tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42733230002456243372024-03-13T03:14:46.397-07:00Kate SutphenKate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-62530114141297654612011-05-08T09:37:00.001-07:002011-05-08T10:05:21.960-07:00Speech in MotionSince my last post I have completed two more drafts of my speech. The videos can be been at the links below<br /><br />Draft 2<br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/23440393">http://www.vimeo.com/23440393</a><br /><br />Draft 3<br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/23440520">http://www.vimeo.com/23440520</a>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-82162329509455856032011-05-02T10:56:00.000-07:002011-05-02T10:59:18.562-07:00Speech ProjectThe speech project is well under way. Most of the focus up to this point has been the print part of the project, but the motion aspect has begun. It is still very rough and not all of the speech is presented yet... but its a start (video can be seen at this link)<br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/23157822"><br />http://vimeo.com/23157822</a>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-38215583235014455732011-04-22T20:06:00.000-07:002011-04-22T20:12:39.753-07:00Journal #11Design Matters talk with Jennifer Morla<br /><br />Debbie Millman is a partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands, one of the leading brand identity firms in the country. Millman is president of AIGA, and chair of the School of Visual Arts’ master’s program in Branding. She is a contributing editor to Print magazine and host of the podcast “Design Matters.” She is the author of How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007), The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008) and Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design (How Books, 2009).<br /><br />Design Matters is a show where different designers are interviewed about their views on different things and their experiences. <br /><br />The talk i chose:<br /><br />Artist and designer Jennifer Morla is President and Creative Director of Morla Design in San Francisco and is the 2010 recipient of graphic design’s most honored award, the AIGA Medal. Her work is part of the permanent collections of MoMA, SFMoMA, the Smithsonian Museum, the Denver Art Museum and the Library of Congress.<br /><br />Jennifer Morla's clients have included Apple, The New York Times and Levis. In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Morla talks about why she set up shop in San Francisco instead of in her home town of New York, her collaboration with Andy Warhol, and the qualities of effective design.<br /><br /><br />This talk was fun to listen to because it was interesting to listen to her experiences. Also because I am familiar with a lot of the things she worked on. For example some of the shows that were on PBS when she worked there.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-68389201241072007742011-04-22T19:50:00.000-07:002011-04-22T19:57:28.824-07:00Journal #10Good. Is.<br />While viewing this website I feel as if their main goal is to educate on different subjects in a more fun way. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qPKMC55p31k/TbI_Gl-VDlI/AAAAAAAAAdk/QvEppeJGrgI/s1600/full_1303418981launch_infographic_template.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qPKMC55p31k/TbI_Gl-VDlI/AAAAAAAAAdk/QvEppeJGrgI/s320/full_1303418981launch_infographic_template.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598606669280251474" /></a><br /><br />This is an example of the infographics they have posted. Along with infographics they have things like videos, slideshows, and projects. Its pretty cool and interesting stuff. Below is a link to an example of one of the videos on the site. Personally I love it! They have a good approach to some "hard to talk about" subjects including politics and sex. <br /><a href="http://www.good.is/post/good-video-kissing/"><br />http://www.good.is/post/good-video-kissing/</a>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-21722304118248203412011-04-22T19:36:00.000-07:002011-04-22T19:50:34.945-07:00Journal #9Coming soon! (as soon as i can get the videos to play...)Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-86916299322667163962011-04-22T19:21:00.000-07:002011-04-22T19:31:47.845-07:00Journal #8I read "Type Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry" and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface"<br />Both were very interesting. I found it entertaining that so many people used the typeface Futura. I guess my views on Futura are similar to those of Helvetica and therefore i don't use it. Ever. A couple fonts that are similar to Futura are Gotham, Rotis, or Trade Gothic. Gotham is probably the closest because the majority of the letters are very round. I prefer Gotham because the 'm' is less harsh. <br />In "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface" I would have to agree with the author. It is easy to pick your favorite typefaces and just stick to those and use them for everything. But when looking at all the other typefaces out there it is fun to explore your options. It is also very easy to use way too many typefaces at once. I try to stick with two maybe three for a project so it doesn't get too crazy.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-64175083198850613972011-04-13T10:19:00.000-07:002011-04-13T10:22:56.580-07:00Speech Project. In Motion and Print<span style="font-weight:bold;">Eulogy of Robert F. Kennedy</span><br /><br />Like it or not we live in times of danger and uncertainty. That is the way he lived. That is what he leaves us. My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Who is speaking?</span><br /><br />Senator Edward Kennedy<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Why was this speech important to society?<br /></span><br />A Presidential candidate was assassinated. It also was the second assassination in the Kennedy family. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Why do you feel this is important or interesting?<br /></span><br />I feel it is important because this family went through so much suffering. Both of Edward’s brothers were assassinated, and he lost his father during World War II. I find it interesting because there is so much emotion behind the words being said.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech?<br /></span><br />It is a very emotional speech, very sad. There is personality because you can hear how upset Edward is while speaking which makes it very powerful. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses?</span><br /><br />While talking about the things Robert worked on achieving there is evident stress on certain words. Ex. Wrong and Right, War and Stop, suffering and heal.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or rushed?</span><br /><br />When there is high emotion I feel those words should stand out more. There are already pauses throughout the speech that are very important to the feeling of the speech.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words?<br /></span><br />Not so much a call to action speech, but makes the listener/reader want to carry on Roberts views on things. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">How do you imagine that the audience felt?</span><br /><br />I can imagine that the audience was very emotional. A Senator/ Presidential Candidate was assassinated, and it wasn’t even the first in the family. There was probably a lot of mourning for the Kennedy family.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Could there be another interpretation of the speech?