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MacArthur launches $50 million digital media and learning initiative
David Polinchock on creating a retail brand experience
In an article in the premiere issue of Marketing at Retail, David Polinchock of the Brand Experience Lab looks at the key developments today in creating a compelling, authentic and relevant retail brand experience. Polinchock discusses the growing trend of…
Book: ‘We-Think’ on collective creativity
Samsung’s DigitAll brand magazine on greatness in the digital era
Bob Jacobson on advertising and experience design
Bob Jacobson is one of the more thoughtful thinkers on experience design and the commentary he provides on his Total Experience blog is therefore frequently cited on Putting People First. Yesterday he analysed how the advertising profession has opened a…
Fabrica at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Established in 1994 on the initiative of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani, Fabrica is a communications research centre whose range of activities extends from graphic design to cinema, taking in industrial design, writing, interactive media, photography and music on the…
Of tails and walls [International Herald Tribune]
“The old model [of the global marketplace] was one of control,” said Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine and author of the book “The Long Tail“, while he was recently in Paris. “Companies could control the user experience, and they…
Customer-centric digital signage in retail environments
“A retail executive who is considering a digital signage system shouldn’t let the tail wag the dog,” writes Peter Vrettas in Extended Retail Solutions. “Content, rather than hardware or software, drives digital signage. And the best digital signage systems are…
Schools and universities setting up shop in Second Life [USA Today]
World Usability Day on 14 November – major event in Milan
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organises on 14 November 2006 its second global World Usability Day, with events in more than one hundred cities around the world. The World Usability Day event in Italy, which is also aimed at a…
Book: Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Philips: LiveSimplicity
Trendwatching.com on status skills
2008 World Congress of Architecture in Torino
Book: Creativity and the City
Creativity and the City is the title of a new book, edited by Simon Franke and Evert Verhagen, on how the how the creative economy is changing the city, particularly in the Netherlands. “The creative class and the creative city…