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This hotch-potch of cliches and dated imagery, devised by Euro RSCG (more credits here ) showed such a fundamental misunderstanding of how a brand might want to conduct itself that it was almost a parody (you can watch one of the spots here ).
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How a myth is born, circulates and enters common currency. But it's not actually true at all. The world's largest employer, most sources agree, is actually Wal-Mart (although admittedly this type of information is often liberally sprinkled with myth as well), with 1.7m employees.
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Cities in Games, London rendered digitally and considered by Digitally Distributed Environments. How our perception of cities is being shaped by increasingly accurate virtual recreations of them.
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Since 2003, Terry Farrell has been working on an epic plan to create a new National Park in the Thames Estuary, north-east of London. Each two mile spur would serve as parkland and recreation space, a piece of wedge-shaped reclaimed land adrift in the estuary.
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After a few days letting them settle, the initial images of Herzog + de Meuron's Tate Modern extension seem little more than abstraction without substance. What we have left, after a decade or two of this wilful disorder, is visual chaos purely for the sake of juxtaposition and confrontation.
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But it's not just music; the ease with which one can find information on classic TV shows, browse old car manuals or commercials has eviscerated niche interest and made everything part of the mainstream, allow cults can be perpetuated (or even exposed ).
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The Story of the Fall right from the start (via diskant ) / dare you use the Daily Mail O Matic? / Who Hates Who in the Middle East. Check out the $33bn Dubai World Central, 54 square miles of airport in addition to Dubai's existing International Airport.
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Other things, starting with architecture. The end of Pimlico School. Perhaps one of the most successful examples of artistic propoganda of all time, Soviet-era space art was the public representation of an immensely private - and frequently catastrophic - undertaking.
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