Today’s class in Pragmatics of Color was tactile, beautiful, and tasty. Here is a sample of my own salad, which I attempted to capture in colored pencil.
Sunset Cruise, Labor Day Weekend
The NYHRC yacht sailed around Manhattan last weekend, and I was on it with my camera. Here are some of the things I saw. See and download the full gallery on posterous
Color journal entries
the color of laughter dancing through your veins, so vibrant it startles a funereal yellow that shows its age, but sweetly
Dietary agendas
Apparently, restaurant menus in San Francisco come with their own commentary (see the blurb under Vegetable Dishes). I wonder, though, if this particular nugget might be more effective under the heading for the meat dishes. Here, they’re preaching to the choir. If you saw this on a menu, would it influence how you ordered? Posted [...]
An actual item on display at the SF MoMA
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Persuasive pre-technology
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Just another beautiful day in San Francisco
Yerba Buena Gardens, by the SF MoMA Posted via email from corinna’s posterous
Stanford Theatre
The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto has a Wurlitzer organ that a musician plays before and after the 7:30pm movie. Now you know!
Summer Reading
Summer is halfway over, and I just finished reading How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. It covers some of the same ground as another excellent book I read in the spring, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely. I highly recommend Ariely’s book, especially to people who design information artifacts [...]
