Influx

One thing Apple has taught us over the past decade is that there can be such a thing as “mass cool”. Originally, cool was found in niches and pockets and sub-cultures, cool was divisive and it sorted people out; there’s were cool things and then the stuff that everyone else had,...

It’s sometimes hard to get to the facts and December retail sales are no different. With dozens of experts weighing in and talking up the holiday season, now the official government numbers are in and most markets suffered. It was only autos with a 8% increase that held the numbers up,...

A nice piece of long-form content from the WSJ that explains the European crisis.

Sometimes opportunities come along where you can do the predictable or you can take a radical approach and do something different and breakthrough. Black Squid Design in Australia faced this challenge when they were given a brief to design a package for pre-packed cauliflowers, surely one of the...

UK department store retailer John Lewis was crowned marketer of the year, for the second year running, by The Marketing Society. It’s just reward for the brand’s commitment to re-engineer itself to be relevant to today’s shopper. The brand has been determined to re-position itself in a...

There’s much talk around the web today about a printer that’s been developed by a London consulting company called-BERG. Here’s the film. Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo. Here’s what’s important… 1. Printers are the most boring things...

We currently place a lot of emphasis on the digital gadgets we own; we recognize their style, we personalize them, we update them and we discard them when something cooler and more revolutionary comes along. What if we were looking at the wrong paradigm and it’s not about the form factor or the...

Microsoft’s Kinect has been massively successful, originally built as a reactive response to Nintendo’s Wii, it’s a technology that’s been hacked, played with and manipulated way beyond its original intent. Microsoft has no idea of its potential, but when hackers played,...

It seems like all of a sudden Amazon has crept from being the major e-commerce player onto a list of tech powerhouses and is being cited by analysts as the one of the players who could dominate the media/tech space. Jeff Bezos is certainly one of the smartest men in business and someone who despite...