Electric Weekend

D&AD Awards 2009

Phil — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:25:13 +0000

The D&AD Awards for 2009 have been announced. Being a designer I always look forward to seeing what The Establishment has picked out to honour each year. It barely seems like 2 months, let alone 2 years since I was exhibiting at the student awards.

Anyway, my highlights for this year are the black pencil award for the new UK coins by Matt Dent. As well as the 2 yellow pencil awards for the Harvey Nichols advertising for their new Bristol store by DDB London.

Find My iPhone Works!

Phil — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:15:03 +0000

A brilliant write up which demonstrates how Apples new Mobile Me feature Find My iPhone works. This kind of thing is brilliant advertising for Apple. Heck it’s seriously making me consider a Mobile Me subscription.

Not Quite As Planned | Pat Dryburgh

Phil — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:14:24 +0000

Pat Dryburgh has made a bit of a change to his blog url. IT happened a bit quicker than planned, but his blgo can now be found at patdryburgh.com. Just wanted to give him a hand in publicising the change, so if you subscribe to Pat’s blog please remember to update your feed. If you’re not subscribed, then why not give his blog a read!

Developing UP

Phil — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:38:32 +0000

Some absolutely fantastic imagery created during the design/development/writing stage of Disney Pixar’s latest, UP.

(Via Signal Noise.)

What’s a Browser?

Phil — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:24:17 +0000

A very interesting video produced by a guy from Google. He went out to the streets of New York and asked people if they knew what a browser is. I’m not in the slightest bit surprised by the answers given. I’ve come across similar uncertainty at work when I’ve told people to open their browser and go to a web site. It’s not until you say the words web site they realise I mean go on the internet.

Fever Released

Phil — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:12:07 +0000

Congratulations to Shaun Inman who has just released the first version of his new feed reader Fever. I’ll be checking this out later, but I’m intrigued at the way it seems to be filling a gap in the feed reading market by promoting items you might find more interesting to the top of the list rather than leaving them for you to discover yourself.

NetNewsWire News

Phil — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:20:33 +0000

I forgot to link this yesterday after I saw Chris Bowler’s tweet about upcoming updates to NetNewsWire. Exciting stuff. Will be interesting to see how a good feed reader like NNW will work with Google Reader.

Shawn’s Ideal iPhone

Phil — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:19:34 +0000

Shawn Blanc posts his thoughts on The Ideal iPhone.

Some interesting thoughts, although I disagree with Shawn’s thoughts about the form factor of the phone itself. Having held my house mates 1st Gen and my 3G, I much prefer the 3G. Feels much more natural in my hand.

However, I couldn’t agree more with Shawn’s parting paragraph.

It is notable that after two entire years on the open market, iPhone continues to be, by far, most advanced, responsive and beautiful mobile touch-screen device and software available. It is one thing for iPhone and iPhone OS to have been as ground-breaking and incredible as they were in 2007 when they debuted. But to still have that edge two years later? That’s amazing.

Michael Mistretta Redesigns

Phil — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:52:42 +0000

It seems to be the season for redesigns at the moment, Michael Mistretta has launched a new version of his weblog. Michael called in the services of Cameron Hunt, which judging by the results was a very good move. I like it a lot.

Geek & Mild Redesign

Phil — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:04:08 +0000

Sean Sperte has just launched a redesign for his blog Geek & Mild.

It’s a very beautiful mature piece of design, I too really like the ampersand and no surprises Sean uses the nicest one around (Baskerville Italic). I also really dig the unique way Sean links to his archives. The little blocks to the right of his site aren’t just a design element. They provide easy access to any point in the history of Geek & Mild from any page and I’m sure when it comes to adding a search option it will be equally as elegant.