November 2009
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“Question everything generally thought to be obvious.”
– Dieter Rams (exhibition at Design Museum)
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A Japanese street jazz band giving a lunch time concert is pretty much the last thing you expect to see outside a photography shop. That’s what I love about Lomo and what makes them such a great brand. They understand that life is all about the exciting things that happen when you mix it up.
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A celebration of supreme utility
Functional and intriguing. Rare and humble. Useful and special. The products on show at the Kiosk meets SCP collaboration during London Design Week are oxymoronic. And therefore fascinating.
Even the act of going to see products like these, displayed like this, is contradictory. Products as plain as laundry clips and drain plugs are displayed like works of art: hung on the walls with little...
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Meddling parent brands
Why would you do this?
Why add your parent brand logo to a thriving brand? Especially when the Flickr community are hugely loyal? And the Yahoo brand is looking a little grey and lost.
Such meddling control freakery is bad parent behaviour and just makes Flickr look uncool.
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Rock on
The bad news: the cables on my headphones broke.
The good news: Rather than having to buy a new pair all I had to do was replace a cable. Designing for re-use says “we value long-term relationships over short-term sales”.
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