Many architects and designers, when talked down from the theoretical towers of “sculptural forms” and “floating volumes” and made to speak of their craft in humbler terms, are apt to use a phrase as naive as it is loaded: “good design.” It suggests such an apparent universality that any of us should be able to [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
7 Jun 2008 – 11:56 am
Old Politicians never die
;they only get forwarded…
I was curious about what happens to old political websites when the candidate has not been running for several years. All of the 2008 candidates still have active sites because it’s too soon, but what of the 2004 candidates?
www.howarddean.com forwards to the wikipedia page about Howard Dean. Much easier than maintaining [...]
4 Jun 2008 – 6:49 pm
The Aesthetics of Brewing
Fort Collins is a town that loves it’s beer. With at least 5 breweries in town, we do not drink Coors (stop asking!). I have to give a shout out to Odell Brewing Co. for it’s design. Their logo is fantastic (see right) and so are it’s label designs (see left). Not only do they [...]
3 Jun 2008 – 9:52 pm
This really happened…
at my high school. This explains any grammatical or spelling mistakes; I had teachers like this. Yes, I did have “Crapo” in high school. This is not exaggeration. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
I present for your enjoyment a brief vignette of high school English class, in dramatic form:
SCENE: A classroom. Students [...]
3 Jun 2008 – 9:36 am
Lineages
I was thinking about the progression from exponent to godfather to grandfather status in a movement (literary, musical, etc.). It seems fuzzy when someone goes from an “Exponent” (a more gender neutral term for “Father”) to a “Godfather” (no gender neutral term, maybe “Elder Statesperson?”) to potentially “Grandfather” (“Grandparent”) of a movement. To help clarify [...]
3 Jun 2008 – 8:33 am
Solutions for Problems
The Top Ten Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems
“…we get just nine cents of value for every dollar spent trying to stop terrorists.” Contrast with: “Correcting these mirconutrient deficits would cost $286 million per year.” The U.S. could have fixed this many times over considering that the Iraq war costs about $100,000 per minute. Just [...]