As a provider of stock media – from photos to vectors to videos – they are sat on a huge amount of data, so are in a great position to identify trends, not just from the images and media that people have bought, but also from what their users are searching for. (more…)
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Just visit the site, choose the shot of the screen you want to use, drag in a screenshot or just type in the URL of your website and bingo, your site appears on the screen of your choice. You can use the images commercially (as long as you credit placeit) and it’s pretty cool if you want to cobble something together quickly.
The image above, showing our very own resplendent front page displayed on the Microsoft Surface, was of course generated by placeit.
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We always enjoy designing for designers – it’s great to exchange ideas and it gives us a kick when fellow designers appreciate our work!
The brief was to create a site that put their work centre-stage and reflected their own design philosophies. It was also essential that our client was able to manage content themselves.
The result was a strikingly minimalistic site with a heavy focus on imagery. It was very important that the design portfolio was simple to get around and we focused on simplicity, with intuitive navigation that works beautifully on desktops, but also allows easy touch navigation on phones and tablets.
Go and have a peek at the Morph Design Creatives website »
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Chances are you’ve heard about the ‘EU Cookie Law’. If you have, you might very well be confused or worried about its implications and what exactly you should be doing about it. If you haven’t, and you own or run a company’s website within the EU, then you need to take note and you probably need to take action (but don’t panic, because it’s not as bad as you might think).
The EU Cookie Law as it’s being called is actually part of a European E-Privacy Directive. It was brought in by those helpful people at the EU to protect your privacy. They think people don’t know what cookies are or what they do (which is probably fair) and that the way to tackle this is to get every website to ask their users to opt in to the use of cookies. Although, browsers allow you to change your privacy settings, apparently this is not enough. There have been a lot of people throwing their toys out of the pram about it (also probably fair), because its most severe interpretation would have every website presenting new users with a big banner asking for their permission to use any cookies (and then only using them if the user ticks ‘yes’).
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This ad from Dollar Shave Club is one of our absolute faves. A lesson in viral marketing (and although it’s bloody funny, it’s also spot on for their brand and works as a powerful call to action). Enough said…
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But fortunately they changed the name before they were incorporated. Probably wouldn’t have been quite the success it is today!
Want to see how their logo evolved? Read this article on Wired to find out >
When people talk about SEO (search engine optimisation), you will often hear them advise you to carefully choose keywords that are representative of the page and to put these in the header section under the title ‘meta keywords’. Well, guess what? No major search engine pays a blind bit of notice to them. (more…)
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The Maylong M-150 is the tablet in question. This quotation from a brilliant review by ars-technica sums it up beautifully:
Anyone looking to buy one would get more bang for the buck by setting it on fire for warmth.
Check out their very detailed review if you’re interested, but if you fancy a laugh (more…)
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The campaign for the new Honda Civic shows a comedian embarking on a journey through the web and one of the first images that pops up is that of Robservations.ca (more…)
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All I can say to this is ‘good grief’! This bizarre item of clothing is the winning entry of a competition run by an accessory manufacturer called Proporta and the London College of Fashion.
CNET wrote, “One moment it’s a hooded waistcoat, and the next you’ll be blowing the minds of all in the vicinity, ripping the item open to reveal your concealed iPad.”
I’m not sure you’ll be so much blowing people’s minds, as making them piss themselves with laughter. If you see any fashion student types being seemingly indiscriminately attacked by muggers, well now you know why.
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Augmented reality (AR) is being talked about a lot at the moment, but for all the buzz, I’ve yet to see anything that’s more than just a novelty. Until Word Lens appeared that is. (more…)
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