This ancient roman theater in Orange, France is one of the best preserved roman theaters. You can read about it on wikipedia or check out the official website. The theater is still used for live performance including opera.
On our way to southern France we stayed the night in this chateau. Quintessential provincial France.
I also found out that Albert Schweitzer—the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner—lived at this chateau for awhile. Supposedly, I stayed in his room (just inside the lower window). The floor is wooden and the walls are pale yellow.
A shot from the street in Bonn where Beethoven’s house is.
Gastrotypographicalassemblage. That is what the wall of type that Lou Dorfsman designed for the cafeteria at the CBS building in the mid ’60s has been called. Dorfsman was one of the most important designers in the second half of the twentieth century and his wall of type, which he considered his magnum opus, has become an icon of graphic design.
For more information there is a good article on Speak Up and also on AIGA.