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Beige Blog

You heard it here first. [Thanks Stewf]

Things that used to not be beige...

Consider this. At one time, our city was not beige and now it is. Why is this? And more importantly, can it ever be stopped? We need more color boldness. Help stop the embeigeoning.


The cool sky bridge on 300 S. in process of beige.

...this used to be two-tone grey. Now, two-tone beige... or 'band-aid' as my friend Matthew Landis calls it.


Embassy Suites Hotel took to beige a few years ago...


...as did the Shilo Inn, which was mediterranean white.


Mixed use beige/metal remodel.


No surprise here.


Cumming's Chocolate, dark beige stucco. Beige stucco is the fastest spreading beige.



Soon, every new building in America might look like a variation of the above. Tasteless mayonnaise design, cheap materials, sad architectural details (the bare minimum to keep it from looking like a box)... all wrapped up in shades of beige.

Do your part to stop the embeigeoning!

Submissions welcome here.

For the time being (not beige)

 

This new building going up on State Street was looking super fantastico with it's two-tone green insulation until the inevitable brick and beige stepped in to take it's rightful place. Shame! Boo!!! Can you imagine SLC with a few more  colorful buildings? Who cares if we live in the desert. So does Mexico. Let's think outside the beige box more often.

Deforestation

Does anyone know why the Little America decided to rip out all their old trees on Main Street? It's kind of a horrible thing to do and it was hiding the hideous courtyard suites. I hope they are going to do Swiss Chalet.

Remeber The Mall?

Deliciously alarming photos from a Mall in the 80's. Takes me back! Via Retronauthq.com
(Thanks Stewf)

The Embeigeoning

Yesterday I discovered a neigborhood on 300 East and 3900-ish South that is entirely beige. The war has begun my friends. Let us pick up our paintbrushes and fight the Embeigeoning of America! (click for wide stitch)

Oh Brother...

This is the latest addition to the space below my work. As if Exchange place isn't already the mecca of corny 'inner city' photography shoots. Clever use of window space for signage but I'm still going to refer to you as The Bridal Bazaar. I look forward to your facinating window displays.

Fall Treasures

Sorry to alarm you, but I had to share this spooky Christopher and Banks window display that caught a friend and I off guard last night at the beige mall. Seriously looked like a giant Laura Bush out of the corner of our eyes!

Beigemart

Worst Signage Ever?

I fully support my neighborhood gay bar and love the idea of them opening a coffee shop next to it on the west side of SLC. Even if that coffee is a single pot of burnt Folgers sitting on the counter in a florescent lit room with plastic lawn chairs... but this could possibly be in the running for the worst sign ever conceived – and has since it's erection been on my list of things to publicly flog for sometime now. Ok, I can deal with the name, fine, whatever... called 'Off Trax' because it's located less than a block from our public train system, but the rainbow filled lettering that slides off the side of the celestial white background with no rhyme or reason just looks sloppy, random and mildly tragic. The signage on actual building doesn't fare any better so please O.T. call me up and let's design you a real logo someday? We can even typeset something in Helvetica (or the new Helvetica being Gotham).

(click for larger photo)

Uh Mazing

Get your photo realistic portrait with a fratboy Jesus! Click image for gallery. [CityWeekly]

All Tacos Go To Heaven

After yesterdays post about my favorite Taco Time here on State Street in Salt Lake City, I decided I was actually hungry for some crisp bean burritos myself and went there for lunch. While there I snapped some photos for the world to see because It's simply indescribable. What I failed to do was capture more of the individual tchotchkes up close, including stuffed sequined/bedazzled cacti, many fake plants and other precious treasures but this gives you some idea. Not one surface was left untouched. It's a treasure trove of tackiness and a work of art I hope never changes.

Public Transportation Art

Boo!

Art Crimes Against Humanity 008

Fluorescent tubes may be energy efficient but as most of us know, they are 100% evil. Axis of evil, evil. The effects of these buzzing boxes of death are well documented. Fresh food rots before your very eyes, human skin appears sickly gray or green, big ticket merchandise suddenly turns into dollar store discounts, every bone in ones body says "get out of this torture chamber now!"

Fluorescent lighting may be slowly killing you and your business. Two options exist: 1. Replace them. Go back to energy hogging incandescents, Light Emitting Diodes or color corrected compact fluorescents. 2. Reduce your existing tubes glamour harming rays with polycarbonate gel sleeves or tubes in color correcting warm tones. Your local stage supply store can help you choose a color to match what ever lighting brand you are suffering under currently.