Comments on: Top 10 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/top-10-21/ Lifework Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:43:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Cerentha Harris http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/top-10-21/comment-page-1/#comment-3583 Cerentha Harris Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:14:30 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=9835#comment-3583 Thanks for your comment Jonathan. It's true about the mainstream press and it's hard, in this day of content providers instead of journalists, to really get a grip on just how pervasive the PR machine has become. I worked for years as a journalist and the PR companies were held at arms length. That doesn't seem to be the case so much these days. This move from print to the online world has stripped, in many cases, a whole layer of people from the writing process. Sub-editors are a dying breed, editors too - the people who traditionally question question question. And the people who are actually creating the copy, the content providers, have had little or no training in spotting a story and covering it by contacting the source rather than reworking PR releases. Oh and I could go on! Dezeen offers up some good original coverage of design events which I appreciate greatly...and of course Sister Corita is an all time favorite, so glad you enjoy her work. Thanks for your comment Jonathan. It’s true about the mainstream press and it’s hard, in this day of content providers instead of journalists, to really get a grip on just how pervasive the PR machine has become. I worked for years as a journalist and the PR companies were held at arms length. That doesn’t seem to be the case so much these days. This move from print to the online world has stripped, in many cases, a whole layer of people from the writing process. Sub-editors are a dying breed, editors too – the people who traditionally question question question. And the people who are actually creating the copy, the content providers, have had little or no training in spotting a story and covering it by contacting the source rather than reworking PR releases. Oh and I could go on! Dezeen offers up some good original coverage of design events which I appreciate greatly…and of course Sister Corita is an all time favorite, so glad you enjoy her work.

]]> By: Jonathan E. http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/top-10-21/comment-page-1/#comment-3582 Jonathan E. Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:47:42 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=9835#comment-3582 Nice list. Just wondering if dezeen is worth promoting (although indirectly). It's really well-known for being a passive design promoter. Like Rick Poynor once wrote in Frame magazine (ironically, I think) that the mainstream press has to stop acting like a glorious PR agent. Sister Corita is a long time favorite; nice to see her work resurfacing again and again. That New Design Smell seems really interesting, but this post didn't mention the print version (it's some sort of print-web hybrid). Agreed about the annoying blue flashing from the website. After reading The Billion-Dollar Party, I then thought its alarmist color flashes were relevant. Maybe even disturbingly charming. Like the effects of blue police lights can have on a cold bed of pavement. Nice list.

Just wondering if dezeen is worth promoting (although indirectly). It’s really well-known for being a passive design promoter. Like Rick Poynor once wrote in Frame magazine (ironically, I think) that the mainstream press has to stop acting like a glorious PR agent.

Sister Corita is a long time favorite; nice to see her work resurfacing again and again.

That New Design Smell seems really interesting, but this post didn’t mention the print version (it’s some sort of print-web hybrid). Agreed about the annoying blue flashing from the website. After reading The Billion-Dollar Party, I then thought its alarmist color flashes were relevant. Maybe even disturbingly charming. Like the effects of blue police lights can have on a cold bed of pavement.

]]> By: Dark Knight http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/top-10-21/comment-page-1/#comment-3496 Dark Knight Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:56:10 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=9835#comment-3496 A good mix of creativity & aesthetics...Great work.. A good mix of creativity & aesthetics…Great work..

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