Saw this and rather liked the sentiment behind it.
According to the Artefacture mini-manifesto:
“The role of all design is to optimize human experience from a functional, emotional, aesthetic and enviromental point of view.
Close-mindedness and profit motives aside, given the opportunity, design can, should and will save the world.”
If you’re a believer then proclaim your faith with one of these or any of these.
It has been more than a decade since Tennent’s Wellpark Brewery has had a signage make over and we got the chance to do it! Along with the Tennent’s team we were briefed to contemporise the signage without losing the site’s strong heritage. At first it appeared fairly straight forward, but physical scale, coordinating the build, securing planning permission, proved to be a great challenge - after 3 months build we’re sure you’ll agree it looks pretty impressive!
And following on from this… we’re again working with the Tennent’s team to create a new meeting and reception area at the brewery - what a great job, we’re really looking forward to it!!
Following on from my Twitterific post I thought anyone who wasn’t quite sure about how to use Twitter would find this and this interesting.
If you work out how to get yourself on there then follow us on Twitter at this address: www.twitter.com/standunited
The wonder of Twitter is revealed in this interesting piece from the BBC technology blog. It seems Twitter users are beating regular journos to getting news online, in the public domain as quickly as possible. There are some pitfalls however so as with the wonderful world of Wikipedia don’t believe everything you read on Twitter.
We’re going to make the effort to update our twitter profile with any news or interesting goings on so watch this space!
One minute we’re babbling on about all the good that Google can could do with their power these days, then a quick search of the BBC’s technology news today revealed that Google searching can actually be bad for you, or rather for the environment:
As we say in Glasgow, ‘you just cannae win’.
Scary stuff. It seems the bright young things at Google might be better at predicting how healthy (or not) we (or at least our pals in the US) may be at any point in time. How? Well read this and it all sounds very simple.
According to Google they can accurately predict how significant or not a breakout of flu will be by looking at the number of people searching flu-related terms via Google.com. Then Google can accurately estimate current flu levels one to two weeks faster than any other professional report.
I’d like to think that this was just a nice, helpful thing for Google to do for the greater good but no doubt it’s the kind of time-critical information the Marketing people for Lemsip, Beechams and the like would be willing to pay top dollar for.
