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funnyTuesday Jun 09, 2009
Typeface the Music and Dance
Thursday May 21, 2009
George Meyer Sends Up Airline Branding
Good afternoon. This is your pre-boarding announcement for Flight 505 to Milwaukee. All first-class and business-class passengers, passengers needing special assistance, and families travelling with small children may now board the aircraft. Monday May 11, 2009
At White House Correspondents' Dinner, an Unlikely Trio
Monday Apr 27, 2009
The Onion Asks Area People About the World Trade Center 30-Year Delay
Back in September of last year, things seemed to finally be going well for the World Trade Center rebuilding and memorial constructing. Then, of course, the real scope of the financial fall started to loom over everyone's heads and anything anywhere that was being built started to slow way, way down. This effect finally crept into the WTC location, as The Port Authority of New Work and New Jersey has come out to say that while One World Trade Center and the memorial/museum were still on track (what that means, we're not sure, since it hasn't been on track since day one), they were expecting that it might take some three decades before all the surrounding buildings might get constructed, given how there's not much money out there right now to start funding big projects like this. Fortunately, we can all laugh about this, as The Onion put together a rare architecture-themed American Voices pieces, asking their usual batch of regular people what they think of this announced delay. Only three to read, but each very funny. Wednesday Apr 15, 2009
Why His Business Card Is Better Than YoursBecause it's die-cut, foil-stamped, embossed, and expensive ("about four dollars a card"). Because it took 25 years to design. Because it doesn't fit in a Rolodex. Because it doesn't belong in a Rolodex. Because it's on card stock so thick and creamy that it can slice cheese. Because there's a surprise inside. Because it demonstrates "incredible marketing capability." Because it's the pride and maniacal joy of this results-oriented entrepreneur, the Patrick Bateman of event planning. Thanks to Design Observer for sending us his way. Resume Advice from Rick Owens
Friday Mar 27, 2009
Don't Judge a Film by Its Nostalgic Faux Book Cover
Monday Mar 02, 2009
Is Lucian Freud Mocking Château Mouton-Rothschild?
The work's spare, doodle-like qualities make us suspect that Freud began and completed the work either while on the phone with the Baroness about the commission or after sampling a few bottles of previous vintages (for inspiration, of course). The company, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, looks to the painter's grandfather and takes a more Freudian view of the label, describing it in a press release as "a joyously exotic transposition of the pleasure of drinking, in which the vinestock is transformed into a springing palm tree and the winelover into a happily anticipatory zebra." Sometimes a zebra is just a zebra. Wednesday Feb 25, 2009
Mysterious Naval Vessels, Free to Good Home
It looks like a floating field house, with an arching roof and a door that is 76 feet wide and 72 feet high. Sea Shadow berths inside the barge, which keeps it safely hidden from spy satellites.Since 2006, the Navy has been offering Sea Shadow and the Barge (which sounds like the name of a terrific sitcom!) for free in a package deal. So far, no takers. "A gift ship from the Navy comes with lots of strings attached to the rigging," writes Kaplan. "A naval museum, the Historic Naval Ships Association warns, is 'a bloodthirsty, paperwork ridden, permit-infested, money-sucking hole...'" Monday Jan 05, 2009
Pondering Polder, Times Makes Telling Typo
