Earlier I posted about a short book from Marty Neumeier. If you haven’t read it yet, you may not have to. Marty and his brand consultancy have produced a slideshow that does a very good job at explaining how to bridge the gap between business strategy and design. Worth a look here people - Don’t let the 162 slides put you off, it’s quite succinct and annoyingly good.

We’ve been on a website and blog refinement journey as you may have noticed. We decided to redesign our website to add a bit more information while keeping it simple, clean and easy to navigate. Hopefully, we’ve achieved this. We adopted the same line of thought for Carpark - simple clean lines and big fonts to bring some consistency to our two platforms. I must admit though, the site still uses Flash and requires at least some knowledge of code to build. Now we’re not trying to take anything away from Leon here (good job Leon!), but this morning I was captivated by one of the most unique and basic websites I’ve come across. Read more »

When everybody zigs, zag. This is what Marty Neumeier had to say about brands in his short, manifesto-like book “ZAG - The #1 Strategy of High Performance Brands”. Sound interesting? I haven’t read it yet but judging by whats on Zagbook, I’m eager to get a copy. Read more »