{"id":30376,"date":"2011-11-26T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=30376"},"modified":"2011-11-26T06:55:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T14:55:36","slug":"ralphs-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/30376","title":{"rendered":"A color-coded Ralphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_04.png\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;And so was born the &#8216;shop-at-a-glance&#8217; concept&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An ill-fated design experiment from 1965: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphs.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ralphs<\/a> remodeled with departmentalized, color-coded graphic icons. Article <a href=\"http:\/\/pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/ralphs-granada-hills-reloaded-1965.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I use a lot of color coding in my own work \u2013 but with the assumption that the end user will need other organizational tools to find their way around. &#8216;Shop-at-a-glance&#8217; never quite caught on; tho I&#8217;d love to see what data Ralphs collected as part of their process.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_13.png\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_06.png\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_05.png\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_12.png\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_08.png\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_09.png\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_10.png\" width=\"330\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_01.png\" width=\"330\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RALPHS_1965pleasantfamilyshopping_11.png\" width=\"270\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/ralphs-granada-hills-reloaded-1965.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pleasant Family Shopping<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"A color-coded Ralphs\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/30376\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;And so was born the &#8216;shop-at-a-glance&#8217; concept&#8217; An ill-fated design experiment from 1965: Ralphs remodeled with departmentalized, color-coded graphic icons. Article here. I use a lot of color coding in my own work \u2013 but with the assumption that the end user will need other organizational tools to find their way around. &#8216;Shop-at-a-glance&#8217; never quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,50,54,51,120],"tags":[121,58,123,122],"class_list":["post-30376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culinary","category-design","category-design-history","category-illustration","category-typography","tag-design","tag-graphic-design","tag-illustration","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30376"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30384,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376\/revisions\/30384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}