May 6, 2009 • 1:05 pm • POSTED BY Lindsey Borda
Visitors and residents of Wilkes-Barre, PA may have noticed a new blue face around town lately. Last year the agency concepted, designed and facilitated the production of the Wilkes University Colonel mascot, the first official life-size mascot in the history of the school. Since the Colonel’s introduction to the Wilkes community in fall 2008 the [...]
April 23, 2009 • 10:55 am • POSTED BY c v a
There has been much written about the Jazz pioneer, bandleader, mystic, philosopher, and consummate Afro-Futurist known as Sun Ra. Instead of reiterating what has already been written and citing bigillion different sources in order to ensure proper ELA standards, I thought I would tell you about a retrospective happening at the ICA, called: Pathways to [...]
April 8, 2009 • 6:09 pm • POSTED BY tim beitz
It’s fun buying delicious food items to entice colleagues into performing ridiculous dance routines.
March 31, 2009 • 3:23 pm • POSTED BY c v a
Yes, I know. Making a statement like this (check the punctuation) is bold, and not even what this post is about. I also realize that the discussion behind the life and, more talked about, decline/death of print is vast, one that may warrant a future post. However, the purpose of all this is to point [...]
March 31, 2009 • 12:58 pm • POSTED BY Dan Shepelavy
The screen graphics of the classic video game Tempest represent a kind of summit of design and beauty—the finest expression of a very limited language. In the case of Tempest that language was vector based rendering. Vector monitors were used in video games from the mid 70′s to the early 80′s. The technology was derived [...]
March 24, 2009 • 1:57 pm • POSTED BY Rosemary Fahmie
I’m just getting back from London and being in the advertising biz, I couldn’t help but notice how advertising driven the city of London is. It was pretty amazing to see and I thought I’d share my observations.