We hate to make a fuss over a typo (the phalanx of shifty-eyed copyeditors here at UnBeige HQ are under enough pressure as it is), but we can't resist a good Freudian Slip. In Michael Cannell's "Design Loves a Depression" piece published in the Week in Review section of yesterday's New York Times, he follows up the mention of Marcel Wanders' half-naked girlfriend tending bar from the ceiling with a shot of sobering reality: Now, given that all those slick Miami condos are sitting empty in the sky, designers like the Campana Brothers, with their $8,910 Corallo chair, and Hella Jongerius, with her $10,615 Ponder sofa, might have a harder time selling their wares.Jongerius' sofa for Vitra might appear ponderous—with its cheeky asymmetry, multi-shade cushions, and mismatched buttons affixed with high-tech parachute string—but it's called Polder, not Ponder. Although we hear that Hella have no fury like a sofa scorned, this typographical blip pales in comparison to the time that Vanity Fair described Charles and Ray Eames as "designing brothers." PreviouslyMarriott CEO: What My Deep Fryer Accident Taught Me about Hotel Management Who Needs More Cowbell When You Can Have a Calculator? David Byrne Reveals Imelda Marcos' Other Secret Obsession Ricky Gervais: 'People Don't Watch Films That Have the Wrong Font' What Have You Done for Your Mother Lately? Singing Your Way to Self-Promotion Buckminster Fuller, in His Own Verse Former Thai Leader Rendered Familiar Narcissism Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand: Introducing Photo-Printed M&Ms Letter Puts an End to the Jean Nouvel Love Parade Yazmany Arboleda's Guerrilla Art Show Closed by Cops, Covered by NYT Designers: The Great Tattooed Among Us? John Jessop and the Shed That Launched a Million E-mails Let Them Smell Sharpies: Third Grader Suspended for Savoring Marker's Scent The Language of Web 3.0 Is Born Ronald McDonald, Frustrated Astronaut Joshua Levi Gets Michael Bierut for a Song If We Were Reader's Digest, This Would Be the 'Lighter Side of Design' Page A History Lesson Response to Our Texas License Plate Posts Texans Continue to Go Crazy Over License Plate Design You've Made Your Bed, Now Brand It--Carefully Blackmailing After Car Design Theft from The London College of Fashion Texas Voters Go Nuts...Over License Plates Designing Identity Packages for Drug Runners A Toothbrush for the Lazy and Other Terrible Gifts The Wright Way to Build a Gingerbread House Ceci n'est pas Tobias Wong: Designer Hoaxes Conference Crowd Richardson and Charney Get Onion'd Young People, Just Hangin' Out, Cuttin' Loose and Not Talkin' 'Tech' Substituting Skylines: Print Mishap in The Economist Winner of the UnBeige 'Best Press Release of the Year Award' Will the Owner of the Green Saab Please Return to Their Vehicle So We Can Make Fun of Them? Mule Design Makes With the Funny Jim Whimpey Gives Parody to Those Who Give Advice IDEO Gets the Mad Magazine-esque Treatment Solving America's Weight Problem With Subliminal Home Furnishings Men With Hats Introduce You to Gutenberg Via Song and Dance If the High Admission Price Doesn't Kill You, the Radiation Surely Will Dumb + Money: Architects Forced to Make With the Stupid Company Logo Designer, Destroyer of the Expensive Design Firm It's Not Just Tapioca, It's Google Tapioca Examining the Forgotten: The Sorry State of Election Signage Bringing the Stench of New York Straight to Your Doorstep When Nothing Good's Coming, Always Turn to Witches Photoshop Gets Into the Wrong Hands, Terror Ensues Making A Game Out of the Uber-Familiar: WWDC Bingo The New Yorker Pretends to Care About Design We'd Be More Than Happy to Color Inside the Lines A Good, Albeit Familiar, Couple of Laughs This Post Was Written High Atop A Mighty Boulder More "Hmm...Funny?" Than "Hmm...Funny!" Dishing the (Funny) Dirt on Mario B. Fun Friday Link: More Money Than The Brands They Represent Like In Anything Else, It's All Presentation SUBTLE MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL DESIGN DEPT. Advertising Demands To Be Taken Seriously! But Without Them, You Wouldn't Eat... The Year In Architecture, As Funny As It Sort Of Was Those Industrial Design Students Sure Are Funny! We're Not The Only Ones Who Thought Santiago Calatrava Looks Like Eugene Levy Look At What You Can Do With Flash And a Sense Of Humor Your blog is like a sausage patty... Everything's Better With Bacon |
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