Fresh off of my most recent semester at Temple and my course in Consumer and Buyer Behavior, I have gained some insight into both the purpose and the importance of Brand communities in today’s world. As we all know, it is vital to stress the connection between a specific brand, individual identities as well as [...]
I love music more than most things. I also have an insatiable thirst for information and statistics. A few years back I was referred to a service called last.fm, which basically keeps track of your listening habits (at a computer or ipod) and makes sense of these, as well as serves a role as a [...]
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 [...]
This is a crop of a photo of Lena Söderberg, the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy. In 1973, engineers at the USC Signal and Image Processing Institute used it as a test image in their research. The data they collected from the image, specifically the red, green, blue color channel data, have [...]
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.
“If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.” Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., former Grumman president, discussing the design of the Grumman [...]