Category Archives: consumer

Choose Your Own Visualization.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 12, 2009. Filed under consumer, design, flash, interactive, kids, user interface. No comments.
Choose Your Own Visualization.
Children of the 80s may remember those awesome ‘Choose Your Own Adventure‘ books, in which the reader determines the storyline by choosing to follow plot path options.  This site features some incredible Flash visualizations of the plot possibilities as motion animations.  Select a Title, and then hit the ‘Play’ button to watch the magic.

Chilean Deliciousness.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 10, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, food, trend, vegetarian. No comments.
Chilean Deliciousness.
My buddy Tom Caestecker is a Chicago-based wine reviewer – check out his latest column on Chilean reds here.  I just like hearing things described as “total fruit bombs”.  And what other wine review references the ‘sixth’ Rolling Stone?  Little Red Rooster, indeed.

Social Insecurity.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 9, 2009. Filed under business, consumer, politics, trend. No comments.
Social Insecurity.
One of many really nice infographics from visualeconomics.com.

Brooklyn Fare.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 5, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, user interface. No comments.
Brooklyn Fare.
Beautiful brand & packaging design work featured recently on Behance. Brooklyn Fare is a new, full service grocery store located in Downtown Brooklyn. The identity is very simple: one custom proprietary typeface (Fare Serif), four colors, and lots of witty copy. The text is useful in highlighting the store’s diverse range of quality products and [...]

Hell’s Trademark Attorneys.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 4, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design. No comments.
Hell’s Trademark Attorneys.
Hells Angels win legal battle with fashion label Mambo over death head logo. WHEN the Hells Angels saw their “death head” logo on a Mambo sweatshirt, they reached not for the baseball bats of stereotypical bikie lore, but for their lawyers, in a bid to protect their intellectual property. The Australian has revealed that Gazal Corp [...]

Social Media Ghettos.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, kids, technology, trend. No comments.
Social Media Ghettos.
I’ve noted before that the vast, competing social networking sites seem to be aligning to members based on socio-economic status. The Globe And Mail’s Lisan Jutras continues the topic: Last year, Facebook overtook MySpace in numbers of members. If you are like me, you made the switch because information was better organized on Facebook, and [...]

Come On, Apple.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under annunciation, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Come On, Apple.
I saw this described as passive aggressive warfare this morning.  Adobe’s taking the gloves off re: Apple’s mobile Flash support (or lack thereof).  Seems they’re taking a lead from the ‘Death to IE6′ shame campaign also being waged very publicly.

Periodic Picnic Table.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 2, 2009. Filed under consumer, design, pranks. No comments.
Periodic Picnic Table.
This clinches it – I’m a sucker for goofy furniture.  See also the Tennis Ball, DIY Cardboard and Drinking Straws chairs.

Bipolar Nation.

Written by Peter. Posted on October 21, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, design, politics, trend, user interface. No comments.
Bipolar Nation.
I’m a sucker for infographics to begin with, and this one’s a doozy.  Interesting to see this all spread out for analysis… A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from the book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th).

Refill 2.0

Written by Peter. Posted on October 14, 2009. Filed under annunciation, consumer, design, food, interactive, signs, technology, user interface. 2 Comments.
Refill 2.0
Allan at Vector Living sent me this illustration, figuring I’d appreciate it (being an absolute caffeine junkie). Love it.