Category Archives: consumer

Solar Surface Area.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 9, 2010. Filed under business, consumer, politics, technology. No comments.
Solar Surface Area.
The attached infographic shows the surface area required for powering the Earth with solar panels alone.

Look Upon My Works…

Written by Peter. Posted on May 25, 2010. Filed under consumer, photography. No comments.
Look Upon My Works…
Apropos of nothing in particular, I really like this image found on Flickr.

Flash Wars.

Written by Peter. Posted on May 17, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, pranks, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Flash Wars.
Kind of funny back & forth this past week from Apple and Adobe.  Adobe apparently debuted a strange passive-aggressive ‘We Heart Apple’ campaign – while conducting a flame war with Steve Jobs et al.  Apple’s (apparently fake) response is below.  Heh.

TrustoCorp Truth.

Written by Peter. Posted on April 6, 2010. Filed under advertising, consumer, design, graffiti, guerrilla, pranks, signs. No comments.
TrustoCorp Truth.
Check out this great Flickr set here. Decorating the streets of Los Angeles, Miami and New York City, street artist TrustoCorp adds personality to Metropolitan areas with these hand painted street signs. While all of the signs are amusing, some of them seem to carry a social message, while others come off a bit lighter. [...]

Square Coke Box.

Written by Peter. Posted on March 28, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, food, trend, user interface. No comments.
Square Coke Box.
Really neat packaging design concepts, apparently from a freshman student.  Good article here.

Power Users Dominate.

Written by Peter. Posted on March 11, 2010. Filed under business, consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend. No comments.
Power Users Dominate.
Interesting stats article today on mashable.com about Twitter users’ usage.  I was going to link it up here, but the front-page PopURLs mention crashed mashable.  It basically said something to the effect that only about 21% of users had actually tweeted more than 10 times.  Something like 34% had only tweeted once. I’m intrigued by [...]

Crack Lock.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under consumer, design, guerrilla, pranks, user interface. No comments.
Crack Lock.
I haven’t actually tried this yet, but I’ve always been intrigued by locks and their vulnerabilities.  This diagram purports that any combination lock can be cracked relatively quickly with an applied process.  Hmmm.

Support Your Local Heroin Brand.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 9, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, graffiti, guerrilla. No comments.
Support Your Local Heroin Brand.
Neat blurb about a startup art project documenting ‘heroin brands’ – the stamps found on bags of heroin identifying their maker or seller.  This has always been a little intriguing to me.  You can support their project with a small donation here.

State of the Web.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 3, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
State_of_The_Internet
Great infographic re: web usage and demographic stats from focus.com.

iCarumba.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 28, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
iCarumba.
Like many, I’ve had a long, strange relationship with Apple.  Since the 80s I’ve owned Apple II’s, Macintoshes, Performas, Quadras, G4s, G5s, Powerbooks, MacBooks, iBooks, iPods, iPhones, etc etc etc.  My disposition toward the company teeters between unabashed fanboy-ism to outright fury. Because we live in an age of rapid progress, I can’t find fault [...]