twentythreeseven Yet another design, technology and basketball blog.

BusinessWeek online has a nice little write up on one of my favorite industrial designers, Naoto Fukasawa. Definitely worth the read.

A major source of information about advertising on key properties such as CBC.ca and The New York Times, the AOL Media Network site needed a refresh to cater to new and returning media buyers. The goal was to inform interested parties about the benefits of advertising via AOL while giving returning clients and internal [...]

I just came back from a relaxing weekend in Niagara for a friend’s bachelor party. The weekend was filled with a lot of events but it really began and ended with some quality service from the Marriott Fallsview hotel. Though the complimentary valet, champagne and breakfast were all great, the true service came from their [...]

Starting in May you can purchase music from EMI without any DRM from iTunes. The content will be at a higher-quality and a higher price point ($1.29 vs $0.99). If EMI can garner enough sales, which I think they will, I’m sure the other major labels will follow. (thx Kottke!)

The NY Times is reporting that shot codes, a method to transmit media to your mobile phone by scanning them, may be taking off in the Americas soon.
UPDATE: More information via Qode, the main provider of this technology.

H&M launches it’s new line, Collection of Style. H&M, in my opinion, is the JetBlue of the fashion industry, offering low-cost, high-fashion clothing. COS differs from it’s sister-brand by offering higher quality materials at only a small increase in price. (I imagine if JetBlue had an executive class this would be the analogy I would [...]

With my itinerary officially booked I think it’s safe to announce that I’ll be attending Gel2007 this April in NYC. I’ve been a subscriber of Mark Hurst’s Good Experience newsletter for a couple years now so it will be exciting to attend the two-day workshop/speaker-based conference he hosts.
If you’re attending leave a comment and we [...]

Congrats to Marcus and the SF/Van team for their recent feature on Apple.com’s Pro profiles
When I rave about my company to friends the first thing I always reference is the work that Marcus and his team do for Jumpan23.com. It’s good to those guys get some nice pub for the innovative work they do on [...]

An excerpt from this weeks Good Experience newsletter reminded me of my experience with a certain US bank.
I had my assets frozen in 2003 by Washington Mutual in Santa Clara, CA due to “fraudulent activity on my account”. What was my fraudulent activity? Depositing cheques in the ATM and withdrawing cash right away. Apparently [...]