Archive for March, 2010

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

april fools

Here’s a wee collection of some nice (and some not so nice) April Fools’ Day pranks, enjoy.. Kim Hickford Share

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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Heavenly Heaphy

In my hay day we would be tramping (hiking) every second weekend and most of our holidays were spent with a pack on our back – sweaty, sore, exhausted and blissfully happy. In New Zealand we are blessed with gorgeous national parks, breathtaking scenery and excellent walkways. When a Kiwi says they are “getting away [...]

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Monday, March 29th, 2010

Beautiful Information

If you drool over a well executed pie graph, your heart races a little when you see a spectacular bar graph or your idea of a good-night-in is to pour over a centerfold of infographics then this is the website for you www.informationisbeautiful.net. Kim Share

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Favourites

I have been a bit slack with the blog this week, but with good reason as this week has been extremely busy, with a few late nights and early starts to meet those all important deadlines. With that in mind I will attempt to make up for it today by answering all the questions our [...]

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Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Recently engaged!

Recently I got engaged and was posed the question what are the best 3 things about my fiancée, well here they are… She is beautiful, smart, and a little crazy! Tim (only 9 months to go) Share

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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Facebook overtakes Google for visitor numbers in the US

Apparently Facebook has ousted Google as the most popular site in the US according figures from web analysts Hitwise . For the week ending March 13 Facebook achieved higher visitor numbers than the search giant, accounting for 7.07% of US web traffic while Google reached 7.03%. There was no mention of the figures on Google’s [...]

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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Beautiful instillation at Imm Cologne 2010

The Augmented Sculpture is an instillation piece jointly produced by German design agencies Grosse 8 and Lichtfront for the recent interior design showcase Imm Cologne 2010 (Cologne, Germany). Light and 2D patterns are projection mapped on to the structure’s 3D surface with beautiful effect. Matt Share

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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Heineken highlight threat to ‘footie with mates’

A nice idea from Heineken… Matt Share

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Monday, March 15th, 2010

Ikea go underground

Furniture giants Ikea have come up with an interesting guerilla campaign currently running in the subways of Paris. The company has set up mini Ikea environments featuring the actual products and using traditional billboard spaces to add context (and further products). A great way to showcase to comfort and (hopefully) the durability of their products, [...]

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Thursday, March 11th, 2010

The Craziest Competitive Sports (You Never Heard Of)

4WD Sand Dune Climbing: Justin | MySpace Video Chess Boxing Wife Carrying Cheese Rolling Camel Wrestling  CycloCross  Tow-in Surfing Free Soloing  Bog Snorkelling VIA Share

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