Thursday, 30 September 2010

Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 is soon to be released. Specifically, October for the EU, and November for the US.


For those that haven't checked out Windows Phone 7 already, it looks great. The apps are slick too (check out the foursquare video for example). It's all based on Window's new design paradigm, called "Metro". The WP7 homescreen presents you with a bunch of dynamic tiles as a starting point, allowing you to see everything that important to you at a glance.



Despite it's shiny new look and feel, whether it will be able to compete with the iPhone's massive following of users and developers has yet to be seen.

Monday, 27 September 2010

New flexible PWC brand by Wolff Olins...




With the rebrand of Accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Wolff Olins have created a flexible brand identity that adapts to it's application. The panes of colour scale to create endless varieties of brand expression. It's a lovely expressive brand scheme for the accountancy industry,  that's filled with sans serif fonts and generally a blue colour spectrum. It will no doubt 'inspire' many design schemes to come...