Subway beauty

Posted in: Design, Travel- Nov 15, 2008 3 Comments

If you’ve ever smiled at the little brass men in the 14th St subway station or admired the colorful tilework at City Hall station in New York City, I think you’ll agree that this subway ceiling taken inside a Taiwan station blows all that out of the water. Standing underneath it, I really felt like [...]

The End of Wall Street's Boom

Posted in: Education, New York- Nov 13, 2008 1 Comment

This recent article by Michael Lewis, author of the infamous book Liar’s Poker, is long but once you’ve read it, you and your former office mates can sit around the flaming garbage can and discuss the finer points long into the cold, cold night: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom

Comparing newspaper front pages

Posted in: Design, Reflection- Nov 11, 2008 2 Comments

The Newseum web site shows front pages from daily newspapers every single day. As such, it showcases a wide range of design choices, from typography to spread layout to use of color in graphics and photos, as well as editorial choices pertaining to content. For instance, here is today’s front page of a paper from [...]