We recently stumbled across a great site showcasing some of the fantastic work from the legendary Saul Bass.
Bass made the movie title sequence into an artform, collaborating with great movie makers such as Hitchcock, Preminger and Scorsese.
The interactive image galleries in particular caught our eye, each one reminding us how iconic these titles have become.
www.notcoming.com/saulbass/index2.php

Digital design consultancy Splendid is creating a new Facebook-style social networking site for entrepreneurs, due to go live this autumn.
Owned by Brightstation Ventures, business support website Smarta will put those wanting to start or grow a business in touch with other entrepreneurs. Dyson director Richard Needham sits on Smarta’s board.
‘A website like Linked In has […]

Sad news from Italy as iconic car designer tragically dies in a road accident at 51. Designer of one of our favourite 80’s pin-ups the Ferrari Testarossa and the beautiful Alfa Romeo GTV…
Andrea Pininfarina, chairman of Pininfarina car design company that designed body shells for Ferrari, Fiat and Maserati, has died in a road traffic […]

What is an autoresponder? You may be thinking that you’ve heard of the term but haven’t had any need to use one. Well it might be the case that you have already been on the receiving end of autoresponder messages in the past.
If you have filled out a web form, such as the one on […]

Before you embark on an SEO campaign, it can be useful to find out what the “Search Engines” consider to be “good practice”. Below is an article taken from Google’s webmaster help centre. It goes some way to explaining SEO, and more importantly what Google considers unacceptable when it comes to optimising your website.
“What’s an […]

Have you noticed the increasing amount of 0870 numbers that are popping up?
Most of us will have committed to a phone contract that includes an allocation of free minutes to other mobiles or landlines. What we find really annoying is that these so called Premium or Lo-call numbers are excluded from any inclusive minutes that […]

Hopefully you will have noticed a section on our homepage called, “stuff we like…” One of the links in this section is www.simpsonizeme.com
We thought it was only fair to show you how good this site actually is, so we decided to Simponsize ourselves. You can see the results below.

At the very least it’s a good […]

The summer is officially here and festival season is in full swing!
Masters Allen didn’t want to miss out, so we headed for the sunny (well almost sunny) fields of Oxfordshire for ‘Wakestock’ the UK national wakeboarding festival. For those of you who don’t know what wake boarding is, then it’s simply waterskiing but with a […]

For those of you that share our love of all things Mac. You may find this post quite enlightening, we did!

The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don’t know is that […]

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