You may have heard of South by South West, the famous music festival held annually in Austin, Texas. Unless you’re in the industry, you’re less likely to have heard of the film and interactive festivals that are also part of the month-long event.
At Clearleft, we regularly close the office and all head over for the [...]
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“I could care less” is just wrong
Just a quick note about something that really annoys me from time to time. People who say “I could care less” to mean they don’t care.
I’m not being in any way anti-American, but this grammatical quirk has developed only in American-English, and is not present in British-English. I’m not just saying it’s bad-English; this phrase [...]
Misplaced helpfulness
richardr has a photo of Broadcasting House on Flickr. His photo is titled “White City”. That would be an easy mistake to make since they’re both BBC buildings, so I left a comment simply saying the photo seemed to be mis-titled White City, rather than Broadcasting House.
I thought I was being helpful. He replied by [...]
Heinz: men kissing is offensive
In the UK Heinz have pulled a TV ad showing a kiss between two men, after it received over 200 complaints that it was “offensive” and “inappropriate to see two men kissing”.
The advert shows a morning family routine – dad is getting ready for work whilst mum prepares sandwiches for the children. Because the sandwiches [...]
The road to dConstruct 2008
Every summer the Clearleft office buzzes with the excitement in the lead-up to dConstruct, the web design conference we organise here in Brighton. Preparations are well under way for this year’s event, which is on 5th September, with two days of exclusive workshops leading up to it.
For the last few weeks I’ve been designing the [...]
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Paul Annett is a senior designer at Clearleft, a user experience design consultancy in Brighton, England.
When he's not making websites, writing about websites or talking about websites, Paul enjoys performing magic tricks and living by the sea with @RellyAB and their two beautiful little boys. More →
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