Peaks and Valleys
Inspired (or is it insipid?) photography. Mount Shetland.
Yet another shawl, this time in a very chic eggplant color for a very chic (and very pregnant) girlfriend.
World Cup roundup: So Italy won the World Cup; Zinedine Zidane ended his career with a headbutt (with good reason, it seems), and host country Germany took third place. BF says that back home, Germans are finally taking pride in themselves as a nation, something that hasn't happened since before the second World War.
It's a healthy dose, I think.
I have to say that the 2006 World Cup logo, designed by London-based firm Whitestone, is one of the better ones I've seen. (I'm actually a bit surprised that Meta Design or any number of German firms didn't design it.) Compared to it, the newly unveiled 2010 logo could have been better designed: the placement of the FIFA mark; the bottom blue shape that ends with a straight edge when all other edges are curved; the "FIFA World Cup" font treatment that clashes with "South Africa". I have no issues with the symbol itself, it just seems that it was tacked on to the other elements.
Update:Here's an interview with former Meta Design principal Erik Spiekermann, who has some choice words regarding the 2006 World Cup logo. Thanks, Jason!
Gripe, gripe, gripe. Sorry, I'm just in the middle of one of *those* types of projects.
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