http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:11:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The next edition of Matter is going to our 18-24 year old subscribers and we're going to be doing something unusual with it. Cadbury, as official sweet sponsors of the 2012 London Olympics, are setting out to create a new kind of game that everyone can play and can carry ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=184 We’re talking to advertisers about the next edition of Matter (Generation Y), so I thought it might be interesting to see what you come up with. Come up with an idea for a specific (well-known) brand and if it’s something even half-way practical (the kind of thing that would actually go ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=182 After much deliberation and amusement, we have a winner of the Matter Christmas competition: Roz Tabberer, with her photo captioned: 'The thing I love most about Christmas is...........waving goodbye to the relatives!!!' Congratulations Roz. We laughed out loud! Your iPod is on its way http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=178 Just a quick last-minute reminder to anyone thinking of entering our Christmas competition and the chance to win a iPod Touch. It's pretty simple. Download the pointy-finger from the Matter site, print it and cut it out and take a picture of it pointing to The Thing You Love Most About ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=175 I was just about to ask Jim to send me a picture of another friend's wooden business cards–to carry on the nepotistic theme–when someone handed me this. I was part of a panel discussion at the iDesign 09 conference in London about what a Post-digital world might look like and, of ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=173   Now, I know this is getting silly–given that his business card was OOTD#1, but Jim sent me his new box he's doing to promote his creative retail print service. I know I was supposed to get excited about the sumptuous piece of fabric inside, but I was really blown away ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=168 Still with the nepotistic theme, but spreading my connections as far afield as San Francisco and my good friend, Philip Wood, owner and curator of objects-as-artform store, Citizen-Citizen. Philip gets this whole language-of-objects completely and has made quite a name for himself with this stuff in the US. This splendid item ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=166 Another one of my good friends (I might well start with nepotism and work upwards) sent me details of this nice little item... David runs auto-journals–a digital alternative car magazine written by owners–and went to the Frankfurt Motor Show where he got this cool leather-bound memory stick from Ferrari as part ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=164 As you know, Matter is all about real things. More specifically, it's about how we value real things more in a digital world. Most of these things are printed, since the upshot of all this technology is that we're moving from a printed media world to a digital media world. ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=162 Hello. Obviously, it’s been a bit quiet around here and maybe you’re wondering whether we’ll ever do another box. Well, we will and we are. We’re putting one together now for delivery in a few month’s time. It’s taken a while, we know, but we've been beavering away at getting in front ... http://www.matterbox.co.uk/matterblog/?p=159