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A CHALLENGE TO DETROIT GRAPHIC DESIGN ARTISTS
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It totally tweaks me that London's Economist Magazine hosts a page for all the great world cities, Toronto and Chicago included, but Detroit is excluded! And the Economist has added several cities in the last two years. So if you draw, the Economist editors will come.... to their senses. I've linked to all of these logos on the magazine to give our virtual design lab a flipbook. Can you all make us proud? The GAUNTLET is thrown.
ATLANTA:
Atlanta is better than Detroit? Give me Mylanta ! Did Ted Turner subsidize this section?
BERLIN:
Didn't Detroit Muscle rebuild this burg fifty years ago?
BRUSSELS:
Okay, so it's the seat of the European Union. Detroit links together most of North America !
BUENOS AIRES: Don't cry for me, city of the narrows, truth is Madonna is Evita.
CHICAGO:
Midwestern brother who kept his rail cars rolling filled with people. Hey, the Detroit River takes water out of the upper Great Lakes the direction nature intended! (How's your trivia, huh?)
DUBAI:
Okay, DUBAI is a great city in the region that produces much of the world's oil. Detroit taught the world how to burn it, in the gas tanks and where the rubber meets the road. And when it comes to DUBBING, Detroit is the sheik of Techno.
HONG KONG:
Hey, the American government hasn't handed Detroit over to the Canadians, lately .... Remember Hull Versus Brock?
JOHANNESBURG:
One of the greatest fighters of apartheid, Rosa Parks, reigned in Detroit for decades.
LONDON:
Let's face it. Robocop is a lot cooler than Harry Potter. And by the way, London might be the home of Turing and the earliest computers, Detroit is the home of Harry Huskey of Wayne State University. The ideas of Turing's ACE design were implemented by Harry Huskey, at Detroit’s Wayne State University, in the Bendix G15 computer. The G15 was quite possible the original personal computer, selling 400 units worldwide. The G15 remained popular until the 1970s. To read more, see ----> LONDON FIRST: ALAN TURING ARCHIVE
LOS ANGELES:
Where Detroit sends its exiles. Selling off their LA shacks, these exiles routinely return after three to five years of expatriation, who then take up gardening and landscaping on their exurban estates in Wixom or Novi, with serious money left over from the real estate transaction.
MILAN:
Hey, we have a fashion week too! Just see the Wikipedia: DETROIT FASHION WEEK:. And has anyone heard of a fashion show called Abandoned in Milan? I didn't think so.
MOSCOW:
Visit Revolution Books at 406 W Willis Street in Detroit, Michigan, near Wayne State University. There are serious socialist thinkers who will vouch that true socialism and communism took root in Detroit's soil. Unfortunately, Ann Coulter is likely to agree with this statement too readily !
MUMBAI:
Detroit's thirst for computer programs in the fields of automation, telematics and automotive system control can only be satisfied by a city in a nation of a 1 billion JAVA programmers.
NEW YORK:
Robert DeNiro, are you sure you fell in love with the right town? Look, I'm not returning to Vegas until Bally's builds a strip casino called Detroit Detroit.
PARIS:
OK, maybe I'm making up art history, my friends. Jean Dubuffet coined the term "Art Brut", but Detroit incubated one of its most effective variants, Outsider Art. The Metro Times has the brief: Outsider Art in Detroit. See what Outsider Art is looking like after its return to Paris: Salamander Spirit
SAN FRANCISCO:
As much as I love the bays and the sloughs of the Sacramento Delta, keep in mind Detroit is also the gathering of great waters and lands end before two inland seas, St. Clair and Erie. And what Congressman Phillip Burton is to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Congressman John D. Dingell is to efforts to conserve the Detroit River riparian corridor. San Francisco, you can have your Farrallon Islands, give me the Erie Archipelago ! At least one can walk on Pelee Island.
SAO PAULO:
Hey, with the Detroit Burlesque renaissance, the Detroit Roller Derby Girls and Punk Fitness, do we really need to fly to Brazil for Carnival?
SHANGHAI:
Okay, I'm sure much has changed over the decades, but isn't the name of this city a synonym for kidnapping? If you say, "I've been Detroited", it probably means you've bought a new car.
SINGAPORE:
If an Aussie came to one of our nightclubs with a few illicit pharmas, we'd probably give him free cover.
SYDNEY:
The MAX and the Detroit Opera House are probably easier to clean.
TOKYO:
Drawing a blank here. Don't want to make any jokes about boxing.
TORONTO:
Detroit can keep a baseball team from wandering....
WASHINGTON, D.C.:
Did you know that Detroit has incubated at least two Smithsonian museums, so to speak. First is The Archives of American Art, whose birth is closely tied to the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Scarab Club. And let's not forget Charles L. Freer whose Peacock Room and Asian art collection now resides in the Freer Gallery of Art on the mall in Washington D.C.
ZURICH
I'm ending with a picture of our Comerica Tower, home of one of the world's foremost banks. Detroit is a great place to keep your cash ---> if you're willing to talk about how you came by it.
Update: Apparently, Detroit can’t keep a major bank from wandering. Comerica is moving its corporate headquarters to Dallas. Start stocking up on air conditioners and bottled water now, Comerica.
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