September 2009
8 posts
How the Coming Newspaper Industry Collapse Will... →
Paul Gillin outlines the pending demise of the newspaper industry
Dan Rather on the news industry →
A shift
As I mentioned earlier, I will be shifting my gaze from Stalin to a more contemporary evil client. After some deliberation I’ve decided Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation would make for an interesting discussion on the state of mass media in today’s society. Newscorp is a behemoth, firmly one of the “Big Six” media companies, and by various metrics the first or...
"Infrastructural Aggrandizement"
Since I don’t think I will have the opportunity to work for Stalin anytime soon, I decided to look for a more contemporary (translation: not dead) client to focus on for the semester. More to come on that later…
Before leaving the Metro though, a few thoughts. Although the idea of “infrastructural aggrandizement” (as Kazys put it) was an interesting one, the topic of...
Moscow Metro Stations
As a primer to this studio we were asked to look into some evil clients / evil buildings. Deciding not to grapple initially with defining evil, I decided to just pick the most evil client I could find. Although Adolf Hitler initially came to mind, I stumbled across the Moscow Underground stations built during Joseph Stalin’s reign and could not resist posting them here. Additionally,...
