made them occult and mysterious. Bayley doesn’t [...]

Digital printing does a lot of things. It’s faster, customizable and generates less waste. It fits with our infinite choice/finite time mode of media consumption.
I know all that. But this abandoned printing press still gives me pangs for ink and heavy machinery.
image via mallix

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As a bonus supplement to my last post, here’s a classic on all things meta-meta-meta from The Big Hit.
Disclaimer: this clip is probably not work safe. And also not safe if you’re shy of profanities. My apologies. It is great though…

I am on a clearing-out mission. The need for such a project assaulted me the other evening when the only-place-wide-enough-for-cramming-oversized-books shelf of my bookcase gave out as I crouched perilously beneath it.
For the sake of neatness, I would love to say that Neil Smith’s Bang, Crunch struck the decisive blow.  What actually spilled forth were [...]