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Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

The more I work in design, the more I notice the damn stuff everywhere. A few collected comments…

O2's graphic designers have clearly discovered Bryce, and they luurrrrve it. That, or one of their advertising execs thinks Bryce's desert-and-moon landscapes are really, really great. I've been seeing them in game publications for years though, so they end up looking a bit naff to me.

Paddy Power have chutzpah. There was a billboard ad for their casino site a couple of weeks ago, featuring the Last Supper, with the table covered in cards, roulette tables, and so on, with text “There's a place for fun and games”. Some either clueless or paid-by-Paddy-Power churchman did a whole lot of protesting and complaining, and the ad got coverage in national newspapers. Eventually, under a storm of protest from various quarters, they retracted the ad - and replaced it with one reading, in big red text on a plain white background, “There's a place for fun and games, and apparently this isn't it.”, and a url you can go to to see the ad.

Finally, the power of the window display never fails to amaze me. I had the notion that this season's A-Wear lines (yes, I do in fact notice these things) were much better than usual, and yet looking at the clothes proved that actually, they're no better than usual. This mystified me until I saw the backdrop images in the windows - white and gold baroque rooms. Nothing to do with the clothes, but a direct line to my sense of taste.