Only if they start serving German and Balkan cuisine along with American. Then it would work very well, certainly for September - October, and late April (Walpurgisnacht).
I don't understand this controversy. Yeah, I prefer the old logo and I like the decor on the walls as it is, but who cares if they change it all? It's taken on a political hue that seems weird to me, and an intensity that seems out of proportion. I can understand the Bud Light controversy, which at least seemed political in nature, but this?
A general revolt against the corporate impulse to make everything bland and modern is probably worth having. I’m old enough and from the right part of the country to have genuine nostalgia for the kind of stores Cracker Barrel was emulating; but they were only a Disneyish copy to begin with. And their food was never that great.
Oh, we should care. You have to understand how ideology is entwined in design and by extension society. Sans serif fonts were ideologically driven at inception- Yes they claimed to be more readable, but that turns out to not even be true in fact- Clear, simple serif fonts are the most easily read, removing serifs removes some of the identifying and distinguishing information from the characters, it turns out. Futura font was one of the very early, popularized sans serif fonts, and it's tied to the Bauhaus movement and modernism, so yes, it is in fact ideological at it's core. I'm especially sensitive to these signs as a professional designer (architect), and the movements to genericize the corporate logos is to me a subversive move by the designers and the companies are just selling the commies the rope. Same with the popularity of baby blue/pink color schemes of late- it's subversive and an attempt to subconsciously sway people to favor, or at least not be repulsed by the trans movement. I sometimes wish I couldn't see what underlies the design intent, but I cannot avoid it, I am too well trained in it.
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Only if they start serving German and Balkan cuisine along with American. Then it would work very well, certainly for September - October, and late April (Walpurgisnacht).
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I don't understand this controversy. Yeah, I prefer the old logo and I like the decor on the walls as it is, but who cares if they change it all? It's taken on a political hue that seems weird to me, and an intensity that seems out of proportion. I can understand the Bud Light controversy, which at least seemed political in nature, but this?
A general revolt against the corporate impulse to make everything bland and modern is probably worth having. I’m old enough and from the right part of the country to have genuine nostalgia for the kind of stores Cracker Barrel was emulating; but they were only a Disneyish copy to begin with. And their food was never that great.
Oh, we should care. You have to understand how ideology is entwined in design and by extension society. Sans serif fonts were ideologically driven at inception- Yes they claimed to be more readable, but that turns out to not even be true in fact- Clear, simple serif fonts are the most easily read, removing serifs removes some of the identifying and distinguishing information from the characters, it turns out.
Futura font was one of the very early, popularized sans serif fonts, and it's tied to the Bauhaus movement and modernism, so yes, it is in fact ideological at it's core.
I'm especially sensitive to these signs as a professional designer (architect), and the movements to genericize the corporate logos is to me a subversive move by the designers and the companies are just selling the commies the rope. Same with the popularity of baby blue/pink color schemes of late- it's subversive and an attempt to subconsciously sway people to favor, or at least not be repulsed by the trans movement. I sometimes wish I couldn't see what underlies the design intent, but I cannot avoid it, I am too well trained in it.
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