Live Earth: 24-hour, 7-continent concert series

New York
London
Johannesburg
Rio
Shanghai
Tokyo
Sydney
Hamburg

"Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.

Live Earth will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms - TV, radio, Internet and wireless channels.

Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other international organizations to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance and Partner of Live Earth.

Live Earth was founded by Kevin Wall, the Worldwide Executive Producer of Live 8, an event that brought together one of the largest audiences in history to combat poverty. Wall formed a partnership with Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection to ensure that Live Earth inspires behavioral changes long after 7/7/07.

Live Earth will stage official concerts at Giants Stadium in New York; Wembley Stadium in London; Aussie Stadium in Sydney; Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind in Johannesburg; Makuhari Messe in Tokyo; the Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai; and HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg.

Live Earth concerts will be broadcast to a live worldwide audience by MSN at www.LiveEarth.MSN.com.
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Les Dessins de Pierre Alary

"hello ! my name is pierre i've worked for disney animation (as assistant animator and animator for 10 years)and beside i'm doing comicsbooks (bd in french)voilà! welcome on my first web experience." Take a look at Pierre Alary's blog...

Exhibitions, Graphic Design, Scenography, Internet, Multi-media

Trafik is a multitalented and interactive graphic and multimedia design agency.
Interaction between the 5 partners, whose talent and know-how complement each other, and enables them to fully command and develop new technologies. Also enables the development of new concepts for institutional, cultural and industrial clients.
Graphic design activity_Damien Gautier, Pierre Rodière, Julien Sappa, Lionel Michée. Multimedia development_Joël Rodière

Apple Profiles: Trafik

It’ll Be Photographer’s Choice on a Web Site From Corbis

Recognizing the growing market for inexpensive online photographs, Corbis, the online stock photo company founded and owned byBill Gates, plans today to introduce a Web site that allows anyone to upload photographs for sale.

By KATIE HAFNER

Published: June 25, 2007

Empowered by Corbis, SnapVillage is a simple, clean and professional website designed to be interesting and easier to use.
"SnapVillage, empowered by Corbis, combines the best features of consumer photo-sharing websites with an online marketplace to create a distinctly better place to buy and sell affordable royalty-free photography. SnapVillage is a fresh approach to microstock with a clean, intuitive website, straightforward pricing and purchasing as well as innovative interactivity features that generate its proprietary “Snappyness” picture ratings. SnapVillage features the revolutionary ‘Pick Your Own Price’ model that gives photographers control and flexibility so they can maximize their income. " Read more...

Eric Gill: Sculptor, Typographer, and Writer

"Eric Gill was one of the most colourful figures in early 20th century art, despite the majority of his prints being in black and white. Sculptor, typographer, and writer, it was the unequalled clarity of line of his engravings that have made his work so sought after.
Gill’s subject matter swung between the deeply religious and the highly erotic, a direct echo of his eccentric life.

His prints first appeared invariably in tiny editions or as illustrations in limited edition books, such as those he illustrated for the Golden Cockerel Press. We are fortunate that in 1929 his friend and publisher, Douglas Cleverdon, produced a book of his prints, all printed from the original blocks. This was followed 5 years later by a second similar book, this time published by Faber. "
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Information about the font designer Eric Gill and his typefaces.
Gill was born in Brighton, the son of non-conformist minister. While apprenticed to an architect in London, he became smitten with the world of calligraphy, which he entered by attending classes given by Edward Johnston. He was profoundly influenced by Johnston's dedicated approach to work and decided to join the world of the Arts and Crafts.

During his lifetime he set up three self-sufficient religious communities where, surrounded by his retinue, he worked as sculptor, wood-engraver, and type designer. He also wrote constantly and prodigiously on his favourite topics: social reform; the integration of the body and spirit; the evils of industrialisation; and the importance of the working man. He converted to Catholicism in 1913 and this influenced his sculpture and writings. He designed his first typeface, Perpetua, for Stanley Morison who had badgered him for years on this matter. Of all the 11 typefaces that he designed, Gill Sans is his most famous; it is a clear modern type and became the letter of the railways - appearing on their signs, engine plates, and timetables.

The Poetic and Aesthetic Dimensions of Science

"The Institute For Figuring is an educational organization dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques. From the physics of snowflakes and the hyperbolic geometry of sea slugs, to the mathematics of paper folding and graphical models of the human mind, the Institute takes as its purview a complex ecology of figuring."

