USA TODAY staff photographer Robert Hanashiro has received many phone calls and emails from friends and colleagues asking for tips on how to pack for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Since this will be his 10th Olympic Games, Hanashiro thought he would share his strategy [...]
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Fetched: August 20, 2008, 1:46pm EDT
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Poster by Milton Glaser
Design and politics have been on my mind lately (see yesterday?s post) and apparently, I?m not alone. Eastern Michigan University Gallery has invited some of today?s most illustrious design stars to show posters that that speak out on [...]
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It's funny how things change. Five years ago I wouldn't have given second thought to producing print material with digital printing. No, only offset printing. The thought of a brochure, annual report or catalog printed as if it had come out of Kinko's — excuse me, FedEx Office — was [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2008, 11:52am EDT
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The Back to the Future series is a long-time favorite of mine. And they did a good job with their period-specific props—lots of hand-painted signs in the parts set in the 1950s and 1880s, just as there would be. Nary a font in sight where fonts should not be. Or [...]
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Returning to a story we were reporting on back in June when the second museum in Sao Paulo was robbed of famous artwork in under six months. While we now admit that we were wrong to pick on these museums so harshly after having had some [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2008, 10:05am EDT
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We don't get many chance to listen to the radio during the day, given that we're usually found working during the regular daytime hours, but fortunately we were at the right place at the right time yesterday following an appointment and caught the majority of WBEZ's Worldview [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2008, 10:03am EDT
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We don't get many chance to listen to the radio during the day, given that we're usually found working during the regular daytime hours, but fortunately we were at the right place at the right time yesterday following an appointment and caught the majority of WBEZ's Worldview [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2008, 10:03am EDT
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Number of comments: 2 Yes, it's absolutely true. Beer and toy musical instruments will definitely lead to awesomeness like this:
I'll be on the edge of my seat, waiting to find out which beer company is going to sign these guys for their next marketing campaign. (Big h/t to [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2008, 9:39am EDT
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Number of comments: 1 Me: ... is so radioactive!
You: How radioactive is it?
Me: This much.
(Yeesh, it must be too early for this stuff. Maybe I'll mosey on over and get some coffee right quick.  ) [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2008, 8:45am EDT
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In one of the early posts on this blog I asked, what does peace look like? One answer, I suggested, was that peace appears when you start seeing soldiers as kids rather than as warriors. Let me be clear: I don’t mean that you would see grown men and [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2008, 7:00am EDT by Hariman
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Number of comments: 9
Would anyone care to suggest that the "celebrity" virus launched by the McCain campaign hasn't well infected the traditional media?
As well, please don't tell me that the LAT is somehow absolved from visually and textually perpetuating the slander under some pretext of simply portraying the portrayal. I'm particularly [...]
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Number of comments: 6 Could it be? Could I have really missed our own Shakeel Bhat, world-famous Islamic Rage Boy, in one of the protest photographs from Kashmir that I highlighted recently?
Loyal reader Arvind says that I have missed him, indeed. And you know what? I'd have to say that [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 8:15pm EDT
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We've been known to swoon over antique maps (don't even get us started on Martha Stewart's canny cartographic cornering of Maine), but New York-based artist Josh Dorman manages to improve on the bleached hues and buzzing topographic outlines of vintage maps by weaving [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 8:03pm EDT
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Do you have a passion for fonts and typography? Do you live in a world populated by glyphs, kerning, OpenType, ligatures and old style figures? Do you want to help improve the reading experience for billions of computer and device users world-wide? [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 8:00pm EDT
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Number of comments: 1 Newly installed editor Jake Bogoch tells us the September 2008 marks the first issue of the "reinvented" Skiing magazine. We hope they keep pushing the limits of winter sports photography on their covers and inside the magazine. If Gunderson's killer shot is any indication, we're liking what's to come in [...]
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National Geographic magazine's Director of Photography David Griffin gave a great 15-minute talk at TED. Siting photojournalists Sam Abell, David Alan Harvey, Nick Nichols and Steve McCurrry, and the stories they've brought to life through the power of their vision, Griffin makes a powerful point of how photography connects [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 5:40pm EDT
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Sure, you know that the Eames House (pictured at right) was originally designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen in 1945, and that it stands rather unassumingly in leafy Pacific Palisades, California (good luck finding a parking spot!), but here are a few things you [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 3:15pm EDT
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The Beijing Olympics have elicited several very creative protests in the Western design community. One of the most biting is the web site Behind Beijing Olympic , which mimics the design and logo of the official Olympic site. However, the symbols and contents have [...]
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After a week of being laser-locked in the medal pursuits of Michael Phelps, the rhythm and pace of the Olympics has definitely changed.
Sure, there are many medals yet to be decided, but in reality, many of the marquee events have come and gone.
These would include Phelps, the men's and women's [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
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After a week of being laser-locked in the medal pursuits of Michael Phelps, the rhythm and pace of the Olympics has definitely changed.
Sure, there are many medals yet to be decided, but in reality, many of the marquee events have come and gone.
These would include Phelps, the men's and women's [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
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After a week of being laser-locked in the medal pursuits of Michael Phelps, the rhythm and pace of the Olympics has definitely changed.
Sure, there are many medals yet to be decided, but in reality, many of the marquee events have come and gone.
These would include Phelps, the men's and women's [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
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London may be overflowing with closed-circuit video cameras, but amateurs taking photos (or "happy snaps," as one member of Parliament likes to call them) around town are increasingly viewed with suspicion and outright hostility. Sam Delaney surveys the paranoia in a recent piece in [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 2:07pm EDT
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So, I don't get the anticipated hate mail that Brian is fortunate enough to receive, but I have managed to find myself on the Islamic World guest book!
According to my email from the Chief imam of the Abuja National Mosque (which, BTW, does not [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 12:22pm EDT
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There is self-promotion in all the usual forms, like passing along links to your newly polished portfolio or going to some event to meet new clients or rub elbows with industry icons. Then there are people like Matt Maxwell who decided the usual routes weren't nearly enough. His solution [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 11:53am EDT
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Number of comments: 4 David Byrne, shot by Hillman Curtis
Sid, painting by Jeff Scher
Two great new short films are out by two brilliant filmmakers: Jeff Scher and Hillman Curtis.
Hillman recently shot a short film with David Bryne and Brian Eno for their new record Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. The film [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Uh, guys? If your product is so heavy that you need a professional wrestler to hold it up, you might just want to re-think your marketing direction:
While I'm on the subject, I think this game shows off the visually stunning features of the [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2008, 10:51am EDT
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I swear, everybody's doing it these days.
Heck, this photo even made it to the front page of DayLife!
I miss out on all the fun, I tell ya... [...]
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Travel + Leisure commissioned 18 artists, designers, and photographers to create one-of-a-kind works for its Project Globe auction, but only one of them chose to work in buttercream. Wedding cake queen Sylvia Weinstock's "Globe Cake" (at right), which is 14 inches in [...]
