What’s in a street?...
The street is more than the bitumen. Here is a diagram from SEGD Blog
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Industrial action...
bath radio
Industrial Facility produces some interesting products including the shower radio shaped like a bottle of shampoo
Muji radio
Building as brand...
The new City of Melbourne identity utilises the crystaline form of the Federation Square architecture to inform its new symbol design.
Info from Under Consideration
Security stops signs...
MASSENA, N.Y. — It has been nearly eight years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but the fears and anxieties they gave rise to continue to take a toll on the design of public buildings. Even the words “United States,” it seems — when spelled out in the wrong size and color — can be an unacceptable security risk.
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Heinz Edelmann...
Heinz Edelmann, ‘Yellow Submarine’ Artist, Dies at 75
Heinz Edelmann, the multifaceted graphic designer and illustrator who created the comically hallucinogenic landscape of Pepperland as art director for the 1968 animated Beatles film “Yellow Submarine,” died on Tuesday in Stuttgart, Germany. He was 75.
The movie’s mod-psychedelic look, which typifies the era’s spirited graphic art, emerged around the same time as the related psychedelic work of Terry Gilliam, Alan Aldridge and Victor Moscoso, but it has its own whimsical aesthetic. The bulbous Blue Meanies, which personify an evil mood as actual villains, pursue the innocent, well-coifed cartoon Beatles across an ever-shifting milieu of mysterious seas and holes that can be magically picked up and moved. The yellow submarine itself stops in an ocean of pulsating watches, representing time, to light a cigar for a friendly sea monster.
from New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/arts/design/23edelmann.html?_r=2
The First Lady of Design...
See the New York Times 24 July 09 article on the US National Design Awards