This is a clever idea and I’m surprised someone didn’t think of it earlier. But I can’t help but wonder why the company producing these didn’t just go ahead and make them black or white. Or why doesn’t Apple themselves start giving these away at the Apple stores — what a great brand-bolstering giveaway.
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Airlines are in the news again, mainly for terror prevention and full-body scanners, which are none of my concern. Today I am more concerned with that clumsy-but-necessary chunk of ink and paper, the boarding pass.
First, let’s examine the work of Tyler Thompson, who was inspired by Dustin Curtis to redesign the boarding pass, the very [...]
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Luckily, the astute folks at the New York Times are highly organised, and thus they have produced for our enjoyment, a grid-based, icon-fueled look at the last ten years in news, business, culture, and other categories of time–space. Love it.
Think for a second that this was done mainly with icons. One tiny image can encapsulate [...]
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I do hate myself a little for compiling an end-of-year top ten list, but in the spirit of professional altruism, I’m sharing with you, dear readers, ten brilliant blogs I’ve discovered, and have since become addicted to, in 2009. In no particular order:
1. It’s Nice That Touches my soft spot for Britain and provides daily [...]
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Every now and then, the Brand Alphabet emerges. People remark on the novelty of it — how powerful a brand’s wordmark must be so that it is recognised only by the first letter. It’s like spelling with brands. Whoa.
But this tops that. The new Brand Keyboard features not letters, not abbreviated wordmarks, but full-on logos [...]
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It’s true, Microsoft will soon open retail stores. I have previously commented on this matter, citing it as probably “the worst idea in retail for the next decade,” and scratching my head at the notion of a 33,000 sq. ft. location in Brooklyn. But as much as I’m sure Microsoft suffers from my sniping, it [...]
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Summary: A solid, feature-packed, pair of headphones. I hope they fit you, and I hope they last.
The Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint Active Noise-Cancelling Headphones are one of the highest-rated headphones on Amazon.com. In fact, they are one of the highest-rated products I’ve ever seen. With over 1000 reviews, most of them positive, it’s safe to say [...]
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