Archive for March 2010

 
 

Free Twitter background

Here’s a really cool generic Twitter background which we created for all you lovely Tweeters out there:

twitterBg1

Click the image above for the full version.

Feel free to use it but please keep our credit on there.

Thanks! :-)

Bag of milk anyone?

A bag of milk

We’ve just started buying our milk in bags.

75% Less packaging compared to a 2 pint plastic milk bottle and a lot less waste.

A big help on our quest to be more eco-friendly!

So pop into Sainsburys to buy a milk bag, but don’t forget to buy a jug, it’s a bit tricky trying to pour milk into your cereal otherwise.

A man bag which holds a 17″!

Man Bag from Fat Face

I’ve been hunting high and low for a decent looking bag to carry my 17″ MacBook Pro and all my other gubins.

There’s a lot of lovely laptop bags on the market for 15″ laptop’s, but all the 17″ laptop bags are a bit naff. So, whilst casually browsing in Fat Face, Cheltenham, imagine the excitement in my eyes when I stumbled upon this beauty (above).

Hope this helps all the men out there who are in need of a cool man bag, to hold their 17″… laptop.

Click the following link to view online – www.fatface.com

The chunky British plug, a thing of the past?

Chunky Plug - Image from www.designsoftheyear.com

Chunky Plug - image from www.designsoftheyear.com

Yesterday (16/03/2010) a graduate one a leading design contest with his genius plug design.

Min-Kyu Choi, who’s plug design is less than a centimeter thick has transformed the standard British plug, which is ugly, chunky and hasn’t been redesigned since 1946!

His design won the Brit Insurance design of the year award and we can’t believe it’s taken this long for the plug to be redesigned. He’s proved that everyday objects such as the plug can be transformed into something elegant and practical.

We’re sure that Min-Kyu Choi will make his millions from this revolutionary plug design and hope it’s implemented soon, so that plugs no longer get in the way when we pack our precious Apple Macbooks into laptop cases.

Does the colour of your brand matter?

colour theory

The answer is… Yes.

Colour is a very important part of design, it affects the way people feel about you.

Not wishing to blow our own trumpet but to prove our point we’ve used our brand colours as an example.

Jealous Design is predominantly Orange and Black and here’s the theory about our chosen colours.

Orange
Orange is a combination of its two neighbours on the color wheel, red and yellow. Orange symbolizes happiness, joy and sunshine. It is a cheerful color, evoking childlike exuberance.

Black
It is often correlated with power, elegance, sophistication, and depth.

For more about colour theory visit Six Revisions – A look into Colour Theory