Discoveries and Innovations that began with NSF Support

Gazing up at the Man in the Star?
Researchers take picture of the face of Altair, a first for a star like our own
Released May 31, 2007
Follow the "Green" Brick Road?
Bricks made from coal-fired power plant waste pass safety test
Released May 22, 2007
Berkeley Nanotechnology Pioneer to Receive $500,000 Waterman Award
Annual prize from NSF recognizes outstanding young individual who is revolutionizing research
Released May 15, 2007

"The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…"

As described in our strategic plan, NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. NSF is tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in a wide range of scientific areas, from astronomy to geology to zoology." Read more...

WHERE DOES THE WORD BRAND COME FROM

"The word brand comes from the Old Norse word brandr, meaning to burn, and is of Anglo-Saxon origin. The Etruscans, Romans and Greeks used to claim their ownership by stamping their pottery with the visuals of the fish, star or cross. Brand has its roots in cattle ranching and farming, when farmers used to brand the cattle to claim their ownership over a specific herd of cattle. The word brand was first introduced in the world of advertising in the late 1950s, by David Ogilvy, who created brand-image advertising. "

"Brandoctor is the first specialized brand management agency in Croatia.

It was created because of the increased need for branding in Croatia. Brandoctor is composed of professional brand consultants, designers and market analysts. Brandoctors are experts educated abroad and in Croatia, and have work experience in branding and design gained in Croatian and international markets. Brandoctors are experienced in the fields of branding, design, advertising and market analysis, and possess a strong sense of creativity, empathy and intuition."

On the Squareness of Milk Containers

"My favorite section is one called “The Economics of Product Design.” Its sprinkling of short essays reminded me of a simple truism that I sometimes overlook when thinking about design, gazing upon some item in a store or using some kind of interface and wondering how it got to be the way it is, or indeed lamenting the way it got to be how it is (who signed off on that?). That simple fact I forget is that often, an object’s design is only marginally influenced by the hand of a designer. Its design has already been preordained by market (or other) constraints. It is not merely that, as Charles Eames famously said, “design depends largely on constraints,” but something more elemental. The constraint is the design." by Tom Vanderbilt

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Art Basel, the annual contemporary art fair

The doors to Art Basel, (Art Basel Miami Beach) the annual contemporary art fair, opened promptly at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Collectors, curators and dealers began the journey last week at the Venice Biennale. Some are headed to Germany, first to see the Documenta art fair in Kassel and then Sculpture Projects in Münster. From there London beckons, with the Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions and a bevy of museum and gallery exhibitions.

By the time the fair ends on Sunday some 60,000 visitors will have flocked there to see an international array of some 300 galleries showing more than 2,000 artists.

Welcome to the Mohawk Fine Papers

Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. is the largest manufacturer of premium printing, writing and imaging papers in the country. Flagship grades include
Strathmore®,
Mohawk Superfine™,
Beckett®,
BriteHue®,
Via®,
Mohawk Color Copy®
and patented Inxwell® products, Navajo® and Options®.

Mohawk engineers its papers to provide optimal performance for sheetfed, web and digital printing.
A leader in environmental stewardship, Mohawk is the first large-scale production facility in the U.S. to use non-polluting, wind energy to manufacture paper. Many of Mohawk’s recycled products are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council [FSC] or Green Seal.

Make sure you take a look at the Mohawk Environmental Calculator and/or ask for samples.
Mohawk Fine Papers Inc., 465 Saratoga Street, Cohoes, NY 12047

Swiss Museum of Paper, Writing and Printing

In the middle of the 12th century the Cluniac monastery of St. Alban had a canal built to provide water power via water wheels for twelve mills. Ten of these mills were converted to paper mills during the course of the Middle Ages. Since 1980 today’s Paper Museum has been housed in the Stegreif and the Gallician mills. For 446 years, up to 1924, paper was still being made in these two buildings. The ornate rooms on the ground and first floors still testify to the erlier flourishing of the Gallician Family.
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Basel Paper Mill, Swiss Museum of Paper, Writing and Printing, Basel/ Switzerland

Copy!

LISTEN. The sound is muffled by wall-to-wall carpet tiles and fabric-lined cubicles. But it’s still there, embedded in the concrete and steel sinews of the old factory at 229 West 43rd Street, where The New York Times was written and edited yesterday for the last time.

