Archive for February, 2010
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
kiwianarama – our source for kiwiana
Everything you have ever wanted to know about kiwis and trying to understand why we do what we do is on this blog Kiwianarama. It works similar to Diggnation in the fact you can rate articles you like. It is wikipedia for all things ‘kiwi’.Here is one of my personal favorites…the kiwi sausage sizzle. This is a typical scene […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
branding barcodes
Generally speaking a barcode is an achingly boring series of black & white lines taking up precious branded real estate on a product. Now we don’t have to think of them that way. It’s like music to a designers ears! I have recently created some barcodes made from lavender for an essential oil company and […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Sustainable Homeware Design
Workroom is a father/daughter team creating sustainable homewares that are simply gorgeous! What I would do to get a piece of theirs in my sticky little mitts! Situated just out of Auckland, it is well worth the visit if you are in the area. My favorites are the tripod lamps and wooden kiwi ornaments - […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
friends or frenemies?
Apple beat Microsoft in a full-on conflict back in the 80s…but that’s old news, now the real war is between Apple and Google.Apple and Google weren’t always “frenemies.” In fact the companies even banded together against their competitors, in 2007 the iPhone was introduced with numerous Google applications, including […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
30sec movies on tv
In a fragmented media world that has is forever changing, there seems to be one media outlet that still dominates the ad-world every February…
The Super Bowl, the championship game of the NFL in the US of A, is known for the high-profile advertisements that air during its television broadcast. The broadcast typically ranks very highly […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
out of home
Over the last few weeks we have been working on a top secret Out of Home campaign (OOH). The brief was to create some “high impact” OOH, that would get people talking.
An early step in our process was to find and review examples of other campaigns that were considered “high […]
