8th
September
2003
“Our project is an ongoing attempt to write a multimedia Web-based book dedicated to studying how corporate television commercials portray a world shaped and defined by global capitalism during the last years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st. Drawing on a set of over 800 TV commercials sponsored by corporate firms from 1996 to present, we try to map conceptually the landscapes and narratives of Capital, Technology and Globalization as seen in corporate television ads.”
posted in Advertising | Permalink |
8th
September
2003
“There has often been speculation about the names of IKEA furniture (especially about the desk Jerker and the bed Gutvik). An article in German in Stern reveals a surprising amount of planning. Thus bathroom items are named after Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays; sets of bookcases after occupations; dining tables and chairs after Finnish placenames; carpets after Danish placenames; and much more…”
posted in Branding | Permalink |
8th
September
2003
“Our project is an ongoing attempt to write a multimedia Web-based book dedicated to studying how corporate television commercials portray a world shaped and defined by global capitalism during the last years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st. Drawing on a set of over 800 TV commercials sponsored by corporate firms from 1996 to present, we try to map conceptually the landscapes and narratives of Capital, Technology and Globalization as seen in corporate television ads.”
posted in Branding | Permalink |
8th
September
2003
“Welcome to my Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. On this page, I list wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of technical documentation, particularly illustration. This page is in its infancy, so I welcome submissions, both written and visual. Note that I’m not looking for just bad technical writing — there are plenty of examples of that. I’m looking for the inexplicable, the surreal and the strange.”
posted in Illustration | Permalink |
8th
September
2003
“We’re here to create a home for interaction designers — what type of home that will be, we do not yet know. Whether we find or build our home, though, it must address the issues and challenges that the many hundreds of us face in our jobs. Please join in the discussion and help shape the future of interaction design.”
posted in Interaction design | Permalink |
8th
September
2003
“Sterling Ball, a jovial, plain-talking businessman, is CEO of Ernie Ball, the world’s leading maker of premium guitar strings endorsed by generations of artists ranging from the likes of Eric Clapton to the dudes from Metallica. But since jettisoning all of Microsoft products three years ago, Ernie Ball has also gained notoriety as a company that dumped most of its proprietary software — and still lived to tell the tale.”
posted in Software/Hardware | Permalink |
