Archive for March, 2009
Flickr Friday: t2ndday
Flickr photos via Jung Park, graphic designer
Newsweek: Of paper and pen
G. Lalo, a sister company of Rhodia within the Clairefontaine family is on Newsweek!
“A fountain pen is only as good as the paper it’s used on. Bleeding ink, floating stains and seepage through the page are just a few of the hazards that can befall even the most luxurious writing instrument. Fortunately, there are a number of companies dedicated to supplying a platform worthy of the pen.” [Read full article here]
Flickr Friday: Bond, Eston Bond
“American culture appears to increasingly find masochistic solace in populism veiled as true pluralism, even in the wake of social media advances that allow for more diverse information consumption. We are sadly locked into an economic model that we as consumers have built for ourselves and will require true popular change to unravel, something which we have seen social media do to an extent.” Written like a real social thinker and critic. And he is. Eston Bond is an economics major at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, creator of the upcoming website, Socialuxe. In a sepate site called Hyalineskies, Eston wrote a very incisive essay on social networking, pluralism and trends, as well as the role of the Internet in popular culture. He observed, that “when the aesthetics of social or cultural identity catch on in the mainstream, meaning is lost that ruins the original reason for that aesthetic development, an unintended cost on the true creators of the trend.” Which got us into thinking, where do we belong in the curve?
Flickr photos via Eston Bond
A Telegram from Melbourne
“As our ways of communication become more distant and less personal, we crave things that reconnect us in some small way with each other, or our ideas, thoughts and memories. To receive something that has been handwritten gives a sense of value and intimacy. To take notes or record memories by hand connects us closer with thoughts.”– From Telegram, the new Rhodia distributor in Melbourne, Australia
Rhodia Cup Winner
CHEERS!
