Anouk Van Den Eijnde writes: So here’s something I don’t do very often – I built a house, decorated it and put it up for rent all in one night. I wish it were that easy in real life. Last week
The lure of celebrity
January 29, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Andrew Curry writes: I think we sometimes under-estimate the power of the relationship between our increasingly audio-visual world and the rise of celebrity culture. And the second part of this story
Cultural values, design, and global production
January 22, 2008 by 1 Comment
Eleanor Cooksey writes: I recently read WPP’s annual journal of marketing insights, Atticus, and noted an interesting point towards the end of an article called ‘Getting the little things
It’s not about the money any more
January 21, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Brian Chien writes: In an article for the latest edition of the Royal Mail’s Contact magazine, we looked at how modern consumer currencies go way beyond money. Sparked by some recent examples of
The attitude-behaviour gap on debt
January 16, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Gemma Stevenson writes: The scale of consumer debt in this country is now pretty well-known - whether it's the £1,000 million of mortgage debt or the fact that overall consumer indebtedness now
The power of packaging
January 11, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Jake Goretzki writes: Belgian chocolate - while evidament the best in the world - has always let itself down by the conservatism of its brands (Cote D'Or's range hasn't really changed for the last 40
From wind-powered cheese to socially-conscious snack bars
January 9, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Anouk van den Eijnde writes: Over the past few months our global streetscapers have been busy tracking down examples of how sustainability issues like energy consumption and fair trade are playing
In with the old?
January 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Jo Philips writes: I was struck by the following quote when reading the historian Theodore Zeldin today: “What to do with too much information is the great riddle of our time. My solution is to
iCoursework
January 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Lucy Pickard writes: In an interesting classroom change, A-level media studies students will now earn 20% of their marks by podcasting or blogging, according to various newspaper reports (Education
