3rd
October
2004
“ITC Garamond was designed in 1975 by Tony Stan for the International Typeface Corporation. Okay, let’s stop right there. Iíll admit it: the single phrase ‘designed in 1975 by Tony Stan’ conjures up a entire world for me, a world of leisure suits, harvest gold refrigerators, and ‘Fly, Robin, Fly’ by Silver Convention on the eight-track. A world where font designers were called ‘Tony’ instead of ‘Tobias’ or ‘Zuzana.’ Is that the trouble with ITC Garamond? That itís dated?”
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3rd
October
2004
“The mystery of why eyes in certain paintings and photographs appear to move has been solved: it has to do with how we perceive two and three dimensions, a new study finds.”
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3rd
October
2004
“As an architect and educator I am worry about the intellectual and pragmatic challenges that currently bedevil architectural practice and pedagogy. I perceive seven design fallacies that permeate professional practice and studio culture at many schools of architecture. Some are self-imposed and tractable; others are less easily addressed because they are externally drivenóby the media, technology, globalization and commodification. Some are more about making form, others about making things equitable and sustainable. All seven are deeply embedded in our psyches and changing them will not be easy; reform, however, will not only ensure the survival of architecture and urbanism but also invigorate them.”
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