Generally known for all night parties and scantily-clad beach goers, Miami has now taken on another identity: international art. Over the past 10 years, an international exhibit fair called Art Basel has reinvigorated the art world in Miami and transformed the Miami Beach resort with one of the most prestigious art fairs in the Americas. Although it lasts less...
In early 2010, Oregon approved the use of an iPad application to cast votes. Although the process will still require that the ballots be printed for submission with a portable printer, an iPad voting app was developed by a much needed update to the hardware and software previously being used by election officials to assist the disabled in voting....
The time has come for the masters of retail display to descend upon Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue in downtown New York City to create their temporary masterpieces and revive the sense of a winter wonderland in thousands of New York shoppers and tourists.
Nearly one billion people, or about one out of every seven people in the world, live in informal settlements, or slums, according to Design with the Other 90%: CITIES Web site. These places are full of people in search of work or misplaced by conflicts or natural disasters, who have migrated from the countryside to seek opportunity...
At the Baltimore, MD-based game development studio Firaxis Games, Sessions College animation instructor Greg Marlow spent his summer wrapping up work on Sid Meier’s Civilization 5. Civilization 5 is the latest version of an immensely popular turn-based strategy game pioneered by game guru Meier in 1991. Just like the original game, Civ 5 challenges players to “build an empire...
How do you revive an ad campaign to a loyal audience without abandoning or simply repeating a key character--and while still meeting expectations? Old Spice and advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy found themselves in this very situation in the fall of 2010. The viral and heavily followed campaign “The Man Your Man Could...
“Make art. Make progress. Volunteer your creativity to support President Obama’s jobs plan.” That’s the presentation of the “Art Works” poster contest being run by the Obama for America campaign to promote the American Jobs Act. But while Campaign Manager Jim Messina may view the contest as a great opportunity for creatives to put their...
Retail giant Forever 21 has defended itself against more than 40 copyright infringement lawsuits by high-end designers, including Anna Sui, Diane von Furstenberg, and Philip Lim 3.1. Forever 21 President Do Won “Don” Chang has managed to quietly settle all of the cases out of court, but with so many people feeling that their designs were ripped off, it...
As the market for mobile devices grows, the need to design compatible Web sites has grown too – and quickly. It didn’t take long for Web designers to realize that they needed an efficient way to make their clients’ sites accessible in a slew of different devices. And so was born responsive design.
