We’ve just been having a play with Creative Everyone, which is a corker of site, put together by Daniel Howells from Kulor, and Mike Sullivan from Mister. The tagline of the site is ‘Never miss a creative event again’, which sums it up pretty neatly. The site is a collaborative diary of creative events, ranging across the full spectrum of creative disciplines; you can filter the listings according to your own tastes, and also according to your local city. You can add in events you’re planning on going to yourself, see which other site members are going, and export your calendar to Google and iCal.

The design is really elegant and intuitive – at the moment it’s still in Beta phase, and just limited to some major US and UK cities (Boston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco / Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester), but the boys are promising to do much more when they get the chance. We’d love to see it properly hooked up to Facebook, and to have a customisable alert system, so that you get warned when exhibitions are starting and ending. But we can already see this being a really useful site. Ace.

Google’s homepage has gone all pictorial this morning, with a full-bleed image cluttering up their normally pristine page. You can change the picture, choosing from a range of pre-selected shots (including shots of work by Dale Chihuly, Jeff Koons, Tom Otterness, Polly Apfelbaum, Kengo Kuma (隈研吾), Kwon, Ki-soo (권기수) and Tord Boontje, as well as shots from Yann Arthus-Bertrand and National Geographic.

You can stick in your own images too (that’s one of ours above), choose one from a public gallery, or set it to a single colour (as below), or even back to white (which is actually quite elegant, leaving a shadowed logo, rather than the usual mulitcoloured one).

Except if you’re using Safari, which isn’t playing along at all, just showing the classic Google homepage. Wonder if that’s a tech issue or just a low-level skirmish in the browser wars…

And frankly, as Safari users, we’re happy with the standard page: we don’t want our search window to be anything other than a search window. Less, as ever, is more.

We Made This is pretty much an old-school affair, focusing on printed stuff rather than digital stuff. But we dip our toe into the pixelworld now and again; so we figured it might be time to let you know that you can find us on Facebook and Twitter.

The Facebook page slurps up all the content from this blog, so it's really just a different place to keep an eye on what we're doing. But if you'd like to become a fan, we'd be deeply honoured. (There's also a gallery of some of our work on there for your browsing pleasure.)  

The Twitter page features Alistair's varied musings (we make no guarantee of their wisdom or even coherence), as well as showing when we've posted new content on here. (We've got a feeling that there's a way of setting it up on some sort of infinite loop, with the blog feeding the twitter feed feeding the blog feed, ad infinitum. So far we've avoided it, but it's only a matter of time.)

Do come and say howdy.

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