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Sunday, November 09, 2014

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

This Is The Most Recognizable Pop Song Ever

io9.com: It takes an average of just over two seconds for most people to identify this song, which a new experiment describes as the most easily recognizable song to ever chart. But how does that work?

The University of Amsterdam partnered with Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry to conduct a year long experiment in how people identify pop songs

The Problem With the Chair

gizmodo.com: "A Chair is a difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier." — Mies van der Rohe.

Van der Rohe, as with Eames, Gehry, Hadid, Libeskind, Corbusier, and Breuer: if they've designed a big building, chances are they've designed a thing on which to sit.
 

When You Miss a Deadline - Next Steps

The Muse: It happens to the best of us. Maybe accounting didn’t get you the numbers on time. Maybe the design work you thought would take you four hours is taking more like 14. Maybe Taco Tuesday turned into Food Poisoning Tuesday, and there’s just no way you can drag yourself to the office to finish Wednesday’s client report.

In any case, you’re going to miss a deadline, and you know your boss, your customer, or whoever else you owe your work to is not going to be excited.

Five Products to Wrap the Walls

Architect Magazine: The market for interior finishes is filled with products meant to blend quietly into a space. But what does a designer specify for projects needing a bolder expression? This selection of wallcoverings provides a punch of pattern and color with the flexibility to be swapped out as tastes—or tenants—change.
 

The Architecture Of Fear: How To Design A Truly Terrifying Haunted House

Co.Design | business + design: Every autumn, millions of Americans flock to haunted houses, happily willing to pay $20 or $30 to get petrified out of their wits. Scaring people is no amateur game: haunted houses make up a $300 million industry in the U.S. But there are only so many ways you can startle someone effectively (check out some DIY ideas here). So how do big-name haunted houses keep scaring customers year after year?

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