Comments on: I’m flattered that Pentagram would “imitate” my country codes poster http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/10/14/pentagram-country-codes/ Adventures in Web Globalization Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:06:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ken Clark http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/10/14/pentagram-country-codes/comment-page-1/#comment-32711 Ken Clark Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:47:33 +0000 http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=2214#comment-32711 Yours is much better, John. Better looking and better design. Their "posters are a training tool specifically aimed at the Russian police, whose country has a particularly poor track record in drug treatment. The posters had to be eye-catching, easy to absorb and not reliant on language. The typographic solution built a simple world map from internationally recognised country abbreviation codes (GB, US, RU, etc)." I'm not a Russian cop, but I'd give their version a big "nyet" in terms of accomplishing those objectives. Yours is much better, John. Better looking and better design. Their “posters are a training tool specifically aimed at the Russian police, whose country has a particularly poor track record in drug treatment. The posters had to be eye-catching, easy to absorb and not reliant on language. The typographic solution built a simple world map from internationally recognised country abbreviation codes (GB, US, RU, etc).” I’m not a Russian cop, but I’d give their version a big “nyet” in terms of accomplishing those objectives.

]]> By: Jim DeLaHunt http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/10/14/pentagram-country-codes/comment-page-1/#comment-32710 Jim DeLaHunt Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:30:17 +0000 http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=2214#comment-32710 Well, great minds clearly think alike! They do have a slight difference in their concept, though. It looks like they are sizing their letters according to number of square kilometers in the country rather than population of the country. Well, great minds clearly think alike!

They do have a slight difference in their concept, though. It looks like they are sizing their letters according to number of square kilometers in the country rather than population of the country.

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