Looks like Yamaha are putting the fun back into scooters…
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/23/view/7953/yamaha-new-ec-f-scooter.html
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Buy cheap, buy twice – a saying that rings true in all professions.
There are lots of companies out there using logos “designed” by the boss, a member of staff or a member of their family. Although anyone can have a good idea and many of these logos may have a good concept, it is often the execution of these ideas that under values the company or product. At the time of creation, these results are often not judged on design, but weather they are “nice and colourful” or whether the said logo prints. This leads to a low standard of design and reluctance to pay for professional design and production “when I can do it myself”.
So another website went live and I forgot to tell the world. A little while back i-KOS were approached to produce a website for an air-conditioning installation company. Not a very glamorous product, but the guys at Skuddair are very good at their job and have completed numerous installs and are pushing forward new ways to use air-conditioning.
Now I love air-cooled VWs and the prices of Split Screen Buses has spiralled upwards at an alarming rate. No longer can you pick up a Bus for a few hundred pounds and get it on the road for a few hundred more. However, those cool dudes over at Fat Face have launched a new competition, with a first prize of a classic Split Screen camper van.
It’s so easy to jump straight into your chosen creative software package and start crafting a design, this is where the problems begin. By doing this you’re running off with the excitement of the new brief, a style or idea that you wish to use (appropriate or not) and heading straight for an end result which will be limited by your knowledge of your chosen software. By doing this you can end up with a design that is not very well thought through and you will probably end up having to start over again.
Simon Surtees put me onto this fun little application which creates s summarized graphic of how the web sees you, as picked by all online traffic. While it obviously includes all namesakes, it does go some way to illustrating your online presence.
With this in mind I wonder if I revisit this in a few months, after my blog has been up running a while, whether I can influence any change?
Why not visit the Personas website and try your name, it even works with company names too.
Nice example of a Facebook mashup, Friend Wheel is a simple Facebook application that creates a radial graph out of all your Facebook friends. It creates a lovely info-graphic, here’s my Friend Wheel:
Get your own Friend Wheel
Øyvind Skinnes Turbobeetle ran a 9.03 1/4 mile at this weekend’s SCC drag meeting at Gardermoen raceway, Norway. This I think makes it the Worlds fastest street legal, floorpan Beetle! Quite an achievement, will we see an 8 second floor pan Bug soon? See the video on YouTube:
Worlds fastest beetle (9.03 @ 1/4 mile, 256km/t)
A wireframe is a framework which defines the basic layout, placement of content and page elements (such as navigation, header & footer) within a website
Wireframes serve a central function in the development of a website. Devoid of graphic (visual) treatment, they represent the architectural design of the website – and serve as a blueprint for graphic designers to produce visual designs (user interface), and for developers to build functionality.
Having helped to develop the CANSO brand over 2008 i-KOS were invited to provide an initial design concept and later awarded the task of producing all the creative for the project. Web development was to be undertaken by a seperate company in the Netherlands. Once started, the scope of the project expanded to include the following:
Once signed off we provided a complete web-kit to the development team in the Netherlands, who promptly built the site.
CANSO is the global voice of ATM (air traffic management) and represents the interests of Air Navigation Services Providers worldwide, plus the companies that provide services to this industry.
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