The Mac Store

Who would have thought that the word “THE” would read “WTF” when put sideways. Turns out “The Mac Store” did. WTF, Mac Store, WTF.

Junior Jazz Dance Class

I don’t know what is worse, the fact that they think Hip Hop is for boys only or the logo. The logo gave me a chuckle. How did they not see that or was it just a case of having no money to fix it?

Pepsi

Here is a case of stylized art imitating stylized life.Drink too much and you may very well start looking like the logo. The Pepsi logo, not Jerry West. Speaking of basketball. I liked the Pepsi logo better when it looked like a basketball keyway circle.

Montreal Olympic Games

In 1976, Montreal committed effectively flipped the whole world the bird. Props to you, Montreal. Much props.

Dough Boys

Watch out, guys. Pizza, salad and panini, all at Dough boys. Don’t let the question mark fool you. They boys seem pretty proud of their phallic dough concoction.

Central Indiana Youth Barbershop Chorus

It is fitting the Central Indiana Youth Barbershop Chorus has a logo that looks like it was designed by a youth and even then, the only chorus this barbershop sings is “Eeeeew”!.

Locum

This Swedish Property Management company didn’t even resort to subliminal messaging. 

Craze Agency

this ‘talent’ agency looks like it was created in MS Paint. Imagine how terrible the logo ideas they passed up must have been. Put it this way. If this agency thinks that this logo is good, imagine how terrible their actors and actresses are.

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Organic tap by Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck is renowned as one of the foremost designers in the world. More than this, the Frenchman is regarded as one of the most famous personalities in the world of design.  He is involved in a broad cross-section of design, from furniture to architecture, to consumer products. Many outside of the industry will know him from his reality TV series which aired on the BBC.

Throughout all of this, one thing is central to Starck’s design philosophy — design should not intrude upon its environment, but rather should work naturally with it. He disdains design which makes life harder, purely for the sake of aesthetics.

His latest design (for Axor) is purely functional, from an environmental and economic sense. The Organic Tap effectively dilutes water with air, to save wastage, whilst intending to serve the same purpose as an ordinary tap.

“We have created a new type of water, which we call ‘empty water’,” Starck told Dezeen. “You have the feeling of having a lot of water, but with less.”

Every aspect of the tap’s design has functionality and economy of water usage in mind. The temperature is preset at the top of the tap, so that water spurts out at the required temperature every time, avoiding the wastage that normally comes with adjusting temperature on the fly. There is an ability to have a preset temperature — as Starck points out:

“We don’t need to change temperature – we always use water at more or less the same temperature.”

Ninety jets provide a combination of both water and air to give the illusion of double the rate of water flow. This truly is a step in the right direction for a planet that wastes vast quantities of clean drinkable water on a daily basis, purely through laziness.

This video, also from Dezeen, provides a great insight both into Starck’s personality and into the tap which he has designed:

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Classical composer Benjamin Britten, and his personal and professional partner, tenor Peter Pears have had their works preserved at a newly created archive, with an unfortunate name. Given the stature of the classical works of Britten and Pears, the combined name Britten-Pears reads remarkably similar to sugary-pop star Britney Spears… hit me baby, one more time.

The building itself appears to be  beautifully constructed — as shown at one of my favourite design websites, Dezeen. The interior exposed eaves catch the eye.

“The Britten Pears Archive, Stanton Williams’ new passive archive building for the Britten–Pears Foundation (BPF), houses the extensive collection of music manuscripts, letters, photographs and recordings of the composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears. Originally assembled by Britten and Pears as a working library of their own collections of books, manuscripts and printed scores and recordings, the archive has now grown into one of the country’s most important centres for music research and scholarship. In 2005 the collection was officially given Designated status in recognition of its significance.”

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