Author Archives: Kirk Littell

Super Tuesday was Super Cool!

If you watched Super Tuesday coverage the other night, you may have seen a technology which in my opinion is quite amazing. CNN is using a new application called “Perceptive Pixel” which in essence is an interactive, touch screen user interface.
Wolf Blitzer was the host, who walked through a massive set with maps, countdown timers, results data and […]

Communication Breakdown

I recently took my son and his friends to a concert. The drive to the venue was going to be about 2 hours so we decided to rent some movies for the drive there and back. He and I went to the local video store and started doing the slow sideways shuffle that one does […]

Extra! Extra! Paperless Society Almost Here

When the almighty “they” speak of a ‘paperless society’ it’s typically in reference to paper — you know, office paper, correspondence, forms, spreadsheets, etc. I for one still see that model being a long ways off (have you ever tried to read 30 continuous pages on-screen?). What is practically imminent though is the newspaper-less society. […]

Smile. You could be in advertising — literally!

So imagine that you’re at an event with friends and someone takes a picture of you. Then, that exact photo ends-up in an ad for a cellular phone company — without your consent! Can you imagine?

That’s exactly what happened to Alison Chang of Bedford, Texas after attending a church camp in Australia. A camp counselor […]

Campaign Logos 2008

The Iraq War, Health Care, Tax Reform, Social Security, Terrorism, Global Warming. All issues to debated until the elections determine who wins the 2008 Presidential Election, for sure. But none of those topics come into play in this forum. What matters here is the design of the political campaign logos — these identities are as […]