Posts tagged as "ui"

Posted by Markus on 20th April 2009

The Beckham Terminator

Ad agencies, brand building, ooh, aah. I’d like to see the effect on business this advertising campaign has. David Beckham rubbing himself with a phone that looks like a, um, I don’t know – a lady shaver? Still, it doesn’t tell anything about the product, its price, when it’s coming out, what does it do [...]

Posted by Markus on 19th April 2009

The week on Varha.com April 13th to 19th

Oy vey, interesting week behind us again and here’s a collection of articles from Varha.com that have been very popular this week. Seems like people are more interested in the small, quick things, pictures and videos instead of the longer “articles” that you actually have to spend more than two minutes watching. Finland gets nuked [...]

Posted by Markus on 18th April 2009

The Hobbit movie not one, but two!

That’s right, all you Quenya-blabbering, pointy-eared, Balrog-yelling, dwarf-loving lunatics out there – The Hobbit will be two movies instead of one, and they’re coming out in 2011 and 2012. Hopefully before the Mayan end of the world. The movies are written and directed by, oh, I don’t know – fukn Guillermo Del Toro (Blade 2, [...]

Posted by Markus on 17th April 2009

Know your memes

Memes are something we’ve all seen if we’ve been using the internet for anything more than e-mail. To be honest, most e-mail skits people receive are also memes, the very old ones in that. Thankfully Rocketboom has made understanding memes easier for us mortals with their video blog “Know your memes”. Their latest post is [...]

Posted by Markus on 16th April 2009

Spam’s electric bill? $3 Billion USD

Antivirus and web security company McAfee commissioned a research project from ICF International to measure the ecological effect of spam e-mails. Of course, it’s all about the carbon footprint now and everybody is up to the challenge. Now if only we could have a company to sell us a software that kills sp… oh, yeah. [...]

Posted by Markus on 16th April 2009

BMW’s checkmate to Audi

This was going around in IRC yesterday and since I’ve already shown it to many people in the office, why not put it up here as well. I think this is not only a beautiful ad, it is very innovative and has humor. Also, I have to say that the BMW ad is better since [...]

Posted by Markus on 14th April 2009

Life 101: What is Open Source and how does it work?

French author Marcel Proust once wrote “Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” Of course, he did it in french but I thought it would be less of an dick thing to have it here translated. However, I agree with the above sentence and will try to [...]

Posted by Markus on 12th April 2009

The week on Varha.com April 6th to 12th

Quite a week it’s been, trying my first ever series of posts and I was pleased and surprised to see the interest and feedback it got. So, here’s the most popular content from the blog this week in a collected post, so you can spend your Easter days enjoying some verbal entertainment (if you’re really [...]

Posted by Markus on 11th April 2009

Amazingly fruity product packaging

The lords at Toxel provide us with great inspiration again, this time with Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa who designed this: The designer explained his design aesthetic by stating: “I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the [...]

Posted by Markus on 10th April 2009

5th of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the fifth and last part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting on Monday, and ending today, on Friday. If you missed the first part “Time [...]