Digital Culture Studies

Every day, I look at things that were designed by professional designers, and I think about how every piece was designed for a specific function on every single thing you own, and  the best comment I have ever read about design was from an Amazon reader, who wrote that the Kindle looks like technology as designed by civil servants. There is a lot of poorly designed product out there, and even more badly designed advertising. Lets mock it!

• Delicious for Chanukah!  Really? I don’t have a lot more to say about this, except it is just … nope. No words.
• Pioneer’s ocular dentata. I saw this image in this month’s Wired, and…what does this have to do with watching tv? What about this image is meant to inspire people to buy a new tv? I couldn’t even read the ad, because the image was disturbing to look at.
• Women talking about ads that don’t work. The good: hearing women say exactly why advertising targeted at them isn’t actually reaching them. The bad: these videos are done by an NYC creative agency that describes itself as ‘all girls’. Why is it so hard for adult women to refer to themselves as women? I could rant here, but basically, I have never heard men refer to other men as boys, and I always hear men and women refer to women as girls.