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Happy Yorkshire Day

Today is Yorkshire day, a celebration to promote the historic county of Yorkshire. The date alludes to the Battle of Minden and also the emancipation of slaves by William Wilberforce. The Yorkshire flag was only approved a few days ago by the Chief Vexillologist of the UK Flag Registry after a long campaign. Later we will be celebrating with a nice bit of Wensleydale, some Harrogate Toffee and perhaps Read more …

Sunny Sheffield

We’re doing some work in Sheffield at the moment and while waiting for the meeting took a few shots of some hidden gems (to those of us who haven’t visited Sheffield for a while). Sheffield Hallam University, Andrew Motion poem (click the image for a larger view) Stone type on building Stone type on a restaurant called Silversmiths, presumably after the original type on the building Winter Read more …

Something for the weekend

A couple or three inspirational links for your weekend perusal pleasure … Chock full of ideas and once frowned upon but now cool horizontal scrolling the Urban Outfitters blog. All retail needs a ‘big idea’ here’s one at Adrenalina in Miami. And finally … Sign up for Moby Gratis for all your soundtrack needs or just to create a soundtrack to your day.  Read More …

Man flu

Pete and I are both suffering … a lot.  Read More …

The product experience

As retail designers we’re always preaching that retail should be an experience, Peter Merholz from from Adaptive Path takes this further, telling us the product should be the experience. I’d go along with that and it takes a lot of effort and good thinking to do it. Is there anyone in the UK doing this, Apple of course, although I find their stores a bit clinical for my taste and possibly Read more …

Can design make a difference?

Recently we attended a new business meeting with a prospective client. Previously we’d sent them some of our marketing blurb material and had been rebuffed. however since then we’d had a phone call to arrange a meeting, so off we went. This is a business that works in fashion retail and considering they’d invited us we assumed that the answer to the question at the top of this post Read more …

If you love someone buy them a kitchen

I love (especially today) Ikea’s idea of selling someone a kitchen through a valentine’s email. A bit of lateral thinking, a bit of effort with some recipes, a rich red kitchen and a couple of steamy robots and there you go. So much email marketing is uninspirational and has so little effort or thought applied to it it’s good to see something well thougt through and a link to a site Read more …

Make friends with your consultant

A good view on Retail Bulletin about how to use we ‘consultants’. We often have a different view, not necessarily better, mainly because our angle of attack and our view of the world may be different.  Read More …

Web Worker Daily: 20 Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos

I found this last night, there’s whole world of GTD (Getting Things Done) that I didn’t know about. I picked this up from Hawkwings which has also opened my eyes to the features of Apple Mail. At the moment I’m trying out Basecamp which is a bit more project specific as well as my normal long hand to do list.  Read More …

Seth’s Blog: How to be remarkable

As usual remarkably readable and inspirational read more | digg story  Read More …