Alan Webber is one of the keenest business minds I’ve ever encountered. When I was writing for Fast Company, he was my editor — and made me look better than I really was. Over the last decade-plus, he’s remained a good friend. I’m lucky.And now so are you.Because Alan has compiled a huge portion of […]
At my son’s swim practice today, I snapped a photo of this sign — and immediately sent it to one my favorite sites: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.
Seems to be emotionally intelligent signage week here at the Pink Blog. Reader Julio Appling writes: I was in an immense Bangkok, Thailand shopping mall looking for a toilet, but was concerned that the language barrier might be a hindrance. As it turns out, this sign let me know exactly where I should be headed.
Just in from the Wall Street Journal . . . Microsoft, Verizon in Talks to Launch iPhone RivalBy AMOL SHARMA and NICK WINGFIELDMicrosoft Corp. is in discussions with Verizon Wireless to launch a touch-screen multimedia cellphone on the carrier’s network early next year, in a bid to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone, people familiar with
In Needham, Massachusetts, town manager Kate Fitzpatrick has been making a bold and creative push to use emotionally intelligent signage to get drivers to slow down. Now Fox News in Boston has picked up the story and done a terrific 90-second video report on Fitzpatrick’s efforts (including a plug for AWNM!)Alas, Fox has prevented people from embedding the video. So if you
Forty-five minutes west of Pink, Inc, world headquarters — in the once bucolic, now (sorta) booming land of Loudon County — the Virginia Department of Transportation is rolling out a cool experiment.Instead of painting perfectly straight white lines down the center of some roads, VDOT is using zig-zag lines. Huh? The crooked lines look a
Some of you know I’m writing a book on human motivation. Before I tell you what it’s about, which I’ll do soon enough, let me tell you what it’s not about — via this poster from the brilliant and hilarious people at Despair, Inc.
Brie Weiler Reynolds sends this emotionally intelligent and attention-getting sign from a park in New Zealand.
“In periods of economic turmoil, people are hungry and work cheap, and entrenched companies often concentrate on in-house cost-cutting instead of exploring new markets, which can explode with the next turn of the business cycle.”— Wired, “Back to the Garage”
