World Happiness Report 2023 and good design
The latest World Happiness Report gives the Scandinavian countries the top ratings. Finland first place and then Denmark, Iceland, Norway...
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Frederick Rickmann
The new ChatGPT is my latest intern
ChatGPT is a new kind of digital text generator that is supposed to create text and information. It has been making quite a stir in...
Frederick Rickmann
Bring back the street!
We are constantly campaigning to bring back the "street" as an element of urban design. Cities and towns in times past have arranged...
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Not an exceptional street
There is nothing exceptional about the architecture, yet there is something about the soul of this street in Nuremberg that is just...
Frederick Rickmann
Street Signs from East Berlin
When Germany was reunited, many of signs of the East were removed - literally. Yet here is the graphic design of East Berlin. With its...
Frederick Rickmann
Corona and the new shape of cities
Quite suddenly, under the corona crisis, our city streets have been rediscovered. Traffic has vanished in the lock-downs and people have...
Frederick Rickmann
Corona and the Climate
Through the thick fog of today's politics and the blurry picture of fake and real news there is a golden thread emerging. You could...
Frederick Rickmann
After the pandemic
In the aftermath of the global virus, the old "normal" just does not exist anymore. So we cannot simply "go back to normal". The streets...
Frederick Rickmann
Colour in Washington DC
Grand avenues of imposing marble and stone buildings form the normal international image of Washington DC. Yet within the fabric of the...
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