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Number of comments: 3 I am so thrilled to announce that New York Magazine has included my brand new book, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design, in this week's Approval Matrix. I couldn't be prouder. I have been reading NY Magazine for 26 years (!!!) and it has [...]
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Number of comments: 3 My remarks at the 6th Annual AIGA Design Legends Gala, honoring medalists Carin Goldberg, Doyald Young and Pablo Ferro, Corporate Leaders Patagonia and Jet Blue, the AIGA Fellows and the Worldstudio Scholarship recipients, held on September 17th, 2009 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.Several years ago, when working [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Wells Beach, 2009. Big Beautiful Waves, My Kite, A Rainbow. [...]
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Number of comments: 5 I am so pleased to announce that my entire archive of Design Matters?all 100 episodes?are now available on the redesigned Design Observer. The shows will live on Observer Media, one of Design Observer's new channels. This is the first time the shows have one aggregated home, and I am thrilled [...]
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Number of comments: 9 The 2009 AIGA Leadership Retreat in Portland, Oregon. [...]
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Number of comments: 10 My junior high school years, or what is now referred to as middle school, were the worst years of my life. It was the late ?70s and blue eye shadow and Farrah Fawcett hair were all the rage. I wasn?t allowed to wear make-up back then, and my hair looked [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Design Matters began in February of 2005 with an idea and a telephone line. Mostly, I started out doing it for myself--I thought it would be a great way to ask my heroes everything I wanted to know about their lives and their thoughts and their careers without seeming stalker-y. [...]
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Number of comments: 2 I love almost everything about New York City. I love the intensity of the pace, the diversity of the people, the street signs, even the noise. When I first moved here, I was in my twenties. I?d spend endless hours sitting in the windows of cafes on Hudson Street, listening [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Today is my 14th anniversary working at Sterling Brands. A lot has changed since my first day on the job, but one consistent thread has been my fascination with the mysterious connection that exists between consumers and the brands they buy. I love that the discipline of design I work [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Joining me today on the 98th broadcast of Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Allan Chochinov.Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts. He is the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website, Coroflot.com design job [...]
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Number of comments: 0 I am doing a Live Webinar TODAY with Print Magazine at 4:00 p.m. EST! It is titled Why We Buy, Why We Brand, and I hope you can join us.More info can be found here. [...]
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Number of comments: 4 I am very excited to announce that Design Matters was nominated as BEST PODCAST in the 2009 Blogger's Choice Awards! How exciting is that? According to the site, the Blogger's Choice Awards are the most popular user-generated blog voting site on the planet! So, if you have a moment to [...]
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Number of comments: 2 I am thrilled to have an article featured on The Dieline today! About the site: Established in 2007 by Andrew Gibbs, The Dieline is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world?s best examples [...]
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Number of comments: 5 I started smoking the summer I was 30 years old. I was newly divorced and madly in love with an Englishman addicted to Marlboro Reds. Together we?d sit in outdoor cafes, intertwining our legs and I?d steal the cigarette from his lips. I felt glamorous surrounded by dissipating swirls of [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Joining me today on the 97th broadcast of Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Daniel H. Pink.Dan Pink is an entrepreneur, speaker and author of three grounding breaking books on the changing world of work. His latest, ?The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You?ll Ever Need,? is [...]
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Number of comments: 2 In all of the years that I have been employed, one of my all-time favorites jobs was working as a cashier in a supermarket. Because I am an exceedingly noisy person, this occupation gave me free reign to survey and take measure all of the items people purchased and took [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Joining me today on Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Dan Formosa.Daniel Formosa, Ph.D. is a consultant in product design and research. Dan?s education includes design, ergonomics and biomechanics. He has received numerous design awards and his work has been selected for national and international exhibits. Dan was a member [...]
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Number of comments: 0 I'll be at the 14th Annual San Diego AIGA Y Conference March 26-28!From the conference website: The most important natural resource the world needs right now is creative energy; the force that develops ideas, discovers solutions and pushes business forward. During times of dramatic change, creative thinkers have always seized [...]
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Number of comments: 3 My first job after college paid me $6 an hour. I was doing what would now be considered ?old school? paste-up and layout for a fledging cable magazine, and because I enjoyed it so much I couldn?t believe that I was actually getting paid to do this very special thing [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Joining me today on Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Gong Szeto.Gong Szeto recently served as the Director of Design and Product Design at PEAK6 Investments, LP, a proprietary equity options trading firm, hedge fund, and new financial services business incubator based in Chicago. He recently designed OptionsHouse, a next-generation [...]
