Gung Hay Fat Choy!
This traditional, paper cut dragon features this years Chinese zodiac animal. Happy lunar new year!
Your Profit
Is My Fear
Jean-Benoit Levy, noted Swiss poster designer, created this poster concerning the powerless position an individual has facing the war effort throughout the world.
Altered Lanscape
Altered Landscape, a celebration of the Nevada Museum of Art's 80th Anniversary is now on exhibition in Reno, Nevada. A lavish book, designed by Brad Bartlett.
Vanishing Species Stamp
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Limited Edition 9/11 Poster Available
Studio Hinrichs has produced a limited edition 9/11 commemorative poster to benefit the NYC Firefighters Brotherhood Foundation.
Spark Pro Competition
The 2011 Spark Competition registration runs through September–November and is open to all designers, architects, and industrial designers.
Happy Birthday Hatch Show Print!
A Nashville original, Hatch Show Print celebrates its 132nd year as a letterpress shop. They have created posters for America's country and western stars for generations.
Cheeky Covers
Bloomberg Businessweek introduces two covers for the Valentines issue on the "Infidelity Economy". Click here to peek at the men's cover.
Industrial Designer Stamps
United States Postal Service announces the publication of 12 commemorative stamps on American Industrial Designers in July 2011.
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365 Typographic Calendar
The 2011 365 Calendar is now available for the tenth year. For more information, click here.
American Craft Redesign
American Craft Magazine, published over the last 70 years by the American Craft Council, boasts a new look and feel in the December/January issue.
Levi’s
Water<Less Jeans
A change in the finishing process let’s Levi’s cut water use by as much as 96% in its new Water<Less jeans line, a total savings of 16 million gallons of water by spring 2011.
Twitter Cookbook
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Unique Poster
35th annual American Indian Film Festival
“Day of the Dead” Tequila
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Logo Licious!
Peleg Top’s latest book on international logos has just been published; it’s an interesting array of global large and small firms.
Hand/Eye Magazine
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Scout's Honor
US Postal Service has just released a commemorative stamp celebrating the 100 anniversary of the Boy Scouts in America, designed by Craig Frazier.
PUBLIC Bikes
Rob Forbes, founder of Design Within Reach, has launched PUBLIC, a collection of modern bikes and gear for cyclists who want to ride in style.
TO Watch
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Ammunition adds HeartBeats
for Lady Gaga
This is the latest extension to Beats by Dr. Dre highly successful headphone line. It's both a fashion accessory and a high-end audio product.
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Great chart and interesting post.
I think the two charts are in alignment; the Disney chart is showing an operational flow, not an org. They probably had an authority org chart too. Note the text at the bottom of the chart, “operations, not authorities”. It's nice to see anyway as it represents the spirit of how work should be done.. not out of fear, but out of inspiration.
Wow, great skeptical observation skills, Michael! My hat is off to you.
We understand now that piracy is a business model. It exists to serve a need in the market for consumers who want TV content on demand. Pirates compete the same way we do – through quality, price and availability. We we don?t like the disney acting auditions model but we realise it?s competitive enough to make it a major competitor going forward
I would like to make suggestions for improvements to Disney World. Who shall I direct my letter to?
Now we know what organizational success looks like! Visited the Walt Disney Family Museum last week and was blown away by this poster sized org chart.
It in fact, says that it represents operations not authority *right on the chart*. (Check out the bottom of the chart).
It in fact, says that it represents operations not authority *right on the chart*. (Check out the bottom of the chart).
This chart's about 20 years too early for any theme park divisions.
This org chart is sortof a testament to how simple Disney's business was in the 40s. They didn't have Buena Vista or any distribution operation at all (they shipped through Columbia at the time). There was no TV, no cable networks, no home entertainment divisions, no record labels. It's all a neat little package where stories go in one end and shorts and the occasional feature pop out the other.
There are also some pretty big elisions, like “Production Control” and “Army-Navy relations” being so small, when in fact the first was Roy's fiefdom and the second represented about half of Disney's business during the war years (if you see animation in any World War II training/informational film, it was done at Disney).
Note also, conspiracy buffs, that the management echelon has a “morgue.” I have a feeling this is some kind of terminology for something, but as a sometime Disney production employee, I've never heard it…
In old TV terminology, a “Morgue” was a library that stored all the archived material. I worked for a television network a long time ago and we had a stock footage “morgue” that we drew from constantly. So don't panic, it's not where the sickly 8th Dwarf and Bambi's mother ended-up.
Very interesting. This circular model aligns with Henry Mintzberg's idea of organizational structures. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/article…
Though companies are usually organized in hierarchical form, at least on paper, in every organization there are strong and weak relationships across all nodes which definitely violate the hierarchy.
It is fascinating, but surely the text “Note: This Chart Designates Operations And Not Authorities” suggests that there's another chart which may be more like a traditional org chart?
Update: oops, I see others have pointed this out. My apologies for duplicate comment.
Interesting. I think that unintentionally some Software Companies works like that. Despite of its hierarchical organizational charts, the operations are more organized about the people functions.
Interesting. I think that unintentionally some Software Companies works like that. Despite of its hierarchical organizational charts, the operations are more organized about the people functions.
Interesting. I think that unintentionally some Software Companies works like that. Despite of its hierarchical organizational charts, the operations are more organized about the people functions.
Interesting. I think that unintentionally some Software Companies works like that. Despite of its hierarchical organizational charts, the operations are more organized about the people functions.
Interesting. I think that unintentionally some Software Companies works like that. Despite of its hierarchical organizational charts, the operations are more organized about the people functions.
This is wonderful. Thanks for posting!
This is really interesting not only relevant to a working culture thats global and transient but also with social technologies challenging the silo structures. I work in social media and increasingly see companies struggling to adopt social technologies – not because it doesn't suit their brand or their staff don't get it but because they're not set up to listen, respond, adapt, collaborate, create…. Suddenly process is way more important that structure. Suddenly being democratic and ideas driven is more important hierarchy. Maybe, the evolution since 1943 is that this 'could' replace a structured chart? Not sure, i am no HR expert. There has been some stuff written about 'social org design' with models looking a lot like this, but Walts name provides a credible case study – even if its from 1943!
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Does anyone happen to know if a poster of this is available? I think it'd be quite a fun addition to my office, along with a few Disneyland ride posters.
Since the chart clearly states at the bottom, “This Chart Designates Operations and Not Authorities”. It leads me to believe that there's another more hierarchical chart.
Since the chart clearly states at the bottom, “This Chart Designates Operations and Not Authorities”. It leads me to believe that there's another more hierarchical chart.
Commenters who smugly point out that the chart represents “Operations and Not Authorities” and there must exist a conventional authorities chart miss the point. I think it is important to note that in most organizations the the two types of charts are the same. This stultifies creativity in whatever the company’s field happens to be (whether it be producing films or making widgets) as those at the bottom of the chart feel the crushing weight of bureaucratic inertia.
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