All the bits that don’t look like a horse

Yesterday we experienced a rather servere hardware failure on one of our servers. Here’s what happened.
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Does it really matter that the second heading line-wraps awkwardly and leaves an orphan?
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John Lewis get their email marketing spot on with a classic psychological tactic.
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My wife is currently working on a rather difficult 1,000-piece puzzle. It’s of a herd of zebra in long grass. It may as well be a 1,000 piece puzzle of static interference, that’s how hard it is. Dreamt about 3 …
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Absolutely love this. Perfect example of how a serious message can be made memorable with humour.

2012 is yours to do whatever you like.
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Now and again, I try and catch Click on BBC News. It’s a good show, despite some of the articles being rather hackneyed. One of the articles featured the other day was a comparison of the iPad against some of …
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Yesterday I was in a bad mood, so much so it led to the Word of the Day being ‘Grumpuss’. The doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s pretty extraordinary.
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Some people love the seasonal hubbub, but if frantic crowds and hearing Santa Claus is Coming to Town for the millionth time isn’t going to fill you to the brim with festive joy, allow us to recommend a way out.
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One of my favourite writers is Theodor Geisel. Now, before you think I’m being a pretentious wally for picking someone you’ve never heard of – let alone read – let me tell you that you’re wrong.
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A dear friend of Condiment came to visit a few days ago. We hadn’t seen them for quite a while, so it only was to right to pop out for a beer and a burger and a natter.
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No words required, really.  

Then it was last year’s Christmas bunting –’it’ll only take a couple hours’ I naively thought. Two days, one tin of Quality Streets & a gallon of mulled wine later and Christmas was almost renamed Christm as I lost the will to sew.
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Of all the design briefs I was set at university, one of the very last also happened to be the most enjoyable.
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We’re currently developing some UI and brand ID concepts for a First 65 project that involves the validation of a physical object. The user puts the measurements into text fields and a model is generated on the fly so they …
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Whether your business sector receives hundreds of thousands of searches a day or fewer than a hundred, you can almost guarantee there’s someone out there searching via a mobile device.
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I’ve seen a rather nasty growing trend of companies talking about doing ‘viral marketing’, and it’s making me squirm a bit. So if you want to have a viral success, please do me one favour: please be quiet and forget about it.
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Perhaps a piece of code just won’t perform as you expect it to, the words just won’t come, or those logo ideas just don’t inspire any joy. And you can’t fathom out why. That’s when we need a brain reset.
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Meet Sophie: open minded, curious and adaptable. To perform at her best she prefers specific and detailed instruction before starting a task. She may underestimate herself and either takes anything she does well for granted, or regards it with no …
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On my walks to work in the morning, I’m listening to the audiobook version of the Steve Jobs biography. And, apart from the narrator having a rather ‘nails down the blackboard’ voice, it’s an incredible book.
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I am good at maths, my younger brother is good at art. I am academic, he is creative. You cannot be both.
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When we started Condiment back in March 2010, calling ourselves a marketing agency seemed like a bad idea. After all, everybody – other than marketing departments – seemed to sneer at marketing.
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Going from the prospect of wading into a fairly bleak job market to sitting in a studio full of creative juices was surprising, exciting and fun. I still can’t quite believe my luck.
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