29 Sep 2010

Plastic Princess Parade

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A few of the plastic "princesses" in my daughter's collection. All photos taken with the iPhone 4 with HDR active.

24 Sep 2010

Ocado’s own brand(o)

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Ocado, the online-only grocery shop, have now started sell own-brand products. Up until now they’ve only stocked and sold Waitrose goods but they’ve decided to now start running their own.

The labelling seems a little uninspiring but then you have to remember that they are exclusively an online grocers. Their buns don’t have to jostle for your attention on the shelves in the same way that its competitors buns have to. With that in mind, they’ve clearly concentrating on displaying the required information in an economical way and that’s all. Nothing wrong with that.

Ocado said the mid-tier brand was complementary to Waitrose products and was launched primarily to “fill the gaps” in Waitrose’s budget offer, as Ocado targeted the big weekly family shop as opposed to top-end and top-up shoppers.

Taken from The Grocer

14 Sep 2010

Is this HTML5?

The fuss around HTML5 comes from when it is used in conjuction with CSS3 and Javascript. I would hazard a guess that 90% of the things that have impressed you are actually down to these two technologies as opposed to HTML5 alone.

13 Sep 2010

myFry for iPhone

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I love how the interface for Stephen Fry’s autobiography app doubles as the “cover”. Information design as art.

2 Sep 2010

Don’t Touch the ear-buds

So the new iPods were released yesterday and they look great, but the focus seems to be continually on the stuff that the iPod was never originally about. Better screens and more powerful graphic capabilities to name the main areas of improvement are most welcome but isn't this still a music-centric device? Even if it isn't it certainly is a sound-centric device with their new focus on gaming - so why have they not looked at the ear-buds in all the years the iPod has been on the shelves?* It seems bonkers that Apple can spend millions(?) on the development of Multi-Touch and Retina display but not once question the pap that they bundle as the listening device. A decent pair of Sennheiser in-ear phones cost less than £20 in the shop. I reckon the upgrade to Retina display for the iPhone 4 and now the new iPod Touch cost more per unit than that. 

* I know why really - they are an accessory and therefore there is money to be made on the upgrade of said accessory. 

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I’m Digital Director at Dusted, a creative consultancy based in London.

Also a father, cyclist (of a fold-up), music-lover, comedy-fan, movie-watcher, food-enthusiast, gadget-buyer and (dare I say) geek. See my life stream past your very eyes at my personal site 98degrees.