Usability choices in web design do have a real life impact, indeed. One example is the recent Primavera Sound festival, a music festival held in Barcelona, Spain, that saw performances by Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, and Beirut among others in this year edition.

How green is your program?

The fact is the designers had no better idea than provide a .pdf program to download all white on black, that is you print a letter/A4 format program all black with band listed in white. Could you be more stupid than this? Quite difficult. It was quite disgusting to see how near everybody (20k people daily attended the festival on a 3 days program) had printed the program, the fault isn't obviously the people printing a .pdf, the problem is some silly designer (in the the sense is sooooo cool at doing graphic design) has no idea of what design means.

Sonic Youth played at Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival last Saturday the 2nd of June. As part of the ATP's Don't look back series, Sonic Youth performed Daydream Nation, their 1988 album. Possibly their best album. With no doubts one of the most important music album of the last 20 years.

Patti Smith performed at Primavera Sound, in Barcelona Spain, the 2nd of June. Find here pictures taken at the show, I've used a Canon EOS 30D, with a Canon 50mm 1.8 lens.

Modest performed at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain, Friday 1st of June. The band lined up singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, former The Smiths Johnny Marr, bassist/keyboard Tom Peloso, Eric Judy wasn't there (the guy apparently went MIA just before the tour started), Tom Peloso, and drummer Jeremiah Green.

The show presented the brand new Modest Mouse album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, as well as songs from their repertoire. Lead singer Isaac Brock showed up with a fresh blue eye, results of a close encounter of something solid (presumably a fist).

Blonde Readhead performed live at Primavera Sound festival on Friday 1st June. The band composed by brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace, and Kazu Makino presented their brand new album, 23, as well as songs from earlier works.

White Stripes performed live at Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday the 31st. The Whites show presented their new album, Icky Thump. The gig was the band only show in Spain.

Saturday night's the night, Sonic Youth performing Daydream Nation at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain.

Stealing Barry Hogan's words (the guy behind the ATP festival): I always dreamed to see Sonic Youth performing Daydream Nation. After more than 30 Sonic Youth gigs attended, in France (Paris, Lyon, Nancy), Switzerland (Geneve), Italy (Turin, Milan), UK (London), Netherlands (Amsterdam) and USA (New York), now the (day)dream became true.