Playful 2008

At the Dconstruct conference on the social web earlier this year, Alex Krotoski spoke about building a bridge between the game and web communities. The di...

Elin Sjursen   ·   3 November 2008

Time for tea

To celebrate the end of another packed, exciting week at MxM, we had tea and cake. Tim is an advocate of proper tea, made from leaves, in a pot; so I took...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   31 October 2008

How do you say London in type?

A fellow typographer has created a great series of postcards that show the subliminal messages sent out when using different typefaces.

With tong...

Isaac Pinnock   ·   22 October 2008

The communication IS the product

Joe Heath at BBH just sent me this link to a deck by Paul Isakson at Space150:

http://www.slideshare.net/paulisakson/modern-brand-building-presentatio...

William Owen   ·   21 October 2008

Goodbye Leon

This man here is called Leon. He’s ace, but sadly he’s departed.

Tim Malbon   ·   16 October 2008

Protect The Human success re ‘No’ to 42 days

Great news for civil liberties in our green and pleasant land: MPs have dropped their plans to extend detention without trial to 42 days.

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   15 October 2008

See no evil, from Amnesty International

God, I’ve wanted to do something involving this stary thing for ages. Now Amnesty have done it in a worthy cause. (I wish I wasn’t so shallow).

Tim Malbon   ·   14 October 2008

Just say no to Latin

Lorem ipsum sucks. There, I’ve said it. I’ve come out against the designer’s fall back. Need a block of copy, none available from the client? Lorem i...

Isaac Pinnock   ·   14 October 2008

It’s not all doom and gloom

Whilst there’s widespread cause for panic in these dark days of global economic downturn (which has given rise to Lingo Bingo in our office around terms l...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   13 October 2008

Yearbook Yourself

My brother sent me this cool site that lets you upload a photo of yourself, fiddle with some controls, and create a weirdly nostalgic portrait of your cha...

Tim Malbon   ·   11 October 2008

Metrotwin Recommends

We’ve been using our new Acts As Recommendable plugin on metrotwin.com and it’s been interesting to see how it’s performing in a real-world situation...

Alex MacCaw   ·   9 October 2008

The social web: together we can be perfect(ish)

Isaac’s been known to repeat the maxim ‘We demand perfection!’ when collaborating with our CSS Ninja, Sarah, on projects. 

 

Now, whilst visual pe...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   9 October 2008

Tag a Dummer

Found this on the entertaining Urban Prankster website. The Tag a Dummer campaign andwebsite is a response to war, soaring gas prices, impending econ...

Tim Malbon   ·   5 October 2008

New Media Age Top 100 says we’re “Ones to watch…”

Tim Malbon   ·   30 September 2008

Metrotwin.com err.. “takes off”

Super-exciting news this morning as we’ve finally take the stabilisers off Metrotwin, British Airways’ new social recommendation service that we’ve b...

Tim Malbon   ·   30 September 2008

Amnesty’s ‘Protect The Human’ on BoingBoing – save Troy Davis

This lunchtime saw one of the first big pushes for Protect The Human in the wider web – our friends at Amnesty are raising awareness via BoingBoing of the...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   18 September 2008

“Leveraging cognitive bias in social design” – Joshua Porter, Dconstruct 2008

My colleagues and I went to Dconstruct – a one-day conference about designing and building the latest generation of social web applications.

All of th...

Julia Wojcicka   ·   16 September 2008

Rails Conf Europe 08

Stuart and I were presenting at Rails Conf Europe last week in Berlin on a Rails plugin called Juggernaut which I’ve been working on for a few  year...

Alex MacCaw   ·   8 September 2008