If you’ve ever worked in design in marketing or advertising, whether online or traditional mediums, you’ll know that clients expect you to come up with creative that works miracles. I’m currently working with a client, for example, who expects me to create ads that will help sell their totally BS money-making, enviro-sucking hotel development as [...]

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I search a lot and therefore made Google my home page. And if over 70% of the worlds internet traffic is going via Google, why not make it a destination rather than a launch platform?

And for the first time ever, Twitter has really come into its own for me. Turns out that a massive amount of music gets posted on Twitter every day, you just need to know where to look or how to search for it. Who knew?

Blind Search is a search tool that provides results to any search you type in from Google, Bing and Yahoo all on one page in three neat columns… but doesn’t tell you which column belongs to which. You then get to compare results side by side and vote for which one you think gave the best results. Once you’ve voted, the name of each search engine pops up at the top of each column.

So by this stage if you haven’t heard of Twitter then there may be no hope for you….that’s not fair though I suppose, perhaps you’re still grieving for JFK, celebrating Mandela’s release or amazed that the US put a man on the moon.

Birds of a feather flock together….attention designers, Aviary is a collection of creative applications that you can use in your web browser. The site also says that Aviary is a community of friendly artists to share and collaborate with.
The Phoenix image editor, Toucan colour swatches and palettes and Peacock visual lab are just a few [...]