December 2009
42 posts
The Best and Worst Identities of 2009 - Brand New →
This is an EXCELLENT article which I recommend even if you aren’t particularly interested in design or corporate culture. The biggest WOW for me was the City of Melbourne (VIC) logo redesign (our Montreal Agglomeration “M” could take a few hints from it!).
There are a number of helpful hints throughout the article regarding what makes a great logo… and what makes a...
WatchOMG - If you have ever designed anything for an organization, you have to see this.
Video: Stop Sign Designed by Committee : UsedWigs
Drunken Ultimatums - Great Social Science →
This article is worth reading if only for the following passage:
As described in a working paper now under peer review, Morewedge and Krishnamurti took a “data truck” to a strip of bars on the South Side of Pittsburgh (where participants were “often at a level of intoxication that is greater than is ethical to induce”) and also did controlled testing, in labs, of people...
Bicycle Highways
The bicycle highway — no red lights, no cars — is every cyclist’s fantasy. There are now signs that infrastructure is catching up with the dream. In October 2008, an association of U.S. state-highway officials approved the concept of a national Bicycle Routes Corridor Plan — the first step in potential American bike Interstates. But this amounts to little more than a go-ahead for states to...
Les plus belles stations de métro du monde - The... →
Une photo mérite 1000 mots, donc je vous invite de consulter l’article directement… Dommage qu’ils n’ont pas inclus la station Radisson à Montréal, un chef d’oeuvre moderniste évocateur du Sci-Fi … A picture’s worth 1000 words, so I’ll just let you check out the article. Pity they didn’t include Radisson station in Montréal, a real Sci-Fi...
FRANCE • Sarkozy, comme un petit air de Colbert |... →
Article limite farfeleue publiée par le Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung au sujet des politiques keynesiennes françaises… La mise en cadre suggère une retour, mais la réalité est que l’État français ne s’est jamais démêlée la vie économique nationale depuis l’arrivée à Paris du Général.
Charles Dickens: American Notes for General... →
I have no words to describe how I feel reading this text, but I wanted to share it with you. Je ne saurais pas exposer ma réaction à ce discours, mais il importe que je le partage avec vous…
Dickens' American Notes... Niagara Appendum
So this passage is not appended to the named work but rather is a part of the body of text… but I thought it more appropriate to include it as an appendix to my earlier post. I haven’t been to Niagara yet, but these few hilarious paragraphs seem to confirm what I have heard about the Honeymoon Capital of the World… and indeed that it seems in Canada, plus ça change, plus ça reste...
American Notes for General Circulation by Charles...
This is a beautiful text I found by Charles Dickens relating his travels along the Saint-Lawrence… So much of it still rings true to me.
American Notes for General Circulation
by Charles Dickens (1842) CHAPTER XV - IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN’S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE; WEST POINT I wish to abstain from instituting...
The Day Has Come: Facebook Pushes People to Go... →
Take a very close look at your privacy settings! Si vous tenez votre vie privée à cour, vérifiez soigneusement les règlages de votre compte Facebook!
Exposition universelle : Saint-Michel en vedette à... →
Notre ville, pleine de surprises! J’ai hâte de découvrir cette présentation une fois rapatriée en janvier 2011.
Quelque 1,5 millions de visiteurs devraient visiter l’Espace Montréal. Comme l’année 2010 marquera les 25 ans du jumelage des villes de Montréal et de Shanghai, des activités pour souligner l’anniversaire seront aussi au programme de l’Expo 2010.
WatchLe mouvement des jeunes de l’UMP (Sarkozy) ont fait leur lipdub, et c’est très, euh, spécial… The youth wing of President Sarkozy’s UMP party has made their own lip-dub video - um, I’ll leave it up to you to tell me what you think…
Dailymotion - LipDub Jeunes UMP 2010 - Officiel - une vidéo Actu et Politique
FT.com / Europe - Greece pledges cuts in... →
I’ll be curious to see how this crisis affects EMU policy in light of the statement below, if at all. It seems to suggest intentions a structural change.
Mr Barroso said the Greek crisis had focused the attention of EU leaders on the need to find new ways to measure the quality rather than the amount of government expenditure. “When we talk of spending, it matters if it’s to reinforce the...
What Thunder Bay Burned
And how Lady Chatterley... →
Fifty years later, I believe we still hear echos of this initiative today…
Bill C-58 was the stick to the Canada Council’s carrot: one to promote Canadian high culture, the other to proscribe American popular culture. The problem — and the lesson of 1959 — was that in crafting a definition of obscenity wide enough to capture more than its ostensible target, Bill C-58 missed its real target...
“Social Networks as Foreign Policy
In August, after the suppression of...”
– The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - Magazine - NYTimes.com
“Could Strasbourg inspire Park Avenue and Boulevard René Levesque ?...”
– Next American City » Magazine » The French Revolution
Top 10 TV Shows of the Decade: Pics, Videos,... →
I haven’t had a TV in my house since Dec. 2000. This only confirms that I haven’t missed anything. - Je n’ai pas cohabité avec une télé depuis dec. 2000. Cette page confirme que je n’ai raté rien…
Royal Variety Performance goes GaGa as the Queen... →
Lady Gaga meets the Queen … I would have LOVED to have been there..!
» Just a Beautiful Place? • Spacing Montreal →
New article on Spacing… Do you love where you chose to live? I know I do!
Urban economics guru Richard Florida recently set out to discover just how important physical aesthetics are when people choose a place to live (study PDF) …
Florida’s team concluded that a beautiful setting is one of the most important predictors of people’s satisfaction with their community … which...
IABC/Montréal » Blog Archive » Reminder: Festive... →
I’ll be there! Je participe!
Make new contacts and recover your joie de vivre in a convivial atmosphere. Sample heavenly amuses gueules prepared by the gifted team at Coupole, Hôtel Crystal. Come celebrate the end of the year, the beginning of the season, the solstice. And perhaps, win one of our door prizes including centere ice tickets for the Montreal Canadians, or a Customized Twitter...
New/Nouveau : Helvetica Neue - for Arabic! pour... →
This is so cool - a Lebanese type designer in Germany has just released Helvetica Neue (one of my favourite fonts) for Arabic! I wish I wrote Arabic (and could afford the font) just so I could play with it! C’est tellement chouette - une créatrice de polices Libanaise en Allemagne vient de mettre en marché une version arabe de Helvetica Neue (qui figure parmi ma liste de polices favories)....
McGill Reporter : December 6: Fourteen not... →
6 December is commemorated as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Le 6 décembre est la Journée nationale de commémoration et d’action contre la violence faite aux femmes.
Quartier des Spectacles... or anywhere. →
Comprendre le projet du Quartier des spectacles : While the coffeehouses of early 20th century Vienna may have produced the likes of Arthur Schnitzler and Karl Kraus, those literary talents didn’t necessarily equate directly with Vienna’s economic vitality. Likewise, the music scenes that emerged from New York and Cleveland in the 1970’s came out of urban decay, and didn’t necessarily effect...
expo 67 lounge - "Swinging London" →
A fabulous retro-film about London in 1967 courtesy of my Montréal Style Guru Jason. If someone made a film about Boulevard Saint-Laurent and avenue Mont-Royal today, I wonder how it would turn out?
