Just because people from outside Romania read this blog, I want to write about The Ark which is where Headvertising and Co do business these days. The Ark is a cool building concept which revolves around the idea of creative nest. The building is an old customs house, built by famed architect Saligny, which was… [Read more…]
March 1, 2009
There’s a story in Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point”, I think, which tells about an experiment in the NY metro. For a period of time all metro cars which had been “vandalized” with graffiti and private messages were regularly cleaned and made too look nice. The results showed a 10-30% decrease in crime rate in… [Read more…]
November 24, 2008
Interesting people make and say interesting things. So, no wonder you find gems of public speaking at a design conference. Watch Gladwell speak about Fleetwood Mac and several other people mix design concepts with communication and sociological projections at the AIGA Design Conference here.great stuff
May 26, 2008
I got a parcel today from a great friend of mine in Brussels who is somewhat of an artist. I thought he was a musician-artist but it turns out he is also a designer-artist as he fully and manually designed the covers and inside of his two CDs which I got as a limited release… [Read more…]
May 12, 2008
Which means I will be printing these and using them when threatened by bad design. More from Ben via Iain Go design police!!!
May 12, 2008
I have known Milos since I was working for Rompetrol and he did our corporate website. He still claims I talked him into an outrageously small price, I still think we overpaid by market standards but from this we managed to develop a nice relationship in which I worship everything he does with Iashido and… [Read more…]
March 26, 2008
as spotted by Design Conspirators Ben and Kingsley1. Web 2.0 [okay, this is not a real one but it's done in 2.0 style] 2. Decorative 3. The new ugly [ugly nouveau ??] 4. Charts
Always a good read
June 10, 2009
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