Japanese rubber band assault rifle
Every reason to live in terror of a resurgence in Japanese militarism. Someone spent months making this thing.
The Content Factory
Precisely seven per cent keyword rich
Design
NPR: the perfect promo video?
OK, so it’s a little stiff-kneed, but this is actually a perfect promo video for its audience – honest, well-edited and informative. I’ll live without the tricksy cuts and in jokes: I wanted to go try and site at the end of watching the flick.
Telegraph redesigns, a tab at a time
Once upon a time, I made magazines. When we wanted to change that magazine, we would gather three, four or five of our shiniest brains, stick them in a room for a period with a half-decent brief, and out would pop a fresh magazine – better organised, more contemporary, and all-new.
This morning, I opened Firefox [...]
BBC News refresh: air’s in
Open Firefox this morning, and an old friend shows a new face. The Beeb revamp sparked a fair flurry of debate among colleagues: one camp decided that it was too conservative, while the other concluded that Aunty had shown the maturity you’d expect.
I sit in the latter camp. The design has shifted to the centre [...]
BBC News: old dog to learn new tricks
Something momentous will happen next week – the BBC will revamp its News site. Alright, so it’s hardly in the same league as the collapse of capitalism, but look at it this way – BBC News is my home page, the thing that greets me every time I launch my browser.
It’s so much a part [...]
Typewriter art
Created by Andrew Macrae using an Olympia 1965 SG3 and a Hermes 3000 from 1968. Oh, and a lot of coloured typewriter ribbons.
Acid Head War
The Little Wii That Could
According to Japanese games magazine publisher Enterbrain, the Wii is pounding the PS3 four to one in Japan.
Nintendo sold 396,752 units of the Wii in the five weeks ended July 29, compared with 91,987 units of the PS3.
Nintendo Wii outsells Sony’s PS3 in Japan in July – Yahoo! News
This should come as no shock, and [...]
It’s official(ish): web users scroll
Head over to Boxes and Arrows, where Melissa Tarquini takes on the issue that haunts every web designer – the fold. I’m not sure I take her argument in its entirety (she goes as far as to say that the bottom of the page is the next frontier for advertisers), but it’s good to hear [...]