%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvoices.nationalgeographic.com%2F2016%2F08%2F10%2Fno-silver-bullet-will-save-the-african-lion%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 No Silver Bullet Will Save the African Lion
It has been just over a year since the senseless killing of Cecil the Lion ignited a worldwide firestorm of outrage over trophy hunting. The tragic event spurred conversation and debate in many public spheres and became one of the most widespread conservation stories in history. It was a defining moment for not only the scientific and conservation communities, but for people from all walks of life.
The public uproar over Cecil's death brought much-needed attention to the plight of the African lion. As a result, several countries blocked or tightened restrictions on the import of animal trophies and a handful of major airlines banned their transport. In a significant step forward, lions were officially listed under the protection of the U.S. Endangered Species Act in December of 2015.
While the increased focus on lions is encouraging, the fact remains that the bigger picture of lion conservation is often misunderstood. Trophy hunting—while an important part of that picture—causes a relatively small number of lion deaths each year. If this iconic species is to continue roaming freely across Africa, other critical concerns must be urgently brought to the forefront of the global conversation with the same intensity. On this World Lion Day, it is time for us to raise the flag for all of the threats facing lions today. By doing so, we can take the next essential steps toward saving this vital species—without which the wilds of Africa will be forever altered.
Recent estimates report that lion populations in Africa have plummeted to between 32,000 and 20,000 individuals, a 43 percent decline over the past two decades and a nearly 90 percent decline over the last century. Meanwhile, Africa's human population is growing rapidly and is expected to more than triple by the year 2100. As the wilderness collides with growing human settlements, critical wildlife habitats are experiencing unprecedented fragmentation and degradation. In addition to human encroachment, vital rangelands are disappearing due to increased grazing pressure, water scarcity as a result of climate change, unregulated land conversion, poor farming practices, and deforestation. This loss of habitat not only represents a big problem for lions, but also for their prey species, many of whose numbers are also in a rapid freefall.
Zebra, a primary prey species for lions, graze on the savannah in Northern Tanzania. (Photo courtesy of African People & Wildlife Fund/Laly Lichtenfeld)
As their prey numbers decline and human settlements grow closer, lions are increasingly turning to the livestock of local pastoralists for an easy meal. The loss of a cow is viewed as a personal attack, and people often retaliate against lions by shooting, spearing, or poisoning them. This type of human-wildlife conflict is currently one of the leading causes of lion mortality in Africa, but we aren't seeing the subject make many headlines.
In addition, more and more lions and their prey are becoming victims of the poacher's snare, destined for the bush meat trade or left undetected to die agonizing and needless deaths. The unsustainable bush meat trade is emptying the forests and savannas of animals, thereby limiting future opportunities for surrounding communities to benefit from their wildlife. Another incentive for poachers appears to be a burgeoning demand for lion bones, skins, and other body parts. We must devote our collective attention to understanding and stopping this emerging threat before there is another elephant in the room, sadly literally.
The above scenarios appear to paint a bleak picture for the future of lions in Africa. How do we then move forward with hope for this species? It is clear that there is no silver bullet. When we step away from our own priorities and emphases, all aspects of lion conservation become essential and must be nuanced to the ecological and cultural context where individuals and organizations are working.
Rural villagers in Northern Tanzania construct a Living Wall to prevent human-wildlife conflict. (Photo courtesy of African People & Wildlife Fund/Andrea Pawel)
For the African People & Wildlife Fund, this context means working in close partnership with rural communities who live alongside one of the most endangered lion populations in all of Tanzania. Together, we are working to protect lions and the vast landscapes they depend on for their survival. Through an ongoing and open dialogue with community members, we collectively determine what issues are most critical to their livelihoods and then work to ensure that their concerns are addressed.
One of the main problems they seek to solve is that of human-wildlife conflict. Among the five programmatic areas where we work in Northern Tanzania, we see nuances in the situation on the ground. For example, some communities experience higher predation levels at the boma—or homestead—while others see higher levels at pasture. For this reason, our engagement and solutions have to be specifically tied to the on-the-ground context and must be able to evolve according to community feedback.
In Tanzania, as with many other places, we see all threats to lion conservation being expressed, albeit with different intensities in different places. Accordingly, there is a pressing need for strategically coordinated efforts to strengthen protected area networks, reduce human-wildlife conflict, restore habitats, increase prey species populations, regulate trophy hunting, and combat the lion bone and bush meat trades in lion territories in a manner that is proportionate to the level at which these threats are expressed. To save this species, we must prioritize the lion as we define and promote our organizational objectives whenever possible.
A year ago, Cecil's untimely death taught us that the world cares about what happens to lions. It showed us that the global public has a powerful voice when it comes to protecting the future of a species in peril. We must now tap into that power in order to galvanize an even larger discussion that includes the full picture of lion conservation. And, it is critical that we not only emphasize the problems facing lions, but also the solutions on the ground that are helping to save them. Such comprehensive dialogues are imperative not only for the future of lions but for other endangered species in Africa and around the world.
To learn more about the African People & Wildlife Fund's community-driven conservation initiatives, please click here.
Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld is the co-founder and executive director of the African People & Wildlife Fund. She is also a grantee of the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvoices.nationalgeographic.com%2F2016%2F08%2F10%2Fworld-lion-day-what-would-you-do-to-protect-lions%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 World Lion Day: What Would You Do to Protect Lions?
After cordially being invited to “pen a post” for National Geographic's Cat Watch in honor of World Lion Day, I was elated; not only because I was asked, but, and in spite of this being quite the cliché, I absolutely, unequivocally love lions!
Given the number of conservation issues surrounding the animal kingdom's noblest of big cats, the first question I asked myself was, “which lion topic should I focus on?”
Then, after some thought, I found the excitement of writing about my favorite feline had faded, replaced by a gathering litany of challenges ready to storm-cloud their way through my mind like some incipient hurricane.
From one issue to the next, thinking about the king of beasts only furthered an increasingly dismal outlook on their future. General prognosis: not good.
Are Lions Faring Well?
Wild lions are faring well in certain circumstances. But let's not kid ourselves—overall, they aren't exactly on the winning end of the conservation stick.
And what's more, the press revolving around their uncertain fate has been written and rewritten; thousands of times, thousands of different ways—all by a veritable who's who of conservationists and other animal pundits.
Ergo, I could write at length about the ever growing challenge of human expansion and land conversion, which continues to deplete much of the lion's former range. But you probably already know that.
Likewise, I could devote a page to the deceased Zimbabwe lion whose name you're all too familiar with, complete with the debate about the benefits (or lack thereof) of hunting to conserve wildlife. But despite it being a critical conversation, you definitely already know about that!
Finally, I could write an entire article about the dangers humans and lions pose to one another; that lions stray from reserves from time to time and make off with a cow, goat, or even injure or kill a person, and that retaliations from locals can result in the poisoning of an entire pride.
But once more, you already know that.
Protecting Lions Means Asking Relevant Questions
A lion cub in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. Photo by Michael Schwartz
I soon realized that there were more important questions concerning lions than merely asking myself what subject was worth highlighting. For instance, can humans realistically exist in a relative state of balance with lions? If not, then why not? And if yes, then how?
Not long after jotting those down, another question surfaced in three slightly different ways: What can we do to further protect lions? What would I do to protect lions? What would you do to protect lions?
A lion pushes on through a gritty wind in the Nossob Riverbed, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa. National Geographic photo by Chris Johns.
That last question is for the kid living in London, Nairobi, Cairo, or upstate New York, or perhaps the retiree who's been reading similar articles in National Geographic magazines. You may love lions too, but merely loving them won't save them.
Many conservationists have been working to answer that important question for quite some time. In some cases there's been tremendous success, while for others, abject failure.
The reason I'm asking you, the reader, is because in spite of the polemics, fundraisers, or social media slogans in support of lions, we sometimes forget that conserving them means coming up with actual solutions.
Now that the question has been posed, and not forgetting the countless number of folks already tirelessly working out how best to save wild lions, why not try proactively weighing in?
But before doing so, permit me to jot down several common sense essentials that might aid you in in your response.
Protecting Lions Means Knowing the Facts
Two juvenile lions hunting with their pride during early evening in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. Photo by Michael Schwartz.
Why are wild lions in danger? The short answer is habitat loss and not enough prey, which most conservationists and other researchers working in the field will verify.
I won't get into specifics, but if lions are to survive in an ever-developing world, addressing habitat loss and ensuring a stable prey base must be the main priority, which also means figuring out how conserving them can best benefit local communities who rely on land too.
Another issue related to habitat loss is the fact that lions are a threat to humans and their livestock living near and even outside of protected areas.
To wit, it's understandable that many African people don't want to foot the bill for lion protection while losing their lives and livelihoods in the process. Human-wildlife conflict is another multifaceted problem that must be remedied if lions are to remain.
Then there's hunting, which many believe is the pièce de résistance when it comes to dwindling lion numbers. In reality, hunting is more towards the bottom of the lion's laundry list of obstacles.
Hunting seems one of the larger problems because it's drawn more media attention in recent years than the bigger challenges lions currently face. The reason, simply put, is that hunting is wildly contentious since it tugs painfully on many an animal enthusiast's heartstrings.
To summarize, the idea of killing an animal to save the species seems incompatible with conservation to some, though hunters and other conservationists contest that it greatly offsets habitat loss; land that aside from being unfit for tourism, could become livestock pastures or fields of agriculture with more wildlife being killed in the process if left unmanaged.
I'll admit that I have mixed feelings about hunting, and there's certainly evidence pointing to isolated cases of gross mismanagement, not to mention the targeting of genetically healthy lions which can lead to infanticide, none of which casts it in a particularly positive light.
But emotions aside, wild lions need those who are willing to address hunting holistically.
If lion protection truly needs hunting as one of several measures in the conservation toolkit, then the evidence will back it up with verifiable facts. If not, the same applies.
Hunting will no doubt be further addressed at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES in Johannesburg, South Africa, this coming September.
Protecting Lions Means Remembering Asiatic Lions
Asiatic lion in India. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Creative Commons.
It's easy to forget that lions once roamed throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia. This touches on a smaller subspecies of lion more closely related to the small population living in West Africa.
