Sound Design: Can a Hospital Design Decrease Noise in an ICU Environment? – it’s great to see someone in a position to effect the design of healthcare environments paying attention to this issue. The Cannon Design post links to a poster (the visual kind) with more information.
The 2-part series The Wonderful Color Wheel: Part 1 and Part 2 takes you from the 18th c. enlightenment to the present, with great examples. At the end of the second part there are references to The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe and History of the Color Wheel. This post …
Check out the topic “Collective housing” on the blog of Spanish architectural publishers a+t. It looks like they’ve drawn a number of more recent posts from their books. A lot of projects from the Netherlands.
Try Crowdsourcing Your Performance Reviews – interesting idea posted on Harvard Business Review’s Management Tip of the Day. See a longer version here. A group of independently deciding individuals is more likely to make better decisions and more accurate observations than a lone manager.