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The branding of countries

Cidade dos Logos has collected dozens of country logos, most of which are for popular tourist destinations. I’m surprised at the number that have an almost hand-drawn feel to them.

The greening of Toronto’s parking lots

Atlanta could learn something from a pilot project for creating more efficient and appealing parking lots within Toronto. Spacing Toronto writes:
the City of Toronto is piloting new design guidelines for “greening” surface parking lots. The proposals include measures to address many of the major environmental problems, and in the process, they address some of the [...]

Beautiful solutions

“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
Buckminster Fuller
(via Monoscope)

Loving the sidekick.

The Denver Museum of Contemporary Art is to the Denver Art Museum as Seattle’s Douglass-Truth branch is to the Seattle Public Library.
The well-designed sidekick gets some love: both the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and the Douglass-Truth branch of the Seattle Public Library [map, official, flickr] have come into their own in cities where their [...]

Harvard Design Magazine: The Dutch 70s, by Wouter Vanstiphout

I was browsing the back issues of Harvard Design Magazine and found an article by Wouter Vanstisphout entitled “The Dutch 70s.” Though it’s about the legacy of 1970s design in The Netherlands, I found the introductory paragraph most interesting:
In Holland there are no architects, buildings, or [...]

The beautiful design for the new Prague library is under attack by the Czech president and the mayor of Prague

Jan Kaplicky’s beautiful design for the new Prague library is under attack by both the Czech president and the mayor of Prague, reports Building Design Online.
But speaking to BD this week, Kaplicky — who last week took part in a head-to-head televised debate with the mayor — said that a forthcoming settlement between the warring [...]

More beautiful manhole covers

More beautiful manhole covers, this time from all over France.

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