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Entries tagged “recession”
Eduardo Recife’s photo illustration accompanying the “Generation OMG” article in The New York Times (an unusual but thought provoking article)
“In 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation’s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day — the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would dissect a decade later…Today’s youngest children — the recession babies — are being raised in the same kind of protective bubble as the Depression babies…” —Kate Zernike writes for the NY Times
Things Created During Recessions »
“Recessions might feel all doomy and gloomy, but they’re also times of great innovation. All of the following wondrous things were created, perfected, or completed during recessions or depressions: the Empire State Building, the Sears Tower, the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos, Social Security, Scotch tape, the Polaroid Corporation, FM radio, the modem, New Wave music, MS-DOS, the iPod, and the artificial heart.”
—Good magazine
(via jingc)
President Obama’s budget proposal is surprisingly a downloadable pdf that is easy to read, complete with chart graphics.
The Projects Built by the New Deal | Newsweek.com
“At its height, the New Deal provided the largest public-arts program in the world. In addition to the famous public murals of the era, the Federal Writers Project and the Federal Theater Project, the government funded small arts organizations designed to both teach art and get unemployed artists off the dole. As a result, small institutions like the Walker Gallery in Minneapolis expanded to provide classes and other arts-related social programs. Now known as the Walker Art Center (above in 1941), the gallery has become a world-renowned modern art museum, still offering classes to both children and adults…”
“ A few years ago, public libraries were being written off as goners. The Internet had made them irrelevant, the argument went. But libraries across the country are reporting jumps in attendance of as much as 65% over the past year, as newly unemployed people flock to branches to fill out résumés and scan ads for job listings… ”
Privatizing the Commons: The Commodification of New Deal Public Art (via aiga, poster on left by Lester Beall, on right designer unknown)
Design Loves a Depression (via NYTimes.com)
“Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design. After all, when the wealth is flowing, people don’t covet the concerts you see or the books you read. They covet the couch you bought, and then they buy a cooler one…”
(image credit info: The Eames Chair photo by Tony Cenicola on left, Vermelha Chair by the Campana Brothers photo from MOMA on right)
J.C. Leyendecker’s New Year’s Baby from the
covers of The Saturday Evening Post
via Daily Heller by Steven Heller
