Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars
Roman Mars is obsessed with flags — and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don't have...
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I know what you're thinking:"Why does that guy get to sit down?"That's because this is radio.(Music)I tell radio stories about design,and I report on all kinds of stories:buildings and toothbrushes, mascots and wayfinding and fonts.My mission is to get people to engage with the design that they care aboutso they begin to pay attention to all forms of design.When you decode the world with design intent in mind,the world becomes kind of magical.Instead of seeing the broken things,you see all the little bits of geniusthat anonymous designers have sweated over to make our lives better.And that's essentially the definition of design:making life better and providing joy.And few things give me greater joythan a well-designed flag.(Lau...
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I know what you're thinking:"Why does that guy get to sit down?"That's because this is radio.(Music)I tell radio stories about design,and I report on all kinds of stories:buildings and toothbrushes, mascots and wayfinding and fonts.My mission is to get people to engage with the design that they care aboutso they begin to pay attention to all forms of design.When you decode the world with design intent in mind,the world becomes kind of magical.Instead of seeing the broken things,you see all the little bits of geniusthat anonymous designers have sweated over to make our lives better.And that's essentially the definition of design:making life better and providing joy.And few things give me greater joythan a well-designed flag.(Lau...