</span><br /><br />While listening it is very clear that it is a Eulogy speech. I don’t feel like there could be a misinterpretation of this speech.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Short Bio of the person giving the speech:</span><br /><br />Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history. For many years the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in action in World War II; and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-76788612210141668522011-03-28T10:48:00.000-07:002011-03-28T10:51:15.892-07:00poster inspiration<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YFq1d5FGqKw/TZDKi_9QdiI/AAAAAAAAAdc/TjCvgTKyaRM/s1600/zombieland.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YFq1d5FGqKw/TZDKi_9QdiI/AAAAAAAAAdc/TjCvgTKyaRM/s320/zombieland.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589189840199513634" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ayyprDBsFpM/TZDKi1PFVsI/AAAAAAAAAdU/ninf9gjMICA/s1600/thegreatescape.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ayyprDBsFpM/TZDKi1PFVsI/AAAAAAAAAdU/ninf9gjMICA/s320/thegreatescape.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589189837321492162" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fiHdjiyRC6A/TZDKigzX6PI/AAAAAAAAAdM/ONhiTLqErhI/s1600/thankyouforsmoking.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9miDBx_ckDc/TZDKTDknJqI/AAAAAAAAAcU/aS5cva3Dehw/s320/groundhogday.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589189566291977890" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzzP27WnIBQ/TZDKS0QbmqI/AAAAAAAAAcM/KhUAKUApAhw/s1600/ferris.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzzP27WnIBQ/TZDKS0QbmqI/AAAAAAAAAcM/KhUAKUApAhw/s320/ferris.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589189562180803234" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IKTiXdRDoDg/TZDKSh24q1I/AAAAAAAAAcE/ocJXjV-hjdM/s1600/breakfastclub.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IKTiXdRDoDg/TZDKSh24q1I/AAAAAAAAAcE/ocJXjV-hjdM/s320/breakfastclub.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589189557241817938" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pp6e1SJdCgM/TZDKSvdj4vI/AAAAAAAAAb8/uiPoHujcy4A/s1600/birds.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pp6e1SJdCgM/TZDKSvdj4vI/AAAAAAAAAb8/uiPoHujcy4A/s320/birds.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589189560893694706" /></a>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-2303015610955901762011-03-22T13:03:00.000-07:002011-03-22T13:26:05.493-07:00Journal #7<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gk-jOMjRmF0/TYkFv7mCpXI/AAAAAAAAAb0/Qng4pmo6Mq4/s1600/Picture%2B75.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 161px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gk-jOMjRmF0/TYkFv7mCpXI/AAAAAAAAAb0/Qng4pmo6Mq4/s320/Picture%2B75.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587003133739050354" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T6K6sg0LP6k/TYkFveZ0kxI/AAAAAAAAAbs/5M9nZMpNNyY/s1600/Picture%2B74.png"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NTaCT8waXTI/TYkBJ9OyJZI/AAAAAAAAAVc/S_q_gQ7jfis/s320/Picture%2B19.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586998083296830866" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NjYmHT7bcv8/TYkBJf28wfI/AAAAAAAAAVU/VTO85h6RbiM/s1600/Picture%2B18.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 173px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NjYmHT7bcv8/TYkBJf28wfI/AAAAAAAAAVU/VTO85h6RbiM/s320/Picture%2B18.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586998075412234738" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sH1HhKFSexU/TYkBIvVmAXI/AAAAAAAAAVM/-WTqMfaJQuE/s1600/Picture%2B17.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 159px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sH1HhKFSexU/TYkBIvVmAXI/AAAAAAAAAVM/-WTqMfaJQuE/s320/Picture%2B17.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586998062387429746" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XeDo7sh7Hw0/TYkBIcTvfyI/AAAAAAAAAVE/kHME6bDfEqc/s1600/Picture%2B16.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 122px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XeDo7sh7Hw0/TYkBIcTvfyI/AAAAAAAAAVE/kHME6bDfEqc/s320/Picture%2B16.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586998057279389474" /></a><br />typography is everywhere.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-602232039211713082011-03-22T12:21:00.000-07:002011-03-22T13:03:31.087-07:00Journal #6<a href="http://thirtyconversationsondesign.com/index.html">http://thirtyconversationsondesign.com/index.html</a><br /><br />“What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?” <br /><br /><br />EMILY PILLOTON // Founder and Executive Director, Project H Design <br />TONY HAWK // President, Tony Hawk, Inc.<br />STEFAN BUCHER // Founder, 344 Design, LLC<br />DANIEL PINK // Author<br />JOHN M. MILITELLO // Creative Innovation Team Manager, Google Sales Development<br /><br />above are the five conversations I listened to. Each were very interesting. the Apple products were mentioned multiple times which was not surprising. And i would have to agree with John Militello about how the remote needs to be redesigned.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-47869788457205399882011-03-07T16:56:00.000-08:002011-03-07T17:21:31.302-08:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">1. What are the advantages of a multiple column grid.?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2. How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line?</span><br /> anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory length of line for a single-column page. For multiple-column work, a better average is 40-50 characters. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3. Why is the baseline grid used in design?<br /><br />4. What is a typographic river?<br /><br />5. From the readings what does clothesline or flow line mean?<br /><br />6. How can you incorporate white space into your designs?<br /><br />7. What is type color/texture mean?</span><br /> color: refers to the darkness or blackness of the letterforms in mass. depends on 4 things: the design of the type, the spacing between the letters, the spacing between the words, and the spacing between the lines.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8. What is x-height, how does it effect type color?<br /><br />9. In justification or H&J terms what do the numbers: minimum, optimum, maximum mean?<br /><br />10. What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules?<br /><br />11. What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text?</span><br /> avoid more than two hyphenations in a row<br /> avoid too many hyphenations in any paragraph<br /> avoid stupid hyphenations<br /> never hyphenate a heading<br /> break lines sensibly <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12. What is a literature?<br /><br />13. What does CMYK and RGB mean?<br /><br />14. What does hanging punctuation mean?<br /><br />15. What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe?</span><br /> foot mark (')<br /> apostrophe (‘)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16. What is the difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?</span><br /> inch marks (")<br /> quote marks (“,”)<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />17. What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used?