Posts by Sacha
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Phil Twyford notes the irony of public involvement in the supercity's logo compared with more substantive matters such as removal of the standard right of all other NZ local electors to vote on amalgamation or be consulted on privatisation.
It is like forcing someone to live in a house against their will, in a location and with design and materials they don’t like. And then asking them what colour they want the front door to be painted.
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Is it sensible for laws to deal with "alleged" effects?
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Rude import from Designers Institute undermines his argument by insinuating all Kiwis are "visual illiterates" and that culture started here 200 years ago with people who no doubt look and think like him.
What else is possible? Why have higher aspirations…like civilisation?
So the cultural legacy of the scavenger lives on. The towns and cities are gimcrack shantytowns pretending to be sophisticated. The extraordinary beauty of the countryside is ruined by a nasty little brick farmlets, corrugated sheds, shiny silos, and telegraph wires.
The tourist hot spots are a disgrace. The cities are the playground of moronic highway engineers and property speculators. Everything that nature gave you is wonderful, while everything that follows on as human constructions is just astonishing- in its brutality and in its unthinking ugliness - raw, naïve, cheap and counterfeit.
Because visual quality is not very well understood, then we seem to be quite content to put people at the tops of organisations, who have their eyes tight shut from birth.
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Where "well" means in the manner of a posh pom :)
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That logos a stinking pile of dog turd
Reminiscent of catering at mass sports events I thought
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recovering eastie grrl :)
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There, I fixed it
David Slack also offered a suggestion
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From Clem's Twitterstream, here's an illustrated designer's perspective on some of the equivalent London argy-bargy. Interestingly, note which logo stands out from the group at the very end.
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Attracting businesses, residents and visitors has moved from a nation-level pursuit to a city-region one. Branding is about simplifying, communicating and building coherent associations over time, so it's relevant when you're talking something as complex as a city. Names are another part of that, which the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance recognised by choosing indigenous ones for the new wards.
Having said that, we already have the recent frayed volcanic "A" for the region, so I'm not completely clear how this new logo would be used other than signifiying who's collecting your rubbish.
And it's going to be "Auckland Council" - the current city one will cease to exist along with the others. That's fewer letters..
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Trudge to Morningside station, train west from there