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Posted 03.29.10 |
Alexandra Lange
Design Blogs: The Vacuum of Enthusiasm
David Rockwell, Set design for the 82 Annual Academy Awards, 2010
When the grid of 1,000 lampshades descended on the Oscar stage, minutes before the uncomfortable-making Best Actor appreciations (I had to mute), I thought, Yes! This is a fuggable design moment. I struggled to think of something funny to tweet about lampshades, decorators, Alec Baldwin after the show but @marklisanti beat me to it.
Lampshades! I see lampshades everywhere! Hundreds of them! (Oscar
set design brainstorm meeting.)
Between the lampshades, the jumbo crystal curtain and the curving gold grid screen,
David Rockwell's
set managed to combine the sparkly trappings of Old Hollywood glamor with a healthy dose of new Hollywood decorating, in which everything old is made new by making it bigger (see Kelly Wearstler,
). I swear I would feel like
Alice in Wonderland
in one of her houses, spooked by the giant hands, feet unable to touch the floor from any of the overstuffed 1970s chairs.
Go Fug Yourself
is my favorite blog. At lunch I try not to drop crumbs on my computer and go through a list of ten or 12, looking for something to pause upon. I have had past fixations on
. I always check my employers,
Architect's Newspaper
, Design Observer,
New York
. Currently I am losing interest in
— love their taste, but does one need to look at a light gray interior every single day?
Swiss Miss
has a nice mix of art and commerce, and a crisp site design I love.
Still liking Vulture
, except for all the coverage of TV shows I don't watch. And I have to check
But the Fug Girls always make me stop. It is the combination of visual and words, the feeling that whatever my reaction to the celebrity outfit in question, they will say that and more and better, with an avalanche of pop-culture references and a couple of cross-references. They have good memories. Celebrity chatter is my guilty pleasure, but the Fug Girls call the puffery to account. No, she does not look good. No, American will never love her. Yes, we can see your Botox. The acid is so refreshing. And yet we know they are still fans.
That's what I want from my design blogs (among other things), but I can't find it. I feel trapped in the vacuum of enthusiasm.
It is nice to be part of a supportive community, especially in a downturn. And there is a lot of beautiful work out there. But the economics and tempo of blogging mean that most design sites present us with pictures of up to ten beautiful things per day. The text is often just a tweaked press release. I am not sure what I am supposed to do with this, beyond a second's admiration. If I happened to be looking for wallpaper, or tea towels, or a new poster, I might click through to buy, but most of it just passes unprocessed before my eyes. In most cases the beautiful things are only passing before the eyes of the blog editors, too. The proliferation of design blogs means few designers can send samples of the real thing.
Architecture, too, is commented upon as rendering, and then as
architectural photography
, but only sometimes as experienced. With ten posts a day, how could you go see things? But design and architecture are supposed to solve problems. Design and architecture have a history. Design and architecture are not seen, or used, or made in a vacuum. How can we have design criticism, even design journalism, having never touched or used or experienced the design? We can't. All we can be is enthusiastic.
I think something has to change in design and architecture blogs. The magazines that used to provide some of the content I discuss below are gone. That means no one to pay the writers, but also a loss of long-form criticism, institutional memory and expertise. As
Luke Hayman has suggested
the iPad may provide an ideal platform for the digital magazine, with more photos and more room to write. I can only hope he is correct, and advertisers are attracted to a model that recombines more different kinds of design stories in one place. My suggestions fall into three rough categories: criticism, history, experience.
Be meaner. On the front page of my ideal design blog is a daily fugging of something from the world of visual culture. That's essentially what
Unhappy Hipsters
is doing for
, or more specifically, for
preferred mode of
architectural photography
. But I can tell they are already tiring of their limited field — the captions are getting wordier, generally a sign of weariness. Or
Pr*tty Sh*tty
for advertising but again, I think he might be getting tired. A rotating cast of bloggers, each tasked with a different visual field, could provide the morning hit of acid I crave. The internet creates much more opportunity for short and shallow and funny (as well as long and thought-provoking and serious). Remember the instant viral jokes about the iPad? Not to bite the hand that feeds (only in the digital sense), but sometimes this site can be a little snoozy. More criticism and shorter criticism might give it something readers had to look at every day. As I tell my students, when you are primarily writing a sweet review, it is important to add a dash of pepper. Love doesn't mean you have to love everything.
The short format might also broaden the perception of the field of design criticism, and mess up the categories of design. Magazines have traditionally had to differentiate and categorize themselves. Now that they are all gone, I think the future lies in writing about design as it appears in life — the houses in TV shows, the architecture behind the cars, the selling of architects as personalities. I loved all the discussions of the faux-denim Olympic snowboarder outfits, which migrated from the sports pages to
various design blogs
. There is a subset of (mostly male) writers and designers that seem to take special pleasure in re-inserting sports into a world typically dominated by cultural pursuits. For most people interested in design, there's no need to segregate uniforms in the sports section and advertising on the business blogs.
There are plenty of products that it would be horrifying to review in one paragraph. Buildings, for example, once built, need to be taken seriously and treated at greater length. They aren't just trotted out for the Oscars, and, as
Paul Goldberger has said
, "Nobody tears down a building if the architecture critic doesn't like it." There need to be more architecture and design critics given 1000 words or more to review buildings, and a platform to show their work to readers. Maybe new buildings of note could be reviewed by two or three people, an exercise I always include in my criticism classes. Maybe we need to forget about buildings and review transformed neighborhoods. This would be the long-form part of the blog, for which the daily dose of poison serves as a kind of loss leader.
