From Around the Design-o-Sphere I
1010 Wins reports that the NY MTA has scrapped plans to ban photography, videotaping and filming in subway stations. Obviously good news. You know we're in trouble when those who carry cameras are branded as potential terrorists because of outrageous regulations.
In her DesignObserver.com essay "Method Designing: The Paradox of Modern Design Education", Jessica Helfand chastizes current design school curricula for teaching designers to be too much like artists.
TheCreativeForum.com members discuss if Microsoft's Metro can replace PDF, despite Microsoft's claim that it is not meant to.
As designers, we are sensitive to color, light, trends, and of course design. And we also use computers. Wired reports on the growing backlash over those ubiquitous novelty blue LED lights. The article explains why companies choose the blue and why blue LED lights are so different than the older red and green.
New York Times reports filmmaker, pizza shop owner, and Greenwich Village resident Phil Hartman Monday night proposed a plan to create the Museum of the Counterculture. Supporters feel it is a way to preserve the authenticity and identity of a culture that has become absorbed and commoditized by the mainstream. Opponents believe that such institutionalization is counter to counterculture.
It's not a proper gadget until it has a blue LED. I thought everybody already knew that!