</span><br /> hyphen: strictly used for hyphenating words or line breaks. (-)<br /> en dash: used between words indicating a duration, such as hourly time or months or years (–)<br /> em dash: twice as long as the en dash. often used in a manner similar to a colon or parentheses or it indicates an abrupt change in thought, or it is used in a spot where a period is too strong and a comma is too weak (—)<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />18. What are ligatures, why are they used, when are they not used, what are common ligatures?</span>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-61313076694300470142011-03-07T14:55:00.000-08:002011-03-07T15:09:38.708-08:00Journal #5<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OQ_OGY4TVtU/TXVljvOC_1I/AAAAAAAAAU8/DpQ-UwrrL-w/s1600/Picture%2B1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 260px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OQ_OGY4TVtU/TXVljvOC_1I/AAAAAAAAAU8/DpQ-UwrrL-w/s320/Picture%2B1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581478977840807762" /></a><br /><br />Jonathan Harris<br />Cold : Bold<br />Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference October 14-16, 2010<br /><a href="http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/video-gain-2010-harris">http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/video-gain-2010-harris</a><br /><br />Jonathan Harris is a designer that mostly creates online projects. He uses computer science, statistics, storytelling, and visual art as tools. He feels as if technology needs to become more human. <br />He worked on projects like I Want you to Want Me in 2008, The Whale Hunt in 2007, Universe in 2007, We Feel Fine in 2006 and the book We Feel Fine in 2009. <br />Harris likes to think about how the viewer/user might interact with the piece he is designing. <br />Along with online projects, Harris also does some writing.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-82366755154577934372011-02-28T14:23:00.000-08:002011-02-28T14:33:39.206-08:00State Mottos Project<a href="http://statemottosproject.com/gallery/">http://statemottosproject.com/gallery/</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0uZ6TS75BdQ/TWwiDAnkjUI/AAAAAAAAAT8/f20JlY9O4vw/s1600/Picture%2B17.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0uZ6TS75BdQ/TWwiDAnkjUI/AAAAAAAAAT8/f20JlY9O4vw/s320/Picture%2B17.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578871473506127170" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OSVWF-u5ia8/TWwiRwbCijI/AAAAAAAAAU0/meFW1bnwO-I/s1600/Picture%2B24.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OSVWF-u5ia8/TWwiRwbCijI/AAAAAAAAAU0/meFW1bnwO-I/s320/Picture%2B24.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578871726856636978" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NUR3tfx-VrM/TWwiRtfBvoI/AAAAAAAAAUs/BUNPf5GLpmg/s1600/Picture%2B23.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NUR3tfx-VrM/TWwiRtfBvoI/AAAAAAAAAUs/BUNPf5GLpmg/s320/Picture%2B23.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578871726068055682" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QiXG7od7MKQ/TWwiRWPB2mI/AAAAAAAAAUk/OgwBiVzd0KM/s1600/Picture%2B22.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ab9ckyv8uNc/TWwg0zb70nI/AAAAAAAAASM/q-J4uQT0Frk/s320/Picture%2B3.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578870129937863282" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jDYzFiGoOYM/TWwg0k--KPI/AAAAAAAAASE/zTW2ZUuAvr0/s1600/Picture%2B1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 310px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jDYzFiGoOYM/TWwg0k--KPI/AAAAAAAAASE/zTW2ZUuAvr0/s320/Picture%2B1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578870126058285298" /></a>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-46075226548166532832011-02-27T21:32:00.000-08:002011-02-27T21:41:27.714-08:00Journal #4Who is Bruce Mau?<br />the Chief Creative Officer of Bruce Mau Design. Clients of his Chicago and Toronto studios include Coca-Cola, McDonald's, MTV, Arizona State University, Miami's American Airlines Arena, New Meadowlands Stadium, Frank Gehry, Herman Miller, Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus, and the feature length documentary The 11th Hour. Since founding his studio in 1985, Mau has used design and optimism to originate, innovate, and renovate businesses, brands, products, and experiences.<br /><br />Incomplete Manifesto for Growth - Bruce Mau<br /><br />1. Allow events to change you.<br />You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.<br /><br />2. Forget about good.<br />Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.<br /><br />3. Process is more important than outcome.<br />When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to<br />be there.<br /><br />4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).<br />Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.<br /><br />5. Go deep.<br />The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.<br /><br />6. Capture accidents.<br />The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.<br /><br />7. Study.<br />A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.<br /><br />8. Drift.<br />Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.<br /><br />9. Begin anywhere.<br />John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.<br /><br /><br />10. Everyone is a leader.<br />Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.<br /><br />11. Harvest ideas.<br />Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas<br />to applications.<br /><br />12. Keep moving.<br />The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.<br /><br />13. Slow down.<br />Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.<br /><br />14. Don’t be cool.<br />Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.<br /><br />15. Ask stupid questions.<br />Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.<br /><br />16. Collaborate.<br />The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.<br /><br />17. ____________________.<br />Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas<br />of others.<br /><br />18. Stay up late.<br />Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.<br /><br />19. Work the metaphor.<br />Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.<br /><br />20. Be careful to take risks.<br />Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.<br /><br />21. Repeat yourself.<br />If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.<br /><br />22. Make your own tools.<br />Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.<br /><br />23. Stand on someone’s shoulders.<br />You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.<br /><br />24. Avoid software.<br />The problem with software is that everyone has it.<br /><br />25. Don’t clean your desk.<br />You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.<br /><br />26. Don’t enter awards competitions.<br />Just don’t. It’s not good for you.<br /><br />27. Read only left-hand pages.<br />Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our "noodle."<br /><br />28. Make new words.<br />Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.<br /><br />29. Think with your mind.<br />Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.<br /><br />30. Organization = Liberty.<br />Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between "creatives" and "suits" is what Leonard Cohen calls a 'charming artifact of the past.'<br /><br />31. Don’t borrow money.<br />Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.<br /><br />32. Listen carefully.<br />Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.<br /><br />33. Take field trips.<br />The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.<br /><br />34. Make mistakes faster.<br />This isn’t my idea – I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.<br /><br />35. Imitate.<br />Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.