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Number of comments: 14 This is the cover of my forthcoming book, "Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design." The amazing Rodrigo Corral designed it. The book will be out in late October, 2009. It is a collection of fully illustrated essays created by me and Rodrigo and it [...]
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Number of comments: 11 After several months of winter neglect, I recently scheduled an afternoon of beauty at my neighborhood nail salon. I treated myself to a manicure, a pedicure, an eyebrow wax and a ten-minute backrub in an upright massage chair. Though I was looking forward to being pampered, I was rather embarrassed [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Joining me today on a very special broadcast of Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Patrick Coyne with special guests Milton Glaser and Cheryl Heller!Patrick Coyne is editor and designer of Communication Arts. Prior to joining CA in 1986, Coyne studied at the California College of the Arts, worked for [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Joining me today on Design Matters with Debbie Millman is the super-fabulous Natalia Ilyin.Natalia Ilyin is a design critic, a teacher, and a practitioner. As a critic, she's been called "outspoken" and "irreverent." But her irreverence stands on a firm foundation: her students read Aristotle, Thomas Carlyle and Carl Jung. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 For the first time ever, Design Matters will have a very special guest host, the incredible Nate Voss. He will be interviewing the legendary Joe Duffy.One of the most respected and sought after creative directors and thought leaders on branding and design, Joe Duffy has led award winning branding efforts [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Joining me today on the Four Year Anniversary of Design Matters with Debbie Millman are Lita Talarico and Steven Heller!Lita Talarico is the co-founder and co-chair (with Steven Heller) of the MFA Design as Author program at the School of Visual Arts. She has spent her career involved with art, [...]
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Number of comments: 0 New York City artist + vigilante, Poster Boy explains the vision behind this persona, the importance of regaining control of your environment and generating change through creative expression. For a good article on Poster Boy, you can go here. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, Christoph Niemann spends a lot of time with his boys in their room. And as he looks at the toys scattered on the floor, his mind inevitably wanders back to New York.The brilliant I LEGO N.Y. is just another example of the [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Our very own national treasure, the masterful and brilliant Maira Kalman is back in the New York Times, and she is better than ever! Her newest column, And the Pursuit of Happiness, a blog about American democracy, will appear on the last Friday of each month. Hallelujah, indeed! [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Drew Friedman's cover for this week's New Yorker is even more brilliant in person. Buy it now, before they run out and you have to get them on ebay (like the New York Times after Election Day)! [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Article 2 (for BHO) from Andrew Sloat on Vimeo.The brilliant Andrew Sloat does it again with this new film.More of his marvelous films can be found here. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 "Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."--Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
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Number of comments: 1 At the end of last year, Steve Jones, head of the department of genetics and evolution at London?s University College announced that the forces driving evolution?including natural selection and genetic mutation?no longer play an important role in our lives. He further stated that should man survive a million years from [...]
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Number of comments: 5 Image by Neville BrodyNeville Brody, the British designer and art director, has now been at the forefront of graphic design for over two decades. Initially working in record cover design, Brody initially made his name through his revolutionary work as Art Director for the Face magazine. Other international magazine directions [...]
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Number of comments: 0 copyright 2004 Funnypart.comThe current discipline and practice of branding is both obsessively fascinating and shamelessly polarizing. Because our lives are so entwined with brands, it has become difficult to distinguish between our beliefs and our brand preferences. From Apple to Starbucks, from Rachael Ray to Tiger Woods, corporations and individuals [...]
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Number of comments: 1 From Discover Magazine, one of the top 100 science stories of the year is a most remarkable motion pictures that lasts just 3 seconds?and that?s after it has been slowed down a billion billion times. The film documents an electron in motion the instant after it was booted from an [...]
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Number of comments: 4 I often fantasize about what might have been, but isn?t. What my life might have been like if I had been accepted to the journalism school I?d applied to in 1985 or the art program I hoped to attend in 1992. I sometimes imagine what might have been if my [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Joining me as we resume Season Five of Design Matters with Debbie Millman on Friday, January 9th at 3 PM, is designer, author, educator and theorist Jessica Helfand.Jessica Helfand is partner. with William Drenttel, in Winterhouse, a design studio in Northwest Connecticut. Their work focuses on publishing and editorial development; [...]
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Number of comments: 0 ?Rewind City,? which promotes a French DVR service, plays the metaphor out literally: Crowds around the woman begin to move backward. A bus arrives, and with it the woman?s lover. Then comes the inevitable reunion. The spot was filmed in Goa, India, by Ringan Ledwidge ? whose time-twisting Hovis bread [...]
