While many first world cries may be heard in protest of the latest change in Facebook's appearance, it's interesting to consider exactly why these changes occurred and how the social media giant is trying to make us engage with ourselves and each other. A recent article interviewing the designers of the Timeline reveals insights into the way it is aimed at controlling the way we create our identity.

While the days of antiquated espionage techniques such as dead drops of loose bricks or disguised wooden panels are a thing of the past, Berlin based artist Aram Bartholl has experimented since 2010 with a new kind of Dead Drop. Bartholl has facilitated a program to encourage the public to install USB sticks cemented into secret locations, filled with unique data, pictures, or anything really.

Analysing workspaces is a fun and absolutely inaccurate way to interpret personalities in the office! Follow us as we begin our journey through GO1, using psychoanalysis to reveal the truth about what desks in the office say about our staff. This week we meet Meg, our copywriter and executive assistant currently located in Kuala Lumpur...

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The endless worlds within The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are certainly visually stunning, but what do they signify in terms of how the player is controlled, or rather not controlled? The non-linear structure of the game has been discussed as a trademark of creator Bethesda, a way to allow players ultimate freedom.

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Could the answer to poor sales and limited prospects be due to the golden circle? British author and entrepreneur Simon Sinek says yes. His codification of the theory of the Golden Circle has less to do with fruit juice and more to do with defining what makes your business tick.

While most debates on Facebook concern privacy issues, it is also the information we are not encouraged to reveal that exemplifies the control exerted by social networking sites.  German artist Tobias Leingruber has identified the controlling mechanisms employed by Facebook that shape our online identities to conform with others and the network itself.

With the release of Battlefield 3, EA have replaced the usual in-game server browser with a web-based menu, allowing players to manage all aspects of the game from a web page.  With Battlefield 3 offering 64 a-side player maps, the emphasis is clearly on social gameplay. But have EA jumped on the social networking bandwagon too quickly? Is this what players want?

Analysing workspaces is a fun and absolutely inaccurate way to interpret personalities in the office! Follow us as we begin our journey through GO1, using psychoanalysis to reveal the truth about what desks in the office say about our staff. This week we meet Tash, our lovely Account Executive...

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The movement of ‘superflat’ art is an interesting reflection on otaku culture and the nature of accessing information in a database such as the internet. Superflat art was first coined in 2001 by Japanese postmodern artist Takashi Murakami to describe his two dimensional artworks inspired by anime and manga. Murakami, like artists such as Andy Warhol or Jeff Koons, both critiques and celebrates pop culture.