While wild lions in Africa number somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000, there are only about 523 Asiatic (or Persian) lions left in the world, all living in India's 545 square mile Gir Forest National Park.
For these lions, the struggle for survival and real possibility of extinction goes well beyond the basic difficulties of human-wildlife conflict and habitat loss.
Changes to their environment through natural events such as wildfires, infectious diseases, and inbreeding are all very real threats that could wipe out the entire population in one disastrous blow.
For this subspecies, the difference between life and death is the continuing efforts to mitigate all of these risks, which includes growing the population, and most importantly, remembering that their survival is of equal importance to that of their African brethren.
Protecting Lions Means Staying Positive
Negative news and fear-based media seems to define our world nowadays, a concept I learned when a former professor once dropped the line, “if it bleeds, it leads.”
While I perish the thought of a world without lions, and while we shouldn't sugarcoat the barriers that exist, the ordnance of negative conservation stories being endlessly fired out into cyberspace can ironically hurt the cause.
“Unfortunately for many, the task ahead seems too big,” African wildlife filmmaker Kim Wolhuter said in a separate interview.
“We keep feeding people with so much negative about our natural world they can't cope. They think their little help just isn't going to make a difference. We need to change our approach and be more positive.”
That said, it's important to be deliberate in counterbalancing the grim news with real stories of success. Take the Lion Guardians for example.
Lion Guardian Kamunu works to protect lions from poaching and retaliatory killings. Photo by Philip J Briggs.
By turning rural Kenyans and Tanzanians from poachers to protectors, there has been a 90 percent drop in retaliatory lion killings in East Africa, a number of community rangelands transformed into lion refuges, and a significant increase in community conservation participation.
Lions have also been reintroduced to Malawi's Liwonde National Park and Majete Wildlife Reserve, as well as in Rwanda's Akagera National Park, thanks in large part to the continued efforts of African Parks, a nonprofit organization that deals exclusively with some of the toughest protected areas on the continent.
From lion-proof bomas (enclosures) for cattle to more active community involvement, it is these stories that should be amplified, not only for the betterment of lions, but for the people around the world standing in solidarity for their continued protection.
Protecting Lions Means Getting Involved
I started journeying to Africa in early 2005 with high hopes of seeing wild lions in their natural habitat.
Since then, I've been fortunate enough to see them on every field visit—from the thorny lowveld of South Africa and the majestic floodplains of Botswana, to the red-rich Zambezi river valley and the grassy savannas of Uganda, all the way up to the southernmost border of South Sudan.
A lone lioness looks out at a herd of buffalo in Kidepo Valley National Park, Uganda. Photo by Michael Schwartz
I remember my first encounter—watching a small pride stalking a giraffe in the early morning hours. Though they didn't make the kill, it was their concerted effort that inspired me to start looking at ways in which I could get more involved in wildlife conservation.
I once came across a quote stating, “everyone wants to eat, but few are willing to hunt,” which is contextually poignant.
Many people find plenty of time to complain about the status of lions, but what about dropping the criticism and lending a helping hand instead?
There are a number of ways that anyone interested can help in the conservation of lions—both in Africa and in India.
These include volunteer opportunities (just be sure it's ethical), enrolling for science-related degrees that offer the chance of studying lions in the field, and even chances to work with rural communities on ways to improve farming and build lion-proof enclosures, which are in dire need of innovative techniques.
Sometimes it starts by simply offering to help. Who knows where you might end up if you do?
Protecting Lions Means Changing Your World View
Though social media is one way of staying connected to lion conservation efforts, it can also be a sounding board for unnecessary anger and inertia when it's reduced to brass tacks.
It is this type of reactionist mentality that can blur the contours of effective conservation methodology because it fosters more division with less results.
In reality, most conservation work is extremely complex. The issue of park fences is one key example.
Some conservationists believe that fences around national parks and game reserves are the best way of keeping lions, rural communities, and livestock safe. If fences aren't in place, it invites poachers in, while opening the door to more instances of human-wildlife conflict.
However, fences can sometimes alter an environment from proper self-regulation, resulting in species overpopulation, or preventing the migration of prey animals, both of which could involve culling to prevent a loss of biodiversity.
The difficulties of such dilemmas aside, what sometimes follows is hardline stances and factional infighting over issues that desperately need a united front, both to protect local people, and to preserve lions.
On a personal note, I'm not afraid to admit that I've considered ideas for protecting lions that lie outside of the conventional norm.
Unfortunately, however, some people seem content with bursts of outrage and name-calling as ways to advance their ideas for conservation.
I'm here to tell you that if there is one universal truth to safeguarding lions, it's this: hostility and strife are not answers and never will be.
Don't misunderstand, civil debates over how best to conserve lions are absolutely necessary. But don't forget to keep an open mind too. Who knows: You might learn something new from someone who has a different point of view, or they might even learn something from you.
What Will You Do for Lions?
Lionesses at dawn surrounded by dust is looking for the rest of the pride after a failed hunt on buffalo.
You've no doubt figured out by now that I haven't come up with an answer of my own for how to protect lions. Truthfully, I'm still thinking it through, and I hope you too have started pondering how best to meet this goal.
