MoMa plans to show people just how fab prefab is by building full-scale homes on its west vacant lot. Maybe this will help people to stop thinking of prefab as strictly trailer park.
This is really awesome.
ASME’s Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years.
A nice ride back in time.
Why is toilet design nonexistant? I mean we have awesome sinks, showers and tubs to choose from.. but why not toilets?
These are not particularly my style.. but still pretty cool. (via johnny_bravo_richard)
A few thoughts on Xerox attemping to change its brand identity through changing its logo:
People will never think of Xerox as anything other than a copy machine.. the brand name has become a verb and it means, ‘to make a copy of’.
I have to agree with Michael Watras when he says “They should have kept the Xerox brand on some products, but renamed the company. If I were a shareholder, I’d be outraged.” (Michael Watras is the president of Straightline International- a brand consulting company.)
This is a good topic of debate for corporate social responsibility. Do corporations have a responsibility to the investor? Or is their job simply to maximize profits?
Comcast’s existing video-on-demand service has about 300 titles, compared with the 6,000 it eventually hopes to offer
“Comcast. Because you have no other choice.”
MonsterHoodies (via jen dunlap)
This is such a genius idea! It just launched last night. Go here to buy one.
Its 64 degrees today in Chicago. Thats a new high for January 7th.
This article seems to linger in my head.