One of the things I've been talking about for while is ' Aggregation not Destination ' - or 'Don't Create - Just Aggregate' [things that rhyme are more awesome] a strategy that obviously underlies the new Skittles site, as well as things like We Feel Fine and Twistori before it. It reflects the natu...

I like favicons. I like when people do clever things with them. It always seems a waste to me when a brand website has a generic favicon . So I liked this very very small idea that Markus sent me. I think that novelty is a powerful thing. When people haven't seen a brand using a space in just that w...

The Rockefeller Center in New York is, in my opinion, one of the most inspiring buildings in the world. Like most things, the inspiration comes not so much from the thing itself, but the stories that surround it - and like all the best stories [and yes, alright, go on then, brands too] it has many l...

[The video above was made by mate Mauricio for his panel at FOE3 - it is a mash up made from a Brazilian film called Tropa De Elite, a film which was embraced and spread by remix culture.] One of the important things that FOE3 left me with, apart from how awesome everyone was, was the re-framing tha...

Every generation, every moment in history, tends to feel transitional. It seems to be a natural human tendency to feel like Janus , looking backwards at the past and forwards into the future at the same time, applying an ongoing narrative progression to history and, by inference, putting ourselves a...

Over on Herd Mark has very flatteringly suggested that he and I were separated at birth. The core of his argument, expressed in e e cummings style, is our mutual love of Shirky and interest in the creation of solidarity goods. I'm more than happy to be Mark's twain, and it reminded me of an e e cumm...

[From the always awesome XKCD] One of the first things that happens when a new medium emerges is a form of communication transpostion - taking a model from a different platform and applying it to the new one. When television first came online [excuse the garbled metaphor] programs consisted of peopl...

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. Stride Gum paid for this guy to go and dance like this all over the world. Hell yeah. Smile. [Via Em/Boing Boing]...

My mate Ahra just introduced me to the work of Jim Riswold, a former W&K creative director, who created some iconic work for Nike, who was diagnosed with leukemia and decided to start making iconic art - as in art made from icons, like Jesus and Hitler. He talks about why here. He has a great si...

Who are your heroes? My heroes are the people from whose thoughts and words I began to construct my own belief system, my world view. The geniuses I stole from. [World view is a calque [or stolen piece of linguistic genius] from German. They have this word Weltanschauung. It's a Teutonic concept tha...