It seems like there is so much to see on the internet. Hundreds of images on Flickr. Tens of new products every day. But after a while, all those things start to look the same. Most of the home design blogs have a particular sensibility which, once absorbed, can be numbing. How many multi-color letterpress alphabet posters does one need to see?
To a historian, many of the new things also start to look old. As with fashion, much of design is recycled. I had thought the web would provide a perfect opportunity for annotation. Love that
Jonathan Adler cushion
? Then you will love
bargello needlepoint
patterns from the 1960s. Love the new angular blonde chairs at West Elm? Check out
Jens Risom
. In general, due to lack of time, or ignorance, or not caring, no one ever name checks the inspiration. The blog
Nothing Is New
, which mines the archives of various institutions, promises some of this excavation, but offers more visual adjacencies than historical insight. I fear the design consumer today has knowledge only five years deep.
If you went searching online for similar work, suspecting a past connection, you'd never be able to find it. Most designers only have a few recurrent images connected to their name. I found this out when I did research on Alexander Girard and Warren Platner. There are a fair number of fan posts on Girard, but they tend to focus on his flashiest work:
La Fonda del Sol
, the textiles for Herman Miller, Braniff Airlines. You would never know Girard was an architect who designed a number of houses, as well as a designer and curator of exhibitions, and a man who knew when not to use color.
Warren Platner
was an even sadder case, Google Image-wise, known mostly for his wire chair series for Knoll. After
my essay
about him ran on Design Observer,
Apartment Therapy
stepped into the breach.
Sight Unseen
has begin a series of excerpts of new design monographs, a lovely gesture that may well cannibalize the already small market for the monograph. I wonder if our collective visual literacy might be equally well served by judicious slideshows from monographs of the past, particularly cultish, expensive ones like
by Warren Platner. I wish more people could experience Rem Koolhaas's
Delirious New York
in its
original picture-book form
. I wish more people could experience
magazine, as designed by
Alvin Lustig in the 1950s
. Flickr provides some of this, but spottily, and at will. A nice verbal career summary, better than Platner's dreadful
obituary, would also help. I don't necessarily care where an architect went to school, I want to know why I should know him or her.
Witold Rybczynski
often does reviews in the form of slideshows, with historical references, but they lack a pop sensibility and audience. Along with slideshows with more work of individual artists, I'd like to see more slideshows showing the evolution of a type, or a product, or an individual's work. Could we make it harder for designers to be reduced to a single image? Maybe this sounds like telling design bloggers and readers to eat their Wheaties. It need not be all history lessons, all the time, just a judicious sprinkling of fiber. In truth, I think people would find the old eye-candy as appealing (if not more so) than the new.
Lack of experience is a big a problem on architecture blogs, where all the interested parties are mostly talking about renderings and not built works, or photographs and not visited buildings. But it is a problem for product, home, interior design blogs too. Many exist solely to publicize products. The blogger has selected the product to showcase, but in most cases, their judgment is entirely based on an image. Items like tea towels, or cards, or bedding can fairly easily be evaluated in 2D — they had to invent thread count so we wouldn't need to feel the fabric ourselves — but there are plenty of other consumer goods that some company is always reinventing, and not always for the best.
We need Consumer Reports for design products. Not everything, but at least those fetish objects that go viral without a single touch, or lift, or test drive. There's nothing inherently dull about this category, as recent fine examples of the genre include
Nicholson Baker on the Kindle
in the
New Yorker
, and
Julia Turner on Penn Station
signage on
. It seems significant to me that both these pieces happened in non-design publications: usability is a category that could be a bridge from the rest of the world to the design world. I am afraid that people looking for critiques of garbage cans, cellphones, wayfinding won't find it on most design blogs. They will just find cuter cans, cells, signs. Design blogs tend to lapse male or female, toward gadgets or wallpaper. A few consumer reports might help to bridge the gender gap, since, while I am not interested in gadgets per se, I would love someone to explain why I need a smartphone.
This idea is born out of my own experience with the
Jasper Morrison coffee
maker for Rowenta. For a year or so, it was everywhere: design magazines, gift guides, stores like Moss and MoMA. I was remodeling my kitchen at the time, and had this crazy idea that I would have only two things on the countertops: the most minimal coffee maker and the most minimal toaster oven. (I didn't have a kid yet.) My husband bought me the coffee maker for Christmas, and I immediately noticed that the handle and pour spout were a light gray rather than white. Oh, I thought, Morrison has cleverly specified a different plastic so they won't get stained with coffee like my last carafe. Alas, no. I still don't know why the plastic is gray. But it is certainly coffee stained. It is also hard to rotate the top with one thumb in order to pour your coffee (when the carafe is piping hot, you don't want to set it down and use two hands). When I saw the new
Bodum kitchen appliances posted
— so orange, so adorable — I just thought, here we go again.
There's something deeply ironic about the
green design blogs
showing ten new things a day. New and recycled is still new. Ironic in the same way a
10,000 square foot green house is ironic.
