Posts filed under 'Culture'
What Font Says ‘Change’?
Type designers decode the presidential candidates
Typography can subtly or boldly define a company, product, or person. Whether it is Best Buy’s big, bold, screaming signs or the sweet, elegant script on a wine label, the type talks to us, the reader. The logos of the presidential candidates are no exception.
Click here to read the complete article.
(via Swiss Miss)
Add comment January 30, 2008
Sustainable Shoes
Want to go green with your shoes? Well Nike has come out with the Air Jordan XX3 – a “green” shoe. It’s made with sustainable materials. The Air Jordan has been completely redesigned in terms of patterns but still maintains the classic Air Jordan style. It’s set to come out in a limited edition style for $230 and then released world wide, for $185/pair. No news on whether manufacturing will be either ethical or Fair Trade.
(Via The Alternative Consumer)
Add comment January 11, 2008
Vintage Blend
The 789 is an eye-catching amalgam of styling from Chevrolet’s 1957, 1958, and 1959 models. It can be ordered in 10,000 color combinations from custom automaker n2a Motors.
1 comment January 1, 2008
Has Godin finally jumped the shark?
The Seth Godin Action Figure with built-in Brandomatic® and PurplePower® is finally ready and you can be the first on your block to have one.
Add comment December 31, 2007
Recycle That TV
Tell TV Manufacturers: Take Back My TV
Last year 45.5 million TVs were sold around the world. Americans will buy 30 million digital TVs in 2007 alone.
In fact, Americans bought over 2.5 million just in preparation for the last Super Bowl!
With the popularity of flat screen and hi-definition TVs replacing older boxes, the sheer volume of electronic waste has gotten out of control.
Do you know where your old TV’s will end up? Well, it’s time we all did, and it’s time for customers and manufacturers alike to wake up to a looming humanitarian and environmental crisis.
Only 12% of “e-waste” is recycled because there are simply too few options for convenient recycling.
It’s time to hold TV manufacturers responsible just as they are in other countries of the world—including Japan, Taiwan and throughout the European Union.
Despite making billions in profits importing and selling TVs, manufacturers currently play no role in safely dealing with the waste.
1 comment December 29, 2007
Posters for Peace
Another Poster for Peace is a group of citizens committed to elevating the level of public engagement in the peace movement through design. Our goal is to help create a grassroots “anti-campaign” to counter the brilliant marketing the U.S. administration is currently running to promote its war agenda.
Add comment December 16, 2007
A Questionable Light Installation
Visitors enter the church through a lateral door and first see a scattered group of luminous spheres hovering in the choir. As one approaches the center of the entrance, the spheres form a giant question mark. They become a punctuation mark superposing religious symbols. As one moves through the church, the question mark decomposes. The figure becomes abstracted again in order to echo the figures of hanging cathedral lights. Contrasting the symmetry of the edifice, these luminous suspension points are like a sort of musical notation or holes punctuating the architectural volume. The question (or doubt) is absorbed by the space.
Light installation at Saint-Paul Saint-Louis church / Nuit Blanche Paris 2007
(A tip o’ the hat to SwissMiss)
Add comment December 16, 2007
Preserve the NYC Mosaic Trail
The East Village has about 70 mosaics created by Jim Power to define the area as an art colony. Now some need restoration.
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When Jim Power created his first mosaic on a lamppost on Astor Pace in 1987, a concrete band shell still stood inside Tompkins Square Park, admission to the CBGB club cost $5, and about the same amount could buy a night’s lodging in the Bowery.
Plenty in the East Village has changed in 20 years, and, some say, that is one good reason the dozens of pieces of public art created in the neighborhood by Mr. Power ought to be preserved.
Click here to read the complete story in The New York Times.
More About the Trail
Here’s website promoting a campaign to complete the Mosaic Trail. The site includes more images plus a map locating several mosaics in the East Village.
1 comment December 12, 2007
Analyzing Campaign Logos
The New York Times has dissected the campaign logos of the front-running 2008 presidential candidates.
Add comment December 11, 2007
