From British Council film, a short film from 1945 that shows how a bicycle is designed and manufactured.

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Boagworld has another look at animated GIFs

Do you remember when Javascript was almost a dirty word? It was used for annoying popup windows and inaccessible navigation. Then things changed. A few people looked again at the technology and took a different approach to it. Now Javascript is everywhere and has transformed our web experience.

I believe the same thing is happening with the humble animated gif.

It’s funny, we were talking about this last week - working out how to use GIFs to better display products.

Gilt Taste use them on their product pages: http://www.gilttaste.com/market/wine 

I’m sure we’ll see more of this as bandwidth isn’t such an issue.

Over at The Speculist, Stephen Gordon argues that with the ever increasing availability of online goods and services, universities, book stores, retail shops, and offices will all shrink to the size of coffee shops.

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"Hardcore History is the best history podcast. Maybe the best podcast in history."

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"I have never written an advertisement in the office. Too many interruptions. I do all my writing at home."

Letters of Note ran a 1955 letter from advertising legend David Ogilvy that details his process for writing advertising copy.

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