But even the design blogs without an explicit political agenda generally have an undercurrent of unbleached cotton-locavore sentiment. Offering recipes and D.I.Y. projects gets around this problem to a certain extent, but there is still something unsettling about incessant consumerism even of handmade, locally-sourced, upcycled products. To show more things you can't buy (like
Reference Library
, more historical and/or contextual slideshows, and more creative and active assemblies of things seen would mitigate this issue. And I suspect provide more fodder for discussion, the lifeblood of the blog. When I read a comment thread that essentially says "Cute!" 40 times, I wonder why I bother.
I want to give full credit to the men and women who were there first, and established some of the most popular, provocative and adorable blogs. It is wonderful that there is a design and architecture community online. But now the launch moment is over. Some bloggers have managed to establish themselves as stand-alone brands, and some magazines have managed to create online channels that stand alone. But the design magazines that helped to popularize the original design blogs (by providing content and then providing publicity) are gone. And the bloggers themselves can no longer rely on the magazines to provide insta-criticism, research, and product testing to comment upon. That makes for less diversity and scale of discourse, and over the long run, less good writing and less history.
Am I alone in wanting something to take the place of a magazine, to bring the atomized content together, long and short, visual and wordy, historical and of-this-minute? Maybe it is a digital-only magazine, using the new platform of the iPad (but then I wouldn't be able to read it). Maybe it is a super-blog, an all-star coagulator of content from those writers made online and those (like me) that have been driven there. I think there would be power in assembly.
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Although I aspire to achieve that delicate balance between acidity and puffery (the Fug Girls are also my design criticism heroes), dare I say after this piece and the Nicolai takedown that you, Alexandra, are the change we've been looking for?
Alissa Walker
03.29.10 at 10:31
i keep reading this post over because it is so good. i am pretty new to design blogging (i'm also a student @NYSID) and this post is inspiring as all get out. thank you!
03.29.10 at 10:54
Great post. I'm finding more measured and critical responses on--would you believe it--twitter. Maybe there's something to 140 characters that frees us to be more real, sceptical & contextual--simultaneously. How to expand on that (or whether one should), I'm not sure.
Denise Ramzy
03.29.10 at 11:26
It feels like we're in a sad dip where the magazines are dying and the digital hasn't grown up yet. I hope long form can make a serious go of it on the web but even on the iPad I am a bit nervous.
03.29.10 at 11:29
Kudos on sewing a much needed seed. I sincerely hope this will be re-tweeted to distraction ... after which we can all take a long, thoughtful pause before our next posting, whatever that may be.
Sharp and thoughtful. Thank you.
03.29.10 at 11:32
Great post.
Reminds me of the recent (and endless) critiques surrounding the forthcoming iPad -a lot of conjecture at this point, underscoring your point: "How can we have design criticism, even design journalism, having never touched or used or experienced the design? We can't."
On the topic of experience, I wonder, is the lack of experience on architecture blogs merely a reflection of younger designers and students blogging more than the seasoned pros?
Darryl Jonckheere
03.29.10 at 12:44
As long as publishers dissemble about circ and sites like DO don't talk bluntly (Quancast estimates 1900 visitors daily) about audience, it's just a firing squad sitting in a circle. There are probably what, 80 'notable' names in design writing and criticism? Another 200-300 academics, part timers, lesser lights, etc. And then probably a couple hundred bloggers of various stripes. So about a thousand people a day give some consideration about writing thoughtfully about design. And at one of the pre-eminent design sites? 1,900 readers? Anyone see a problem with this math?
Miss Representation
03.29.10 at 01:13
03.29.10 at 02:38
A long, considered online essay on an intellectual site, advocating for more negative, tabloid-style design journalism, followed by a stream of positive, approving comments.
Alexandra, I think your vacuum of enthusiasm has a pretty tight seal.
Jacques Krzepkowski
03.29.10 at 03:29
first of all thanks for sharing your eye-opening and well-written article.
I'm glad that more people have this general feeling of 'numbness' every time they visit design blogs in general:
how much social icon-sets do we need?!
A great article about this is also written by Brain Cay, see the article: http://briancray.com/2010/03/16/mainstream-blogging-age-of-crap/
My guess is that the urge to 'monatize blogs' is the main problem of the 'numbness' we see on the leading design blogs. Just writing quantity for the ads-revenues and no quality writing anymore for the readers!
Once again thanks for this great article, Cheers & Ciao ..
Gonzo the Great
03.29.10 at 03:48
I stopped going to sites like Swiss Miss for this very reason. It seems that lately, just because something is well made than it deserves it's internet parade, around Twitterville and Facebook Ave, etc. All context is lost. The design is "nice" therefore it "is."
I think a good example of what you're asking for is Under Consideration's Brand New blog, which strikes a nice balance between cutting criticism and deserved admiration, all in short, well-thought posts.
André Mora
03.29.10 at 04:06
So what's going on here? Is it paid writing that brings out the good stuff? Is the internet making everything ahistorical? I don't blame some blogs...I like some of the blogs a lot. I think if I were getting objects in the mail from interesting studios I would grateful and uncritical in my postings about their stuff! A new blog/mag form would be great, huh? Or new blogs?
