June 2008
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Advertising Culture or Culture Advertising?
Artist Graziano Cecchini’s garbage protest has a very similar feel to one of the latest Sony Bravia commercials.
I’m not sure which one came first, but this really raises the question of whether advertising is a reflection of popular culture or whether advertising plays a role in the actual molding of culture and popular trends. Here are the videos, I’ll let you be the judge:
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Stickies with Style!
So to make my day to day “To Do List” a bit more manageable than a bunch of emails from clients I formatted a very simple style for a sticky on my desktop. Style your sticky to fit your needs using colors, font boldness, size etc. That’s it you’re done.
hit: command + option + c to copy the style. If I wanted to copy the style of the body text I would select the body...
Protest in Pasadena
Art Center president to step down next year amid campus unrest over Gehry scheme.
via archinect.com
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The Associated Press: George Carlin mourned as... →
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Cathode Ray tube palette.
It’s so easy to just sample colors in photoshop and pick as you go that it’s often easy to overlook the need to start with a solid color palette . My latest obsession is creating my own limited color palettes in photoshop for each project. Here I used a palette derived from the red, green and blue pixels of a CRT screen.
Click here to download the palette (.aco)
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