December 2009
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Donate here to the St Vincent de Paul →
Finally, we round off our little set of Christmas blog posts with something more important: After a year when more Irish people than ever have needed their help, here’s a link to the online donation page of the St Vincent de Paul. They do astonishing work every Christmas, but this year they really need all our support. Happy Christmas, everyone!
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New York Times takes an intellectual sledgehammer... →
Sustaining the US news-media tradition started with an 1897 editorial in a neighboring paper, here’s a rather earnest debate between child psychologists on when and how to talk to your kids about Santa.
In the “great minds think alike” department, one of our fellow Tumblrs posted the same link today a few clicks before us in the timeline - props to the far more prolific...
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For the kids - or the kid within... →
Fancy getting a personalised video message from Santa? (Or sending one, if you’re just too mature for this kind of thing…) - Here’s a site that does just that, and does it very well.
Still at work? Take a giggle break. →
We’re in the process of finding seasonally themed stuff to mark the beginning of the Christmas Holidays - but here’s an even better idea: A bunch of viral videos gathered into one Selection Box of giggles from Irish web agency Mad Dog Digital. Thanks to @maddog_dave for sending me the link!
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WatchThis delightful animation explains the innovative applications that may follow from the development of “printable batteries” - power sources so small and thin that they can be printed in a magazine, or woven into a garment.
It’s taken from the fascinating (and lethally distracting) “Year in Ideas” issue of the New York Times Magazine, which we found via @bbhlabs.
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Punctuating Brands →
NYT on the typographic quirks some brands enforce to gain stand-out.
An interesting article that explains the strategy behind some punctuation-driven brand names.
The article originates the trend in acronyms (MoMA), and explains the popularity of the technique in the last decade as a symptom of brand designers attempting to to gain total control over every aspect of a brand’s...
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