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Mood board heaven

Nick — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:32:29 +0000

No sooner than we talked about the need to create an online mood board app than along cam Pinterest. A doddle to use and very addictive and of course super useful.

Sign in with twitter, create pin boards, pin images from web pages (unfortunately not from Google Reader) upload images and follow other users.

Still got 4 invites left so add your name to the comments if you want one.

Setting up shop – online

Nick — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:49:14 +0000

If you’re thinking about setting up an ecommerce or mail order shop, or even adding ecommerce functionality to your website you need to be aware of UK distance selling and e-commerce regulations.

Here’s a link from Out-law.com to help in writing those all important terms & conditions. Also much more useful ecommerce set up information on the site.

Rapha Cycle Club

Nick — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:41:36 +0000

A good piece about the Rapha Cycle Club café from Noisy Decent Graphics.

Also worth looking at his flickr group of the café. The Rapha website’s not too shabby either and a nice video on Monocle.

These days there’s no reason not to have a shop, a pop up shop, a twitter, a facebook page, a van, go to festivals, write a book, a photo essay, a magazine, have a loyalty card, a website, a microsite, a tumblr, a flavors.me, print a t-shirt the list goes on. Brands that market themselves as authentic and have an idea win. Those that buy off the shelf and stick their logo on, fail.

Update: just came across another piece about Rapha here on everydaylife.style loads more to explore on there too.

The Mid-Century Modernist

Nick — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:00:17 +0000

We really like this redesign of The Mid-Century Modernist, especially how the gallery is done, pulling in and displaying ebay auctions. All done in WordPress.

Originally spotted (I think) from Erik Spiekermann’s twitter.

Made up

Nick — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:35:54 +0000

Just spotted made.com, a new furniture website and to make it even better for a new visitor there’s a pop up money off voucher. Nice idea.

Originally spotted (and more info) on the very fine Design Milk.

New Google Internet Stats

Nick — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:53:29 +0000

Launched today but hidden away Google Internet Stats is a neat little site to back up those all important presentations/proposals.

Five main areas are covered (with room for expansion) and the opportunity to submit your own stats.

Originally from Read Write Web via twitter

Super Supermarket Sarah

Nick — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:11:17 +0000

A lovely website with a real sense of discovery and browseability.

Hover over the products to see what’s still available and what’s sold. Click the browse button to see a different catalogue view.

Take a look for yourself. Supermarket Sarah.

Originally from the very excellent Design Milk

Hedge retail anyone?

Nick — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:10:26 +0000

As oil hits $145 a barrel on it’s never ending upward trend, a new kind of ecommerce appears, Hedge Retail. Buy your produce online, probably using credit, and then use what you’ve bought over whatever period of time suits you. The first one of these I’ve noticed (and I’d like to see if there’s any more) is MyGallons.com, a US site where you can buy ‘tomorrow’s gas at today’s prices’. An interesting concept that could work across a great many commodity and product areas. Next step will be a trading site where you can sell your stuff at marked up prices. We’re all designers, we’re all marketers, we’re all retailers. Just depends how good you are.

Today was RSS Awareness Day

Nick — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:58:14 +0000

Click the logo to learn more about why you should be using RSS.

For digital beings

Nick — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:58:28 +0000

This isn’t usually a blog for work but in the spirit of ‘things of interest’, the new Being-Digital new website (designed and built by us) launched earlier this week.

Being-Digital is a conference for the discerning digital beings amongst us. Hopefully a place to garner some knowledge and mingle with the digiteratti. Amanda will be in attendance as a panellist, probably without the pink cowboy hat.

More info on the website and digital brochure.