What if you show up at the train station for your morning commute and find not the usual announcements, but The Sound of Music? That’s what happened at the central train station in Antwerp, Belgium, …
Archive for August, 2009
Lost at the post office
Thursday, August 27th, 2009I was in line at my local post office. Ahead of me was a mother and her about 5 year old daughter. The girl was busy looking around at all the wondrous things you can …
Movie studio plussing the customer
Friday, August 14th, 2009Marley & Me is good movie. Gripping story well told. A must to add to the collection.
But which one to get? There is the single disc standard definition DVD, the 2-disc bad dog edition on …
Is that camera a Sony?
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Do you have Sony equipment?
This was a key question during a phone call with a prospective client recently. It seemed he had 2 requirements: that we do HD production (yes, we most certainly do) …
Scandinavian Design
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009One way I would characterize myself is: a Swedish Designer, transplanted into the mid-south of the U.S.
Scandinavian Design is sometimes used almost as a marketing ploy, as if a design is automatically better just because …
Subtitles and Closed Captioning
Saturday, August 8th, 2009Watched Slumdog Millionaire recently on a small TV from across the room. It’s a good movie and it really deserves a bigger screen, but this particular day I was watching it in widescreen on a …
HDTV screen sizes
Thursday, August 6th, 2009If you’ve even looked at a high definition TV, you know the image is much sharper compared to standard definition. There’s just so much more information in that picture. And these days, TVs and monitors …
Logo: to change or not to change
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Some companies seem to belong to the logo-of-the-month club and feel the need to change their visual identity with amazing frequency. Then there is the odd company that keeps hanging on to a clearly outdated …
Chain reactions or One of those days
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Went to scan some slides, only the scanner lid wouldn’t open all the way, as the shelf above was too low. No problem. That’s why we use adjustable shelves. So I moved the shelf. That …
Clogs and design
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Clogs were a fashion item in the US in the 1970’s, but for anyone growing up in Sweden, especially in Skåne, it was never so much about fashion, as practical, everyday wear, for men and …
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