If there's any encouragement I might be able to offer, it's this: lion protection should not be about preventing the inevitable, so much as it should be about embracing what's possible, which means starts by having a little faith!
No matter what the circumstances surrounding lions, their plight is not insoluble, provided we stay informed, stay positive, get involved, be forward thinking, and never give up!
So, given all that you've just read, I ask once more: What would you do to protect lions? What will you do to protect lions?
As someone who has witnessed the good, bad, and ugly sides of lion conservation firsthand, I encourage you, I implore you, remain hopeful and be part of the solution. Let your voices be heard.
Better yet, let out a mighty roar!
For further information about World Lion Day and ways you can help, please visit https://worldlionday.com/.
Michael Schwartz is a journalist and African wildlife conservation researcher. With field experience around the continent since 2005, his passion for Africa's wildlife is equally matched by his compassion for the people who live there.
A significant portion of his field work is carried out in Uganda.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fbill-shireman%2Fthe-chemistry-of-life-and_b_11414374.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dgreen%26ir%3DGreen&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 The Chemistry Of Life And Sustainability: A Call For Care, Wisdom, Gratitude, And Awe When I was a child of seven, growing up in a home of thoughtful religious skeptics who, while nominally Baptist-Methodist, were more accurately somewhere on the spectrum between agnostic and atheist, my grandfather's passing triggered me to become alarmed - actually, downright terrified - at the prospect that death was inevitable for me, and for everyone I knew or did not know, and that if I wanted to live a life of meaning and purpose, something that would outlast my ephemeral form, I'd better get a move on.
The early awareness of one's own mortality, and the overwhelming fear and sadness that accompanies that, must be the most powerful motivating force on the planet. Even as a very young person, I questioned constantly why nature or God could have conceived of such a flawed plan for life - to create an experience so sweet, painful, and exquisite, and then take it away, often brutally, in one final act of undeserved violence, followed by unending nothingness. It seemed so unfair, so wrong, so tragic. It wasn't until I was 24, sitting in my stark home office in Sacramento, on another late night in my role as a crusading environmentalist seeking to save humanity from self-annihilation - if I couldn't live on, then at least my species could - that I had an experience that, for me, was my epiphany, and my religious conversion. I came to feel, see, and experience clearly that my life was more of a chapter than a book; a singular and limited expression of an underlying whole life that stretched back and forward as far as I could possibly conceive, and more. I became smaller at that moment, at least in self-concept, but my long-time sense of personal power and potential, seared into me by my sense of mortality, remained. I became as committed as ever to protecting and extending the experience of life, but now more as its agent, rather than as a single individual with a defined beginning and end.
While, like Woody Allen, I had worried neurotically at the process of entropy that seemed to upend my efforts daily, and at a larger level guarantee the ultimate futility of life in any form anywhere, I began to notice a parallel process that was more creative rather than destructive: synergy, the emergence of new qualities as matter takes ever more complex living forms.
Every science reveals the power of synergy. As matter moves through dynamics of physics, chemistry, biology, physiology, psychology, and the political, social, religious, and moral sciences, driven by process that extend from the forces at work in stars to the cultural creations of civilization, we see at every level the emergence of new qualities that help create, sustain, and deepen the qualities of life and expand our potential experience of it.
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Chemistry is a powerful capacity. The Hittites discovered it around 1200 BC, beginning the Iron Age, and ever since we have explored its potential while never fully comprehending its full purpose and power. The benefits of chemistry have been broad and vast. The costs, so far, have been mostly local and only occasionally catastrophic, though their impact is now planetary, and we must be careful. We know now that we need to approach chemistry with respect, understanding that the range of capacities available to us is as close to infinite as we need, but that our discovery of them must be guided by both curiosity and caution, with awareness of both the direct and indirect consequences of our exploration. It is our nature and perhaps destiny to discover more of the capacities of chemistry, but it is both a practical and a moral imperative that we do so with care, wisdom, gratitude, and awe.
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Chances are we've all experienced the questionable culinary decisions people make when having guests round for dinner, but how many of us can actually say that we've been to “the worst dinner party in the world”?
Bompas & Parr are attempting to lay claim to this prestigious title with their latest project an immersive theatre-cum-dining experience based on one of Roald Dahl's most famous tales, The Twits.
Produced in collaboration with Les Enfants Terribles, ebp and Creature of London, Dinner at the Twits is centred around a banquet held by Mr and Mrs Twit at their horrid home.
As well as munching on a slice of bird pie or fishing the glass eye from their cocktail, people will also be able to explore the Twits' Ghastly Garden and Windowless House, set in the underground chamber of The Vaults in Waterloo, London.
We speak to set designer, Sam Wyer, to find out all of the deliciously disgusting details.
Design Week: Why did you and the producers decide to move the story on from Roald Dahl's original work?
Sam Wyer: One of the problems of developing The Twits as a performance is that the book's success lies in its focus on these spiteful vignettes between Mr and Mrs Twit. They are wonderfully delicious, but as a performance they don't further a linear story.
The major advantage of what we're doing as an immersive performance, is that we can reference these in my sets, and give the whole show an exploratory nature. With the added sensory elements of food and drink, we can enhance and continue to thicken the audience experience of the story during intervals in performance.
