{"id":156,"date":"2009-01-12T12:49:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2009-01-12T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T20:50:16","slug":"great-design-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/great-design-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Design Equation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another quick hit:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_157\" style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"size-large wp-image-157 lazyload\" title=\"masters-design\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/masters-design-723x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Al Gore divided by Bill Gates? \" width=\"699\" height=\"991\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/masters-design-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/masters-design-212x300.jpg 212w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 699px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 699\/991;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Gore divided by Bill Gates?Does that mean that the polar icecaps will now recede as slowly as a Vista boot-up? &#39;Cause that&#39;d actually be pretty cool.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I really love the playful spirit behind this ad &#8211; the way that it takes great design, which by its nature cannot be reduced to a set of integers and mathematic functions, and reconstructs the evolution of great forces in advertising and marketing into an arresting image.\u00c2\u00a0 Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m loving this just because it&#8217;s so &#8220;meta&#8221; &#8211; an ad image that seeks to comment on, and explain forcefully &amp; originally, what is best &amp; most innovative about advertising design.\u00c2\u00a0 The Big Scary Project I&#8217;m working on right now is kinda like this &#8211; it&#8217;s a journalistic project that seeks to impress other journalists with its depth &amp; insight.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is a high-wire act that borders on the reckless.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Rosen did a piece today that was so good &amp; interesting that it pissed me off.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be blogging about it, in light of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/stuff-journalists-like-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">the stuff I wrote about last night<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/men.style.com\/gq\/features\/full?id=content_7600&amp;pageNum=19\" target=\"_blank\">from David Simon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another quick hit: I really love the playful spirit behind this ad &#8211; the way that it takes great design, which by its nature cannot be reduced to a set of integers and mathematic functions, and reconstructs the evolution of great forces in advertising and marketing into an arresting image.\u00c2\u00a0 Great stuff. Maybe I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47,25,12],"tags":[852,858,853],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-new-marketing","category-new-media","category-online-video","tag-design","tag-new-media","tag-online-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}