Typographic Word Clock Screensaver

Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X and Windows. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes.

There are two display modes; Rotary which is shown above and Linear. Click here to download it.

Online Event hosted by Apple

There has been much debate about Mac v PC, especially in business. This event provides the opportunity to meet a small company that experienced the difference the Mac makes.

Apple are hosting a free online seminar with a live Q&A session on the 2nd of December 2009 from 19:00 - 20:00.

It will focus on James Stevenson, Managing Director of Virtual Aviation, who switched his company to the Mac platform after years of working with PCs. Not surprisingly, as it's Apple sponsored, James tells us how the change has helped his company improve operational efficiency, share data with ease and even manage customer accounts and bookings remotely using the iPhone.

Nevertheless of interest to all those contemplating moving to the mac platform.

Register to participate here:

Future Designer laptop

Who wouldn't want an unfurling portable computer? Steve Jobs take note of the flexible display from Orkin Design...

Does anybody know what this font is?

I really like the illustrative qualities to this font and was wondering whether anybody knows what it is? It's Westfield's 1st Birthday logo, so may have been a commissioned illustration, but I believe it is a font.

M&S website voted most user-friendly

According to a new Online High Street Report from web usability consultancy Webcredible, M&S has been voted the most user-friendly website of all UK high street brands.

It is a surprise result for M&S as its site only came ninth on the list last year. Meanwhile, WHSmith came joint second, whilst John Lewis maintained its place of third on the rankings.

The criteria used to evaluate the websites includes browsing, navigation, the checkout process , searching and product display pages.

Despite widespread improvements, there are some basic areas where retailers need to do better on, the report found.

Areas that could be improved include using the same form for logging on and registering, allowing customers to alter the number of products displayed on a page and changing the colour of visited links.

See the article in full on BBC News

Cinnamon Creative in current issue of Design Week

This week, Design Week reports the story of Cinnamon Creative's exciting new brand identity for top London security firm, 1st Class Protection. Karen Cinnamon has developed the new logo, luxury 12pp brochure, stationery and website for the leading security firm. and is currently working on 1st Class Protection's direct mail campaign targeting high-end residents.

Read the full article here, and view a selection of the completed designs here.

Marks & Spencer: new site design

Over the last couple of months Cinnamon Creative has been working on designs for many of the pages of the completely revamped M&S website which launched today.

The main visual difference is the new widescreen '1024' format that allows M&S to create more vibrant landing pages.

The new site also aims to improve the complete customer experience. New features include catwalk videos, fabric swatches and a carousel image suite which brings the clothes to life. The new site also includes stock availability information when customers select their sizes.

Check out the new site here and media coverage of the work here.