DW: Why did you decide to use The Vaults as the venue?
SW: One of the most brilliant parts of working at a space like The Vaults, which I've done several times before with Les Enfants Terribles, is the architectural features and textures all around you.
The darkness and dinginess of the space is like being locked in a dungeon. This gives me lots of opportunity to play with colour and darkness, which adds to that dingy world of the Twits.
DW: What are Mr and Mrs Twit's role within the production?
SW: Mr and Mrs Twit are your hosts, somewhat suspiciously renewing their wedding vows. As well as performing scenes, they will approach your table during courses and talk to you as your host might.
This is a great opportunity for me as a designer. Their richness comes through not only in the way they behave, but I can also treat them as walking scenery. You're up close and personal with really lovely, rich, revolting design.
DW: How did you incorporate a sense of occasion into the set design, given that Mr and Mrs Twit are renewing their wedding vows?
SW: I found certain ways to beautify the grottiness and grotesqueness. This could be typified in the garden scene, for instance, where the guests enjoy the entrees and cocktails.
Mr and Mrs Twit's brutalist, incredibly unfriendly garden full of thistles and nettles will also be decked in barbed wire (to keep all the nosey nasty kiddies out).
But to make it a feature that lifts people's experience, and connects it to those fantastical experiences at decadent parties, I'm incorporating fairy lights into the barbed wire, to emphasise the duality of beauty and horridness.
DW: How does Dinner at the Twits differ from some of your previous collaborations with Les Enfants Terribles, such as Alice's Adventures Underground?
SW: Whilst we have been able to incorporate lots of skills and lessons gained from immersive theatre that we have created before, the main difference with this production is the integration of food.
That's especially pertinent when the audience are given the opportunity to explore their environment and discover the food, such as the edible wormery, scraping through the compost heap to discover beautiful eggs to eat, and the various tonics and potions that Mr and Mrs Twit have set aside.
One of the challenges is differentiating the edible items from the inedible items and giving our audience enough discovery, without them ending up chewing the scenery.
DW: What do you want people to take away from the production?
SW: The writers, Oliver Lansley and Antony Spargo, and director, Emma Earle have broken down the action to allow people to enjoy their food without having to focus on large swathes of performance. This gives the kind of intervals that allow people to converse, laugh and chat as you might do if you were reading the book with somebody.
Guests are encouraged to interact with the spaces, such as the Ghastly Garden, to find all of the delicious treats, bringing to life one of Dahl's most repulsive stories. We want people to feel like they have stepped into the story from their childhood imaginings where they can meet the characters and visit the places.
For me, the chance to tell this story for adults doesn't change the approach greatly, as Dahl writes for all ages, but the chance to relish a little more in the darker imagery from the book is wonderful. Expect another sticky end!
Dinner at the Twits will run at The Vaults in Waterloo from 4 September to 30 October. Visit twitsdinner.com for more details.
WPA Pinfold, has redesigned Harvey's of Lewes branding to “reach a fresh generation of drinkers” by introducing a new identity and family of illustrations.
As the oldest independent brewery in Sussex, Harvey's worked with WPA Pinfold to reposition the brewery “for future generations, ensuring a legacy for the family business while future proofing the brand,” according to Myles Pinfold, WPA Pinfold's strategic brand director.
Pale blue and copper wordmark
The identity design includes a new wordmark, sees a turquoise and copper colour palette introduced alongside a new brewery illustration.
“We felt that WPA Pinfold's in-depth knowledge of the brewing industry was key in ensuring our brand was in safe hands,” says Bob Trimm, Harvey's sales and marketing manager.
“The designers respected our heritage while enabling us to move forward and reach a fresh generation of drinkers.”
Turquoise has been used as the main colourway, harking back to the company's heritage on the Sussex coast, while the use of white is inspired by the local limestone cliffs.
“We wunt be druv”
An image of the brewery building a landmark in Lewes also features in the logo, while its seasonal range has been captured in a series of illustrations by local artist Malcolm Trollope-Davis.
A new strapline will also be introduced; “We wunt be druv”. Used locally, it's a Sussex dialect phrase meaning, “we will not be driven”.
“It's a saying that reflects the independence, spirit and pride that's always been at the heart of the county and we feel it fits with the Harvey's ethos,” says Trimm.
The rebrand includes plans to expand the brewery's sales, outside the historically key 100km radius of the brewery.
%feed https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/8-14-august-2016/subway-reveals-minimalist-new-logo-symbol/ Subway reveals minimalist new logo and symbol
Fast-food restaurant chain, Subway, has unveiled a new logo and symbol, premiering it during several Olympics TV spots.
The logo retains the core colours long associated with the brand green and yellow but it has opted to swap out italics in favour of a more minimalist typeface.
Meanwhile, the new symbol featuring one yellow and one green arrow is curved to form a large, graphic “S” shape.
Roll out early 2017
Suzanne Greco, president and chief executive of Subway, says: “The Subway brand is recognised throughout the world, and this new look reinforces our commitment to staying fresh and forward-thinking with a design that is clear and confident without losing sight of our heritage.”
The new identity is expected to roll out across all Subway restaurants, communications, and digital experiences worldwide in early 2017.
