I’m a big honkin’ believer in clean design. The more we clutter our world, the more painful it is for us to take in. Yeh, Times Square is kind of cool…for about five minutes. Someone was kind enough to painstakingly remove the logos, branding and nonsense from everyday urban photos. Without all that noise, the images are actually…beautiful?
Clean design isn’t only appealing in furniture and fashion. It’s appealing when applied just about anywhere. Think about the next time you design anything really…a web site, a logo, a business card. Don’t underestimate the power of nothingness.
Richard,
Not sure if you’ve heard of this or not but the city of Sao Paulo (Brazil) approved a law last year that bans outdoor advertising (billboards, electronic panels, etc…). I lived there up until the middle of last year and will be going back in July, can’t wait to see the results.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonydemarco/sets/72157600075508212/detail/
Cheers
Greg:
Wow. Interesting. I would’ve never guessed Brazil of all places would pass such a law. Heheh.
-Rich
Have you seen Matt Siber’s art? (homepage here: http://www.siberart.com/home%20pages/homeframeset.html; commentary here: http://typographi.com/001013.php) Also similar stuff. Makes you realize how much advertising is bombarding us at every moment. Before there was Twitter, there was the CNN crawl, and before that, the ads all around…
yeah Matt Siber is ace. His floating logos project is like the opposite of this: http://www.siberart.com/projects/logos/logos_images.html