Items of interest around 091410
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010-
- Map your moves [Moritz Stefaner]
- “A visual exploration of where New Yorkers moved in the last decade”
- Queens Metropolitan Campus [Pentagram]
- “…Scher has merged her environmental graphics and painting to create a remarkable new work: a pair of murals at the new Queens Metropolitan Campus in Forest Hills, which includes Queens Metropolitan High School and the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, a middle school.”
- London Design Festival Debate: Products, People and Punk [Guardian]
- “London design festival director Ben Evans takes on the curator of the Anti-Design festival, Neville Brody, to debate the state of British design with guardian.co.uk’s arts editor, Andrew Dickson”
- Interview with Massimo Vignelli [Design Observer]
- “So what is design all about? It is to decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world. It is to make the world a better place to be. But everything is relative. There is a certain amount of latitude between what is good, what is elegant, and what is refined that can take many, many manifestations. It doesn’t have to be one style. We’re not talking about style, we’re talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.”
- What does the filler text “lorem ipsum” mean? [The Straight Dope]
- “Lorem ipsum is the beginning of a pseudo-Latin passage commonly used as placeholder text when a graphic designer dummies up a page layout. It’s intended to show how the type will look before the copy is available…Lorem ipsum was part of a passage from Cicero, specifically De finibus bonorum et malorum, a treatise on the theory of ethics written in 45 BC. “
