Advertisments &Art & Design Entropy | 09 Oct 2009
CHALLENGE Design a business card for a environmental consultant: Andrea Romani SOLUTION Business cards are usually made of paper. But using paper even recycled, is not good for the environment. To avoid this issue, the solution was to not print any card at all, but to create a rubber stamp and then “recycle” anything that [...]
Nobel Awarded for Harnessing Light Our ubiquitous Digital cameras, YouTube, hi-speed Internet, medical endoscopes —just a few of countless modern marvels made possible by the three scientists who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Charles Kuen Kao and with Willard Sterling Boyle and George Elwood Smith sharing the other half. Kao’s discoveries have paved [...]
Nature &Poetry Entropy | 07 Oct 2009
What chemistry!” The rapt poet Walt Whitman contemplates the mystery by which humans and animals rot into the life-giving soil. “It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops, / It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last. While composting is a practical chore we suffer [...]
Books &Economic Behaviour Entropy | 05 Oct 2009
Wish to share an excerpt from insightful NYT Book review, a relevant Book published by Princeton University Press. This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises, and guides us through eight astonishing centuries [...]
Advertisments &News Entropy | 02 Oct 2009
A one minute advertisement for the launch of Turkish Edition of The New York Times. They constructed typographic versions of the most recognizable landmarks in Manhattan and Istanbul, and created a compact tour taking the audience from the New York Harbor all the way to the Bosphorus. Actual pages from the first issue of the [...]