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Everyday Things Invented By Accident
Post-It notes The microwave oven Viagra Velcro Cornflakes The pacemaker saccharin Fireworks X-Rays Potato Crisps Penicillin
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About: the smiley
Harvey Ball, designer of the iconic smiley face, was paid $45 for his design and never took out a trademark on the image. He never regretted not cashing in on the success, saying “Hey, I can only eat...
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The history of the meme
The biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term ‘meme’ in 1976 to describe ideas that are copied from brain to brain. The term was not widely used until the internet caused memes to become viral in the...
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I love the work of Stefan Draschan
I love the work of photographer Stefan Draschan – he looks at our world in interesting ways. From people matching museum artworks (none of them staged, just captured with a great deal of patience) and...
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So typically Swedish
When I moved to Sweden, the one thing that took a lot of getting used to was the informality and flat hierarchical structure at work. Sweden doesn’t use titles – no Mr, Ms, Doctor, Professor. You just...
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Social distancing, Spanish style
Thank you to Marian C-I for adding this to a comment on my previous blog post. This is an amazing idea! In Sweden they usually just use yellow and black stripey tape! In a coffee shop in Galicia,...
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Famous logos as fonts by Emanuele Abrate
My favourite logo and identity designer, Emanuele Abrate (featured before here) has reimagined famous brands as fonts. I have to admit I struggled with Facebook and Netflix. I knew they were familiar,...
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The mind boggles
Elon Musk (one of the most famous South Africans in the world at the moment), called his son this… And, where I come from these kinds of tops are usually worn by surfers or white guys with dreadlocks...
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Kerning and Keming
In typography, kerning (less commonly mortising) is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result (Wikipedia)....
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Things don’t always translate…
Sweden often uses English names for their products – maybe because they are produced abroad, maybe for export, maybe to be more international. These two, however, would not generally be...
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Fun facts
When you were born, for a tiny amount of time, you were the youngest person on planet Earth. Every year, millions of trees grow because squirrels forget where they buried their acorns. Norway once...
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The entitlement is staggering
Posted by a successful screenwriter as a message sent to him on LinkedIn. The automatically suggested answers say it all! and another one….who sounds about 14
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