The Roni Horn Memorial Signage System

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Pentagram has nice coverage of Abbott Miller’s work for the crisp signage and graphics systems at Thom Mayne’s spectacular new building for the Cooper Union.
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Which looks, in some of its particulars, quite like Roni Horn sculptures.
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I look forward to hearing that Cooper Union students and faculty eventually learn to read the backsides/bottoms of the signs, too. And that the barcode-like patterns start to appear on peoples’ business cards. [Do professors have business cards?]
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Kind of like how Rem Koolhaas/AMO made that awesome proposal for an EU flag by extruding the colors of all the member states’ flags across the field.
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If I were a hostel-type, would definitely sew that on my backpack.
New Work: The Cooper Union [pentagram via greg.org reader br]