The real cost of feedback.
Ever stop to wonder by how much bad feedback is eating away your bottom line? Here are few tips to improve the quality of your work by nurturing better feedback practices. →
This packaging is absolutely nuts. That’s just half of it.
This packaging for Hrum & Hrum hazelnuts is just brilliant but that’s just half of what makes this story such a nutcracker. →
Turning snapshots into snappy brand opportunities
Product placement in films is almost passé. But Unsplash seeking to revolutionize the stock photography game by offering brand placements could just be brilliant. →
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” – Bruce Lee
“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
20 things that defined 2020
2020 was a strange start to the decade with the Covid-19 crisis. Here are 20 key highlights of mine. →
“Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.” — Tess Flanders, Journalist and Editor, Syracuse Post Standard, 1911.
“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.” – Henry Van Dyke
A big market for little parts?
Recent flaws in product purchases from Hasbro and Maisto make me wonder why there isn’t a market for tiny 3D printed parts to replace missing or broken parts in collectibles. →
Winning with virtual malls
The recent Furniture Centrum website that’s part of the Great Singapore Sale is the first step to a future of full-blown 3D e-commerce. Yet, we are still a far way off. Here’s why. →
Guardian: Three Little Pigs Advert
There’s always more than one side to a story. Which is what all the news outlets will say. The Guardian manages to put this across with a story that is well known. →
Ikea Hare Advert
Sometimes a hare raising tale is about what’s not said as much as it is about what is. A lovely ad from Ikea. →
When AI is Top Gun
This week an AI beat an F-16 pilot in a simulated dogfight. Which makes me wonder whether we are headed for a virtual AI fueled Cold War with real world consequences? →
“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you.” —Michelle Obama Former First Lady of the United States of America
How I fixed the WordPress JSON error – updating failed
A quick fix and a few suggestions to get rid of this error while using the new block editor. →
“Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” — Jana Kingsford
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
My pick of life saving apps for your pocket
The world has seen its fair share of disasters this last month. If you find yourself at ground zero of a disaster you often only have your wits and phone to work with to get you out of a jam. But what do you need in your arsenal? Here is a curation of apps that may make a life or death difference in the face of calamity of any kind. →