Category Archive Technology

R.I.P. IE6

So, I walked into the office today and to my most pleasurable surprise, I found an invitation sitting in my inbox to the official funeral of Internet Explorer Six, better known to us Interactive folk as IE6. Apparently, this long-time Internet resident had passed away on the morning of March 1, 2010 due to workplace injuries sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Read More…

Brilliant Mapping by Elastic Space

I can’t even begin to tell you how excited this makes me. Back in December, I was invited into George Brown School of Design to mentor the post-grad students on their final projects. One of those bright, young stars had an idea to improve the wayfinding at Union Station. Read More…

Prosthetic Brands

The theories around trust marketing assume a general ideology wherein brands ask for extended engagement by a consumer. Over the past few months, I’ve witnessed some rhetoric that calls upon a push-pull metaphor to somehow tip the scales in favour of a rudimentary idea. I’m tired of it. Read More…

GIFs for You

In my quest of finding the perfect GIFs for our blog readers, I came across the work of the New York photographer/graphic artist duo – Reed+Radar. Apparently the future of online fashion editorials is headed towards 1987 (that’s the year when animated GIFs were first introduced by CompuServe [...] Read More…

3D FX OMG

James Cameron is changing the game. I need to change my pants. Read More…

BELL Samsung Galaxy Launch Party

Wednesday was the first snow fall in Toronto. What could warm up a techie’s heart more than some wine and hors d’oeuvres at the launch party for BELL Samsung Galaxy android mobile phone at the Thrush Holmes Empire? The Samsung Galaxy is now available exclusively through BELL beginning December 10, 2009. Read More…