Dubai ~ replacing New York as the center of the 21st-century world?

If you’re at all interested in Dubai, you may want to pick up a copy of the November 2007 issue of Metropolis magazine.  The issue is easy to find; it has a huge skyscraper on it, the Burj Dubai: The cover design is great.  It shows the printer’s marks at the top to illustrate that [...]

Bang & Olufsen ~ Desert Escape in Ocean Paradise

It is always interesting to see how luxury companies try to tell people with resources how to live.  Bang & Olufsen recently sent out their 2007/2008 product collection corporate magazine, and on pages 2 and 3, they had this: The most remarkable feature of this picture is that it has a desert scene from, say [...]

Lowe’s household goods ~ unexpected paradise in the desert

More and more, images of desert paradise are being pushed on us.  Much of it has stemmed from the push to get us to buy homes in Arizona.  This ad from Lowe’s appears to use an image from the Moab, Utah area for the landscape in the background. The deserts of Utah have yet to [...]

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