Construction sites in the US tend to exude an overwhelmingly masculine and unmistakably gritty aura. As the men at work grunt and heave their way to structural greatness,there is seemingly little attention paid to the aesthetics of their dusty and dangerous surroundings. Japan, on the other hand, injects its flair for design into even the unlikeliest of environmental accoutrements. Why waste good yen and orange plastic on several thousand uninspired cones when you could employ legions of winking frogs to line the busy streets of Shinjuku?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The construction of cute
Construction sites in the US tend to exude an overwhelmingly masculine and unmistakably gritty aura. As the men at work grunt and heave their way to structural greatness,there is seemingly little attention paid to the aesthetics of their dusty and dangerous surroundings. Japan, on the other hand, injects its flair for design into even the unlikeliest of environmental accoutrements. Why waste good yen and orange plastic on several thousand uninspired cones when you could employ legions of winking frogs to line the busy streets of Shinjuku?
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me and my dad hate that smily froggy on route 17 hahaha :D
Would you believe that an American art student took a bunch of those orange and white construction barrels and fashioned them into a Godzilla type monster to warn the motorists of the freeway ending and was fined by the State D.O.T? Fortunately the constructon company saw the uniqueness and value in this fellow's efforts and instead of pressing charges hired him and his buddies at the art school to come up with other designs.
why don't we have these?! i would care so much less that half the sidewalk was not useable if there were frogs involved!!
So true. Good design goes a lot further than people realize.
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