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Local: The Emerging Mega Trend

Published on March 20, 2010 By Nick Taylor

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about the power of local EVERYTHING, spanning from political concepts to new technology, reaching even the most banal aspects of our lives. Leading off, in politics, British writer Phillip Blond, whose ideas have received a lot of buzz globally, has laid out his three big areas of reform [...]

New Places, New Faces: Where to go in 2010

Published on January 14, 2010 By Nick Taylor

Just released: The 31 Places to Go in 2010, new ideas for places across the world to travel to by the New York Times. While many can and do take issue with the paper’s fairly liberal standpoint when it comes to politics, I have to tell you that at least IMHO their writing is second to [...]

America Resurrected

Published on November 25, 2009 By Nick Taylor

After two and a half years of self-imposed exile, it was time to make a grand (re)entrance to my country of birth. I must confess to being nervous and unsure of whether or not it was even worth the trip, after all I had left behind, given up and sold off… Landing groggy eyed at [...]

Health Care Diatribe

Published on September 24, 2009 By Nick Taylor

Most of you are by now well familiar with the recent effort by US President Obama to push through universal health care for all Americans… an effort that will undoubtedly fail, just like the Clinton effort spectacularly crashed & burned years ago, so I will spare you the details… So why bother talking about this? [...]

Branding & corporate identity trends for 2009

Published on May 31, 2009 By Nick Taylor

Apparently even corporate giants are re-thinking their branding approach, as the recession makes the challenge of standing out that much harder yet more important than ever… In their profound wisdom, designers at the behest of marketing experts are making logos softer, livelier, more colorful, one might say even cheerier… The screenshot at the left from [...]