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As you will probably know, the 2010 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, including two semifinals and a grand final, was held last week in Oslo, Norway. The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC for short) is not just a simple TV program, but the single biggest event created on purpose for television worldwide, and a great deal of production effort is spent to meet an extremely detailed planning and, of course, to offer European audiences the best show.
Besides any musical or political consideration (I could talk about these for hours, but will only do if you request me to do so in the comments), I would like to comment on a very important aspect of the ESC which is usually overlooked, but nevertheless crucial to its success: the signification of the festival as a showcase of design, mainly for the organizing country, which has to provide a complete framework for the show, but also for the participating countries, which must prepare the most appealing performance if they want to win the contest.
But this effort that I was mentioning requires a great amount of resources, basically money, and when there is a lack of it -say, because of a global systemic economical slump- the quality of the show becomes affected. Many people, particularly fellow loyal fans of the festival, will agree that this year's ESC could be dubbed the crisis edition. In the following article I will compare some design issues of last year's edition (which is the best one to date, IMHO) and this year's one, in order to find out how much those economic difficulties have influenced the show -which should provide us an insight to know how things will evolve in the near future, by the way.
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El meu primer llibre!
Bé, no exactament... perquè de llibres ja n'he publicat una bona pila, com a traductor. Però constant-hi com autor, amb el nom a la portada, aquest n'és el primer...
Però bé, no exactament... perquè parlant de la portada, això és l'únic que hi ha pel moment. El muntatge de la coberta i prou.
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