<br /><br />36. Scat.<br />When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else ... but not words.<br /><br />37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.<br /><br />38. Explore the other edge.<br />Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.<br /><br />39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms.<br />Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces – what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference – the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals – but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.<br /><br />40. Avoid fields.<br />Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.<br /><br />41. Laugh.<br />People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I've become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.<br /><br />42. Remember.<br />Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.<br /><br />43. Power to the people.<br />Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My choice for the week:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Stay up late.</span><br />Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.<br /><br />why?<br />because some of my best work happens when i least expect it to. which is usually when i have been up way too long.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-5744403543742850042011-02-27T20:37:00.000-08:002011-02-27T21:31:41.845-08:00Journal #3Stefan Sagmeister, Yes Design can make you Happy<br />In this TED video, Sagmeister made some points about how if you are happy while designing then you will be more successful. Also it is important to get out of the studio and not sit behind a computer all day. <br /><br />Theo Jansen Creates New Creatures<br />Theo Jansen created animals that will one day roam and live on the beaches on their own. Each creature has a brain that counts the steps so it knows where it is on the beach. Also there are sensors for when it gets close to the water so it knows to go the opposite direction. <br /><br />David Kelly Human-Centered Design<br />Important to include behaviors and personalities in design. This way the person using the product can relate to it and have a better experience while using the product.<br /><br />How Good is Good? - Stefan Sagmeister<br />"Commercial Art makes you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas"<br />what makes good design good? is good design for a bad cause bad? Is bad design for a good cause good?<br />someone needs to benefit from your design. <br />design can unify, and design can help us remember. Design can even simplify our lives.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-60085243022797302932011-02-13T09:11:00.000-08:002011-02-13T09:53:29.878-08:00Journal #2Dieter Rams: Ten Principles for Good Design<br /><br />Dieter Rams became concerned with the state of the world around him and started asking if his design was good design. He developed these ten principles for a measure of good design. <br /><br />1. Good design is innovative<br />2. Good design makes a product useful<br />3. Good design is aesthetic<br />4. Good design makes a product understandable<br />5. Good design is unobtrusive<br />6. Good design is honest<br />7. Good design is long-lasting<br />8. Good design is through, down to the last detail<br />9. Good design is environmentally-friendly <br />10. Good design is as little design as possible<br /><br /><br />Don Norman: 3 Ways Good Design Makes you Happy<br /><br />Visceral <br />subconsciously attracted to a product because of the way it looks. Could either be the type fonts or color or just how it looks in general. People like the product because it is beautiful.<br /><br />Behavioral<br />Another subconscious attraction. This attraction is based on the feeling of control.<br /><br />Reflective<br />Can be related to the persons superego. This is all about the users image to others. What products will draw attention.<br /><br />Thoughtful question: When a product is designed for looks, the function of the product may not be as successful. In that case, does a designer choose looks or function?Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-39912675257662728872011-02-13T08:59:00.000-08:002011-02-13T09:02:46.982-08:00Audience PersonasJennifer is a 19‐year‐old college student who grew up on a ranch in Kansas. She lives in an apartment with two other girls in Colorado Springs where she attends University of Colorado. While growing up, Jennifer spent a lot of time with her cousin. They would reenact wars, and play cowboys and Indians. As they grew older they found entertainment in hunting or just shooting random things. Jennifer now studies wildlife and outdoor enterprise management at the University of Colorado. Classes fill up most of her week, but she strives to find time to spend outdoors.<br /><br />Carter is a 30‐year‐old industrial designer who spends most of his time working on the newest designs for subway trains in Washington DC. Carter grew up in southern Kansas. He would lifeguard during the summers, and was an Eagle Scout. He spends a lot of his free time watching his many favorite TV shows and browsing the Internet for inspirational websites. Carter has gone on numerous hiking trips in the past, and likes to think of himself and the manliest of all men.<br /><br />Paul is a 50‐year‐old businessman who works for IBM in Des Moines. At one point he had decided to make a career change, and tried opening a lawn care business, which ended up failing. He then returned to being a sales manager and travels a lot. Paul enjoys the outdoors and likes to go for walks out at the lake near his house. He is married and has two daughters. Paul finds entertainment in watching foreign movies, documentaries, and reading. He drives a rundown Ford F‐150 that he had bought for the lawn care business. One of the tires doesn’t hold air very well, so he frequently has to refill it before driving.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-83478959731141904902011-02-12T16:30:00.000-08:002011-02-12T16:31:41.042-08:00101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself -Rob Pruitt1. Tell the truth.<br />2. Tell a lie.<br />3. Change your name. <br />4. Make someone happy!<br />5. Make someone cry.<br />6. Fake laugh.<br />7. Fake an orgasm.<br />8. Fake your death. <br />9. Get plastic surgery.<br />10. Put make-up on body parts. Ear shadow, belly blush.<br />11. Put make-up on your face.<br />12. Make a painting with make-up.<br />13. Stay in bed.<br />14. Draw on your bedsheets.<br />15. Make a baby.<br />16. Kill yourself.<br />17. Sell a collector a key to your house.<br />18. Customize your refrigerator with paint, decals and locate in a place other than your kitchen.<br />19. Customize storage boxes and display as sculpture.<br />20. Make a painting on a lampshade.<br />21. Vandalise your home with spray paint.<br />22. Graffiti your bathroom.<br />23. Use a magazine as a sketch book.<br />24. Spread rumors.<br />25. Draw something small, scan it, print it out big.<br />26. Turn your TV upside down.<br />27. Turn your TV on its side to watch while lying on your side.<br />28. Watch your TV without sound or listen to TV with the screen covered.<br />29. Watch a DVD in fast motion, slow motion or reverse.<br />30. Make a drawing by pressing pause and tracing the image off the TV screen.<br />31. Spend the day in a costume.<br />32. Sit on the toilet backwards.<br />33. Make a sound composition when you pee by alternating the flow between the porcelain and the water.<br />34. Do an interpretative to environmental sound. Baby crying, vaporetti, pigeon cooing.<br />35. Wear diapers.