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Tickets Please
The description (Twitter, Instagram) says it all: “An ever growing archive of cinema tickets.” Many of the older examples read like small posters, printed for the occasion. More modern examples include interesting dot matrix and monospaced typefaces also.
—Stuart Constantine, publisher and managing partner
Why You Gotta Fight with Me in IKEA? You Know I Love to Go There…
This week, I’m playing relationship guru—more specifically, IKEA relationship guru. Here a psychologist explains why couples fight in the mega-store, and here’s an opinion piece with some advice on how to avoid arguments about things like copper lamps and bed frames. Don’t skip over these if you’re single—I promise the scenarios still apply, but with inner battles:
“Here’s the cruelest of all the cruel jokes Ikea plays on its customers: If—if—you and your significant other still make it out of there with minimal strife and all the furniture you need, you still have to go home and assemble it. And that, for the uninitiated, is a whole other can of worms.”
—Emily Engle, Assistant Editor
How Muji Brought the Ulm School to the High Street
Deputy Editor Mark Sinclair explains, along with photos, how “If one brand truly embodies the pure, democratic design principles of Germany’s Ulm School of the 1950s and 60s, it’s not Apple, or even Braun, but Muji.” Since their birth in 1983, Muji has gradually expanded their product line into a complete ecosystem and, effectively, a lifestyle.
—Rain Noe, senior editor
Why Nothing Works Anymore
“So many ordinary objects and experiences have become technologized—made dependent on computers, sensors, and other apparatuses meant to improve them—that they have also ceased to work in their usual manner. It’s common to think of such defects as matters of bad design. That’s true, in part. But technology is also more precarious than it once was. Unstable, and unpredictable. At least from the perspective of human users. From the vantage point of technology, if it can be said to have a vantage point, it’s evolving separately from human use.”
—Allison Fonder, community manager
http://www.core77.com/posts/61659/The-Psychology-Behind-Couples-Fighting-in-IKEA-an-Archive-of-Cinema-Tickets-and-How-Muji-Embodies-the-Ulm-Schools-Design-Principles