Agonising over a tagline for your business? Have a look at these professional results.

And I do recommend following the link to 37signals.

Thanks to Stil.

Here’s another example of design done in piecemeal isolation; divorced from the wider context of its application, the environment in which it is deployed. The design in question is the street signage of a set of townhouses all of which share a single street entry. The failure of this design affects multiple households.

Front street, there is actually no visible signage. As you drive past, you …

I am sitting in a cafe in the middle of Singapore, catching up on emails and writing. SingTel provides free wifi city-wide. And people do use it. About 25% of the patrons of this cafe are currently on their laptops. And they seemto hang around and buy drinks, as I am doing.

But Sydney can’t get its act together. Too hard, too expensive, says the state government. …

I Googled my phone number recently and found two of my selves on ZoomInfo.

The pages were apparently assembled from details harvested off the net with their “patented semantic search technology”. Pretty neat, and pretty spooky:

Eidesign / Prussia.Net Zern
Vermillion Consulting Zern

It is interesting that they have identified me as two identities – a consultant and a designer. Self-analysis opportunities aside, …