<br />36. Sprinkle glitter.<br />37. Take drugs.<br />38. Shoplift.<br />39. Sneak your own merchandise into stores.<br />40. Collect stuff.<br />41. Curate a Netflix or YouTube festival.<br />42. Make a mix tape.<br />43. Take audio snapshots with a digital recorder.<br />44. Arrange flowers in unexpected combinations. Baby's breath & spring onions; buds, blooms and withered blossoms.<br />45. Make a monochrome meal.<br />46. Dress in monochrome.<br />47. Live in a monochrome house.<br />48. Be a photographer without a camera. Download images from the internet.<br />49. Buy something expensive and put it on a pedestal. Return it for your money back. Repeat.<br />50. Make mud. 2 parts dirt, 1 part water. Use as paint or clay.<br />51. Make a leaf out of paper and tape it to a tree.<br />52. Make a tree and add it to a forest.<br />53. Pour a glass of water to look at.<br />54. Draw yourself into your favorite comic strip.<br />55. Put everything inside outside.<br />56. Bring everything outside inside.<br />57. Fill a desk drawer with gravel and make a secret Zen garden.<br />58. Make a drawing by holding a marker in a place other than your hand, wherever you can. Toes, mouth, underarm, butt cheeks.<br />59. Make a drawing by highlighting as you read.<br />60. Translate from one language to another.<br />61. Frame a picture with a feather boa.<br />62. Hang a painting crooked, sideways, or face to the wall.<br />63. Go on an urban animal safari. Pigeons, rats, squirrels, cockroaches.<br />64. Paparazzi your pet.<br />65. Interior decorate your pet's habitat.<br />66. Make a valuable sculpture by adding a diamond.<br />67. Put things on pedestals.<br />68. Take things off pedestals.<br />69. 2 identical things side by side.<br />70. 10 identical things in a row.<br />71. Something cut in half.<br />72. Put googly eyes on things.<br />73. Draw faces on styrofoam wig heads, lightbulbs and eggs.<br />74. Point a treadmill at a painting.<br />75. Name all of the bricks that make up a wall.<br />76. Make up drag queen names. Amber Alert, Whitney Biennal.<br />77. Make up band names.<br />78. Name your plants.<br />79. Name household pests. Bugs, mice.<br />80. Invent a new color and name it. Francois Pinot.<br />81. Take things apart.<br />82. Put things back together.<br />83. Toss loose change into a pile on the floor.<br />84. Make an aluminum foil death mask.<br />85. An electric fan wearing a t-shirt becomes an easy figurative sculpture.<br />86. Make a portrait of someone by printing their phone number poster size.<br />87. Make a portrait/self-portrait by captioning a mirror.<br />88. Frame your credit card statement. i.e., the month of your trip to Paris.<br />89. Stalk someone.<br />90. Collect autographs. One per canvas or page. Think of as portraits.<br />91. Make a photo album of all your worldly possessions.<br />92. Record yourself talking for fifteen minutes, let your consciousness stream.<br />93. Save and transcribe your voicemail. Publish your emails.<br />94. Make a collage on an unopened wine bottle for the year of its vintage.<br />95. Don't clean your house and call it scatter art.<br />96. Make a scent installation. A pine branch in a mircowave, pour a glass of cologne, fart.<br />97. Write captions on the glass for the view outside your window.<br />98. Write lyrics to a classical music composition.<br />100. Title untitled paintings.<br />101. Title your life.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-72115284204447043612011-02-04T19:09:00.000-08:002011-02-04T19:41:51.813-08:00Journal Entry 1Writers Toolbox<br />Writing is a private act that translates to a public expression. There are many different ways to brainstorm. Some of these ways include a mind map, concept map, free writing, and word lists. Mind maps give visual form to ideas. It is started with a word in the center and then you branch out with words that are associations or relate to the starter word. This process works well for visual people because you can attach pictures or descriptions to the words. Concept maps are similar to mind maps. They show the relationship between concepts. Free writing is similar to keeping a journal but focuses on a more specific idea or question. Free writing can be helpful to a designer in a way of just getting ideas written down. Word lists are useful because most people are used to putting things in lists to begin with. It is an easy way to organize information and ideas.<br /><br />Word list for No Country for Old Men<br /><br />Hunt<br />Desert<br />Windy<br />Country<br />Vast<br />Dark<br />Guns<br />Bullets<br />Luck<br />Chance<br />Hot<br />Sunny<br />Hunter<br />Hunted<br />Veteran soldier<br />Hiding<br />Predator<br />Prey<br />Dry<br />Old<br />Defeat<br />Track Down<br />Rural Area<br />Shadow<br />Silhouette<br />Weapon<br />Hit man<br />Destiny<br />Fate<br />Devilish<br />Sinister<br />Hazard<br />Risk<br />Danger<br />Encounter<br />Target<br />Sun baked<br />Scorched<br />Thirsty<br />Waterless<br />Rusty<br />Age<br />Worn<br />Kill<br />Overcome<br />Escape<br />Get Away<br />Vicious<br />Fear<br />Persistence<br />Perseverance<br /><br />Top Ten Defined<br /><br />Dark<br />1. <br />having very little or no light: a dark room. <br />2. <br />radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light: a dark color. <br />3. <br />approaching black in hue: a dark brown. <br />4. <br />not pale or fair; swarthy: a dark complexion. <br />5. <br />brunette; dark-colored: dark eyebrows. <br />6. <br />having brunette hair: She's dark but her children are blond. <br />7. <br />(of coffee) containing only a small amount of milk or cream. <br />8. <br />gloomy; cheerless; dismal: the dark days of world War II. <br />9. <br />sullen; frowning: a dark expression. <br />10. <br />evil; iniquitous; wicked: a dark plot. <br />11. <br />destitute of knowledge or culture; unenlightened. <br />12. <br />hard to understand; obscure. <br />13. <br />hidden; secret. <br />14. <br />silent; reticent. <br />15. <br />(of a theater) offering no performances; closed: The theaters in this town are dark on Sundays. <br />16. <br />Phonetics . <br />a. <br />(of an l- sound) having back-vowel resonance; situated after a vowel in the same syllable. Compare clear ( def. 24a ) . <br />b. <br />(of a speech sound) of dull quality; acoustically damped. <br />–noun <br />17. <br />the absence of light; darkness: I can't see well in the dark. <br />18. <br />night; nightfall: Please come home before dark. <br />19. <br />a dark place. <br />20. <br />a dark color. <br />–verb (used with object) <br />21. <br />to make dark; darken. <br />–verb (used without object) <br />22. <br />Obsolete . to grow dark; darken. <br />—Idioms <br />23. <br />in the dark, <br />a. <br />in ignorance; uninformed: He was in the dark about their plans for the evening. <br />b. <br />in secrecy; concealed; obscure. <br />24. <br />keep dark, to keep as a secret; conceal: They kept their political activities dark. <br /><br />—Synonyms <br />1. Dark, dim, obscure, gloomy, murky refer to absence or insufficiency of light. Dark implies a more or less complete absence of light: a dark night. Dim implies faintness of light or indistinctness of form (resulting from the lack of light or from imperfect vision): a dim outline. Obscure implies dimness that may arise also from factors that interfere with light or vision: obscure because of haze. Gloomy means cloudy, ill-lighted, dusky: a gloomy hall. Murky implies a thick or misty darkness: murky water. 4. dusky, black. 