Luckily, the astute folks at the New York Times are highly organised, and thus they have produced for our enjoyment, a grid-based, icon-fueled look at the last ten years in news, business, culture, and other categories of time–space. Love it.
Think for a second that this was done mainly with icons. One tiny image can encapsulate [...]

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I have often remarked generally that the Fashion industry is, well, bullshit. But I’ve never managed to muster the clumsy eloquence of Molly Young.
An impolitic reaction, but: flipping through fashion ads of the New York Times Style Magazine is how I imagine it feels to be a cruel popular girl rebuffing the friendship overtures of [...]

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Brooks Brothers has introduced a new exclusive edition suit inspired by the popular show “Mad Men”. They’ve actually teamed up with the show’s costume designer Janie Bryant.
This one is quick and to the WTF-point. The show outfits the characters in period-specific revivals of fashion. And now folks want to dress like characters on the show. [...]

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Obama covers, photo by Johanna Perez-Fox
If you’ve been following the design news, or even the regular-ass news, for the past week or so, you’ve learned once again that magazines are in trouble. Condé Nast recently folded four titles, and with folks still losing jobs and having to scale back recreational spending, it seems that the [...]

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O that I were yet a grad student, for surely this would be my thesis.
London, my beloved bittersweet mistress of a second-city, has an identity crisis, and has put out the call to the design firms of Britain (and to a lesser degree, the world), to redesign the brand identity for London. While a bit [...]

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Just when you thought chocolate and sex were safely separated by a impenetrable wall, Mars debuts Fling, a chocolate bar aimed at women. And by “aimed at women” of course we’re talking about lots of pink, some kind of edible synthetic sparkle goo, and marketing jam-packed with double entendres and sexual innuendoes. Let’s take a [...]

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It’s not quite as severe as a tattoo, but you’d have to be pretty dedicated to McDonald’s to wear some apparel bearing the big yellow arches. But why? From a completely objective point of view, all brands are equal, whether they are electronics, cars, sodas, or fast food. Heck, these days it’s completely reasonable to [...]

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