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Category Archives: Design

3 Ghosts of Christmas Eve Try to Design an iPhone App

Dearest Readers, It’s Christmas Eve and I have a little tale to tell. Not a nice one about Scrooge learning the spirit of Christmas though. It’s a different sort to be sure. This year the 3 Ghosts of Christmas Eve have a more modern and hip task to accomplish. For some reason not completely evident [...]

Why Are You a Designer?

Designer Niki Brown runs a blog called Design O’ Blog. Over the holidays he had the great idea to ask a bunch of designers through Twitter “why are you a designer?” and I was fortunate to be one of those asked. Check out all of our answers on the Niki’s blog here: http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2009/01/04/why-are-you-a-designer Also take [...]

Gapingvoid.com: Creativity Counts

I’ve become a huge fan of illustrator Hugh McLeod of gapingvoid.com lately. I know, I know, so has everyone else. What I want to say here is that web 2.0/social media isn’t just about people talking, “groundswell” and clever social media strategists. It’s also about the creative ideas and content that are needed to make [...]

SNS Trends In Japan

Tonight I got turned onto Google Trends and started to have a look at 3 big SNSes for the Japanese region (obviously Mixi is the biggie but I wanted to see how Facebook and MySpace were fairing). The way it works is that you can see what sites people visited or searched next after the [...]