Íshús Media ehf.

25/06/2014

CEO James Archer of Forty wrote this well-analyzed piece of why crowdsourcing graphic design is a bad idea.

http://forty.co/crowdsourcing-your-brand-design-the-math-just-doesnt-work-out

I’m still a numbers guy at heart, That’s why I get so frustrated every time I hear someone recommending crowdsourced design services like 99designs. The math just doesn’t work out for business owners, but it looks like such a compelling solution on the surface that they keep falling for it. If you’r…

25/01/2014

Discarded cover for Tundra

30/10/2013

Picasso is in a park when a woman approaches him and asks him to draw a portrait of her.

Picasso agrees and quickly sketches her.

After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owes to him.

Picasso replies: “$5,000.”

The woman screams, “but it took you only five minutes.”

“No, madam, it took me all my life,” replies Picasso.

21/10/2013

Selected work

20/10/2013

Hypermedia is hype, but did you know that the Aspen Movie Map arguably was the first hypermedia work?

The Aspen Movie Map was filmed in the fall of 1978, and the first version was operational in early spring of 1979. That is 34 years before Google Street View. Its military application was to solve the problem of quickly familiarizing soldiers with new territory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf6LkqgXPMU

Early project at the Media Lab (1981); MIT Media Lab Speech Interface group video collection

13/10/2013

A range of selected websites we have designed, partly designed, developed or been subcontracting.

13/10/2013

Google updated its terms of service so that it has the right to use your name and image for advertising purposes, including any opinions, comments and reviews made on any Google service.

Let me explain shared endorsements in ads using the following example: When you search for a pub on Google, you may see an ad for a pub that includes a profile picture and 5-star review from a friend. Similarly, your friend may see an ad with a profile picture and 5-star review from you when she or he searches for a pub that you've reviewed.

That is called a shared endorsement advert. If you’re one of the many who want to opt out of this latest practice from Google, read on.

1. Google said you could control whether your image and name appear in adverts via the Shared Endorsements setting. Go to that website, https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the Shared Endorsements setting page, and then un-check the box for “Based upon my activity, Google may show my name and profile photo in shared endorsements that appear in ads.”

3. Once you’ve unchecked the box, click the blue Save button.

4. Voila! You have opted out.

Google+ aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Check out Circles, Events and Hangouts, just a few of the things we've been working on.

13/10/2013

Features corporate identity work produced for our clients.

20/11/2009

Now hosting 125 domains. Cheapest and probably best webhosting in Iceland

20/11/2009

Tara Shop ehf. - Women's Fashion Webshop

Complete web design, education and configuration on the Magento e-commerce platform.