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Number of comments: 4 The ?Stunt? Book "scrapbook" kept by Elinor Moses in the 1920s featured in Jessica Helfand's marvelous new book Scrapbooks: An American HistoryThe final half of Season Five of Design Matters with Debbie Millman launches this Friday, January 9th at 3PM ET on the Voice America Business Network with my esteemed [...]
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Number of comments: 1 The magnificent Bon Iver performing Blindsided (from the magnificent album "For Emma, Forever Ago." [...]
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Number of comments: 2 A lovely tune by Will Oldham (a.k.a Bonnie Princy Billy) animated and directed by Mike Aho. Happy New Year, one and all! [...]
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Number of comments: 1 I am so thrilled to be included in the Creativity magazine round-up of top design picks of 2008. The entire article can be found here, and my five choices are below. Hope you enjoy!My text messages from President-Elect Barack Obama during the campaign (Of course I have saved them.) Brian [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Emmett BeliveauExecutive DirectorPresidential Inaugural Committee 2009 Washington, D.C. 20599December 18, 2008Dear Mr. Beliveau: I write to express my profound objection to the selection of Rick Warren to perform the invocation at President-elect Obama?s inauguration. Pastor Warren is publicly and rabidly committed to denying same-sex couples the right to civil marriage, [...]
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Number of comments: 5 The Hotel Cafe has just come out with "Winter Songs," a wonderful compilation of fabulous singer/songwriters. Here is a "making of video" from Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson, for their self-titled tune, and here is a link to their official video, which is adorable, and lush and gorgeous. [...]
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Number of comments: 3 Come join us if you are in town! [...]
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Number of comments: 4 This fabulous video uses line drawings and 50's style diagrams to explain the 10 possible dimensions in existence, concluding with the concept of String Theory at the 11th dimension. It will (literally) rock your world. [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Levi's and Loubouton's!Virginia Postrel, author of The Substance of Style and The Future and it's Enemies interviewed me for her wonderful website Deep Glamour. The interview is here. Hope you enjoy! [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Specimen 198, photograph by Julian MontagueSpecimen 168, photograph by Julian MontagueFrom the Daily Heller:Julian Montague, a designer in Buffalo, New York, is obsessed with shopping carts. He writes on his website: "Over the last several decades, the stray shopping cart has quietly become an integral part of the urban and [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Via Kottke
And another, to "see" how they do it:
Humbling. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Blackboard drawing by Albert Einstein
Blackboard drawing by Cornelia Parker
It?s hard to compete with Albert Einstein?s calculations. But if you want to see how Brian Eno and other 21st-century luminaries responded to the challenge, visit the Oxford Museum of the History of Science.
Setting out to create an exhibit around the museum?s [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Keith Olbermann's Special Comment of the day, today. Bravo, Keith, bravo. [...]
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Number of comments: 5 AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote Obama in 2008. This is an excerpt of a speech given at the Steelworkers convention on July 1, 2008. Sponsored by USW President Leo Gerard. Sent to me by my friend Eric Baker. [...]
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Number of comments: 1 By Hart Seely, from Slate.com
It's been barely six weeks since the arctic-fresh voice of Alaskan poet Sarah Heath Palin burst upon the lower 48. In campaign interviews, the governor, mother, and maverick GOP vice presidential candidate has chosen to bypass the media filter and speak directly to fans through her [...]
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Number of comments: 3 From The National Review
If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream ? away from Sarah Palin.
To express reservations about her qualifications to be vice president ? and possibly president ? is to risk being labeled anti-woman.
Or, as [...]
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Number of comments: 1 See more funny videos at CollegeHumor. [...]
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Number of comments: 1 The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo. [...]
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Number of comments: 7 Watch CBS Videos Online
Go here if you want to be cheered up: FiveThirtyEight and Michael Seitzman on HuffPo. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 ...be back in a bit. [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Essay by the brilliant Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. [...]
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Number of comments: 2 This article and photograph by Edward Ruscha appears in print today, on September 11, 2008, on page A25 of the New York Times.
When the 9/11 attacks took place, I thought of this photograph. I?d taken it many years before ? on my first visit to New York, in 1961, in [...]
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Number of comments: 3 Sarah Palin is due to give her first interview since being named the GOP vice presidential nominee to ABC News' Charles Gibson tomorrow and Friday. Here are a dozen questions she?s yet to answer:
1. How much does your religious faith guide your official decision-making?
2. Without any foreign policy experience, are [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Today, our understanding of the Universe will change.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument buried 100 meters below the countryside on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. In it, high-energy protons in two counter-rotating beams will be smashed together in a search for signatures of supersymmetry, dark matter [...]
