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Posted by on Sep 26th, 2007 | 1 comment

Socio-Capitalist Segregation Manifest

Deputydog has a good post going now about the rich-poor urban zone divide and photographs of it’s manifestation. One of the best parts is the comparison of the size of a tennis court (pictured) to the size of the low-income housing just over the wall from said court. Sao Paolo isn’t alone in this phenomenon though. It exists in varying degrees of contrast in just about any capitalist urbanity. This...
Posted by on Jul 18th, 2007 | 0 comments

Shell called out for hippie masquarade

Shell called out for hippie masquarade
When Royal Dutch Shell got all dressed up in it’s favorite Birkenstocks and favorite tie-dye t-shirt to put out this advertisement they raised a few eyebrows. After the Friends Of The Earth called them out on it. The Dutch Advertising Code Authority stepped in to lay down the law, pulling the offending ads for greenwashing. Served. Lets not even talk about that 1970s hippie graphic design. These ads should get...
Posted by on Jul 10th, 2007 | 0 comments

Terror by design

David over at Ironic Sans has done a bit of work investigating the graphic design employed by terrorist, hate, and extremist political groups. Its pretty interesting once you start putting them side by side and developing a classification system by which you can group them. Perhaps these groups have a lot more in common than just...
Posted by on Jul 5th, 2007 | 2 comments

Prius people posing presents possible problem

This is possibly a tough thing to realize but it turns out that most people buying a Prius hybrid automobile do so because of the statement it makes about them and how it makes that statement. It is a kind of status symbol. In lieu of actually having a conscience it is in fact more important to these people to feel like their piers believe they have a conscience and are responsible humans. Sadly only a quarter of...
Posted by on Jun 27th, 2007 | 0 comments

White people do this. Black people do that.

Danah Boyd has a nice essay for you to read regarding social networking. She discusses it’s potential to be divisive in terms of creating a social class division. She examines facebook users versus myspace users and the differences (or perceived differences) there in. Indeed Danah has a point that classist phenomenons exhibited in social networking mirror similar practices beyond digital networking. This area...
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