May 22, 2009

• Design Theory --

  Steiner System

  New York Times
  banner this morning:

  
  
  Click to enlarge.

  Related material from
  July 11, 2008:
  
  

  The HSBC Logo Designer -- Henry Steiner He is an internationally recognized corporate identity consultant. Based in Hong Kong, his work for clients such as HongkongBank, IBM and Unilever is a major influence in Pacific Rim design. Born in Austria and raised in New York, Steiner was educated at Yale under Paul Rand and attended the Sorbonne as a Fulbright Fellow. He is a past President of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Other professional affiliations include the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Chartered Society of Designers, Design Austria, and the New York Art Directors' Club. His Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global Marketplace was published by Thames and Hudson (1995). -- Yaneff.com

  Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies of Modernism," Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self   (Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477): "... the object sets up  a kind of frame or space or field    within which there can be epiphany." See also Talking of Michelangelo.

  Related material suggested by
  an ad last night on
  ABC's Ugly Betty season finale:

  

  

  Diamond from last night's
  Log24 entry, with
  four colored pencils from
  Diane Robertson Design:

  
   
  See also
  A Four-Color Theorem.

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