Category: Design

I thoroughly enjoyed scrolling through this interesting article on Tech Radar which catalogues the many faces of the Microsoft Windows brand over the last 24 years. The packaging and indeed the whole computing experience have gone on quite a journey. I never owned a copy of Windows 1.0 but I fondly recall traipsing half the…

Completely random post: Fans of bubble wrap now have 365 reasons to look forward to next year. The immensely desirable Bubble Calendar is a handmade poster sized calendar with a finger sized bubble to burst every day! A truly novel way to count down the days until 2010; popping bubbles certainly beats chalking on the…

Design news: I saw this on the BBC’s Have I Got New For You TV programme on Friday. But it’s so hilarious, I thought I’d share it here. The new logo unveiled by the Office of Government Commerce last week has turned out to be a real cock-up. It’s remarkable that for £14,000 (around US$30,000)…

We’ve all done it. Devoured a delicious bottle of wine, staggered home to bed, then completely forgotten the name of the nectareous liquid that addled our brains. Well, forget no more. This lovely design work by Oxford Landing, purveyors of fine wines from Australia, brings to an end those days of wine memory failure. Just…