“This was a cross-functional project led by our creative team, working with a variety of design partners. Our initial work began last fall and we went through several iterations over the past year to get the logo and symbol just right,” says Subway.
The restaurant chain says it will confirm who else has worked on the design of the new logo when it rolls out next year.
%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgo.theregister.com%2Ffeed%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2016%2F08%2F10%2F1967_weather_forecast_stopped_nuclear_war%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Revealed: How a weather forecast in 1967 stopped nuclear war
Solar storm that nearly turned the world hot
For the first time, retired US Air Force officers have published [PDF] an account of an incident on May 23, 1967 when a solar storm nearly fooled American high command into thinking that a Soviet nuclear attack was on the way.…
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%feed https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2016/aug/09/is-rio-olympic-architecture-a-success On your marks: is Rio's Olympic architecture a success or failure?
After the ‘worst ever' preparations, how are the park, arena and athletes' village holding up? And are the designs for the mascots, torch and kits medal-worthy?
The collapsed sailing ramp has been hauled out of the water, a Russian diplomat has heroically killed a carjacker (or maybe not), and 450,000 condoms await action in the leaky athletes village. Beset by construction problems and delays and with preparations decreed the “worst ever” by the International Olympic Committee, how is the architecture and design of the XXXI Olympiad shaping up so far?
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/09/buying-a-smart-lock-might-be-a-dumb-investment/ Buying a smart lock might be a dumb investment We've known for some time that the Internet of Things (IOT) was basically a connected dumpster fire. Time and time again, these connected devices have proven that, while convenient, they aren't necessarily safe. In fact, many manufacturers have a rather apathetic view on security, which leads to a lack of trust in connected products. Smart door locks are no exception. Two different presentations at hacker conference DEF CON this year make it clear there's a long way to go before the convenience of a smart lock properly aligns with user safety. Anthony Rose and Ben Ramsey, from Merculite Security, proved that…
%feed https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/8-14-august-2016/london-transport-museum-run-series-events-commemorating-frank-pick/ London Transport Museum to run series of events commemorating Frank Pick
The London Transport Museum is highlighting the achievements of Frank Pick in a series of talks and events, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of his death.
Pick who was the managing director of London Transport during the early 20th Century is widely considered responsible for transforming London's transport network into a design-led organisation.
Johnston Typeface, art deco stations and the roundel
The series of events take place on various dates from September to November. They include a discussion with transport historian, writer and research fellow, Oliver Green about Pick's design vision for London transport including the sans serif Johnston Typeface, Charles Holden's art deco stations and the Tube roundel.
Also on the line-up is a talk from architectural critic and writer, Jonathan Glancey, looking at the last 100 hundred years of Piccadilly Circus, which Pick redeveloped during the 1920s.
In addition, artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell will discuss Pick's legacy with author and broadcaster Robert Elms ahead of the unveiling of their memorial artwork Beauty < Mortality which will be permanently installed at Picadilly Circus from November.
Visitors to the Museum Depot in Acton, west London will also be able to learn more about the roundel during its open weekend, A Logo for London, next month.
18-month programme of events
As part of the open weekend, the museum plans to run a mixture of workshops, arts and crafts sessions, talks and tours exploring the history and inspiration behind the logo.
The Frank Pick programme is part of Transport for London and London Transport Museum's 18-month programme of events, exhibitions and competitions highlighting the role of design in London's transport network, which runs until December.
%feed http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/08/09/a-robot-tattooist-could-make-you-think-twice-about-getting-inked/ A robot tattooist could make you think twice about getting inked In further proof that robots are here to steal our jobs, a new industrial robot could soon be tattooing you. On one hand, you don't have to undergo hours of small talk about what that Nyan Cat on your inner thigh really means to you on an existential level. On the flip side, it's a fucking robot brandishing a sharp object and stabbing you repeatedly. A duo of French designers, Pierre Emm and Johan da Silveira, and an Autodesk engineer, David Thomasson, teamed up to build the robot artist after the success of a previous creation, Tatoue — a 3D printed…
Product designers Frog and Aspect Imaging, a life-science company, have designed “patient-friendly” MRI scanners.
The new systems include WristView, a dedicated hand and wrist MRI system, and Embrace Neonatal System, a newborn baby scanner.
“The exciting thing about the collaboration with Aspect Imaging has been the possibility to completely reinvent a product category from the ground up, around the needs of the end-user,” says Thomas Sutton, executive creative director at Frog.
Less expensive than conventional systems
WristView is designed to be compact and ensures a stress-free patient experience that costs less than conventional systems, according to Frog and Aspect Imaging.
While existing MRI scanners cover the whole body, the new design is a “non-claustrophobic” alternative, according to Frog, as just the arm is encased.
The Embrace Neonatal System baby scanner preps and scans in less than an hour, and as it is designed to remain within the neonatal hospital, continuous care can be provided during the scan as required.
Lab space
“We spent one day building the system on the fly with foam, cardboard, and a lot of hot-glue, acting out the workflow using the models and iterating on what we learned,” says James Luther, creative director at Frog.
After the initial design phase, the Frog team worked in a “lab space” that replicated “a NICU where they constantly had access to full-scale models and functional products including incubators and silicone neonates.”