Maybe interior design is to blame for everything. I've enjoyed Apartment Therapy more than Design*sponge 'cause it doesn't forget a reader like me who might want some practical and function info. To quote the commenter above me: "just because something is well made than it deserves it's internet parade" .. I don't think you even need that! It just has to look nice for some "design" blogs. It's so funny...we have this whole huge area of eco-bullshit and cutesy designer stuff these days. Maybe I'm just not good with home decor. I can't afford a lot of that stuff.
Oh, and since we're talking coffee makers.. I'd just like to say that I love my Eva Zeisel for Chantal tea kettle (as seen in MoMA Design Store several years back) BUT it has a brushed metal exterior that is like Flypaper to any cooking oil within 50 ft. ..and a pain to clean.
I'm going to go clutch a throw pillow that has a silhouetted picture of birds sitting on a telephone wire now.
Peter A Jacobson
03.29.10 at 05:22
You put into words many of the same thoughts I've had about design and lifestyle blogs lately.
What worked a few years ago (pretty! cute! check it out!) is not working now, and most of the blogs I used to frequent are little more than content aggregators with a glorified sentence and a link.
It's easy to sit back and let someone else's beautiful photos, beautiful products and beautiful design make your own blog look pretty, but without substance to back it up, what's the point?
03.29.10 at 05:33
We do design crirticism on www.HotelDesigns.net in our Reviews and miniviews of hotels. Certainly operators are sometimes nervous or upset as Rezidor were with our Review of their new Missoni http://su.pr/3BaZ3c. We do visit and stay. We do judge design against functionality. We do try to have a global vision.
We go further. Articles such as that on colour ( http://su.pr/4vs3O3 ) look at the underpinnings of design. We provide eye candy too (our Gallery in the DesignClub has over 13,500 images of hotel interiors) and video. The aim is to inform (daily bits on new products) challenge, stimulate and hopefully educate. We look back ( a series on the Bauhaus). We advise ('Ask the Experts' columns), invite comment but also provide videos and pix for those who never learned to read.
Unfortunately much design thinking is shallow. Design Management (an area we are starting a new series of articels on) is not understood. Branding (yes we have a series of articles on that too) in design terms is only shallowly understood.
As you say most regurgitate the Pr. I include magazines in that category. But ask yourself - do most just deliver what the audeince wants?
Patrick Goff
03.30.10 at 07:35
Oh and by the way over 70,000 visits a months. Yesterday over 3,150 visitors to the site read over 22.000 pages of information. We get 155,000 uniques a year of whom 86,000 become repeat readers. (just for Miss Representation)
Patrick Goff
03.30.10 at 07:40
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of this article, but wonder about the advice to "be meaner."
Snarkiness may be entertaining when talking about red carpet fashion, but I think what you're really asking for is more intelligence, not mean-ness. Criticism doesn't have to be negative to be insightful or enjoyable. But it's easier to push someone else down than it is to build yourself up (as a critic), so maybe that's why we see a lot of trash talk and cheap shots.
Design critique tends to be either overly surface or overly intellectual and removed from common interaction. I'd love to see more populist views of design, such as the articles you cited in your Experience section.
Kirk Roberts
03.30.10 at 09:51
Thanks for giving voice to my disappointment with the entire design/architecture online world. I can't bear the thoughtless aggregators and sites that champion the most superficial and solely visual aspects of buildings and design. The echo chamber of design blogs makes them particularly hollow.
Mark Gerwing
03.30.10 at 10:55
Thank you so much for the excellent article! I recently started a blog about live experience design (events, spectacles, retail, exhibitions, etc) - dandeeXD - with the goal of discussing both the good and bad of each experience as a way to improve my own efforts and share with others. It's still new and a work in progress but I've fallen for the traps of ease or enthusiasm several times already. This article reminds me to stick with the original vision to analyze and critique experiences rather than merely make mention or be a "fan". )You caught me early. Thanks for the kick in the butt.
DeAnne Millais
03.30.10 at 11:37
No, that's a crap idea.
Nick W.
03.30.10 at 02:07
To agglomerate is a bad idea. Look at the DO! What was before an interesting visual culture blog is now a everything blog, with a lot of "green" posts, 2000 posts per day, 5 comments on each and only occasionally interesting... like this one.
John McCurry
03.31.10 at 04:45
I love the idea of a super blog!
Cathy Mason
03.31.10 at 05:30
I'm a residential architect who produces a blog which I prefer to think of as an online magazine. It's called House Enthusiast http://www.katiehutchison.com/house-enthusiast/. With it I aim to fill the gap between design blogs that are product focused and architecture blogs that dwell on starchitecture.
Sure, much of the content is enthusiastic, but I intend for it to be analytical yet accessible, informative yet inspiring.
You might be interested in a post I did about the demise of shelter magazines http://www.katiehutchison.com/house-enthusiast/demise-of-shelter-magazines.html or, on a somewhat tarter note, a post I wrote about touring the Gropius House http://www.katiehutchison.com/house-enthusiast/gropius-house.html.
If you're so inclined, I hope you'll check out my "Recommended posts" in the navigation bar of my site. You might find some of what you're looking for there.
Thanks for bringing the state of the design/architecture blogosphere to the attention of DO readers.
Katie Hutchison
03.31.10 at 09:08
I'm glad to find someone else who shares what I thought was my own secret vice, a love of the "Go Fug Yourself" blog ("Oh Honey, No!"). It delivers great design criticism, just not about anything that we generally catagorize as design, but which certainly "contributes" to the visual culture.