12. recondite, abstruse. <br /><br /><br />Chance<br />1. <br />the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all. <br />2. <br />luck or fortune: a game of chance. <br />3. <br />a possibility or probability of anything happening: a fifty-percent chance of success. <br />4. <br />an opportune or favorable time; opportunity: Now is your chance. <br />5. <br />Baseball . an opportunity to field the ball and make a put-out or assist. <br />6. <br />a risk or hazard: Take a chance. <br />7. <br />a share or ticket in a lottery or prize drawing: The charity is selling chances for a dollar each. <br />8. <br />chances, probability: The chances are that the train hasn't left yet. <br />9. <br />Midland and Southern U.S. a quantity or number (usually followed by of ). <br />10. <br />Archaic . an unfortunate event; mishap. <br />–verb (used without object) <br />11. <br />to happen or occur by chance: It chanced that our arrivals coincided. <br />–verb (used with object) <br />12. <br />to take the chances or risks of; risk (often followed by impersonal it ): I'll have to chance it, whatever the outcome. <br />–adjective <br />13. <br />not planned or expected; accidental: a chance occurrence. <br />—Verb phrase <br />14. <br />chance on / upon, to come upon by chance; meet unexpectedly: She chanced on a rare kind of mushroom during her walk through the woods. <br />—Idioms <br />15. <br />by chance, without plan or intent; accidentally: I met her again by chance in a department store in Paris. <br />16. <br />on the chance, in the mild hope or against the possibility: I'll wait on the chance that she'll come. <br />17. <br />on the off chance, in the very slight hope or against the very slight possibility. <br /><br />—Synonyms <br />2. accident, fortuity. 3. contingency. 4. opening. 11. befall. See happen. 13. casual, fortuitous. <br /><br /><br />Hunter<br />1. <br />a person who hunts game or other wild animals for food or in sport. <br />2. <br />a person who searches for or seeks something: a fortune hunter. <br />3. <br />a horse specially trained for quietness, stamina, and jumping ability in hunting. <br />4. <br />an animal, as a dog, trained to hunt game. <br />5. <br />( initial capital letter ) Astronomy . the constellation Orion. <br />6. <br />Also called hunting watch. a watch with a hunting case. <br /><br /><br />Old<br />1. <br />far advanced in the years of one's or its life: an old man; an old horse; an old tree. <br />2. <br />of or pertaining to the latter part of the life or term of existence of a person or thing: old age. <br />3. <br />as if or appearing to be far advanced in years: Worry had made him old. <br />4. <br />having lived or existed for a specified time: a man 30 years old; a century-old organization. <br />5. <br />having lived or existed as specified with relation to younger or newer persons or things: Jim is our oldest boy. <br />6. <br />having been aged for a specified time: This whiskey is eight years old. <br />7. <br />having been aged for a comparatively long time: old brandy. <br />8. <br />long known or in use: the same old excuse. <br />9. <br />overfamiliar to the point of tedium: Some jokes get old fast. <br />10. <br />belonging to the past: the good old days. <br />11. <br />having been in existence since the distant past: a fine old family. <br />12. <br />no longer in general use: This typewriter is an old model. <br />13. <br />acquired, made, or in use by one prior to the acquisition, making, or use of something more recent: When the new house was built, we sold the old one. <br />14. <br />of, pertaining to, or originating at an earlier period or date: old maps. <br />15. <br />prehistoric; ancient: There may have been an old land bridge between Asia and alaska. <br />16. <br />( initial capital letter ) (of a language) in its oldest known period, as attested by the earliest written records: Old Czech. <br />17. <br />experienced: He's an old hand at welding. <br />18. <br />of long standing; having been such for a comparatively long time: an old and trusted employee. <br />19. <br />(of colors) dull, faded, or subdued: old rose. <br />20. <br />deteriorated through age or long use; worn, decayed, or dilapidated: old clothes. <br />21. <br />Physical Geography . (of landforms) far advanced in reduction by erosion or the like. <br />22. <br />sedate, sensible, mature, or wise: That child seems old beyond his years. <br />23. <br />(used to indicate affection, familiarity, disparagement, or a personalization): good old Bob; that dirty old jalopy. <br />24. <br />Informal . (used as an intensive) great; uncommon: a high old time. <br />25. <br />former; having been so formerly: a dinner for his old students. <br />–noun <br />26. <br />( used with a plural verb ) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the ): appropriations to care for the old. <br />27. <br />a person or animal of a specified age or age group (used in combination): a class for six-year-olds; a horse race for three-year-olds. <br />28. <br />old or former time, often time long past: days of old. <br /><br />—Synonyms <br />1. Old, aged, elderly all mean well along in years. An old person has lived long, nearly to the end of the usual period of life. An aged person is very far advanced in years, and is usually afflicted with the infirmities of age. An elderly person is somewhat old, but usually has the mellowness, satisfactions, and joys of age ahead. 9. olden, early. <br /><br /><br />Defeat<br />1. <br />to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis. <br />2. <br />to frustrate; thwart. <br />3. <br />to eliminate or deprive of something expected: The early returns defeated his hopes of election. <br />4. <br />Law . to annul. <br />–noun <br />5. <br />the act of overcoming in a contest: an overwhelming defeat of all opposition. <br />6. <br />an instance of defeat; setback: He considered his defeat a personal affront. <br />7. <br />an overthrow or overturning; vanquishment: the defeat of a government. <br />8. <br />a bringing to naught; frustration: the defeat of all his hopes and dreams. <br />9. <br />the act or event of being bested; losing: Defeat is not something she abides easily. <br />10. <br />Archaic . undoing; destruction; ruin. <br /><br />—Synonyms <br />1. overwhelm, overthrow, rout, check. Defeat, conquer, overcome, subdue imply gaining a victory or control over an opponent. Defeat suggests beating or frustrating: to defeat an enemy in battle. Conquer implies finally gaining control over, usually after a series of efforts or against systematic resistance: to conquer a country, one's inclinations. Overcome emphasizes surmounting difficulties in prevailing over an antagonist: to overcome opposition, bad habits. Subdue means to conquer so completely that resistance is broken: to subdue a rebellious spirit. 2. foil, baffle, balk. 7. downfall. <br /><br /><br />Destiny<br />1. <br />something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune. <br />2. <br />the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events. <br />3. <br />the power or agency that determines the course of events. <br />4. <br />( initial capital letter ) this power personified or represented as a goddess. <br />5. <br />the Destinies, the Fates. <br /><br />—Synonyms <br />1. fate, karma, kismet. 2. future. <br /><br /><br />Sinister<br />1. <br />threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark. <br />2. <br />bad, evil, base, or wicked; fell: his sinister purposes. <br />3. <br />unfortunate; disastrous; unfavorable: a sinister accident. <br />4. <br />of or on the left side; left. <br />5. <br />Heraldry . noting the side of an escutcheon or achievement of arms that is to the left of the bearer ( opposed to dexter). <br /><br />—Synonyms <br />1. inauspicious, portentous. 