Category Archives: Observations

Garage, Midtown Manhattan

By Rob Berry | Published: 17 February 2011

On the eastside …

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Gold & Diamonds, Diamonds & Gold

By Rob Berry | Published: 9 May 2010

Not supergraphic per se, but a nice everyday integration of architecture and graphic design nonetheless. And an intriguing business model — I can get a haircut AND sell my unwanted jewelry? Awesome.

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Graphic Prophesies

By Rob Berry | Published: 27 February 2010

A trip on the subway is usually a passive public experience.  The subway rider enters the car, finds a place to stand or sit and then assumes a solitary pursuit of reading, listening to music or staring at nothing in particular.  Occasionally riders will chat, but in general the interaction between anonymous riders is minimal, [...]

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One Station Away

By Clover Linné | Published: 1 January 2010

A distinct quality of underground mass transit is its separation from the activity of the city that it serves. For maximum expediency and efficiency, subways necessarily require riders to enter into an isolated infrastructural system. Although spatially connected along an artery of conveyance, the physical relationship between stations within the system is only loosely perceivable. [...]

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