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We have decided to beat the Christmas rush this year and offer you all a present well before the end of December. These are pressing times for all of us, gone are the days of gratutious spending. So, we’ve decided to make it a whole lot easier for you to save a little of your hard earned cash this Yuletide. And the fact that we’ve made a cheap attempt to ride the ‘Zeitgeist’, is neither here nor there! Read the rest of this entry »

shepard fairy, christmas parody, christmas tool kit

It’s great to hear when our old Firedog staff go on to do fantastic things.

Gareth Knight was Firedog’s Digital Manager a couple of years back and left us to go it alone with a start-up technology consultancy in 2005 he started called Technovated. In fact, Gareth even helped us set up the Fireblog as well as other digital related systems and infrastructure when we were based in Soho. (Seems like a long time ago!). Read the rest of this entry »

kindo, myheritage, acquistion, family tree

A chap called Venka pinged us in the dogbox regarding a new product line from his company, Dutch by Design. The textile line is called the Home Duvet and features a high-res cardboard print reproduction on a comfy duvet set. Read the rest of this entry »

dutch design, textiles, home duvet

A really nice piece of web kit has just caught my usually very cynical attention. It’s called PicLens and is a very simple to install extension for browser of choice, Firefox.

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piclens, image search, interface design, firefox extension

We were kindly requested by Jason Walsh, tech and design visionary / journalist, to come up with what we thought would be big in 2008. The article can be found in the latest issue, on the newsstands now. There are many interesting tips and insights from designers and developers within the industry. Enjoy.
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dotnet, technology, 2008

Firedog has recently been commissioned by a very dynamic web 2.0 outfit who are poised to send tremors through the online landscape within but a few months. A large deal of the initial branding work centred around research of the web 2.0 landscape and branding online.

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web 2.0, web 2.0 brands, web logos, web 2.0 logos

I spotted this nice piece whilst getting off my 149 on Kingsland Road this morning. Read the rest of this entry »

hoxton, shoreditch, graffiti, street art