Jeff D. Taylor

doree:

NY Times: “[Former NYPD officer Antonio Bolfo’s] photographs from those days and nights in 2008 — and many more taken as a citizen tagging along with officers in 2009, after he resigned from the force to pursue photography full time — offer a unique and fascinating glimpse into the world of the housing police. They are at turns raw and tender, scary and sweet, and they humanize people on both sides of the badge — those who wear one and those who face them, night after night.” 

A good, and visual, description of “how design influences quality perception, emotional product narrative and differentiates products.”

wolffolinsblog:

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Recently, we created a little chart to help a client understand the role of design and information hierarchy in product packaging.

To keep it simple, we used a milk carton.

We used only three pieces of basic information: the manufacturer (Smith), the product identifier (Milk) and the milk fat content modifier (1%, 2% or Vitamin D Milk). It’s what Americans see everyday in the dairy aisle.

We then explored how design decisions affect the product – the basics like information hierarchy or the use of type (e.g. a script type to emphasize “freshness”), the use of language (e.g. cheerful “Mooo Milk)”, color (to reinforce differences in fat content), illustrations (to tell a provenance story) and even form factors (e.g. glass bottles for “premium”). You can see the complete exploration on the chart, especially when you zoom in.

On the bottom of the chart, there are two examples of how it all came together: ”Good, better, best” shows how design influences quality perception, emotional product narrative and differentiates products. ”Shelf Blocking” then proves the power of design to aid shopability and create shelf presence. 

In the end, we were amazed what the humble milk carton taught us about the AWESOME POWER™ of design. Design affects product, and what affects the product affects sales. 

 

(Christian Butte) 

Pipilotti Rist: Selbstlos im Lavabad (Selfless in the Bath of Lava), 1994

Selbstlos im Lavabad is comprised of a small video embedded in a hole on the floor. In the video, the artist swims nude in an incandescent lava bath and cries out “I am a worm and you are a flower!” This video was first exhibited in Basel, Switzerland in 1994. In a later exhibition in Zürich, Switzerland, the video was placed at the foot of a Madonna and Child sculpture emphasizing the religious notion of damnation as suggested by the video.

Photo: January 2012

The Banksy of Moscow: P183

A Russian street artist … known only as P183, creates eye-catching works around Moscow. P183 reveals little about himself except that his name is Pavel, he is 28 and that he studied ‘communicative design.

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laughingsquid:

Project Shellter Success: Hermit Crabs Adopt 3D Printed Shells

Write, Paint, Somethan

Sketchbook from Henry Taylor’s studio

(Photo: January 2012)

Congratulations, Tribble and Mancenido, you just romanticized truck driving.

nogophoto:

Tribble & Mancenido - Moto Mart, Perryville, MO 2008.

From the Hurry Up & Wait collection, in which they were employed truck drivers for over one year. 

100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982-1986

At the center of the Chinati Foundation’s permanent collection are 100 untitled works in mill aluminum by Donald Judd installed in two former artillery sheds. The size and scale of the buildings determined the nature of the installation, and Judd adapted the buildings specifically for this purpose. He replaced derelict garage doors with long walls of continuous squared and quartered windows which flood the spaces with light. Judd also added a vaulted roof in galvanized iron on top of the original flat roof, thus doubling the buildings’ height. The semi-circular ends of the roof vaults were to be made of glass.

Each of the 100 works has the same outer dimensions (41 x 51 x 72 inches), although the interior is unique in every piece.