I do have a question for Alexadra Lange, in regards to her recommendation to "Be Meaner:" I'm wondering what you think of the effect of something like the DO Comments policy, which was formally articulated when the DO site expanded into its current form. I have noticed that the comments posted on DO now do generally conform to the DO policy requesting, brevity and no meanness. And now the comments are, in general, more concise, more civilized but maybe not as passionately engaged or "of the minute" as the some of the old (of course, anonymous) posters seemed to be. Does the comments policy has anything to do with this? (And of course the policy says nothing about the contributors).
Lorraine Wild
03.31.10 at 12:03
There seems to be a lot of heat around my words "Be meaner." I meant meanness backed up by the facts, visual or otherwise, and hoped that this piece and my previous one on Nicolai Ouroussoff showed a way to be critical without being personal. It is a rhetorical fillip, more striking than "Be more critical." I don't regret it but I see that it could be taken in some unconstructive directions.
I think the problem with anonymous comments has traditionally been personal meanness. DO comments seem to me to be in transition, some people sign their names, some don't, some people are contributors/friends of DO, some aren't. As John McCurry noted, new DO is different than the old DO, and I agree the comments used to be more fun. Can that really be just because of the policy?
While I am here, I have to say to Miss Representation: If what you say is true, that is depressing, and no design blog of the kind I describe could succeed in paying anyone. I guess I am a utopian, and still believe the audience could grow beyond the design world if the content were more varied/pointed/funny/practical.
Alexandra Lange
03.31.10 at 12:32
"The acid is so refreshing." why is being acidic and snark refreshing?
ugh, i hate this attitude!
Why is being positive suspect?
I agree with most of your article, but I honestly I don't understand how or why you would use the "go fug yourself" blog as an example.
curious to know?
03.31.10 at 12:46
A parallel might be found in the proliferation of "design inspiration" sites that collate images—usually denatured of any evidence of their context or the process that resulted in them—and offer them in vast aggregations. Many of these—But Does It Float, Reference Library, this site's "Today's Images" series—are lovingly chosen and presented, but among dozens of others, they act in concert to add to a towering heap of under-identified and under-examined visuals. Images on the Internet—perfectly flat, 72-dpi—already have so little dimension that the absence of provenance impoverishes them almost beyond value.
The absence of physicality and the abandonment of worldly concerns or explicit artistic constraints combined with torrential profusion also unseats the most essential sense of the designed object's meaning—why did this come to exist?—and replaces it with a recitation of contemporary tics and fetishes. (Alexandra mentions Remodelista's light grey walls; cf., white British paperbacks set in Helvetica). Because of this, rather than serving as a sources of inspiration, they instead cultivate superficial fashions—and just as quickly exhaust them. An endless stream of disembodied images rarely seems capable of widening one's palette; more often the experience is cloying oversaturation.
There are too few sites like Peter Mendelsund's Jacket Mechanical, which flips back through the book designer's process of arriving at a visual idea; or the Accidental Mysteries blog, which, even when unsuccessful at giving a comprehensive scope to the work being discussed, at least is sure to establish its origins. A greater quantity of criticism of visual culture--of the "be mean" type and the purely explicatory or evaluative--would certainly be welcome, but even before that I feel like it's necessary to remind ourselves that design does not meaningfully exist independent of the circumstances that led to it.
03.31.10 at 01:38
I think that one of the things that is going on here is that there are two communities, design historian and writers - who think in images and words - and designers, who mostly just think in images.
I get just as exasperated with the picture and single-sentence blog, but that's because I'm definitely one of the former, it's just not interesting enough for me. So I'm writing reams of design history and comment about posters (vintageposterblog.com). But the images keep getting disseminated across the web with the single-word comments. Neat. Cool. Etc. That's the designers at work; they don't really want to say anything about whatever it is they're looking at, they just want to take it, think about it, appropriate it, share it. But not write words about it.
The problem (if that's what it is) is that the designers outnumber the critics and historians by a ratio that I can't even begin to imagine. So most design blogs are just going to be images, and those of us who like words are just going to have to huddle in our niches (if I find more than 100 people who are interested in vintage posters enough to read the tons of stuff I spool out, I will be very surprised) and get on with it.
03.31.10 at 02:09
There are numerous things that this article brings up that must be acknowledged, but the first that comes to mind is "Isn't this completely fair criticism of traditional printed design writing too?" I know as new online business models appear and more professional writers move online there will be the traditional potshot at the new medium and its "unprofessionalism" and different idea of standards, but can't we say—and haven't we been saying for years—that design writing as a whole needs a serious boost from, well, someone somewhere?
Derrick Schultz
03.31.10 at 09:41
An interesting online essay; you have a number of thought-provoking ideas and points of view. I can't say that I agree with everything you say, but that's just fine. What surprises me the most, however, is that you say that you're a writer; your essay is rather poorly written and you are in dire need of an editor.
Well, no one is perfect. Keep up the effort, though; your ideas are more interesting than most of what one sees on the internet, or, formerly, in print.
One last little comment, if I may...Apartment Therapy is, frankly, abysmal.
04.02.10 at 03:44
otto-ed: In Defense of Design Blogs
Jean Lin
04.02.10 at 04:04
True that unfettered enthusiasm does not reach the same analytical crescendo as criticism and snarkiness seem to. However, I think ebullient appreciation for the time, talent or work that goes into making a beautiful and/or useful [something] is invaluable.
