N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

If there’s an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, this is an angel. A short, easy read, but full of good reminders of how to do things the right way. Paul Arden is a seasoned Saatchi & Saatchi vet, and shares his wisdom with a confident, funny, inspiring delivery. A great […]

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Cute. More here. Or download the entire PDF for handy reference in times of anxiety.

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Noun is the industry leader of leading-edge architectures. We will step up our ability to engage without reducing our capability to visualize. If all of this seems improbable to you, that’s because it is! What does it really mean to optimize “intra-efficiently”? Imagine a combination of XSL and XSLT. It seems discombobulating, but it’s realistic! […]

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Consistently smart, grouchy posts from the designer’s designer – always on the move.

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From the always-great I Have An Idea: An advertising team is working very late at night on a project due the next morning. Suddenly, a Genie appears before them and offers to each of them one wish. The copywriter says: “I’ve always dreamed of writing the great American novel and having my work studied in […]

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Just in, from Bob on the GDC list-serv. Too good to pass up posting: 1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects. 2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. 3. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. 4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. 5. Avoid clichés like the plague. […]

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