Experts including nurses, specialists and radiologists were all involved throughout the design process, performing research in clinical settings to map workflow and identify ways to optimise the units for those specific environments.
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/09/a-ring-that-lets-you-feel-your-partners-heartbeat-is-trolling-at-level-10/ A ring that lets you feel your partner's heartbeat is trolling at level 10 Created by The Touch, ‘HB' rings use an app, Bluetooth and your phone's mobile internet to help you feel more connected to your partner. Once connected, you're able to feel your loved one's heartbeat in real time through your ring. Your partner can feel yours as well. There's utility here. For long-distance relationships, it could help you feel closer and more connected. For those in the type of relationship that makes people around them sick, well, you can make them even sicker by knowing your partner is with you while they're downstairs making you coffee. It's the little things… that make…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/08/a-tesla-saved-its-owners-life-by-using-autopilot-to-get-him-to-the-hospital/ A Tesla saved its owners life by using autopilot to get him to the hospital While autopilot isn't always used for its intended purpose, or even used correctly for that matter, it's undeniable that the feature has utility. Joshua Neally probably recognizes this more than most. After the 37-year-old Neally started suffering from piercing pain in his stomach and chest, he decided to engage his Tesla Model X's autopilot function to get him to the nearest hospital — some 20 miles away. He told Slate, the only time he manually steered the car was in the parking lot. Once parked, he got himself inside and checked into the hospital where doctors found a potentially fatal…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/08/new-facial-recognition-algorithm-is-so-smart-it-doesnt-need-to-see-your-face/ New facial recognition algorithm is so smart it doesn't need to see your face Facial recognition already posed serious problems for privacy advocates. Used by everyone from law enforcement to churches, the privacy concerns with facial recognition are very real, and they're about to get a lot worse. The ability to identify anyone just by analyzing an image of their face creates a severe imbalance of power from the common citizen to the people in charge. The ability to identify those whose faces are blurred or otherwise obstructed kills that balance entirely. Yet that's exactly what algorithms like the ‘Faceless Recognition System' (FRS) are aiming to do. FRS was a creation by researchers at the…
%feed http://99u.com/articles/54278/7-creative-insights-to-give-your-career-a-boost-this-very-second/ 7 Creative Insights To Give Your Career a Boost This Very Second
There's gobs of merit in chiseling away at one of your bad habits for months in order to make a long-term improvement to some aspect of your career. In fact, we champion that approach here all the time. However, we're also going to make the alternative case that there is nothing wrong with a quick fix that you can implement right now and will provide you with immediate positive results. So the 99U staff and contributors have rounded up seven of our top productivity tips to give you a head start on your next work move.
1. Be No. 1 (into the Office)
Getting creative work done when it's peaceful and quiet? Easy. Getting up early every day? Not so easy. A humble suggestion: Start small. Break free from the train of people shuffling into the office starting at 9 a.m. by being the first person into work just once a week. You know, the kind of early arrival where you are the one turning on the lights. The easiest way to start is to aim for Fridays. This way you've already ticked off your most import tasks by the time your body is tapped out in mid-afternoon and everyone in the office is buzzing about their weekend plans. (And if we're being honest, it's way too easy to push late Friday afternoon work to Monday.)
Let's be clear, still work your normal amount of hours. Just approach them differently. If you tell yourself that you can leave work by 4 p.m. on Friday if you complete your to-do list, chances are good you'll be done by 3:59! An added bonus? Doing something hard first thing in the morning just plain feels good. Like the endorphin rush from hitting the gym in the morning, you will experience a boost in spirits.
Make it fun too — treat yourself to breakfast and a fancy coffee on the way in. (Work at home? Then creating something by 8 a.m. is your goal.) But for God's sake don't send an unnecessary email like, “Hey, Ron, I will be in the conference room if anyone is looking for me” time stamped at 7:45 a.m. when absolutely no one is looking for you. This isn't a contest: It's about you feeling good for your extra effort and using your time wisely.
2. Replace Your To-Do List
Feeling overwhelmed has many forms, but we bet that most times when you feel this panicked sensation it's not about the number of things you have to do, but your ability to sort out the priority and timing of each task. Here's why: A to-do list typically only has one “axis”: the number of items you wish to complete. This is a step forward, but also severely anxiety-inducing. Avoid those times you feel like you're drowning in documents by replacing your to do-list with a production calendar. It works like this: Brain dump every possible task you have in your head, both big and small, both long term and short term in a spreadsheet. Empty your mind. This may take a few sittings (plane rides are great for this).
Then, place these tasks in buckets based on time. Which tasks need to be done this week? This month? This quarter? Drag each row into the month you need to accomplish the task. Once you have a calendar of tasks make a promise to yourself: Only worry about the tasks of the current month. This way you place a boundary on what to worry about, which should, hopefully, make it much easier to keep a clear head.
3. Help Me Help You Help Them
Those that work in a large company know that the bigger the organization, the more meetings you'll have to tackle. Partially, that's understandable. To get a lot of people moving in the same direction, communication is required. Standard stuff. But when you add shared calendars into the mix, things get messy.
