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The Designers Republic R.I.P

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January 29th, 2009 · No Comments

After 23 years the inspirational British design studio The Designers Republic have closed up shop - a new beginning is just around the corner.

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Top 15 Criteria That Define Interactive or New Media Art

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September 8th, 2008 · No Comments

A very perceptive list of criteria that define interactive or new media art. A couple of favourites to get you started…

12. Someone either on their blog or across the room is prattling on about the shifting relations between producers and consumers..and mentions your project

11. Your audience “interacts” by clapping/hooting/making bird calls/flapping their arms like a duck or waving their arms wildly while standing in front of a wall onto which is projected squiggly lines

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The joys of poorly written online dialogue

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July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Virginia Heffernan for the New York Times revels in the frustrating yet contemporary written pleasures that have grown out of the dialogue within online Message Boards and Blogs.

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Patterns in Viral Marketing

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July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

An interesting and fun look at the techniques that have been used to make successful viral marketing videos

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The Future of Retail

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July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

When we are all walking around with internet capable barcode scanners (3G/Wireless mobile phones with built in camera) the ability to scan a barcode in a shop and instantly receive a better price online or at another retail store will radically change the retail industry - Instant Price Match

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Brand Cloud

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July 15th, 2008 · No Comments


Brand-based collaborative tag clouds.
An online application for collecting one word descriptions/tags from visitors based on the logo they are shown - via

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The Image Is Familiar; the Pitch Isn’t

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July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Advertising has long used and copied from popular culture (film) but recently artists are finding large corporations are ripping off their visual language to pitch their products - where to from here?

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Handwritten Typographers

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July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Want to know what the handwriting of the some of the world’s best typographers looks like?

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Greenaway’s last supper

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July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Director Peter Greenaway has been able to gain access to Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’, producing an amazing montage of  computer generated projected light and audio. Peter Greenaway’s ‘Last Supper’

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Isaac Murray’s font cache

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July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

If you are out trawling for fonts then check out Isaac Murray’s cache of font bookmarks

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