Pentagram (design studio)

Pentagram is a design studio that was founded in 1972 by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, and Mervyn Kurlansky in Needham Road, West London, UK. They now have offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Austin and Berlin.

History

Pentagram was founded on the premise of collaborative interdisciplinary designers working together in an independently owned firm of equals. Theo Crosby claimed the structure was suggested to him by his experience of working on the seminal late-1950s exhibition This is Tomorrow: "it was my first experience at a loose, horizontal organisation of equals. We have brought it ... to a kind of practical and efficient reality at Pentagram". The firm currently comprises 19 partner-designers in 5 cities, each managing a team of designers and sharing in common overhead and staff resources. The partners in each office share incomes equally and all the partners own an equal portion of the total firm. This equality, along with the tradition of periodically inviting new members to join, renews the firm while giving even the newest members an equal footing with the partners of long standing. This 'flat' organization (there are no executive officers, CEO, CFO or board, other than the entire group) along with the self-capitalized finances of the business, allows equal participation and control of the group's destiny by the members.

Pentagram (Pentagram album)

Pentagram is the first compilation album of Chilean metal band Pentagram, independently released first in Chile in 2000 and two years later in The Netherlands as a limited edition LP of 500 Copies vinilo. Format was the first album launched the group after their last demo in 1991 entitled White Hell, 5 and consists of songs recorded live and study in 1987.

In April 2008, the Chilean edition of Rolling Stone ranked the album as the 47th best album of all time Chile.

Track listing

CD Version

LP Version

Credits

Pentagram (disambiguation)

A pentagram is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes.

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Rudeš

Rudeš is a neighbourhood of the city of Zagreb, Croatia. The area covered by the local city council Rudeš has around 10,800 inhabitants.

There is a small Salesian church in the neighbourhood, called "The Church of St.Anne".

In Rudeš, there is also an elementary school called "Elementary school Rudeš".

A soccer team that is currently in the second Croatian soccer league and is from Rudeš is called NK Rudeš.

References

Coordinates: 45°48′27″N 15°56′33″E / 45.80750°N 15.94250°E / 45.80750; 15.94250

Rudeness

Rudeness (also called effrontery) is a display of disrespect by not complying with the social norms or etiquette of a group or culture. These norms have been established as the essential boundaries of normally accepted behaviour. To be unable or unwilling to align one's behavior with these norms known to the general population of what is socially acceptable is to be rude and are enforced as though they were a sort of social law, with social repercussions or rewards for violators or advocates.

Rudeness "constituted by deviation from whatever counts as politic in a given social context, is inherently confrontational and disruptive to social equilibrium" (Kasper, 1990, p. 208). Rudeness, particularly with respect to speech, is necessarily confrontational at its core.

Forms of rudeness include acting inconsiderate, insensitive, deliberately offensive, impolite, a faux pas, obscenity, profanity and violating taboos such as deviancy. In some cases, an act of rudeness can go so far as to be a crime, for example, the crime of hate speech.

Rude (disambiguation)

Rude may refer to: