Promoted Tweets: what are they and how can they benefit my business?
A few months back Twitter announced that their ‘promoted tweets’ advertising platform is now open to small to medium sized businesses here in the UK, as well as in Ireland and Canada. Until this month, Twitter’s paid advertising platform was only accessible to huge brands who have been using promoted tweets to advertise for years. […]
Oscars new brand identity design
Oscars new brand identity design The Oscar statuette is one of the most recognisable icons in the world, but many people may be less familiar with the branding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, or at least the designs they have used in the past. This may be the reasoning behind the […]
Your Business Relationship With Social Networks – Detrimental, Beneficial or Symbiotic?
Love it, hate it, or only use it to catch up with friends, social media is here to stay. Social media has grown up a lot since the days of Bebo and Myspace, and now includes a myriad of different apps and sites, from Snapchat to What’sApp, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, Instagram, Viber and Pinterest, […]
Yeah Yeah Yeah – Print Design
One of a series of side project prints that can be found over at Inkup Gallery
A TipTop idea
TipTop is a simply designed bluetooth corner speaker that is fully portable and easily installed. It’s corner location actually enhances the sound quality it produces, a neat example of design using it’s surroundings. Love the idea and really surprised it didn’t takeoff and secure it’s funding over on Kickstarter.
Yahoo! 30 days of copying Google.
What do you do when your main competitor is internet giant Google? Out innovate them? Create an exciting media campaign to show how different you are to them? No apparently you copy them, well, least a little bit. To explain, Yahoo have launched a new campaign called ’30 days of change’. This involves them showing a […]
How to choose an accountant
So, you’ve got a brilliant business idea and you need some help on the accounts and tax side. You’re not stupid but there’s a lot that you don’t understand. So how do you find the right accountant for you? Well, the first thing to know is that ANYBODY (including you) can call themselves an accountant; […]
‘A Short Lesson in Perspective’- Go home and kiss your wife and kids
Thought it worth sharing the article ‘A Short Lesson in Perspective’ that I came across while browsing davidairey.com I found the article both honest and powerful. Also especially poignant given it was written by Linds Redding a few months before he died of cancer last year aged 52. There’s a lot of truth in it and really is worth […]
Amazewall – Logo Design
AmazeWall delivers socially interactive displays that are projected onto walls or broadcast on TV screens at company events. Dot Design recently designed the above logo for this new social media service. Whether you want to display a constantly updating Twitter stream about your conference, keep your trade show attendees informed with up-to-the-second information, or run a Q&A […]
Choosing a Financial Adviser
When choosing an adviser in whom you are going to hopefully engage and place your trust in the implicitly there are many things that can be done and basic checks that can be made. I would respectfully suggest that an Independent Adviser can serve you better than an Adviser who is restricted, check that the […]