In many places, it's culturally acceptable to place a meeting on your calendar without checking first. Or, its sinister cousin, emailing you and suggesting you “get together to chat.” Or, yes, “pick your brain.” If this sounds like your day, we suggest a simple “pushback” email. Each time anyone adds a context-less meeting to your calendar, deny the request and ask, “Happy to offer insight, but did you have anything specific you were facing or that we can help with? It would help me contextualize how I can be most useful.”
Sometimes you get a thoughtful response and then by all means, take the meeting. But sometimes the person won't have specifics, in which case you can respectfully say, “I'm sorry I don't see how I can help, but please let me know if you think of anything specific.” This is a tactic to be deployed judiciously and with care, of course. But if you don't protect your calendar, who will?
4. Run That Back
There's a sub-genre of productivity enthusiasts that like to obsess over the best music to listen to maximize creativity. Streaming services like Spotify have entire playlists designed to encourage deep thought. But there's a problem with new albums and playlists: They're…. new. Depending on how you listen to music, a new artist and new lyrics have your brain doing some low-level background processes. Who sings this? What are they trying to say? Do I like this? Those are mental cycles better spent on whatever you're working on. So while most creativity comes from novelty, here's an idea: Only listen to stuff you know very well.
The key here is to be shameless, that emo-rock album from high school fits the bill just fine. Shane Snow, an author who has somehow managed to write several books while running his own business, takes this a step further: He just listens to the same song over and over again. Sounds crazy, but if his output while helping to run a 100-plus company is any measure, it's worth trying.
5. Your New Routine Is Your Old One
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You want to start a new routine or habit. To “prepare” yourself, you'll chop three hours out of your day and lock yourself in a room in hopes of being your best productive self. Or you'll binge read everything you can on your hoped-for new self. Resist that temptation.
Instead of trying to create a new routine, add to your old one. In the morning, preferably. Whether you begin your day with coffee or a jog, take 10 to 15 minutes afterwards and “piggy back” your new habit on one you already have. Do some deep reading, research your side project, or sketch your new design, whatever you had in mind. Adding a small amount of time to your morning habits allows you to accomplish important tasks without significantly disrupting your already rock-solid routine. As a bonus, taking this time first thing every morning helps you feel more accomplished at the start of your day because you've done what truly matters to you first. You don't always need a crazy new routine to be productive and you'll be surprised how much you get done in 600 seconds.
6. Network in your Network
Think of your “traditional” networking advice: Attend conferences, meet ups, and school events all as a means of “getting your foot in the door.” However, if you ask anyone you know, chances are their last job didn't come from someone they met at a random function. It came from someone they already knew.
Rather than hoping to get your next big break from someone you don't know, connect with your peers first. Often times, you don't even think to ask your best friend for help getting a job because it can be awkward and uncomfortable. In a way, it shifts the equal balance you both are on, making you a bit more vulnerable. But when thinking of your career and your next steps, being vulnerable can actually help rather than hurt you. Your friends and family can get you that next big break if you ask them. However, this will be difficult if you're vague or lazy in your questioning. People won't know how to help you if you don't know what you're asking for. Take initiative in your career: Ask yourself what is it that you're really looking for. What industry do you want to work in? Who do you want to work for? What client would you like to pick up next?
Then, and only then, start with your friends, family, or people you may have worked for in the past this is your network. Ask this group of people a specific request: “Do you know anybody looking to hire in this area…?” rather than “I need a job!” Networking in your immediate circle can build connections faster, boost your confidence, and jumpstart your career. Take advantage of your people. Besides, you never know who your mom knows.
7. Hey, Thanks
When you adopt a daily gratitude practice into your work life, you increase energy level, lift stress, and cultivate more alertness, determination, and optimism in yourself and those around you, according to research presented by Psychology Today.
Here's how it works: Every day, thank at least one person you work with. That's it. Whether it's someone who reports to you, your manager, a teammate on a project, or someone you connected with at a conference, thank them. It can be an in-person “Thanks for your help on this,” or “I'm so glad you're on this project,” or an emailed “Really appreciate it!” or “You rock my socks.”
It's not just some new age-y advice, it's also practical. Expressing gratitude increases morale for both parties. It also deepens connections within your network. The warmer people feel toward you, the better you'll work well together and the likelier they are to do you a solid when it's needed.
Just make your thank you genuine. Mean it. Think about how you'd thank your parent for his or her wisdom and support over the years, and channel that spirit into this daily expression of gratitude. Set a daily reminder so you don't forget. Thanks for reading. Your time and attention are much appreciated.
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%feed http://www.designboom.com/art/jr-casa-amarela-moon-morro-da-providencia-favela-rio-olympics-08-09-2016/ JR adds habitable moon room to ‘casa amarela', a cultural center in rio's first favela
on the roof of a cultural, social and educational center, a huge crescent moon sculpture will become a space for artists to work.
%feed http://www.designboom.com/art/design-indaba-photographer-kyle-weeks-palm-wine-collectors-08-09-2016/ cape town-based photographer kyle weeks documents the dangerous practice of palm wine collecting
the ancient cultural tradition sees tappers climbing up palms the height of tall buildings to extract the sweet, milky, white sap from the trees' flower stumps.
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