http://www.mdnpress.com Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:22:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [this is an old post. I'm making slow adjustments to the site, some pages may not work. d.] 1. It is hard to get back into writing in a blog fashion when a: there is so much to do, read and be part of. So once again, I'll try to blend ... http://www.mdnpress.com/three-1/ Brand is a big space. When I started learning about brand, it always seemed I never could get enough. I learnt about brand through reading about strategic marketing, and it seemed an interesting niche topic to pay attention to. I never imagined it was in fact a Tardis-like construct where the ... http://www.mdnpress.com/big-evil-red/ It is a terrible thing to neglect one's commitment to publishing online. At first I blamed the new job. Then I blamed something else. But now I realize that I spend all my available time reading other people's blogs, books and papers and haven't had any remaining time to write ... http://www.mdnpress.com/neglect/ Too much from too many sources makes it tough to keep a focus on things. Brand and design thinking isn't limited to logos and graphic design unfortunately. Amongst my theoretical architecture periodicals, the one I secretly most enjoy is a non-theoretical-publication: the outstanding The Architects Newspaper, complete with it's own ... http://www.mdnpress.com/things-magazine-style-update/ So I've been sick in Orlando, starting a new job (a few months ago), missing writing deadlines, designing and building web sites for people on the side. A collaboration between Interaction Designer Gino Zahnd and myself has recently manifested itself as pushbuttonfor.org; a site for collecting our conversations and thoughts ... http://www.mdnpress.com/push-button-for/ I'm putting together some notes on what might be a brand strategist these days in different types of firms or instances. I'm collecting any job descriptions or postings that might describe some brand strategy activities, so if you have or know of any current ones out there - do send ... http://www.mdnpress.com/what-is-a-brand-strategist/ Pruned is sending my way a lot of misdirected traffic - for which I apologise to the disappointed travellers who perhaps wonder why this has happened. Unfortunately I don't know either, but I think it warrants that I put what must be the correct link Alexander Trevi intended to place ... http://www.mdnpress.com/fabio-femino/ By now most of you must have heard about the re-cutting of the Shining trailer to show a sort of drama/comedy movie out of it. A link to both the quicktime and the history of it's creation can be found here. I like this as a sort of jigsaw puzzle game, ... http://www.mdnpress.com/repositioning/ Beginning a short series of brand notes, I've taken literally the notes from my notebook and this week, prepared them into a short, simple nine-page document. Over six or nine features like this, I plan to write up my notes that explore what a brand is. These will be in note ... http://www.mdnpress.com/what-is-a-brand/ Quieter & Shorter December definitely felt quieter and shorter as far as work went by. I think I received my first AutoResponding 'out of office email' sometime around the 12th, soon after that productivity and collaborations seem to grind to a halt. So it was a good month to catch up ... http://www.mdnpress.com/monthly-review-december/ Influx Consulting, here in the Bay Area, is looking for interest in a new style of conference they'd like to organize. Influx Consulting runs the web site, Insights, and is part of Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners which recently won the Mini advertising account here in the US. I've taken ... http://www.mdnpress.com/influx-is-looking-for-add-people-like-you/ So Paul Ford writes a weekly review for us over at Harpers, and my father has been writing up his work diary over the last fifteen years, thus I decided these two unconnected things should be the premise for me keeping a monthly work/interest review. These are not necessarily things ... http://www.mdnpress.com/monthly-review-november/ I'm busy preparing an article for Design In Flight, interviewing (I hope) a bunch of interesting people around the globe, and preparing for an extraordinarily busy New Year. In the mean time, here's a short post of something I found interesting today. I've often wondered, both in my head and with ... http://www.mdnpress.com/small-drops-big-waves/ My father, William Newman, has been working in the computer graphics + HCI space for probably forty years now. Starting back in the beginning of it all, with Evans & Sutherland in Salt Lake City, and then Xerox Parc in the early seventies, where I grew up, and then spending ... http://www.mdnpress.com/interaction-design-over-the-past-15-years/ CPH127 thoughtfully translated part of a Danish report titled "The 7 Circles of Innovation". The research covered 449 Danish companies by a board of practioners and scientists. This report, Magnus Christensson writes, is worthy because it doesn't just focus on process as it is popular to do so these days, ... http://www.mdnpress.com/the-fundamental-of-innovation/