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	<description>Blurring the line between media and design</description>
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		<title>News, ratings, bias, and profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was only a month or so ago that my friend (and former co-worker) Brian left ABC News for a new job with another television outfit based in Washington, D.C., but it would seem that he got out just in time&#8211;the New York Times is reporting that 400 or so staff members at ABC News [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2010/02/news-ratings-bias-and-profit</link>
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		<title>Design, traffic flow and terrorism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Newark Liberty International Airport was shut down for something like six hours when some random guy walked the wrong way (&#8220;in the out door,&#8221; so to speak) through a security checkpoint and into the &#8220;sterile area.&#8221;
I don&#8217;t know how many of you have been to Newark Airport, but the security screening checkpoints [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2010/01/design-traffic-flow-and-terrorism</link>
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		<title>The bittersweet pursuit of perfect design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My boss at my full-time job got his degree in geology and spent the first part of his professional life working for oil companies.  He was sent all over the place; it wasn&#8217;t unusual for him to spend time on actual oil rigs in rickety laboratories, and not infrequently he&#8217;d have to drive 50 miles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2009/05/the-bittersweet-pursuit-of-perfect-design</link>
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		<title>Twitter and public safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is unquestionably the &#8220;it&#8221; social network/micro-blog/indescribable web app of the moment, so it&#8217;s gratifying to see that local officials in certain cities are embracing it as a way to keep the public updated.  CNN reports that police and fire departments in cities nationwide are using the service to rapidly disseminate information to the public:
&#8220;We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2009/03/twitter-and-public-safety</link>
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		<title>Making design work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my day job, I try and keep myself from complaining too much or too often, mainly because my boss has a decidedly different definition of &#8220;frustrating&#8221; than me.  He (who, incidentally, is not a designer, and would be the first to admit it) spent the first part of his professional life working for oil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2009/02/making-design-work</link>
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		<title>Subway font fiasco!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw these very strange-looking &#8220;Do Not Lean on Door&#8221; decals on the subway some time ago, featuring some bizarre inconsistent typography, and Gothamist got to the bottom of it.

Says an MTA spokesman:
We did have a recent problem with a car builder who took it upon themselves to manufacture and apply subway car decals without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2009/02/subway-font-fiasco</link>
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		<title>Logos, icons and change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is awash with brands and logos.  Most of them are adequate&#8211;they get the job done but aren&#8217;t terribly memorable.  Some are ugly as sin, some are downright incomprehensible, and some aren&#8217;t much more than clip art or the result of a typeface chosen at random from the default set in Windows XP.  But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2009/01/logos-icons-and-change</link>
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		<title>Taking design for granted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I attended what I had hoped would be a very informative and very enjoyable event called &#8220;The Dinner Party&#8221; that was thrown by the New York branch of AIGA.  The speakers scheduled were the principals of AvroKO (designers and owners of my favorite restaurant Public and a large reason that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2008/12/taking-design-for-granted</link>
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		<title>Designing vs. decorating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As someone who likes to be as accurate as possible when writing (though I admit that I don&#8217;t always succeed), I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the Bravo series entitled &#8220;Top Design.&#8221;  If you aren&#8217;t familiar with the show, it&#8217;s a competition-based reality program in which interior decorators work with a series of spaces; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2008/10/designing-vs-decorating</link>
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		<title>Hole in the head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s accurate to say that the United States is a troubled nation.  Our economy is in trouble, with some of the biggest banks facing buyouts or uncertain futures thanks to billions of dollars in bad mortgage commitments.  Politically we&#8217;re divided right down the middle, and even our current candidates who are running on a platform [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaussianblur.org/2008/09/hole-in-the-head</link>
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