Here at Hench, we have a love of many things great and small. Included in that are cars. We’re confirmed car enthusiasts who appreciate great design, and we understand that when it all comes together as a complete, considered package, an object combining design, functionality, and a little bit of magic is created.

2010 BMW 5 Series

It’s no secret that I’m a self-confesed lover of BMW’s. Within reason of course. I don’t like their old 70’s tin cans, and I don’t think much of their current range or bloated heavy and fairly vulgar designs. However, there is always hope that their design direction reverts back to that of their more beautiful designed cars and sure enough the new head designer, Adrian van Hooydonk, has done so. Obviously, I couldn’t miss out on an opportunity to talk both about BMW and design now could I?!

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I don’t think we’re allowed to blog this without using that title. AOL have become Aol. (period!), and have a new identity to celebrate that fact.

New AOL logo

I’ve commented on this elsewhere, but had to blog about it here since it’s such a high profile redesign. I’d have written my thoughts on the Pepsi re-brand if we’d been live then, and I may yet come back to it.

So, AOL. Or now, Aol. (don’t forget that period!). Scourge of the internet for many a year, indirectly spawning amongst other things that dreadful Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan movie “You’ve Got Mail”. Although I suppose we can probably lay some of the blame for that at Compuserve’s feet, too. Whoever’s fault it was is not important. Steer clear.

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We felt a little description and background to the word “Hench” was in order to help explain our philosophy.

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We’re still putting the finishing touches together on the site as a whole, but once that’s done we’ll no doubt be blogging incessantly..

This blog will serve as a personal link to the people behind Hench. We’ll be writing articles that reflect our personalities, expertise and interests, and these might range between anything from the latest high-profile logo redesign, to local art exhibitions, software tutorials, and probably comments on the wider world of entertainment, including film and gaming – things which are often appropriate to interactive design on the web.

We’ll also be linking to anything on the web that inspires us, which means there will probably be a lot of links to TED.

For now, thanks for your interest in Hench.