Design Observer linked to Paul Goldberger’s list of the ten best buildings of 2008. Here’s the piece. Miraculously, it doesn’t include a single image. Not one. It doesn’t even include any links to any images. BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE: This is from his New Yorker blog. It’s online-only content—and no images. The fact that the New Yorker has online-only content indicates that they’re trying to keep up, so it’s not out of aloofness that they’ve left the photos out. So what gives? The NYTimes would never make this mistake.
From a CR Blog post on Creative Review creativereview’s new identity:
“Following a universal brand audit instigated in the wake of an immersion expedition led by a cohort of leading brand ideators, we engaged in a thoroughgoing knowledge accumulation programme to facilitate blue-sky thinking and empower Creative Review® in the vanguard of world class best practice in thought-leadership.”
Really? Really?
Universal brand audit? Instigated? Immersion expedition? Cohort of leading brand ideators? Yes, ideators. Thoroughgoing knowledge accumulation? Blue-sky thinking? Thought-leadership? And this is an identity? What identity exactly? We here at Creative Review have the best goddamn thesaurus you’ll ever find. But we’re so creative we even add to it.
Lord, have mercy. Link
First things first: I know that no one is reading this. I’ve known and expected that since the beginning. RedesignBlog is just something I wanted to do. I’m thinking right now of John Cusack in “High Fidelity” (one of my all-time favorite movies), when he proposes to his girlfriend: “I thought asking was the important part”
Getting the site up was the important part. I had an idea and I saw it through. Maybe marketing RedesignBlog is part of seeing it through, but frankly, I just don’t like doing that stuff. And, since there’s no money involved in RDB either way (aguable, I know), why do something I don’t like?
All that said, the “collaborative” part of RedesignBlog can’t happen without readers. Bummer. So until readers magically appear or I get my ass in gear and really promote the thing, RDB will be a bit broader. Stay tuned (couldn’t resist)!