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Nice Mash Up

 

Interesting mash up created this afternoon by a bit of haphazard tidying.

 
It's Nice That and Where's Wally?

Pentagram

I went to Pentagram this morning. What a lovely office / studio / building they have. And so nice that they take the small stuff seriously, like archiving and lunch for everyone.

And like Matt said a while ago, KPI: Having a street sign.

Although...

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Irony Candy

PSSSSST

The tone of the writing doesn't fit the tone of the media.

Blogging: The Lowdown

I found and old copy of Blueprint today. It was from 2003. Six years ago.

It talks about blogging.

Russell has posted an old copy of some magazine (Wired, I think) which spoke of mp3 players and ebooks. It's quaint all this stuff and I guess we'll see more of it as stuff becomes more out of date and looks funnier in retrospect.

Me? I'm still blogging via this shit Typepad app. I hate the app, it particularly troubles me that I can't post links. Links! Links! The corner stone of a weblog!

But there's something nice and immediate about about blogging from my phone.

Anyway.

Desire path crossing

A new pedestrian crossing was launched to much acclaim in London today. I would insert a link here, but this Typepad doesn't seem to let me, which is pretty crazy for a blogging app.

Anyhow. I love this new crossing. Finally someone, somewhere has designed a piece of public infrastructure around the actual behavior of the human. Rather than a preconceived idea of that behaviour.

In other words, I've walked diagonally across that crossing many times, now you can do it legitimately.

Google "London new crossing" and "desire paths" and you'll be able to finish this post yourself, seeing as this app won't let me

Nice painting? Photo? Graf?

I'm not really sure what this is. I'm aware it's an image of a lady, possibly naked, with her arm behind her head. But I'm not sure if it's a painting. Maybe it's some kind of photo-silver-chemical solution on the wall? Maybe it's graf, which is what people call graffiti nowadays.

Either way, it's very cool.

I'm writing all this from my phone as an experiment. It might look shit.

Newspaper Club on Radio 4

In case you missed Saturday's PM programme, click here to listen to the short feature they did on Newspaper Club.

Literally unbelievable

I used to think this was the biggest marketing overclaim I'd ever seen.

Until I spotted this.

 
How about that for a brand truth. "As useful as a 3rd hand".

Let them eat bread

Yesterday Hovis were handing out loaves of bread at Liverpool Street station. Standard sampling procedure.

I saw lots of people wandering round carrying loaves of bread, so you could assume it was a success from Hovis' point of view.

I like to think of myself as a fully compromised grown up. I know the pros and cons of the marketing industry. My clothes have logos in them.

But I saw this and I felt sick.

 
This food staple was being handed out at Liverpool St. home of London's finance industry. I know there's been a banking crisis, but I'm confident the commuters rushing through that station can afford a loaf of bread.

There are people in the world, indeed in this city, who aren't in the same position. There are people who are in need of free bread. Hovis didn't choose to give this bread to a homeless shelter, or even to let commuters sample a slice of bread, or a free sandwich. They chose to hand out loaves of bread in one of the richest districts in the world, which inevitably got thrown away like the marketing collateral they were being treated as.

I find that disgusting.