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SunChips, Frito-Lay’s popular line of multigrain snacks, will introduce for Earth Day 2010 the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. Packaging Digest describes the key design innovations behind SunChips’ new packaging:
Current snack food packaging has three layers: a printed outer layer with packaging visuals/graphics, an inner layer, which serves as a [...]
The much-awaited BLDGBLOG book is out. Sounds like the visually-stunning, encyclopaedic tour de force we’ve been expecting:
“It’s got five major chapters and a huge bibliography; it’s got interviews, full-color photo spreads (by Simon Norfolk! David Maisel! Edward Burtynsky! Ilkka Halso! Bas Princen! and more!), as well as original illustrations by my colleague at Dwell, Brendan Callahan; it’s [...]
Somehow I missed this inspiring development: artists are moving in to Detroit, buying up houses for dirt cheap and converting them into linked-up, green artist communities.
A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, started the ball rolling. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a one-bedroom house in East Detroit [...]
“Sunaisthēsis is the distant origin of the modern “synaesthesia”; the verb from which it was drawn, sunaisthanesthai, can be found in two passages of Aristotle’s treatises. “Formed by the addition of the prefix ‘with’ (sun-) to the verb ‘to sense’ or ‘to perceive’ (aisthanesthai), the expression in all likelihood designated a ‘feeling in common,’ a [...]
There are, it would seem, two kinds of novelty: the one that breaks from tradition, ushering in a new order, and the one that perpetuates the same under the guise of change. The latter, associated with fads and trends, marks the logic of consumption, whereas the former, querying the new and indeterminate, suggests a revolutionary [...]
In his September 2008 keynote address for the Networks of Design meeting of the Design History Society, Bruno Latour described, with typical circumspection, the implications of the on-going expansion of design. The sheer range of things now subject to it — objects, cities, and everything in between — shows just how momentous, and total, this [...]
“The alabaster bosom that seventeenth-century poets celebrated in their poems was to be found only in dolls, whose fragility often cost them their existence.”
Walter Benjamin, “Cultural History of Toys” 115
Taken together, three short essays by Walter Benjamin on the subject of toys outline a novel approach to the cultural meaning of toys, [...]
In a story related to yesterday’s post on the new NYC Transit window ads, it was noted that the semi-transparent film on which these ‘wrap ads’ are printed is manufactured by 3M for specifically that purpose.
Paul J. Fleuranges, a spokesman for New York City Transit, said the agency hoped that the film, called Scotchcal, would [...]
I’ve been racking my brain trying to recall other instances where advertising has been used as a crime deterrence strategy - or at least this is what NYC Transit authorities are giving as the reason behind their new ad policy. According to Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times:
“Despite the M.T.A. budget shortfall, transit [...]
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