Make The Most Blog by Anibe Agamah » creativity

Facebook “Like” Stamp

Anibe — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:13:05 +0000

As if it wasn’t enough that everything online these days is integrated with Facebook, some clever designers at Nation studios have created stamps with the now ubiquitous “Like” symbol. Pictures below:

Pics: wearenation.co.uk

More pictures and how to buy can be found here. I may just get one myself, however I might start compulsively stamping on anything I find! Just like we do on Facebook.

The Money Tree

Anibe — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:47:32 +0000

How would you react if you walked down a street and found a tree with money “growing” on it? This interesting social experiment aims to find out.

Nissan Qashqai ad: Driving up the Wall

Anibe — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:30:39 +0000

Here is a very creative outdoor advert I noticed at Old Street today. It features a full-scale model of the Nissan’s urban SUV, the Qashqai, seemingly balanced on a wall – How cool is that? Perhaps it’s another sign that this is truly the year of 3D and not necessarily limited to the screen.

Is Thisday’s Solution to an Ugly Website to Copy BBC’s Design?

Anibe — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:00:13 +0000

Few weeks ago while reading Oo Nwoye’s blog, I read a post, I was very disappointed to find out about Thisday’s, one of Nigeria’s foremost newspaper organisations’, potential website redesign. Nothing personally against the plans for a redesign. In fact, it is a redesign that is long overdue. My dismay comes from the fact that the “new” website (if actually the suspected plan is genuine) is a blatant copy of the BBC news website. Being one of Nigeria’s popular news destinations, one would expect that the people/person responsible for their online presence would be wary of copying the exact look of BBC News, another very popularly known news website. This is apparently not the case as can be seen from the screenshots below.

Now, it must be noted that there is no statement officially linking the suspected new website- Thisdayonline.net to Thisday Newspapers. It is possible that the design used on thisdayonline.net isn’t about to be their new homepage design or does not belong to Thisday at all. But the fact that Thisdayonline.com (the current main site) was for a short time redirecting to Thisdayonline.net (as reported in Oo’s blog) is strong evidence that there are indeed plans to overhaul the homepage and this is a likely design round. That aside, there are two things that I have discovered to be very clear about Thisdayonline.net:

it is powered by blogging CMS WordPress
it uses a free theme called ‘the beeb’

There seems to be part of the problem already. I have nothing against using downloaded themes but if an organisation the size of Thisday can’t develop their own unique design, it shows a huge lack of creativity on their part. I’m sincerely hoping that Thisday doesn’t go ahead and commission this “new” design just to save them the enormous embrassment, and possibly complaints, they will receive for stealing. The current Thisday website, to me, is an absolute mess. Incidentally, it was another design copy of what the CNN website looked like at the time Thisdayonline.com was launched. Perhaps they should learn from previous mistakes and decide against to ripping-off the design of another global news organisation.

The Danger of a Single Story

Anibe — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:00:15 +0000

It’s refreshing to see Chimamanda Adichie, one of Nigeria’s brightest and talented novelists, featured on TEDtalks. In this video, she examines how our lives and cultures are composed of many overlapping stories. It’s a very eloquent and compelling case against people judging others based on stereotypes and misconceptions.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg

Education As the Enemy of Creativity

Anibe — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:45:02 +0000

Today, I’m sharing one of my favourite TEDTalks videos. It’s by Sir Ken Robinson about the role of schools in creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.