Monday, February 25, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Disappearing bees threaten ice cream sellers
about "Disappearing bees threaten ice cream sellers" by Parija B. Kavilanz
Foodmakers including Haagen-Dazs is scared by the fact that bee colonies in United States are disappearing. Bees are the polinators of one-third of the U.S. food supply. (fruits, vegetables and nuts) Haagen-Dazs said bees are making 40% of its 60 flavors. "...The company is donating $250,000 to both Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Davis to fund research into the bee colony collapse disorder (CCD)." Also, Haagen-Dazs is launching a new flavor "Vanilla Honey Bee" so that consumer can pay more attention about the bee problem.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/17/news/companies/bees_icecream/index.htm?postversion=2008021712
Foodmakers including Haagen-Dazs is scared by the fact that bee colonies in United States are disappearing. Bees are the polinators of one-third of the U.S. food supply. (fruits, vegetables and nuts) Haagen-Dazs said bees are making 40% of its 60 flavors. "...The company is donating $250,000 to both Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Davis to fund research into the bee colony collapse disorder (CCD)." Also, Haagen-Dazs is launching a new flavor "Vanilla Honey Bee" so that consumer can pay more attention about the bee problem.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/17/news/companies/bees_icecream/index.htm?postversion=2008021712
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Type Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
About "Type Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry" by Jessica Helfand
Many students have used Futura for books (and any typographic exercises) with diverse contents. (cook books, commercail books, how-to books, and so on) For a question "Why? Why did you use Futura?", people answered: "I liked how modern it was.", "I just kind of liked it." If you use a type face for designing something, you need to have reasonable explains behind it.
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/029608.html
Many students have used Futura for books (and any typographic exercises) with diverse contents. (cook books, commercail books, how-to books, and so on) For a question "Why? Why did you use Futura?", people answered: "I liked how modern it was.", "I just kind of liked it." If you use a type face for designing something, you need to have reasonable explains behind it.
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/029608.html
Stan
Stan was walking his dog "Nutter Butter" in the Morningside park. He repares televisions. He is an electronic engineer. Stan lives a couple blocks away from the park. His dog, Nutter Butter is a six-year-old male pomeranian. I asked Stan if it is a real name, then he showed me Nutter Butter's name pendant. He did not let me take his picture because he does not want his picture in a magazine or a news paper.
Marilyn Lorne
I met a woman in a Rite Aid on 110th St and Broadway. Her name is Marilyn Lorne. When I found her in the store, she was comparing shirts. When I told her about the school assignment, she looked like she could not believe me. She said she came to Rite Aid for buying things that are on sale. She lives in the area. She is retired. I asked her to recomend me a restaurant, but she said that she does not have money to eat out.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Space- Gra Han
Space did not have her shape in the begining. She lives in people's minds. Every night she gets some thing which was forgotten by its owners and builds her body. Last night, she gained a tongue from Kathy and now finally she can speak.
Top Dogs Live On, and On, in Progeny- NYTimes
about "Top Dogs Live On, and On, in Progeny" by Richard Sandomir
There is a male dog who has 61 children as champion show dogs. Mick is a bluish-grey, bearded stud, 12-year-old Kerry blue terrier. He was a champion show dog for long time. Many breeders want to mate their bitches with him so they have even bothered to fly them to Sacramento and book hotel rooms for their special dogs. This great dog’s sperm has been frozen to create more dogs just like him (maybe better) in the future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/sports/othersports/11dogs.html?_r=1&ex=1360472400&en=0642c43e32287108&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
There is a male dog who has 61 children as champion show dogs. Mick is a bluish-grey, bearded stud, 12-year-old Kerry blue terrier. He was a champion show dog for long time. Many breeders want to mate their bitches with him so they have even bothered to fly them to Sacramento and book hotel rooms for their special dogs. This great dog’s sperm has been frozen to create more dogs just like him (maybe better) in the future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/sports/othersports/11dogs.html?_r=1&ex=1360472400&en=0642c43e32287108&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
City beneath the city
Strukton is planning to turn Amsterdam into a "big cake city." These days, there is a lack of space. Especially in cities, people need more space to live. Everybody wants to live in the center of the city. Strukton planned to solve this problem. Their solution is to use underground space as living space. For example, there will be different underground levels for parking lots, sports centers, theaters, and so on. Plus, the place is connected to the A10 ring road.
http://www.pantopicon.be/blog/2008/01/30/city-beneath-the-city/
http://www.pantopicon.be/blog/2008/01/30/city-beneath-the-city/
Monday, February 4, 2008
article in the NY Times
about "Is Capturing CO2 a Pipe Dream?" by Andrew C. Revkin.
Unbelievable amount of carbon dioxide is being released by United States and China. And President Bush's Futuregen plan for an emissions-free coal fired plant is being delayed. The price got almost twice more expensive than the original $1billion. Environmentalists think the plan will set back construction years "..because all the paperwork and budgets and permits and impact studies will have to be pursued anew."
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/is-capturing-co2-a-pipe-dream/index.html?ex=1359781200&en=2de7c5b815a140f3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Unbelievable amount of carbon dioxide is being released by United States and China. And President Bush's Futuregen plan for an emissions-free coal fired plant is being delayed. The price got almost twice more expensive than the original $1billion. Environmentalists think the plan will set back construction years "..because all the paperwork and budgets and permits and impact studies will have to be pursued anew."
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/is-capturing-co2-a-pipe-dream/index.html?ex=1359781200&en=2de7c5b815a140f3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Jesus Sanchez
Jesus runs a Mexican restaurant, Hacienda de Don Manuel, in Suffern, New York with his brother. They started this business after moving to Suffern from Guadalajara, Mexico around twenty years ago. They started with a hole-in-the-wall place but did so well that about fifteen years later they were able to relocate to a much nicer, bigger and fancier location.
Wilhelm Deffke: Modern Mark Maker - Steven Heller
This article is about Wilhelm Deffke and the modern corporate logos.
Wilhelm Deffke was the person who made "the era's most impressive symbols for commerce and government, not the least of which became the most charged logo of the twentieth century, the Hakenkreuz (the hooked cross or swastika) — prior to its adoption by the Nazis." However, he never thought that the design used as a political symbol. He actually redefined a representation of the acient Germanic sun. The symbol swastika was taken by Nazis and never paid for.
In Deffke's essays — sermons to businessmen on the value of branding — he says,
"These trademarks and factory seals deserve our attention as a means of improving the public taste, and because of their extraordinary economic significance, ...Their value is in the millions and it would be a irreplaceable loss to the national wealth of any country, should they cease to be."
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/031648.html#more
Wilhelm Deffke was the person who made "the era's most impressive symbols for commerce and government, not the least of which became the most charged logo of the twentieth century, the Hakenkreuz (the hooked cross or swastika) — prior to its adoption by the Nazis." However, he never thought that the design used as a political symbol. He actually redefined a representation of the acient Germanic sun. The symbol swastika was taken by Nazis and never paid for.
In Deffke's essays — sermons to businessmen on the value of branding — he says,
"These trademarks and factory seals deserve our attention as a means of improving the public taste, and because of their extraordinary economic significance, ...Their value is in the millions and it would be a irreplaceable loss to the national wealth of any country, should they cease to be."
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/031648.html#more
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