Unrolling some Christmas wrapping paper, I found a wonderfully handy grid on the back that makes measuring and cutting it a snip. Inspired, I penned a poem that celebrates this simple new idea and imagines how it came about.
Currys’ TV ads talk about savings in full pounds but fragment prices into digits. Does this verbal pricing breach UK broadcast advertising rules?
Throw someone a tennis ball and they’ll hit it. But throw someone ten and they’ll miss them all. The same applies with communication – and that can be a fatal problem.
What happens when a company shatters the convention of grid-based chocolate bars by introducing irregular chunks?!
Here’s a question for drivers and Highway Code buffs: when does a national speed limit sign tell you that you are NOT allowed to drive at the national speed limit?
Blocked toilets are a nuisance. But if you're responsible for lots of loos, figuring out how to ensure people treat your toilets with care could drive you around the u-bend.
‘One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.’ Afficionados of The Lord of the Rings will recognise this, but swap ‘Ring’ for ‘Parking App’ and it sums up the car-parking ideas outlined by the goverment in their recent Plan for Drivers.
Signs prodding dog owners to do the decent thing and pick up their pooches’ poo typically takes one of two forms: the official approach threating fines and the social approach with polite requests from the community. But perhaps both are barking up the wrong tree.
The government’s new Plan for Drivers has been driving me mad. For starters, while trying to send a message of “We love motorists”, it fails to realise the statistics it uses show that even most motorists hate motorists!
When we answer a question or solve a problem, what answer are we seeking to provide? Is it better to give the answer we feel is right or the answer we know is right?
