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Australia not winning the battle between mosquitoes and modern homes

Jan 20, 2025 | medicalxpress.com | Nick Bell |Ary Hoffmann

A casual scroll through the real estate ads of suburban Melbourne reveals a popular feature: modern houses and renovations prioritizing an "indoor-outdoor flow." This commonly used design term means blending an outdoor living space with an indoor room, often the kitchen or living room. Bifold doors, sprawling decks and alfresco dining areas with BBQs are all used to blur the line between indoor and outdoor spaces.
Gamuda Puts AI in Construction with MongoDB Atlas

Oct 22, 2024 | mongodb.com | Nick Bell

Gamuda Berhad is a leading Malaysian engineering and construction company with operations across the world, including in Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, and more. The company is known for its innovative approach to construction through the use of cutting-edge technology.
Grab Drives 50% Efficiencies with MongoDB Atlas

Oct 14, 2024 | mongodb.com | Nick Bell

Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading ‘super application,’ offering a wide range of services, targeting both consumers and businesses, including deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and more. Their range of applications, such as the popular Grab Taxi, Grab Pay, Grab Mart, Grab Ads, and more, count approximately 38 million active users monthly across 500 cities and eight countries.
Grab Drives 50% Efficiencies with MongoDB Atlas

Oct 14, 2024 | mongodb.social | Nick Bell

Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading ‘super application,’ offering a wide range of services, targeting both consumers and businesses, including deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and more. Their range of applications, such as the popular Grab Taxi, Grab Pay, Grab Mart, Grab Ads, and more, count approximately 38 million active users monthly across 500 cities and eight countries.
THL Simplifies Architecture with MongoDB Atlas Search | MongoDB Blog

Oct 7, 2024 | mongodb.com | Nick Bell

Tourism Holdings Limited (THL) originally became a MongoDB customer in 2019, using MongoDB Atlas to help manage a wide variety of telematics data. I was very excited to welcome Charbel Abdo, Solutions Architect for THL at MongoDB .local Sydney in July 2024 to hear more about how the company has significantly expanded its use of MongoDB. The largest RV rental company in the world, THL has branches in New Zealand (where it is headquartered), Australia, the US, Canada, the UK and Europe.
Building Modern Applications Faster: New Capabilities at MongoDB.local NYC 2024

May 2, 2024 | mongodb.com | Nick Bell

Today, we kicked off MongoDB.local NYC and unveiled new capabilities across our developer data platform. The updates and capabilities announced today pave the way for a new era of app modernization and will allow developers to unleash the full potential of transformative technology like AI.
Unfurling artwords

Oct 23, 2023 | eyemagazine.com | Nick Bell

Design’s reductivist concept of identity has been drilled into us designers ever since oil company founder Marcus Samuel chose to represent his business with a shell back in 1900. Yet conventional corporate identity is failing those forward-thinking organisations that have a different communication model in mind.
Eye Magazine | Opinion | Songlines

Sep 12, 2023 | eyemagazine.com | Nick Bell

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin. Read and appreciated by Nick Bell One of the privileges of communicating visually is that it is generally accepted that you just ‘do what you do’. Because so much work is arrived at intuitively, seemingly ‘out of nowhere’, it apparently needs no explanation. Design, however complex, can be simply enjoyed. Yet I have always felt a neurotic need to explain myself, both as a formal exercise, and to connect my experiments to the outside world.
Eye Magazine | Feature | Nick Bell

Aug 28, 2023 | eyemagazine.com | Nick Bell

Nick Bell is the director of Nick Bell Design, visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, London, and was creative director of Eye magazine from 1998 to 2005. It is the Modernist sensibility (or more accurately its aesthetic) that defines the current Zeitgeist. The cool allure of Modernist style refuses to die. When typefaces such as Helvetica and Univers were originally crafted, their designers believed that typographic form could be neutral.
Footnotes about identity [WEB ONLY]

Aug 15, 2023 | eyemagazine.com | Nick Bell

Notes on identity design (see Picture about the Walker Art Center) by Nick Bell It is the aim of most corporate identity design programmes to comprehend everything that an organisation does, (or doesn’t do but should, or does but shouldn’t do), and distil it down to a single defining image. Corporate identity is not a science. It’s more a public relations makeover exercise commissioned to present an organisation in the best light possible.