At the recent Emmy Awards Weiner’s show “Mad Men” garnered several accolades including one for writing. It is in the design of the script, the planning of each word said onscreen (more…)
Its name will probably create a vision of a piece of a lychee resting on a Petri dish, awaiting tingling currents to come from some electrode to touch its white, almost translucent flesh, in an attempt to perhaps invent something (more…)
We are showered with a deluge of icons, symbols and images by screens that cover every previous unused inch of public space, and personal computers and the Internet continues the exposure in the privacy of our home.
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I can’t believe you’re even reading this! Don’t you know this is an online magazine. Nobody reads magazines anymore. That’s what the dying newspapers say, but apparently you didn’t read that.
Though newspapers are supposedly falling dead all around us – The Seattle Post-Intelligencer became the first major daily to cease (more…)
In 1956, with the support of a friend, Touko Laaksonen decided to show the world his hidden art of sexually-charged portraits of men. He sent some of the portraits to an American magazine called Physique Pictorial, under the pseudonym “Tom”. Published in the spring of 1957 edition of magazine and signed by a certain “Tom of Finland”, these “dirty drawings” (more…)
So, you got a Facebook account. Of course you did. And now you can’t stop spending hours checking your friends’ status updates, uploading pictures or finding out which Sex and the City character you most resemble.
But what’s the point, you moaned to your friends in your pre-Facebook days.
And now you know the secret. There is no secret.
While social networking sites (more…)
Amnesty International originally known for its fierce human rights work has produced an equally aggressive media strategy that is changing the look of social justice advertising. It use to be that all the innovative and fresh advertisements that would turn heads represented corporations. Now, Amnesty International (more…)
As the confetti settled and the RNC wrapped up their convention with members of the Reds and Blues coalescing around their selections, Americans sat back of the awesome selection bestowed upon them. Elect the first African-American candidate with undoubtedly progressive worldviews, (more…)
My editor and I took a deep breath as we dove into the organized chaos that was the Natural Products Expo West in March.
Our mission was to find innovative packaging designs at an event that had almost 4 thousand exhibits and countless more products.
We fought our way through 52,000 retailers, manufacturers, functional ingredient suppliers and industry professionals to attend the country’s largest natural, organic, (more…)
