If I buy something on sales.com the response mail should come from sales.com and all links within the mail should be to sales.com. Anything else looks as a fishing attempt, and it might as well be.People who have been exposed to fishing or other scams on the Internet often wonder that the page they visited looked very professional and reliable. Because scammers and fraudsters are fully capable of creating a professional and credible appearance on their web pages. It is difficult to discern, difficult to understand, also because a lot of the ‘good’ pages do the same: they make use of alternative urls and external web services such as payment and surveys, where it is not clear that you are transfered to another web domain.

The net is flooded with apps – for smartphones and tablets. But web sites are still better viewed on a computer, right? So the marketing department is happy and web design is business as usual. Maybe because apps and web sites are considered as two different things, rather than two versions of the same.You may create coherence in web strategy by looking at app and website as the same project – in different versions, admittedly – with adapted features and design. And the task of doing this becomes easier if you design for the small mobile phones first. I wrote the following is seven notes at the Mobilism konfererencen in Amsterdam in May. Notes that appropriately is made ​​public now that ticket sales for Mobilism 2012 is close to starting.

Unfinished, ill-considered apps or apps that serve the market better than the use off it. If Apple has a sometimes paranoid restrictive approach to the formalities regarding an app you want to get into the App Store, they may have a comparable little interest in that the app works well. Fortunately, one could say, that should be the developer's task. But not everyone can not live up to this task, which also counts for DSB and the DSB Ticket app.

DSB Ticket App

DSB Ticket (from Danish Railways) falls in this category. It is marketed as the ticket office on your smartphone, which (off course) is an exaggeration. There are no special deals, no cheap tickes, no help for alternatives. And to learn this you must scroll through the 28-pages (!) all text based help. Enthusiasm is artificial, just as when you in the S-train hear oddities such as “The train doesn’t go any further – on time!”

Take a few hours with iFontMaker on the iPad and tap, tap, draw, drag, pinch through the alphabet. And you may end up with a truetype font that you can write with on any computer, whenever the font is installed.Take a few hours with iFontMaker on the iPad and tap, tap, draw, drag, pinch through the alphabet. And you may end up with a truetype font that you can write with on any computer, whenever the font is installed.What you can do with iFontMaker is not something that can't be done with a Wacom tablet for the computer, but it's a nice example of a production tool that actually can be used to a kind of production, which you as oppose to most of the productivity labeled apps hardly can produce anything with, just administer.

I must admit, it’s (still) cool to have my icon right there on the iPad screen. As an app, yes, but a website can also do the trick. And website based app may sometimes even be a better solution than a native app.Great fuzz (and a lot of buzz) since the iPad hit planet Earth. It makes sense that companies want to be present on the device that alone will ensure future growth and offer the marketing guys new fields to harvest. And as always with miracles, we soon suffer from tunnel vision. The iPad (as well as the iPhone and some other smartphones) is neat, no question about that. If I could, I’d choose the touch gestures, swipe, tap, pinch, tap, tap, swipe to interact with my personal computer, whether it’s a laptop, phone or my dinner table. As consumer, that is.

Buchstabenmuseum Berlin. Why are these letters so attractive? I don't get an answer at Buchstabenmuseum, but I most certainly get a wish to look after all these servants of the announcements, sofisticated as well as monumental.Buchstabenmuseum Berlin. Why are these letters so attractive? I don't get an answer at Buchstabenmuseum, but I most certainly get a wish to look after all these servants of the announcements, sofisticated as well as monumental.In may 2010, during the TypoBerlin conference, we put our noses against the window of Buchstabenmuseum at their location in Leipzigstraße near U-bahn Spittelmarkt. Inside there was a wonderland of 3D letters. Unfortunately open only 2 hours, one day a week.

The logo is not an element, a graphical form, but the character in the way it is exposed in various contexts. Thus, the logo is not a categorism any more, but a organism, a being.I was pleased at ‘Totaltypographic Saturday‘ in the end of octobre, as Tore Rosbo and Clea Simonsen from the design bureau 1508 presented the identity for Århus University. I had seen it before, the new identity, in real life, and thought: Hey, ther’s something there ... Bauhau typo, a typographic grachic solution. It worked, but there was something else as well.
And that else revealed itself, there in the middle of saturday afternoon: A logo generator, yes

Unpack, assemble and light. It’s so simple that I think I might have been able to it without the instruction. If it hadn't been for all the warnings.Every second package in the presents game was from the Tiger shop. Things! It’s funny, and cheap. But most of it, I’m afraid, I would never have bought to myself. On the other side of the world people have been busy, the things are produced, carried to here. And after a brief toying, the thing is forgotten. Honestly. I know that they don’t know on the other side how we treat the things (can they guess?), but it really isn’t a meaningful work.

Oh yeah, noo, it’s a road, right ... Jyllinge[road]? Well, but everybody familiar with the S-trains in Copenhagen, especially between Ballerup and Vanløse, knows that Jyllingevej is the last station before Vanløse. And now it is no station.Well then, Jyllingevej is the last station (if I may insist) before Vanløse, and thus of some interest. Since this very morning a pour fellow has thrown himself out in front of a train. So: “Herlev. Due to a collision on Vanløse has all train been stopped between Herlev and Vanlose. This train doesn't go any further. There will be busses instead.”

The concert was as a birthday present to Michael Vesterskov from the band who played at the theatre piece Det Blå Hotel [The Blue Hotel]. And gifts are, just like services, not something you pay back. You hand them along.So Michael gave us the music, as the host offers gifts for the guest. Thank you.The band is:
Michael Vesterskov: Leadvokal, guitar,
Simon Toldam (Young Jazz Name of the Year, 2007): klaver, orgel.
Jacob Falgren: Bass,
Anders Banke: Klarinet, bass clarinet, barytonsax,
Qarin Wikström: Kor, omnicord, percussion,
Knut Finsrud: Drums,
Samuel Hällkvist (The Jazz Name of the Year, Sweden 2009): Guitars, banjo.