Designers have reached a point where they no longer have to persistently explain the complexities of what they do or prove their worth to the development of society. Design is about communication and the design bloggers seem to have gotten the message and they "love it!".
04.09.10 at 12:55
Chris Weingarten on music criticism at the 140 Characters Conference this week: http://bit.ly/crw140 Similar themes, issues with blogs. It's worth checkin', about 10 minutes long. Pitchfork Media sucks.
Peter A Jacobson
04.23.10 at 07:30
I agree. Totally. I'm so tired of the sugar coating. I'm not a design blogger. I'm a culture generalist. I can be mean, though not mean enough. By mean I mean critical. I'm going to take your advice as support.
I do think you'd like my blog though, so I'm going to link it, and thank you for the opportunity.
"I have such strong and subjective responses to typefaces that I once asked a business to stop sharing retail space with me because I couldn't bear the typeface they used on their sign. I'm sure my reputation will never be totally repaired, but I just couldn't stand it."
04.23.10 at 10:07
Decorno (on blogspot) did this for a while before it shut down; her ongoing "Things that are Wrong" series was brilliant and the tone of that blog a genuinely worthy analogue to the Fug Girls.
Mirror Mirror (on typepad) wrote a GENIUS takedown of Lonny Magazine's aesthetic cliches, titled, I believe, "The Art of Arranging Clutter on Trays"; I bookmarked the site and kept going back for more, but sadly that arch acidity never reappeared on that blog.
05.20.10 at 10:44
I feel most design/tech blogs have become a big catalog...
Am glad the "internets" is pretty big.
It's not digital scrapbooking, you gotta have sthg to say...
05.20.10 at 01:59
What's funny about Design*Sponge is that Grace, the editor, will defend her pretty posts tooth-and-nail the second someone has anything contrary to say. Just read the commentary on her recent Pancake Breakfast post.
I enjoyed the ripples that this catfight sent through Grace's pretty existence, but really enjoyed that someone threw some acid her way and she didn't handle it very, well, GRACEFULLY. As the editor, I would have liked to see Grace handle the situation with a little more diplomacy and maturity. Now that would be the sign of a TRUE editor, one who understands that not everything, no matter how lovely and aspirational, is going to be received with open arms. She's running a public forum for god's sake. Be a moderator, not a dictator.
05.20.10 at 05:30
The face of the landlord post, I was shocked almost could not move, the landlord want that paper out of the generous split, so that I could not help but actually turned again and again the landlord posts, read each time, feelings of appreciation on the number of excited long points, I always wonder if God and flexible in its scenery of
mulberry outlet
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exterior, and even meat can make people do not know in March, people
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have to wear lingering beams, three days without a break feel. Landlord, you write really great. The only thing I can do, only put this post up this thing. The face of the landlord post, I was shocked almost could not move, the landlord want that paper out of the generous split, so that I could not help but actually turned again and again the landlord posts, read each time, feelings of appreciation on the number of excited long points, I always wonder if God and flexible in its scenery of
mulberry outlet
mulberry sale
exterior, and even meat can make people do not know in March, people
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have to wear lingering beams, three days without a break feel. Landlord, you write really great. The only thing I can do, only put this post up this thing.
08.16.11 at 03:27
So Alexandra, where is this blog of yours? It's been what, a year? If nothing else I expect a brutal takedown of the Oscars set.
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Large advertisers are starting to shift their ad budgets to online video. Is the demise of broadcast television at hand?
By Jason Glickman, CEO, Tremor Media
At the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards this week, television actors were full of quips about the demise of their medium: "Amy [Poehler] and I are honored to be presenting on the last official year of network broadcast television," joked sitcom star Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The subtext: Online video, among other things, is killing broadcast and cable networks by siphoning away eyeballs – and advertising dollars.
Despite the jocular talk of doom and gloom on the Emmys, the apocalypse of television isn't upon us. Yes, online video has garnered enormous buzz – and venture investment dollars – but the medium has yet to secure much more than a sliver of the $65 - $70 billion advertisers spend annually on television spots.
