I don’t
necessarily
agree with
everything
I say.

Marshall McLuhan

A building as good as the Saratoga Avenue Community Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn, designed by New York architect George Ranalli and built by the New York City Housing Authority, better known for its bottom-line public housing projects, deserves to have its presence shouted from the rooftops as a seriously fine demonstration of the art of architecture, and as an example of the radically revised standards that are being successfully implemented under a new city policy.

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Proposed? Real? I can’t read dutch.

What is Lisztomania?

From Wikipedia: “The term “Lisztomania” was coined by the German romantic literary figure Heinrich Heine to describe the massive public response to Liszt’s virtuosic piano performances. At these performances, there were allegedly screaming women, and the audience was sometimes limited to standing room only.”

I must confess I’m not crazy about the video and although the subject matter is peculiar - I love the song. It’s almost worth watching once with your eyes closed (or just not watching the video) and then again after you’ve heard the song a first time.

A kind of amazing new rebrand for ESPNEWS by Trollback. “The package builds on the notion of ESPNEWS as the center of the sports information universe; the nucleus for news, statistics, scores and opinions of athletes, experts of fans.” More details as well as the quicktime movie after the jump.

The exceptional Isklar bottle, inspired by the diamond like qualities of a glacier, mirrors nature by refracting light through its facets. The bottle’s multifaceted shape demanded Sidel, the beverage supplier’s, know how in design, blow molding and labeling. “Sidel played a major role in validating this bottle’s technical performance and in guaranteeing the bottle’s mass production at high speeds.”

Designers Blue Marlin comment on the project: “We took inspiration from the beauty and folklore of the Hardanger source region to devise the brand’s core concepts – sparkling ideas that went on to inform all aspects of the brand: the name, brand identity, product portfolio structure, and crystalline bottle structure”.

Via popsop.com

“Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.

Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.”

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