Illustrating slavery
What We Like Beth, 13 January 2012
A lovely execution of simple interactivity walks the user through a brief history of slavery before inviting you to take the test to see where your own link in this chain sits. We like.
Colour picking made easy!
What We Like Beth, 10 November 2011
You’re on a job, time is ticking, you need colour inspiration STAT! Forget your cumbersome colour books and pantone swatches… now you have all the colours (and tints) of the rainbow at a very convenient and swift click of a button!
Chalk In Motion
What We Like Beth, 14 April 2011 1 comment
The beauty of the modern age… taking old mediums to new levels, and bringing them to life. A challenge the crew at Better Things are always up for!
Game, Set, App!
What We Like Beth, 14 April 2011
This year’s Australian Open served up live data-feeds for all fans via iPad’s then ‘app of the month.’ iPad owners enjoyed the luxury of following all the action via this tennis court inspired design, as seen here
Important news…
What We Like Rich, 11 April 2011
We can’t quite believe it ourselves, but Better Things is a year old! It seems like yesterday that we moved into our new studio in Clerkenwell, hung our sign on the door and got down to business. But a lot has happened in the past year…
Two things we’ve liked
What We Like Rich, 4 February 2011
We haven’t posted for a while. We had a busy Christmas and January. But we’ve not been walking around with our eyes closed, and a couple of things have made us go ‘ooh, that’s pretty cool’. So here, for your pleasure, they are.
A Christmas card story
What We Like Rich, 20 December 2010
This year, instead of sending out a bunch of cards we decided to make a little animation telling the story of the christmas card. There’s a little message in there too. Check it out.
Digital Archeology
What We Like Rich, 11 November 2010
We headed down to Shoreditch last night to check out the Digital Archeology event hosted by Story Worldwide as part of Internet Week Europe.
Internet Week Europe comes to London
What We Like Rich, 10 November 2010
We’re pretty excited about Internet Week Europe hitting London for the first time. The five day festival started on Monday, and we’ve been having a poke around to see what’s on offer.
Big Bang Big Boom
What We Like Rich, 7 July 2010
There’s not a lot to say about this wonderful piece of work from www.blublu.org, other than: watch it.
So beautiful, so well-conceived, so compelling. Too many great bits to mention. Watch it.
Bliss Billboards
What We Like Rich, 25 May 2010
We’re going to write a proper case study for Bliss Billboards once the campaign is complete and we have results. But we only launched it yesterday, and we’re so excited about it that we can’t wait to put something up on our website. So here it is.
Nike: write the future
What We Like Rich, 21 May 2010
I know everyone in the WORLD has seen this by now, and I would imagine that everything there is to be said about it has been said. But I just had to post about it because of the sheer exuberance of the thing. As a friend of mine @NeillSBullet said: ‘that ad just made me REALLY excited about the World Cup. Can’t wait!’
Clerkenwell Design Week 2010
What We Like Rich, 12 April 2010
Our locale, Clerkenwell, is playing host to Design Week 2010, which takes place over three days from 25-27 May. Basically it means there will be loads of cool stuff happening seconds from our front door. Apparently there is going to be street entertainment (hopefully not those blokes that cover themselves in paint then just stand really still. They’re a bit boring), music, food, exhibitions and PARTIES. Any excuse for a party and we’re in, so expect to see us having a Notting Hill Carnival style event party in our office.
Urban Abstract
What We Like Rich, 7 April 2010
Not a great deal I can say about this piece, apart from that it’s gorgeous. Click through to view…
Japan, the strange country
What We Like Rich, 30 March 2010
We love the style of this animation by Japanese artist and designer Kenichi Tanaka. The infographics are simple and easy and keep you engaged, and the style and subject matter fit beautifully.
What’s your type?
What We Like Rory, 26 March 2010
We like all things typographic at Better Things and it’s always good to see foundries becoming more and more innovative with their websites.
Visuelle: to infinity and…
What We Like Rory, 2 March 2010
We’ve been noticing that sites are using this form of technology more and more – it’s been popping up all over the internet recently. Visuelle is one of our favourite examples of infinity scrolling – it’s simple and elegant, and the content is cool too – the site contains some really impressive work. I challenge [...]
Catching Z’s
What We Like Rory, 27 February 2010
It’s good to know that we’re soon to be taking delivery of our very own office sofa, as according to thinkingforaliving.org, one of our favourite design resources, we creatives should take a nap every so often to filter out the ideas that make sense and the ones that don’t.
Lego, a boy’s best friend
What We Like Rory, 27 February 2010
Guerrilla toy building at its best, have a look at the artist Jan Vormann’s interesting take on that old favourite Lego.
Good
What We Like Rich, 25 February 2010
Good is a site devoted to helping people live well and do good. Which is all very well and good – but what we really like about Good are the brilliant infographics. Check them out!