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Number of comments: 8 From this important new website:
We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce-on the [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Corpoetics is a collection of ?found? poetry from the websites of well-known brands and corporations created by the fabulous Asbury & Asbury. They visited various company websites, found the closest thing to a Corporate Overview, and then set about rearranging the words into poetry.
Two marvelous examples:
KPMG
I am strong.
I am vibrant.
I [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Three VMA's, and fastest "comeback" in history. Welcome Back, Brit Brit. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 From the online issue of Vanity Fair comes an awesome timeline.
The McCain campaign won?t countenance it, and Barack Obama has even declared it off-limits, but the question of Trig Palin?s parentage?whether his real mom is Sarah Palin or her five-months pregnant, 17-year-old daughter Bristol?has transfixed the blogosphere. To settle the [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Joshua Cohen, left, of Stanford and Glenn Loury of Brown debate how Sarah Palin's relative inexperience will play out politically.
From Bloggingheads: The Palin Ploy [...]
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Number of comments: 7 I am looking forward to the possibility of hearing this during the first VP Debate:
Joe Biden to Sarah Palin:
Governor, I served with Hillary Clinton: I know Hillary Clinton; Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. Governor, you're no Hillary Clinton. [...]
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Number of comments: 4 Via the wonderful Kevin Lo. [...]
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Number of comments: 4 A mesmerizing speech from an amazing, historic woman. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 The amazing Virginia Postrel has launched a fabulous new website called DeepGlamour, which explores the magic of glamour in its many manifestations, from movies, fashion, and advertising to real estate, politics, and sports.
The intersection of imagination and desire, DeepGlamour is a spinoff of Virginia's research for a book on glamour [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Brilliant illustrator Christoph Niemann and his wife Lisa just finished renovating their new home in Berlin, and they took the opportunity to realize one of Christoph's old artistic dreams: designing the bathrooms with pixel drawings made of classical 4x4 colored tiles. The journey, and the result, is awesome. You might [...]
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Number of comments: 2 I will be speaking at the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts tonight on Design and Branding! If you are in the area, I hope you will join me.
Social Hour: 6:30 p.m.?7:30 p.m.
Presentation: 7:30 p.m.?9 p.m.
Location: Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art & Design
Members: $5.00 (Professional + Faculty)
Non-Members: $15.00
Student Members: FREE
Student [...]
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Number of comments: 1 The masterful Andrew Kuo developed a chart-based music review for The New York Times. New York Magazine then responded with a chart-based review of his review. Just fabulous. (Click each image to see larger)
Review in the Times
Review of review in the Times in NY Magazine
Via Design Observer, by way of [...]
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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: 4 Michael Phelps' amazing victory in the 100-meter butterfly, frame by frame. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 via The Man in Blue by way of the lovely SwissMiss [...]
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Number of comments: 3 Via Eric Baker. [...]
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Number of comments: 1 I was recently added to the mailing list of Eric Baker's daily email. This uber designer's daily email is a veritable treasure trove of images that he has encountered in the last day or so. The emails are HUGE, they clog up my mail box and they are the most [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Please join me in helping Adobe honor the best interactive, motion and video, and traditional media work created by the most talented and promising students from around the world tomorrow night. It is totally free, open to the public and should be amazing!
Emcees:
The most glamorous girls in the whole [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Photograph by Phillip Toledano, from his amazing portfolio titled "Days With My Father"
Last month, two days after my little brother got married, my father went into the hospital for triple-bypass surgery. It was the first time my father has ever gotten "sick" in my entire life. I spent a week [...]
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Number of comments: 1 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects.
Previously, they only have been able to cloak [...]
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Number of comments: 4 Via the amazing daily email from Eric Baker. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 As we approach the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins presents the ultimate guide to Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection which Dawkins considers the most important idea ever to occur to a [...]
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Number of comments: 2 From the Boston Globe. [...]
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Number of comments: 0 A wonderful poem from the May 12 issue of The New Yorker:
One Can Miss Mountains
and pine. One
can dismiss
a whisper?s
revelations
and go on as
before as if
everything were
perfectly fine.
One does. One
loses wonder
among stores
of things.
One can even miss
the basso boom
of the ocean?s
rumpus room
and its rhythm.
A man can leave
this earth
and take nothing
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longing?along [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Yes, I know it is tearing up the Internets, but I can't resist. I had my morning cry, my afternoon cry and my evening cry already. You might want to keep the sound off (unless you love Whitney singing Dolly) until the actual interview begins, but either way it is [...]
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