Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
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Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
One glance and you aren’t subsumed by “visual cacophony” (no disrespect to visual cacophony, which we of course love) but you can tell that these sites are clearly operated by cool people with unique & interesting taste nonetheless…
Blackbird Spyplane • Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
Here’s a beautiful thing about U.G.H.Z Principles — they apply to virtual spaces , too. (No, you would probably never “gram” a website, but we are talking metaphorically here baby!)
Blackbird Spyplane • Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
Shout out to Bemelmans, an inarguable treasure. And shout out to the immensely & similarly charming Tosca , in San Francisco, where Erin & I had dinner the other night and which never disappoints.
BUT these places are not U.G.H.Z. because they are highly grammable and therefore susceptible to invasion by annoying hordes, screaming out to be
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Part of our affection for places like this has to do with ‘90s nostalgia — a relatively recent past that feels extraordinarily distant. And it has to do with our interest at BBSP in identifying the moment when aesthetics that were prevalent , only to become passé *,* round the corner of reappraisal and somehow become more popping than ever .