3. unlucky. <br /><br /><br />Danger<br />1.<br />liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.<br />2.<br />an instance or cause of peril; menace.<br />3.<br />Obsolete. power; jurisdiction; domain.<br /><br />—Synonyms <br />1. Danger, hazard, peril, jeopardy imply harm that one may encounter. Danger is the general word for liability to all kinds of injury or evil consequences, either near at hand and certain, or remote and doubtful: to be in danger of being killed. Hazard suggests a danger that one can foresee but cannot avoid: A mountain climber is exposed to many hazards. Peril usually denotes great and imminent danger: The passengers on the disabled ship were in great peril. Jeopardy, a less common word, has essentially the same meaning as peril, but emphasizes exposure to the chances of a situation: To save his friend he put his life in jeopardy. <br /><br />Overcome<br />1. <br />to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy. <br />2. <br />to prevail over (opposition, a debility, temptations, etc.); surmount: to overcome one's weaknesses. <br />3. <br />to overpower or overwhelm in body or mind, as does liquor, a drug, exertion, or emotion: I was overcome with grief. <br />4. <br />Archaic . to overspread or overrun. <br />–verb (used without object) <br />5. <br />to gain the victory; win; conquer: a plan to overcome by any means possible. <br /><br />—Synonyms <br />1. vanquish. <br /><br /><br />Fear<br />1. <br />a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. <br />2. <br />a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling: an abnormal fear of heights. <br />3. <br />concern or anxiety; solicitude: a fear for someone's safety. <br />4. <br />reverential awe, especially toward god. <br />5. <br />that which causes a feeling of being afraid; that of which a person is afraid: Cancer is a common fear. <br />–verb (used with object) <br />6. <br />to regard with fear; be afraid of. <br />7. <br />to have reverential awe of. <br />8. <br />Archaic . to experience fear in (oneself). <br />–verb (used without object) <br />9. <br />to have fear; be afraid. <br /><br />—Synonyms <br />1. apprehension, consternation, dismay, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation. Fear, alarm, dread all imply a painful emotion experienced when one is confronted by threatening danger or evil. Alarm implies an agitation of the feelings caused by awakening to imminent danger; it names a feeling of fright or panic: He started up in alarm. Fear and dread usually refer more to a condition or state than to an event. Fear is often applied to an attitude toward something, which, when experienced, will cause the sensation of fright: fear of falling. Dread suggests anticipation of something, usually a particular event, which, when experienced, will be disagreeable rather than frightening: She lives in dread of losing her money. The same is often true of fear, when used in a negative statement: She has no fear she'll lose her money. 6. apprehend, dread. <br /><br /><br />Mind Maps<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TUzGxyrnUPI/AAAAAAAAAR8/JmfmkmZHykY/s1600/EPSON067.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TUzGxyrnUPI/AAAAAAAAAR8/JmfmkmZHykY/s320/EPSON067.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570045397871055090" /></a>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-66064392502749972092011-01-29T10:28:00.000-08:002011-01-29T11:09:26.036-08:00People to knowSaul Bass<br /><br />American designer and filmmaker. He worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick, and Martion Scorsese.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURdBPj7kjI/AAAAAAAAAQI/m98bTaTXwVE/s1600/SaulBass.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURdBPj7kjI/AAAAAAAAAQI/m98bTaTXwVE/s320/SaulBass.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567677315275264562" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURdA0tgAAI/AAAAAAAAAQA/Hw4Mnep3H-I/s1600/i_saulbass_l1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURdA0tgAAI/AAAAAAAAAQA/Hw4Mnep3H-I/s320/i_saulbass_l1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567677308067643394" /></a><br /><br />Paul Rand<br /><br />American graphic designer. He is best known fir corporate logo designs including IBM, UPS, ABC, and Westinghouse.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TUReUdSq4hI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/kkGw8KO-fJw/s1600/paul_rand_logos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TUReUdSq4hI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/kkGw8KO-fJw/s320/paul_rand_logos.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567678744890106386" /></a><br /><br />Alexander Girard<br /><br />Textile designer. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURfsH9F5vI/AAAAAAAAAQg/VajJRmimykE/s1600/girardfruittree.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURfsH9F5vI/AAAAAAAAAQg/VajJRmimykE/s320/girardfruittree.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567680250990946034" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURfr9H_7kI/AAAAAAAAAQY/8ho8dOr0Mm4/s1600/design_girard_july_davis.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 178px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURfr9H_7kI/AAAAAAAAAQY/8ho8dOr0Mm4/s320/design_girard_july_davis.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567680248083902018" /></a><br /><br />Alvin Lustig<br /><br />American graphic designer and typeface designer. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURhrwFhVPI/AAAAAAAAAQo/TJOY7gNaxp8/s1600/alvin-lustig.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURhrwFhVPI/AAAAAAAAAQo/TJOY7gNaxp8/s320/alvin-lustig.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567682443607102706" /></a><br /><br />Alan Fletcher<br /><br />British graphic designer<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURi4G3TynI/AAAAAAAAAQw/GFNJEoZPQpA/s1600/Q1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 231px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURi4G3TynI/AAAAAAAAAQw/GFNJEoZPQpA/s320/Q1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567683755391568498" /></a><br /><br />Alex Steinweiss<br /><br />Graphic designer and art director at Columbia Records.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURjnsDuqJI/AAAAAAAAARA/EEHK17cFr8U/s1600/revolutions-from-gatefold-to-download-steinweiss-gershwin.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURjnsDuqJI/AAAAAAAAARA/EEHK17cFr8U/s320/revolutions-from-gatefold-to-download-steinweiss-gershwin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567684572829624466" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURjnVG_LEI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/K6NV3TCrlWY/s1600/6a00e54fabf0ec88330128768eb35b970c-450wi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 311px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURjnVG_LEI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/K6NV3TCrlWY/s320/6a00e54fabf0ec88330128768eb35b970c-450wi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567684566669274178" /></a><br /><br />The Eames<br /><br />American designers made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURkPjHWbgI/AAAAAAAAARY/I8qc9uxgRjM/s1600/eames_new_chair.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURkPjHWbgI/AAAAAAAAARY/I8qc9uxgRjM/s320/eames_new_chair.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567685257623662082" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURkPfZjEQI/AAAAAAAAARQ/vDcAhlQ6b4c/s1600/eames-design.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURkPfZjEQI/AAAAAAAAARQ/vDcAhlQ6b4c/s320/eames-design.