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Now I would not be so bold as to call "time of death" on the television model. In fact, with all due respect to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, I think reports of TV's death are greatly exaggerated. Viewership is as high as it's ever been and the medium will (and should) receive the lion's share of advertising dollars now and in the near to mid-term future. More
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Tournament update brought to you by Our neighbors to the West, the Imperial Calcasieu Disc Golf Club. Disc Golf in Lake Charles continues to grow and this has definitely made an impact on our tournaments here in Lafayette. Besides supporting our events with attendance, Lake Charles sent over a last minute shirt sponsorship and I want to let them know that we really appreciate it.by jacques - SN Tournament Information
Bernie, pro masters will get a healthy taste of added cash - fair & generous. All pro divisions get them some. At least $2k added will be shared. Minimum of top third of pro divisions plus one player gets paid in Lafayette. Heath, I humbly reject your nomination. Thanks though.by jacques - SN Tournament Information
QuoteCome with me and put your butts where your mouths are. Just don't put your mouths where your butts are. That's nasty. Signed up for Sunday morning, will be out of town that Saturday.by jacques - General Discussion
Tournament Update and Recap Registration 24 players registered on DGU right now. That is a lot considering that we are accepting walk-ups on Saturday and the tournament is still a week away. This tells me we are going to have a big field. Online closes at noon on Friday and I will be emailing the pre-registered players this week to find out which shirt size they wish to reserve.by jacques - SN Tournament Information
The deadline for sponsoring the 17th Annual Spring Fling has passed and I want to extend personal gratitude to the businesses and individuals who CHOSE to sponsor this tournament. You already got a little information about some of the sponsors for this year's Spring Fling. Here is the lowdown on the others... SHIRT SPONSORS M&E Consulting M & E Consulting, Inc. hasby jacques - SN Tournament Information
Congratulations on the anniversary and of course we are sorry you can't make it Dex. You should pick a different weekend the next time you get married. HAHAHA How about giving us a 100% guaranteed accurate Dex weather forecast for the tournament?by jacques - SN Tournament Information
QuoteWow with steroids I may be able to throw 100 feet! Boy, you know it's bad when the Senior Grandmasters resort to taking steroids...by jacques - SN Tournament Information
Tournament Update brough to you by Crawford Electric Supply Crawford Electric Supply has locations throughout Texas and South Louisiana including their newest branch in Broussard which will serve the city of Lafayette and the industrial and petroleum corridor along Highway 90. Crawford is a full service, stocking distributor for all your residential, commercial and industrial electrby jacques - SN Tournament Information
Also, an unconfirmed Joe Todd sighting at Acadiana Park?!?!by jacques - SN Tournament Information
Tournament Update brought to you by Hobby Town USA Lafayette Disc Golfers - GO VISIT SCOTT HILL AND THE FINE FOLKS OVER AT HOBBY TOWN ON JOHNSTON STREET. Bottom line, Scott's store is stocked with discs from Innova PLUS Dynamic, Westside & Lat64. Quality plastic sold locally by good people! Of course they have tons of other stuff besides discs. As their name implies, they aby jacques - SN Tournament Information
Thank you very much Ryan and the CENLA Disc Golf Association, our neighbors right up the road in Alexandria. Tournament Update brough to you by False River Fencing Call Dane and Chris for all your fencing needs - wood, chain link, iron, decorative, security - commercial and residential. Based in New Roads, False River Fencing provides top quality material and craftsmanship forby jacques - SN Tournament Information
@Brooks - Bring just a few with you, we've got enough to cover the courses at Acadiana. We'll put the ones you bring at the pavilion in the front so I can keep an eye on them. Mini Update Do All Outdoors no longer manufactures their GC01 model cart. Those are the same ones we gave away at the SNDC and the one that I use myself. It is also the one pictured above and the one I planned toby jacques - SN Tournament Information
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The Acadiana Disc Golf Association and The Flight Club Disc Golf League proudly present Louisiana's Largest Disc Golf Tournament!(per capita, HAHAHA) Schedule and Format Saturday, April 26th at Acadiana Park. Registration opens at 8:30 AM. A brief players meeting will follow the conclusion of registration and the first round will tee off at 10:00 AM. Different divisions wiby jacques - SN Tournament Information
QuoteLes Miles ring...ring...ring... Keith: "Hello" Les: "I have a want for Disc Golf and I would enjoy the opportunity to prepare in a competitive fashion." Keith: "Who is this?" Les: "You have a d@mn-strong course with quality obstacles to overcome and achieve the bottom line which is victory." Keith: "What the hell are you tby jacques - SN Tournament Information
Let the TDs do it?by jacques - General Discussion
Good job NOTeam. Pot-O-Gold continues to set the standard.by jacques - Non-SN Events
QuoteAs of now assume that there will be a cap 12 teams from 12 cities. I will set a deadline for cities to enter into the Cup, once that deadline has been met, I will allow 2 teams from the same city. In my opinion it would be better to expand the field to more players from a smaller number of teams than to open it up to multiple teams from the same city in order to fill the tournament. Forby jacques - General Discussion
David, Lake Charles and the Imperial Calcasieu Disc Golf Club - great job on your first major tournament! Enjoyed the course at Sam Houston Jones. Looking forward to the next one already.by jacques - SN Tournament Information
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Lafayette sure is excited about our neighbors' first big tournament at their new course. We were making plans to carpool at doubles this morning and I'm sure Tyson & Flight Club were doing the same on Saturday. Should have a strong showing, including some folks who usually don't do much travelling. I'm sure some of our friends from Texas will be there too. Everybody come oby jacques - SN Tournament Information
Thanks Joe & NOTeam for having us over to play. Well run event with good people and good company. It was immediately evident that the folks in charge of Pelican Park do a top notch job and take great pride in their work. Every square inch of the park was well maintained, the facilities were clean and well organized, trash cans were abundant and signs to help navigate the course and the rby jacques - SN Tournament Information
Dillon's momma dropped him on his head Casey. As Eric suggested, the best path forward would be to secure an agreement for reduced rates from a carrier for SN sanctioned events and let the TDs/tournaments elect to participate based on need. Don't saddle the series with big fixed costs.by jacques - General Discussion
Y'all made the big time - nola.com Congratulations, see everyone Saturday.by jacques - SN Tournament Information
Thanks for having us over for a fun day of Disc Golf. Really enjoy Hiller Park.by jacques - SN Tournament Information
Paypal sent. See y'all tomorrow.by jacques - SN Tournament Information
That is definitely the way to go, Eric. SN sanctioned events having access to insurance for their event at a reduced rate is a good deal for the series.by jacques - General Discussion
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It's been the word tossed around since Northwestern announced on Dec. 14, 2012 that Drew Crawford would miss the rest of the season after shoulder surgery.
