July 11, 2008

Viral Marketing Review: Using and Identifying Design Patterns

Filed under: Design, Social Web, Technology, Trends & Insight, Uncategorized, Viral Patterns, Virals — Mike Laurie @ 5:04 pm

Design Patterns in Viral Marketing

(En français)

There are exactly one hundred million billion new viral marketing campaigns seeded every 10 minutes - the vast majority are completely dire and destined to fail. So what separates success from failure? Well, the best appear to exhibit similar patterns and by using these patterns in your own campaigns you could be on your way to a free buffet and a drunken snog at next Summer’s Revolution Awards.

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June 9, 2008

Creative Farming

Filed under: Amusing, Design — Mike Laurie @ 8:52 am

Creatives don’t just grow on tress you know!

Creds: Emily.

April 7, 2008

This Aint No Disco… It’s Where We Work

Filed under: Design — Mike Laurie @ 8:59 am

Ugh, some of these offices are really swish. Fahrenheit 212 gets my vote for its Eames-goes-Gothic-style study.

Creds: Jamie

March 19, 2008

Mike Rohde’s Sketchnotes from SXSW Interactive

Filed under: Amusing, Design — Mike Laurie @ 9:21 am

I am truly loving Mike Rohde’s Sketchnotes from the recent SXSW Interactive Festival. See them all in this Flickr set.
Inspirational Sketchnotes

February 27, 2008

John Maeda’s Talk at TED

Filed under: Design, Technology — Mike Laurie @ 10:09 pm

I’m a big fan of John Maeda, his Envisioning Information is an inspiration for anyone who has ever scratched their head and looked sideways at tables of data and thought ‘There’s got to be an easier way for people to understand this’. This delightful and amusing little presentation from TED is worth spending 16 minutes of your life on. I never realised that he’s a such an entertaining speaker.