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		<title>clean Windows &amp; fresh air</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nokia's new Windows phone is showing up Apple in the user interface department. Apple’s graphic design has a patchier record than its product design, but it is too soon to suggest that Apple has lost its grip on quality.]]></description>
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		<title>visual snacks: matchbox labels from Japan/China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A selection of early twentieth-century matchbox labels purchased in Thailand – probably Japanese, made for the Chinese market, featuring lucky cats, deer, bats and other auspicious symbols.]]></description>
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		<title>the unreliable sunshine of the outsourced mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; photo © Annie Queree Outsourcing has been a big business idea – non-‘core’ activities executed for you by someone else. We bemoan the loss of skills &#38; knowledge held in companies and have lowered expectations that employees might know much about what a company does beyond an sales script. On a personal level we are doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sweating the small stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/information/sweating-the-small-stuff-inspiration-dispensed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrating the underrated and overlooked is life-affirming. Some notes on the Boring 2011 conference.]]></description>
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		<title>the g of the bang</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/inspiration/the-g-of-the-bang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firework night is not what it used to be. The folksy charm of postwar fireworks has been replaced by health &#038; safety, shock and awe.]]></description>
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		<title>escape velocity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An awful lot of very good graphic designers celebrate their success in the profession by leaving it. Is this because they cannot wait to get away from design? Surely not… A recent blog post by Steven Heller concerned one Kent Hunter, a gifted designer I met briefly in the 80s whilst working for a transatlantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hail to the Info Tsar</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/information/hail-to-the-info-tsar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Having lately spent far more time than I care to in and around NHS facilities it is hard avoid noticing how much energy / resources are wasted when information is badly managed. I am no systems analyst, but even without an abacus for a mind the potential benefits of sorting out information in the NHS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gimme a break</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/information/gimme-a-break-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That nice Professor Cox was on TV recently (atop some picturesque mountain, waving around the Hubble’s holiday snaps) banging on about space-time being a Woonder o’ t’ Universe™. That’s true enough but down here in office/studio space, time and/or space are scarcer – time to reflect in particular. What with lunch being for wimps and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>coloured up</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/information/coloured-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Bernard Gagnon Is fashion is the only design discipline with colour truly embedded at its core? The search for ‘new blacks’ notwithstanding, it is hard to imagine fashion without colour. Interior design takes it fairly seriously and like fashion, devotes significant effort to forecasting colour trends. Architecture and industrial design sometimes seem timid with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>apophenia: it’s what we do</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/information/apophenia-its-what-we-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term apophenia describes “the unmotivated seeing of connections” with a “specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness”. Finding connections and meanings in experience – this is the most valuable part of what designers do.]]></description>
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