Without their star player, many predicted that the Wildcats would struggle to adjust and compete in the Big Ten. That has been the case, as evidenced by blowout losses to No. 2 Michigan and No. 9 Minnesota.
The upside? Several pieces of the team's young core are showing significant improvement. That arrived with increased minutes.
"I think I've gotten the hang of it," freshman Kale Abrahamson said of the Princeton offense. "You should have seen me in the summer. I wasn't good, but as of now, I'm not messing up in practice and I think it's showing in the games."
After playing sparingly in most early-season games, Abrahamson was thrust into the starting lineup to replace Crawford on Dec. 17 against Texas State. His play initially seemed timid, and his poor defensive play contributed to the 94-point drubbing Michigan posted in Evanston.
Overall, though, Abrahamson has shown promise. Since the Texas State game, the freshman has connected on 43 percent of his three-point attempts – cementing himself as a perimeter threat.
On a game-to-game basis, Abrahamson said the difficulty lies in preparation. He recited staples of Carmody teams: intense game planning and loads of information. Rather than ride the bench for the rest of the season, Abrahamson is instead settling into the starter's role.
"It's been a good transition. I think I've responded pretty well so far," he said of the transition. "I wish that as a team we would be playing better, but it's been going smoothly."
In hopes of fighting off Minnesota at The Barn, Carmody threw in a wrinkle to challenge this young group. The team employed a slower offensive tempo, and it worked in the first half. NU held Minnesota to 17 first-half points, before a lousy second half sent the Wildcats to their second straight loss.
Austin Hollins knocked down five three-pointers as part of a 26-7 run, and the dormant NU offense failed to respond. It's difficult to point fingers considering the youth on this team. Despite some positives, Carmody said the next step is to put together a full 40 minutes.
"We let Hollins get out of the bag," he said. "That one stretch changes everything."
In the loss, Alex Olah struggled from the field, an indication that he still needs to hone his skills in all areas. Olah has progressed in, and with extremely high potential, it is crucial for him to work out the kinks.
Meanwhile, redshirt freshman Tre Demps finally embraced his role as a scoring threat off the bench. After suffering through a miserable shooting slump to open the season, Demps caught fire in recent outings. He averages 11.3 points in his last six games – more impressively, 26.9 points per 40 minutes during that stretch. This growth offers a glimpse of what he can provide. When Demps struggled, he stayed confident, knowing he would eventually convert his opportunities.
"The coaches helped me out in practice, and it was just a matter of the ball going in," Demps said. "(The shots) all felt equally good."
Sixteen Big Ten games remain. Difficult games await, and without key players, there is little optimism regarding this team's prospects.
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Microsoft followed up its Surface reveal with yet more goodness from its R&D department -- this time in the form of two covers for the new tablet: the Touch Cover and the Type Cover.
The Touch Cover is 3mm thin and pressure sensitive, providing a full multi-touch typing experience akin to that of an on-screen keyboard, albeit, Microsoft claims, with much greater accuracy and ease of use. Touch typing is possible, and an integrated trackpad is also included.
The Type Cover is 5mm thin, and features the same keyboard and trackpad as the Touch Cover, but instead offers actual physical keys to depress. With a vertical travel of 1.5mm, it won't replace the keyboard on your laptop or desktop, but should make typing lecture notes or editing documents on the go a cinch. Microsoft again assures us that touch typing is possible. It remains to be tested, though, as working demonstrations were not available to press in attendance.
Both covers contain accelerometers to detect when the keyboards are in use, come with palm rejection to reduce accidental keystrokes and offer a place to rest hands while using the tablet, and connect to the tablet with a simple yet sturdy magnetic lock.
Much like the Surface itself, pricing and availability are for the time being under wraps, but it's a safe bet that the Touch Cover will be available this fall with the launch of the Surface for Windows RT. The Type Cover is limited to just the Surface for Windows 8 Pro, so will likely launch alongside that, 90 days after the Surface for Windows RT/Touch Cover. The Touch Cover will work with both Surface models.
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The Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh and Accelerando Music Conservatory are hosting North Strabane's first Performing Arts Festival, 4 p.m. Aug. 4 at North Strabane Town Center, 2510 Washington Road, Canonsburg. The festival is a celebration of the space merger between The Dance Conservatory and Accelerando Music Conservatory.
"Being able to combine resources for the greater community is truly something worth celebrating," said DCP Codirector Mariah McLeod "We believe merging with Accelerando for our second location will provide an avenue for students that is unparalleled and will foster creative growth for the professionals through collaboration."
The Fine Arts Festival will have performances from H2O Contemporary Dance, The Pillow Project, a drum circle and dance improvisation by local professional dancers, as well as showings from the pre professionals of both schools and more.
Christina Chirumbolo, owner of Accelerando, started her adventure five years ago when a few students were bored with all the available arts education in the community. She combined brain power with friends and colleagues from her alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, and made it her mission to create a safe "home" for lovers of the arts; both young and old.
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