Preparing the literature review
This is exactly how I feel about my research right now - dipping into one too many topics.
Venice Biennale logos
Although there is an abundance of bad logos flooding the pavilions at the Venice Biennale, the Maldives Pavilion takes the prize: Herculanum Pro Roman is their typeface of choice…
A few months back, I found myself in a waiting area sitting next to a famous graphic designer. This designer, who was formerly a big magazine collector, told me that he hates magazines because, “they all look like, or try to look like, Fantastic Man to me.”
While looking through Antoine bookshop in Beirut last week, I stumbled on “Adam Levant,” a magazine “for the man of the Middle East.” I snapped this shot to show you just how much this attempts to look like Fantastic Man, in both design and concept…guess the magazine cynic was right.
http://gawker.com/5750211/the-full-mcbain-movie-hidden-throughout-simpsons-epsiodes
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Why The Simpsons is one of the most amazing TV shows
Great video on the History of Typography by Ben Barrett-Forrest. Apparently, it took 140 hours of work, 2,454 pictures, and 291 paper cut outs for the 5 minute animation.
(Source: etapes.com)
"[…] the Indonesian city of Bandung, which — again, auspiciously, in 1955 — held the conference at which Asian and African countries that were not aligned with either the US-led capitalist ‘First World’ or the U.S.S.R.-backed communist ‘Second World’ sought an alternative, transversal community of so-called ‘non-aligned’ nations. This was the birth of the ‘Third World’ not as a racialized category of poverty or under-development, as it would become in the First World’s hierarchical imagination, but as a critical geopolitical entity, one based less on explicit ties of solidarity than on shared experiences of decolonization and an insistence on independence from the Russo-American binaries of the Cold War."
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Biennales on the Edge, or, a View of Biennales from Southern Perspectives - Anthony Gardner
Editor’s Note: This story was submitted with the client comments in green comic sans, which was impressive to include, but something I don’t want to subject our readers to.
I work as a photographer in the Middle East, where aesthetic value is depressed across all industries. The demand…
Haha, reminds me of a recent blow up I had on a woman who thought all branding projects should be made into a student design competition so they can get the work free of charge.
A question and a quote summarising my presentation. Looking forward to further developing this presentation into a more comprehensive research paper.
The Goldsmiths library has impressed me, but I’ve noticed the most haggled books happen to be related to post colonial studies, cultural imperialism (see above) and anything by Foucault, Barthes, Hall, Papanek, etc etc. The one I’m currently reading, a 1991 edition of Tomlinson’s Cultural Imperialism, contains highlighted passages, notes in pen and pencil, underlines and doodles (mostly flowers). It’s also falling apart (but not as bad as Design for the Real World, where I spent a good time reading and scotch taping the pages back in - unfortunately all three versions at the library had pages falling out.) But seriously, isn’t this cover awesome?
I will be presenting my brief paper “The ‘Good’ Design Brief: Examining the effects of social design projects on communities” at the Goldsmiths Graduate Festival on the 30th of April at 11:30am.
The festival goes on for three weeks and features a wide array of performances, installations, papers and more by the Goldsmiths, University of London graduate community.
Coffee Shop Jams
I was digging through my Evernote notes and found this gem from May 2010 that I never published on my previous blog, so I’m doing it now!
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Thanks to Starbucks, the company that is in the business of selling milk drinks not coffee, everyone now has that third place: the coffee shop. Here you can sit down, relax, study, read, etc, etc. Most of the time, there’s music playing in the background. This music can be a) really low b) just at the right volume or c) louder than the heavy metal they play at Chippy’s (Trinity Bellwoods location).
After sitting in a variety of coffee shops, I assembled a list of jams you’re most likely to hear at those places.
Independent cafés
Usually, the staff is allowed to plug in their own iPod and play their tunes. This can be really bad or really good. And depending on when you go, it can be very repetitive (some employees put the same music week after week - Jimmy’s I’m looking in your direction!)
Jams you might spill your coffee too:
- “Age of Consent” - New Order (it’s the Tupac for hipsters, aiight?)
- The Smiths
- Cut Copy
- Junior Boys
- Toro Y Moi
- 700 other indie bands
Second Cup
This one alternates. Second Cup employees are required to play the music from the satellite radio, but they have a variety of channels to choose from. However, I’m sure anything with swear words or deemed inappropriate is deemed…inappropriate.
Top 40
- This can range from Beyoncé to Nickelback to Lil’ Wayne (radio edit)
- Jazz
- Either Michael Bublé, Norah Jones or Christmas music
Coffee Culture
This place has terrible lattes and coffee (lunch isn’t bad), but I like the actual space itself because it’s good for working (outlets, tables, space!). They also play kicking jams…
Sippin’ on nostalgia
90s - alternative, grunge, classics
- The Cranberries
- Blind Melon
- Everything but the Girl
- Sade
Starbucks
You should already know by now I don’t go to Starbucks, I don’t think I’ve actually sat there since I was 13 except once for a meeting. So how would I know their music? I’ll leave you with this: don’t they have their own label?
Incroyable! 78 numéros publié entre 1970-1978. Archive de Mainmise - la nouvelle culture des années 70 au Québec.
