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Reading: Generation FB
BY KATRIN BENNHOLDFrom The International Herald Tribune
Posts tagged with IHT
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Companies start to make a pitch with Islam in mind
“Islamic marketing,” some experts say, is the next wave in branding, and now, as the holy month of Ramadan begins, activity is surging.
Source:
Advertisers Seek to Speak to Muslim Consumers
IHT, Technology and Media
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Lounge Chair and Ottoman, by Charles & Ray Eames, 1956.
“Heroes and Villains in the Pantheon of Design” by Alice Rawsthorn, NY Times
“Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels” by Alice Rawsthorn
Article: “Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels”
by Alice Rawsthorn, IHT/New York Times
“NEW YORK — Imagine that you are a super-successful movie director, who’s been given hundreds of millions of dollars and lots of whiz-bang technology to make a cinematic epic. Sounds good? Not once you are told that people will have to watch it on fuzzy old black and white television sets.
Something similar happens to the text that appears on your computer screen whenever you log on to a Web site. The site’s owner has so little control over the fine details of what you will see that the typeface in which the text appears is bound to be distorted. Pity the poor designer who struggled to perfect it.”
“…take a look at Georgia, the typeface on the IHT/New York Times Web site, on a Mac, then see how different it looks on a PC.”
The Ideal Sans typeface is used at the Art Institute of Chicago, commissioned
from Hoefler & Frere-Jones.
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British Design: Failing to deliver?
“Strikes. Disappearing letters. Shuttered post offices. Irritatingly long queues and suspicious smells in the survivors. There are (sadly) lots of reasons for the British to indulge in the popular national pastime of grumbling about the Royal Mail this summer”…
Source: British Design: Not What It Used to Be
By Alice Rawsthorn, NY Times, 23 August 2009*
(*Yes I know. I’ve been busy!)
“Good design”. Hmmm?!
“At the debate [World Economic Forum] each designer was asked to identify one example of “good” and one example of “bad” design, and to explain the reasons for their choices. What did they come up with?”
Source: Good or bad design? The verdict(s), By Alice Rawsthorn, IHT.com
The Dream Team…
“Ferrari is turning to big-name architects to help it renew its traditional spirit by rebuilding the entire Ferrari works, from engine-block foundry to final assembly plant.”
Source: IHT.com / John Tagliabue /
November 21, 2008
Web sites, awful and not
“Far from being visually pleasing, intelligently organized and simple to use, too many Web sites are ugly, cluttered, sluggish and brain-fuddlingly difficult to navigate”…
By Alice Rawsthorn, INT.com
Isamu Noguchi’s lamps got art and practicality on the same wavelength - International Herald Tribune
“Among his furniture work was his collaboration with the Herman Miller company in 1948 when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture. His work lives on around the world and at the The Noguchi Museum in New York City.” — Isamu Noguchi, From Wikipedia
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SUBMISSION: Spinny’s Supermarket in Dubai. Where the fruit and veg are always displayed neatly…and where beauty and impracticality meet.
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