“In periods of economic turmoil, people are hungry and work cheap, and entrenched companies often concentrate on in-house cost-cutting instead of exploring new markets, which can explode with the next turn of the business cycle.”— Wired, “Back to the Garage”
With magazines shrinking and newspapers disappearing, these are tough times for ink-stained wretches. So the folks at the beleaguered Time Inc magazine division have rolled out an intriguing experiment.It’s called MINE — and I just signed up for a free issue. Here’s how it works:First, I selected five Time, Inc. mags: Money, Time, Sports Illustrated,
Late last year, YouTube issued a musical casting call. The web video titan asked “professional and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra by submitting a video performance of a new piece written for the occasion by the renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun.” A panel of first-class
“More than 16 million people — one in eight workers on U.S. payrolls — work in health care today, up from just 1% of the work force 50 years ago.”(Source: WSJ, 4.13.09)
Many of you know my fondness (Isn’t it really a strange and dangerous obsessive love? – Ed.) for charts and graphs. Turns out there’s a now an animated video — from PBS! — to hook kids on the crack cocaine of the geek set. Watch it with care. (Via KungFuGrippe, HT: David Moldawer)
Nicole Chen, a student at the California College of Arts’ cool new Design Strategy MBA program, sends this example of emotionally intelligent signage, which she photographed on a beach in Barcelona.The comic word bubble is a nice way to soften a somewhat stern message. And my guess is that this surprising and friendly shape, coupled
In 1966, Robert Indiana gave the world a four-letter sculpture that soon became iconic.Today, on Design Observer, I saw a piece that pays homage to Indiana. (“Homage to Indiana” is totally a title for a mediocre independent film — Ed.) Like many works that have parodied Indiana’s work, this four-letter sculpture bears a superficial resemblance
“New homes, after doubling in size since 1960, are shrinking. Last year, for the first time in at least 10 years, the average square footage of single-family homes under construction fell dramatically, from 2,629 in the second quarter to 2,343 in the fourth quarter, Census data show.”(Source: USA Today via Unclutterer)
