Real Golden Arches Are Back
I learned from Michael Bierut's characteristically fun post on Design Observer that McDonald's had opened a HUGE, retro-styled new place in Chicago to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Michael linked the building to the work of "our country's greatest unacknowledged design visionary, Bruce McCall," whom he called (with this link) "the visual poet of American gigantism". (The obligatory negative Chicago Tribune review is here, along with some fun slide shows.)
Now reader Rick Lee, a commercial photographer in Charleston, West Virginia, informs me that McDonald's retro style is apparently going national. He posts the photographic evidence on his blog, along with some other fun entries, including a couple of photographer's tricks for making science look cool, even when you aren't in an actual lab.