February 2008

Blogging – does your business need a blog?

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Image above: We’ve just taken delivery (courtesy of Sheriff) of two new recycled Ansett Airline trolleys to add to our fleet which we use as storage units around the studio.

I stumbled across this well written article by Kristen Le Mesurier on blogging in The Age Innovator archives recently which has a nice clear explanation of what blogging is and why it’s relevant to business.

The article references our blog and specifically makes mention of our willingness to share our successes and failures related to sustainability initiatives in the studio. Like most businesses i think, blogging isn’t always our first priority and we’ve been a bit quiet lately while we focus on client work and evolving our Considered Design methods. The article has definitely inspired me to get our blogging house in order …

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My first magazine cover …

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.. ok ok so i’m sharing it with 20 other people. So B&T recently hosted an evening through Holly at Pearl PR for innovative digital business owners as part of a cover story for their Digital Media magazine. It was an interesting night listening to a range of passionate people talk about their little babies and how they were growing.

The mag is out now so i guess this is how they sell a lot of copies, put a stack of people on the front cover! Less motivated people can read it online on a rather annoying flash magazine simulator.

Shipping Container Lovefest …

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We had an interesting conversation in the igloo recently that triggered an all out lovefest about the uber sustainable and ohh so cool practice of designing built environments utilising old shipping containers. It turns out many of us had a favourite example of the genre and so the list below was created.

One eskimo asked ‘Why shipping containers?!’ (innocently enough). Well, where do you begin? They are the ultimate in adaptive re-use of an existing resource that has significant embodied energy. They require creativity and a serious commitment to good design to use well. They finish up looking hot if done right of course, so much so that we are contemplating their use for our next studio when we leave our current space in Surry Hills.

So without further ado, the Digital Eskimo Container Design Hall of Fame …

LOT-EK MDU Shipping Container House

Containerterminal voor studenten (Student Container accommodation in Amsterdam)

Container City (UK)

The Illy Coffee shop (video)

SoCo Cargo Mobile Music venue

Frietag Store (More at Treehugger)

Got any more? Send them in!