By DAVID W. DUNLAP

Published: June 10, 2007
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The Sounds of 43rd Street (audio slide show)

Produced by Jeffrey Scales and Jeffery DelViscio

Media Innovations, Leaping From Lab to Screen

By DENISE CARUSO

Published: June 10, 2007

"Today, I watch “Lost” on my laptop and “Veronica Mars” on my iPod, not on the TV for which they were first intended. I can browse the Web on TV or on a game console, instead of on my computer. I can Skype my friend in Sweden from my computer, and never touch my phone. Instead, I use it to listen to music, take pictures and read e-mail during meetings. And almost every day, there is new stuff vying for what is left of my attention — new media, new devices, new functions on old devices — that might inspire me to abandon whatever I was watching or using, yesterday.

As a result, running a media or entertainment company in the 21st century is not for the faint of heart. The change is relentless, the learning curve sharp, and the competition both fierce and seemingly infinite."

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What is Second Life?

"Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 7,018,576 people from around the globe.

• From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.
  
  
• You'll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow residents. Because residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other residents.
  
  
• The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world unit-of-trade, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online Linden Dollar exchanges."

London, How do I Hate Thee? Let me Count the Ways, 1, 2… 2012

"Like Halley’s comet or the launch of new iPhone ads, it is a momentous occasion when you wake up to a buzzing design (and online) community eager to talk about a logo. The last sighting of something like this was four years ago, with UPS. How times have changed since then; now dozens of blogs are on it and hundreds of non-designers are intrigued. I even woke up to fifteen e-mails with the same subject line: Olympic logo of London 2012." By Armin on Jun.04.2007
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Designism

“To see the practice of design as having social meaning is not a new idea; it dates back to the advent of modernism. What’s different today is that the focus is about changing the face of society.” — Milton Glaser

On September 21st, 2006 a panel discussion was held at New York's Art Directors Club with participants Milton Glaser, George Lois, Tony Hendra, Kurt Andersen, James Victore and Jessica Helfand, along with moderator Steven Heller and event creator Brian Collins.

Want to know more about Designism go to The Design Encyclopedia

"The Design Encyclopedia is a user-built source of reference material with the sole intention of defining, describing, chronicling and documenting the world through design in all its implications and manifestations – from the visual to the tactile, from the communicative to the evocative, from the cultural to the commercial. Most everything – from cars to burgers to movies – can be dissected by its design application, use and history.

With each entry the design encyclopedia will place common topics, artifacts, events, cities and more within the scope and context of design in order to showcase the influence that design, designers and the designed have in shaping the environments that we inhabit, the tools that we employ and, even, the experiences that we live."

The Prizewinners of the Plagiarius-Competition 2007

"The Museum Plagiarius, housed in a converted railway building, will permanently exhibit 300 original products together with seemingly identical rip-offs. These items range from fashion and household products to electrical and medical equipment. They come from the annual Plagiarius awards, presented by the museum's co-founder Professor Rido Busse at the world's largest consumer-goods trade fair Ambiente, which takes place each February in Frankfurt. For 30 years, an independent jury convened by the designer and university lecturer has awarded the Plagiarius to a handful of unscrupulous copies, each submitted by the exasperated original designers. “The idea is to shame the con men and help the general public realize how widespread the problem is -- it's not just limited to Louis Vuitton bags,” says Professor Busse. Click through to see this year's 12 award winners -- and their original inspirations." BY Rachel Tiplady. Read more...

The Jury met on January 20, 2007. Three prizes, six distinctions and three special prizes have been awarded; total entities: 58.

Webby In Motion Contest Finalists Announced

Finalists for The Webby In Motion Contest, sponsored by Adobe, have been announced! Entrants to the In Motion Contest were asked to create animated video introductions to Webby Awards category clusters. Finalists, who were selected from each cluster, will receive a copy of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium! The Grand Prize winner, selected for creating the best overall work will receive a trip to the Webbys in NYC and a copy of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection!

The work of the Finalists and the Grand Prize Winner will be presented at the 11th Annual Webby Awards Gala on June 5, 2007 to over 800 of the top creative minds in the world.

View the Finalists of the Webby In Motion Contest

Grand Prize Winner:

• Bran Dougherty-Johnson
  Category: Living

PSST! is organized and produced by Bran Dougherty-Johnson of Grow Design Work.