As the UK economy suffers its worst crisis in 60 years and some of the world’s biggest private financial institutions crumble beneath the crash of the U.S. housing market, we can’t help but reflect on the notion of enlightened anxiety. That’s a phrase Dale used in the introduction to our original We Media report, published […]
With retrenchment and job reductions — oh, let’s call them what they really are: mass firings — as subtext, three of the more influential clubs associated with the newspaper industry held their annual conventions last week. There were hopeful twists amid fear and loathing. The Society for News Design and the Associated Press Managing Editors […]
One of the fundamental tasks of design and business is to stand between revolutions and life, to help people deal with change. That’s the premise of The Right Brain Rules, a strategic vision and a portfolio of assets for creating value into the future. Voice-over and context are missing, but here’s the requested slide deck […]
Play is to our time what work was to the Industrial Society: our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value. Now Spore has arrived in North America to mess with our gene pool. The multi-genre “massively single-player online game” allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a […]
[We like to use, celebrate and design products that are both useful and beautiful. Here’s the first in an occasional series of quick tips for improving your designs. Add yours in the comments or in a guest post.] Here are two tools I use to help select and code the right colors for my designs. […]