Modernista! is a Boston-based full service agency with a Web site that puts those of most large interactive agencies to shame. It evokes an incredulous response when you first open it up — “is this really a website???” The fully functional left hand navigation menu brings you to the agency’s portfolio not by linking you, [...]
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Empty spaces exposed. Labelscar is a blog that finds beauty in deserted shopping malls — the elegance of ugly commerce. [via cool hunting] China Orders Video Web Sites to Close. “China will shut down video-sharing Web sites for carrying content … Chinese Web surfers were blocked from seeing foreign sites with video about protests in [...]
Service companies will always need a human touch
In Johnny Mnemonic, the Keanu Reeves rendition of William Gibson’s awesome sci-fi short story, basic social interactions are performed by cyborgs or machines. And in a Clockwork Orange, machines serve “milk” at bars — no more bartenders. So does the future of service industries hold just vapid, emotionless interactions?Hells no. Bruce Temkin wrote on his [...]
Posthumous brand endorsements
Converse is producing a line of custom Kurt Cobain Chuck Taylors. I’m sure these shoes will sell with a hefty mark-up, and make Converse a pretty penny. But as a Nirvana lover, this bothers me. Not to mention the negative impact to the converse brand could be significant, if loyal Nirvana lovers see this as [...]
Forrester’s Gen Y design principals
Young consumers. Generation Yers. “Those crazy Kids!” You want to reach them online with a website or a Facebook app? You need a specific design framework that takes into account their very unique needs an desires. Forrester research guru, Bruce Temkin, and myself outlined four Gen Y design principals: immediacy, Gen Y literacy, individualism, and [...]
why us kidz love 80s retro
There’s a reason why my 18 year-old kid brother Jake loves watching VH1′s I love the 80s. Even though he was born in 1990. The kitschy, fashion-insane era of the 80s captures his interests much more than the 70s or 90s. There’s just something about big hair and tight gold pants that makes ya [...]
