Sending email broadcasts -- on the surface -- should be one of the simplest and most straight-forward processes. The digital equivalent of stuffing a couple hundred or thousand (or even tens/hundreds of thousands) of letters into envelopes and postin...
As more and more of our world is digitised -- sales, maps, encyclopaedias, books, music, phone calls, radio, TV, you name it, it travels digitally -- companies constantly have to choose what to automate and what has to be done by human beings. In oth...
Here in the ebook-making world there's a lot of to and fro about how much design matters when text is getting reflowed in different screens and applications, from tiny phones to 22-inch LCDs. Will book designers have jobs in a publishing world domina...
After seeing the decidedly deluxe and off-beat design of the Google Zurich office that has made the rounds of the internet, it is vaguely disappointing to see this blog post about Google South Africa's sales office.
Google Zurich reeks of money an...
I've been lending a hand to my brother to get a business idea out of his head and into the 'real world'. It's an interesting concept called "The Productivity Paradox", a notion he has been talking about for some time already, which he now wants to tu...
This week I managed to get Mark Forrester on to Let's Talk. I am chuffed that I was able to talk to Mark about his design work, company and what it is that he really does.
What exactly do you do Mark?
Good question, I was trying to work that o...
The famous Australian based web community site Sitepoint, originally founded in a roundabout way in 1997, launched its "new look" front page this week. A pretty mixed response it has received, and as I often tend to do, I'll try to remain as unbiased...
I have been following the series of Direct Marketing articles by Kieth Wiser published on Marketing Web with interest. I have noticed with particular interest, some defensive views from the Above The Line (ATL) crowd who are laying claim to the digit...
The battle between Development agencies and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) agencies is almost as widely discussed as the Search Wars (battles between MSN, Google and Yahoo for web dominance).
In South Africa, as the importance of search engine mark...
The old debate of form versus function (known in modernism as form follows function) is given a new meaning on the web. Here we have the debate about design versus content. My thoughts around this matter relate to whether one or either or both (or ne...
