My opinion about ( I Love NY more than ever )

In this article the author Steven Heller interviews Milton Glasser about I love NY logo. When Glasser at first did this logo it was for marketing campaign for New York city. Glasser expected that his design will last only for few months then it will die, but the unexpectedly, the logo become a successful icon and continued to be sold until nowadays.

Glasser modified his logo After 9/11 attacks, he added I Love NY more than ever with a little black spot on the red heart to symbolize the effect of that attack on people’s hearts. Many visitors to the city bought the I love NY T-shirts to show their support, unity to the people of this city. This logo has become apart of American Pop culture.

Changing a logo according to the events is a way to express emotions toward that event. We see a lot of logos changes according to events. For examples: google, and the latest events in the middle east when they changed icons in their flags. And what happened in the last two years in Jeddah floods, people changed the logo of the secretariat of Jeddah city logo to betrayal Jeddah. Or the logo of Jeddah Gheer to Jeddah Gheerget, which means Jeddah is drawn. A simple logo has an impact in expressing our feelings towards an issue and this simple logo sometimes can tells a lot than words.

My opinion about ( Beautility Good Design Has Utility )

In this presentation, the girls were introducing the meaning behind the word “ beautility “. From what I understood from the presentation that beautility is compensation between two words, beauty and useful. In short it means that any thing in the word that is beautiful side and on the same time its useful and functional. I think that every thing that god created it is beautiful and useful. For example, flowers are the most beautiful creature in the world and its useful to make perfumes. On the other hand, bee is an ugly insect but very useful because it makes honey for us.

In contrast, I liked the part that they talked about the ugly and useful objects. Like for example how designers here improve the meaning of beauty to more practical and useful things that we use to have but they are not practical. For instance, apple laptop bags were beautiful but not practical because it is big and harm the back. Now, the designer created new bags that is more beautiful and very useful that u can hold it easily anywhere you go and it has different colors and shapes.

Links:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beautility

http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/issue6/features/feng.htm

my opinion about ( A Life of Luxury)

While we were presenting our topic about “ luxury “, I was thinking about what is the thing that makes me feel luxury. Luxury is a very complicated word that cannot have only one meaning. It has different meaning according to the person and what he feels to make him/her feel luxurious. In my opinion, luxury is any thing around us weather its moral or sensory that can make the person feel comfortable and pleasure him/her senses.

To every human being the word “ luxury” usually means something unique, expensive and over whelming to the extent that you could walk around without giving care about anyone or anything in sight.

For example, international medical center (IMC) consider most luxurious hospital in Jeddah. I feel comfortable and save when I interned there. The weather and the services their makes me feel as if I am in a 5 stars hotel. Also the way the servicers and nurses dealing with people is really great and make me say it is a luxury hospital that I can not find like this dealing in any other hospital.

Links:

http://www.maybachusa.com/about-maybach.php

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/luxury