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The hard working French…

I’ve been lucky enough to work for a very French company of late. They’re generous, easy-going and really not clock-watchers.
So reading this today about the extra work created for French Diplomats by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy popping over to the UK last week made me smile.

…said Jean-Claude Forestier, assistant attache for cultural affairs at the French embassy […]

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At Sixty Miles an Hour, the Loudest Noise…

Watched a great documentary on BBC4 last night about David Ogilvy.
Short of knowing Ogilvy had the best shade of red this side of the Economist I knew little about their history.
Ogilvy was behind this line, At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. This is probably […]

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So this is what’s going on at T5

Tonight Cadbury’s aired their new ad, a follow-up from Gorilla.
Great timing gives us a tongue-in-cheek insight into just what’s been going on at T5 - baggage handlers pissing about racing down the runway when they should be sorting Ms. Goodmans’s bags. Good on them.
The ad, which runs to the classic Don’t stop me now, winding […]

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Manufactured Landscapes

So in just a few months, all things going well, I’ll have a product design degree.
Then I’ll get a job designing stuff, using all the skills I’ve learnt to do all the user testing, get the aesthetics just right and draw it up in CAD when it’ll get manufactured. Where? well if you do what […]

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Great service design

I tried online food shopping for the first time this week.
I signed up to Ocado ages ago, but never tried it, and with impending dissertation hand-in (we’re talking sub 30 days now) I don’t have time to cycle to the shops every other day so the prospect of food delivered to our fridge seemed a […]

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Keeping it regular

So writing a blog isn’t so easy.Time, being the evil unforgiving force it is marches on, leaving little time to, dare I say it, procrastinate. So being hungry this evening I cycled to Sainsbury’s, telling myself I’d find something to blog there. Without going all Gillian McKeith on you I noticed there’s loads of stuff […]

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