For your idealogical thirst, Leninade
Posted in Discourse on Fri Oct 20, 06 by Kyle under Design and OMG!.
No fancy meditations for today’s posting, just an amusing pictorial anecdote continuing this week’s theme of communist cultural production, or more accurately, capitalism’s ability to recuperate just about anything back into the marketplace for profit.
We have all seen Che t-shirts on college campuses, Soviet Constructivist inspired music packaging and advertising (Neville Brody anyone?), and the cultural revolution of Mao memorabilia marching across the spreads of interior design magazines and hip tongue-in-chic boutiques and now you can quench your thirst Red Style!
Presenting comrades, Leninade soda:
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Time travel station
Posted in Discourse on Thu Oct 12, 06 by Kyle under Design.
I got onto the BART train this weekend to go downtown and for a moment was transported to back to the 1970s or 80s when the BART system was still fairly new. The interiors of the cars and stations and even the exteriors of the train cars are now filled with advertising posters and admonishments to be wary of and report suspicious packages. However in between moments of consumer cajoling and paranoid persuasiveness you might, like I, happenstance to glance upon a poster slot that no advertiser had the heart or full coffers to fill that month or the empty spot left when a disgruntled passenger not satisfied with mere disfigurement and graffiti alone ripped down whatever message used to be there entirely.
As often as not you’ll find that beneath all these advertisements are very old BART safety posters. In the life of a poster, usually measured in weeks or months, these are unusual specimens that though somewhat worse for the wear have still managed to survive intact. The above is a sample, a little blurry from the being underground in a crowed train taking a telephoto picture effect, but for that I hope you will forgive me. I love little moments of anachronism like this. There is something about this poster and its series brethren that make me pause for a moment and look more carefully than I might otherwise.
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