Great example of brain power wasting from Gamedaily.com : NPD analysts make a report on kids and digital content, find out kids like to play.

"What I think might be interesting is that game-playing drives much of kids' early use of digital devices and content."

Thanks for your insights, but what I think might be interesting is that you find a quicker way to tell your readers the air is transparent, or skip to your next analysis. Oh, and read this book if you haven't.
Game-playing is driving kids' early use of anything they can put their hands on, dear analysts, this is what childhood is made for, this is how we learn.

Labels: fingerpointing, gaming, reading

About this ringtones issue in iTunes.

Songs as ringtones is one of the worst experience that mobile phones have brought to us : it's an attention seeker feature, nothing more. Having a song playing when this given person calls might mean something to you, and that's fine, but for the 2/5/20 people around, it's just intrusive and embarrassing.

If you don't get the point, picture yourself in the line at the grocery store ; the guy next to you receives a call. Yeah, he's a metal fan. And metal is good when it's played loud, you see. He looks at his phone, sees who's calling and doesn't look too happy about it. The song keeps playing like there was a grinder in there. He rolls his eyes, groans, takes another look, says something like "shit", looks at you, smiles and doesn't understand why this expression of pain in your face is growing into a rage rictus. Is he going to be your friend ? Well, if you still can consider it could have been much worse, maybe. Maybe not.

So, having to pay twice the price to get one ? As unfair as it can be, it's still not expensive enough. Save our soundscape, make it ten times.

Labels: apple, ecology, fingerpointing, music, phone, sound

Jasper Morrison in Milan during the 2007 Salone, discussing the term "Supernormal" with the new director of Domus magazine :

"Supernormal is the synthetic replacement for normal. Because I think we're not innocent enough anymore to make normal. We kind of threw it away, it's gone.
Everything now which is build, every chain store, every restaurant, every chair, every teacup is designed.
The innocence of a product which is really at ease in an atmosphere is lost.
So I think that's really a dangerous situation.
The goal of design has been distorted in a way by too much media attention, you know, too much attention on the designer.
...
So, yeah, I think this is something we need to talk about, at least."

The interview has an overall Borat taste but these words made it worth to look at. Get to the Philippe Starck bit for a live example of what he meant.

Labels: allstar, fingerpointing, ondesign

Tom Dixon and Lacoste's eco polo's packaging may have this "green" appeal, not designing and producing it would have been be more effective for the health of our planet.
Why would a polo need a cardboard box - recycled or not - to be sold ?
These guys must have fun fooling people like that.

Labels: fake-ecodesign, fingerpointing