Comments on: Neighborhood Design Watch: Cardon Copy http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/07/16/cardon-copy/ Interestingness, curated – picking culture's collective brain for innovation, inspiration & brilliant ideas Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe K http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/07/16/cardon-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-129980 Joe K Mon, 16 May 2011 08:33:12 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2990#comment-129980 Life imitates art. :-) http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/_articles/2005/06/27/design_vigilante/ Life imitates art. :-)
http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/_articles/2005/06/27/design_vigilante/

]]> By: Kat http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/07/16/cardon-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-129972 Kat Mon, 16 May 2011 04:35:13 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2990#comment-129972 It's street art in reverse. Something very wrong about it. It’s street art in reverse. Something very wrong about it.

]]> By: samta http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/07/16/cardon-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-125408 samta Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:23:21 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2990#comment-125408 I thought that the posters were a unique idea. The fact that some of them are less "readable" is besides the point in my opinion. Flyers in NYC add so much personality to a neighborhood. To acknowledge that, and add to it in this way.. is pretty genius in my opinion! Also, I think the name Cardon Copy is super apt! Clever, not corny! I thought that the posters were a unique idea. The fact that some of them are less “readable” is besides the point in my opinion.
Flyers in NYC add so much personality to a neighborhood. To acknowledge that, and add to it in this way.. is pretty genius in my opinion!
Also, I think the name Cardon Copy is super apt! Clever, not corny!

]]> By: Design Makeovers of the Mundane | Brain Pickings http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/07/16/cardon-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-125285 Design Makeovers of the Mundane | Brain Pickings Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:20:24 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2990#comment-125285 [...] featured designer Cardon Webb‘s ingenious Cardon Copy project a few months ago to an overwhelmingly [...] [...] featured designer Cardon Webb‘s ingenious Cardon Copy project a few months ago to an overwhelmingly [...]

]]> By: Cameron http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/07/16/cardon-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-105767 Cameron Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:34:04 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2990#comment-105767 " You are not an artist. You are here to solve a problem." - Don Draper to Peggy Olson, Mad Men This memorable quote from a memorable show sums up design in two sentences. If the piece doesn't solve the problem, doesn't communicate the message, then it's either 1) art or 2) bad design. While these pieces look lovely, they DON'T communicate the message clearly and must be considered failures as design. Overlaid blackletter "gangster" type for a cleaning lady? Helvetica so miniscule on a No Parking sign that it can't be read even when you're IN the parking spot? Illegible type that's somehow better than the original illegible type because it's done in an ironically cool way? Give me a break. And all I can think of with the missing cat poster is that joke email that did the rounds a few months back about the designer who designed a lost cat poster as a movie poster, with the cat "lost in the negative space". And how we all laughed about how stupid and out of touch with reality designers are... and here it is in real life. The only really successful design out of these is the math lessons poster, which is quite excellent. ” You are not an artist. You are here to solve a problem.” – Don Draper to Peggy Olson, Mad Men

This memorable quote from a memorable show sums up design in two sentences. If the piece doesn’t solve the problem, doesn’t communicate the message, then it’s either 1) art or 2) bad design.

While these pieces look lovely, they DON’T communicate the message clearly and must be considered failures as design. Overlaid blackletter “gangster” type for a cleaning lady? Helvetica so miniscule on a No Parking sign that it can’t be read even when you’re IN the parking spot? Illegible type that’s somehow better than the original illegible type because it’s done in an ironically cool way? Give me a break.

And all I can think of with the missing cat poster is that joke email that did the rounds a few months back about the designer who designed a lost cat poster as a movie poster, with the cat “lost in the negative space”. And how we all laughed about how stupid and out of touch with reality designers are… and here it is in real life.

The only really successful design out of these is the math lessons poster, which is quite excellent.

]]> By: Just a little something to think about… | Outside the black box http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/07/16/cardon-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-5552 Just a little something to think about… | Outside the black box Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:11:15 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2990#comment-5552 [...] neighbourhood communication was done throught the humble flyer? Well, designer Cardon Webb has hijacked some fairly standard examples of the local flyer and created “aesthetically upgraded [...] [...] neighbourhood communication was done throught the humble flyer? Well, designer Cardon Webb has hijacked some fairly standard examples of the local flyer and created “aesthetically upgraded [...]

]]> By: simon http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/07/16/cardon-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-5417 simon Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:18:02 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=2990#comment-5417 Stunning idea. But lets be honest, while they're indeed lovely, some of them are just plain unreadable. Stunning idea. But lets be honest, while they’re indeed lovely, some of them are just plain unreadable.

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