By Dom Splendid. We’re pleased to report that we’ve been short listed for Best Use of Visual Design at the Big Chip Awards. It’s for the super-niche social collaboration site The Gate Lab that we produced for The Gate Films. Who are also splendid. Essentially it’s a members-only website that allows creatives to collaboratively develop ideas and scripts for TV series, short films, web films and any other kind of film generally. The...

By Dom treesgrowing Here’s a cute piece of experience design devised to nudge drivers in the right direction: Ford and Honda’s next-gen instrument clusters feature trees (a vine in Ford’s case) that grow more lush as drivers learn to hypermile — the fine art of maximizing fuel economy. Leaves grow like crabgrass in springtime if you use a light touch on the accelerator and go easy on the brakes. Drive like Jimmie Johnson and...

By Jim XML Prague is a conference on XML for developers, markup geeks, information managers, and students. In its 4th year, XML Prague focuses on emerging trends in core XML technologies and their application in the real world. XML Prague conference will take place 21-22 March 2009 at Charles University in the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic.

By Dom Splendid. We’re pleased to report that we’ve been short listed for Best Use of Visual Design at the Big Chip Awards. It’s for the super-niche social collaboration site The Gate Lab that we produced for The Gate Films. Who are also splendid. Essentially it’s a members-only website that allows creatives to collaboratively develop ideas and scripts for TV series, short films, web films and any other kind of film generally. The...

By Nathan Seth Godin. You either love him, or you don’t love him so much. Either way, he’s a leading figure in new media and online marketing and has a lot of very interesting things to say. Below is a video from his talk at TED a couple of years ago. As well as being relevant and funny, it’s also quite inspirational and insightful. Seth looks at what makes ‘remarkable’, what generates conversations and great word-of-mouth marketing...

By Nathan The rivalry between Apple and Microsoft fans is as obvious as that between premiership football teams, without all the lager-fueled street brawls and unanimous chanting and abuse hurling. This distinct competitive nature has been seized by Apple in particular as the backbone of their viral advertising strategies. Their ‘Get a Mac‘ campaign was openly both mocked and embraced by CP+B’s ‘I’m a PC‘ campaign (which gained more...

By Dom apr_jackson_5_050524_ssh People: we are recruiting. We have already received some great CVs, but please send us more. We love you all. To make things clear, over the next 3 months we have 5 positions we’d like to fill: Account Director / Senior Account Manager Digital Planner Designer Developer Quizmaster Okay, so the last one we made up to justify the picture – but Nicky’s off on maternity leave from next...