Common Craft : The Irony

 
Common Craft is a pretty cool company. They make complex things understandable to the common man. So I could help but laugh when I hit there web page today, and splashed across the front in bright red was a Drupal error that only a SQL-Talker (there is a good reason for SQL  being a […]

Filed under: Business, Design, Irony, Language, Rant by Andrew la Grange
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Zuma Biscuits

Sian and I were at the SANG (South African National Gallery for those who never did Art at high school) this weekend, getting a good dose of culture, after walking around in the Gardens.
I’ll keep my rant on why museums and galleries funded by taxpayers money should be open to the public for free for […]

Filed under: Africa, Art, Cape Town, Commentary, Corruption, Design, Education, Media, Society, Zuma by Andrew la Grange
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How very Darth Vader

I was looking at WW2 propaganda posters from the USA, after checking out the following post on YOU THE DESIGNER.
Its got to get you wondering about the impregnation of the German helmet in the psyche of the Allies.
I mean this poster doesn’t say ‘U.S. Government’ to me - rather some sleeper campaign from Hollywood. […]

Filed under: Art, Design, Society, War by Andrew la Grange
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Better search engine optimisation (SEO) ethics

We live in a world of democratised mass media, where anyone with an internet connection, even if just over a mobile phone, CAN access a large global audience.
But the operative world is WILL they? The sad answer is… probably not.
The same market forces which make little newsletters printed on LaserJet’s unsuccessful versus the […]

Filed under: Business, Design, Media, Society, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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Viscosity

Something awesome to take a look at is a webtoy called Viscosity:

http://windowseat.ca/viscosity
Proof that some exciting stuff is coming out of the guys at Microsoft’s Live Labs
It was developed by Jeff Weir of Live Labs. It’s in PHP and Flash. So much for Microsofties being closed off to outside tech.
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Filed under: Art, Design, Ideas, Mathematics by Andrew la Grange
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