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567685256626245890" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURkPHitpFI/AAAAAAAAARI/s-ptq27yj_Y/s1600/eames-chair-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURkPHitpFI/AAAAAAAAARI/s-ptq27yj_Y/s320/eames-chair-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567685250222236754" /></a><br /><br />Maira Kalman<br /><br />American illustrator, author, artist, and designer.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURlGyzAjdI/AAAAAAAAARo/rfXOiTkAS1Q/s1600/kalman22.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURlGyzAjdI/AAAAAAAAARo/rfXOiTkAS1Q/s320/kalman22.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567686206726114770" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURlGj2EkAI/AAAAAAAAARg/uqTfsaEB-rE/s1600/well_susan.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 235px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURlGj2EkAI/AAAAAAAAARg/uqTfsaEB-rE/s320/well_susan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567686202712428546" /></a><br /><br />Steven Heller<br /><br />American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor. He specializes in graphic design. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURlsq4_yLI/AAAAAAAAARw/7LZBDNjBoeQ/s1600/steve_heller.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 238px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TURlsq4_yLI/AAAAAAAAARw/7LZBDNjBoeQ/s320/steve_heller.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567686857438775474" /></a>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-51814714835133734182011-01-25T10:51:00.000-08:002011-01-25T11:02:19.920-08:00Examples<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TT8cII-iHkI/AAAAAAAAAP4/dKRHaaGFG1k/s1600/things_my_girlfriend_and_i_have_argued_about__a_novel.large.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TT8cII-iHkI/AAAAAAAAAP4/dKRHaaGFG1k/s320/things_my_girlfriend_and_i_have_argued_about__a_novel.large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566198590627520066" /></a><br />Things My Girlfriend and I have Argued About<br /><br />This cover does a pretty good job of combining text and imagery. Between the title and what is shown the viewer understands some of the things that may come up in the book. Also the cover is balanced and is not over crowded. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TT8cHp6DNHI/AAAAAAAAAPw/y9mLuta34mk/s1600/star_dust.large.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TT8cHp6DNHI/AAAAAAAAAPw/y9mLuta34mk/s320/star_dust.large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566198582287217778" /></a><br />Star Dust<br /><br />I thought this cover was really eye catching. The contrast between the white and black helps with that as well. I like the feeling that the "dust" was wiped away to reveal the title. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TT8cGs9ES1I/AAAAAAAAAPo/W4rgFAHo2q8/s1600/sexliesmurderfame.large.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TT8cGs9ES1I/AAAAAAAAAPo/W4rgFAHo2q8/s320/sexliesmurderfame.large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566198565925309266" /></a><br />Sex. Lies. Murder. Fame.<br /><br />This one really explores simplicity, and because of that i feel it is successful. Each of the symbols could probably stand alone, and the words are there for clarification. I also really like the limited color palette.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-11773959713270650232011-01-23T14:57:00.000-08:002011-01-23T15:04:56.848-08:00Poppy and Rye<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TTy0AqRo32I/AAAAAAAAAPg/MDk3Qbx5Q7w/s1600/0380797178_large.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TTy0AqRo32I/AAAAAAAAAPg/MDk3Qbx5Q7w/s320/0380797178_large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565521162964361058" /></a><br />Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of both the Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal.<br />Avi and his twin sister Emily Wortis Leider (also a writer) were born in New York City to Joseph Wortis, a psychiatrist, and Helen Wortis, a social worker. In the year after Avi's birth, his family moved to Brooklyn. When he was young his sister gave him the nickname "Avi." Two of Avi's grandfathers were writers, and one grandmother was a playwright. In interviews, he recalled his mother reading to him and his sister every night, and going to the public library on Fridays. He is also the first cousin of the Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin.<br />Avi's parents transferred him from Stuyvesant High School to Elisabeth Irwin High School, a smaller private school. There he studied with a tutor, Ella Ratner, whom he credits for his writing success.<br />Avi has written more than 70 books. He has written books for different age groups and in many different genres including historical fiction, fantasies, comedies, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure tales, realistic fiction, and picture books. Avi has won awards for his books, including a Newbery Honor for The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle in 1991 and another for Nothing But the Truth in 1992. His fiftieth book, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2003. Avi's book, "Iron Thunder," about the ironclad Monitor and its battle with the CSS Virginia in Hampton Roads, Va., was selected as the 2009 Beacon of Freedom Award winner by Williamsburg Regional Library and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. At of the end of 2010, Avi will have published 71 books, all written for children/young adults. In 2006 Avi wrote a sequel to Crispin: The Cross of Lead titled Crispin: At the Edge of the WorldThe third part of the series, `Crispin: the End of Time.' was published in 2010.<br /><br /><br /><br />Poppy, a deer mouse, sets out on a search for her fiancé's family to tell them about his death. She is accompanied by her friend Ereth, the porcupine. She makes her way through the Dimwood Forest, not knowing where she was going so she asks for help along the way. When Poppy finally reaches Ragweed's family she discovers that the beavers have invaded their home. Now the oldest brother, Rye, who has fallen in love with Poppy tries to prove his love to her and his loyalty to his family by forcing the beavers to leave. During his adventure Rye gets kidnapped by the beavers.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-58699305937593212882011-01-23T14:48:00.000-08:002011-01-23T14:53:18.523-08:00No Country for Old Men<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TTyxUE_A2VI/AAAAAAAAAPY/i8LPdUaKFVA/s1600/Cormac_McCarthy_NoCountryForOldMen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TTyxUE_A2VI/AAAAAAAAAPY/i8LPdUaKFVA/s320/Cormac_McCarthy_NoCountryForOldMen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565518198016629074" /></a><br />Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He received a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel, All the Pretty Horses.<br />His previous novel, Blood Meridian, (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005 and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, calling Blood Meridian "the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying." In 2010 The Times ranked The Road first on its list of the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books of the past 10 years. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner. McCarthy is increasingly mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the influential and well-informed Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.<br /><br /><br /><br />The plot follows the interweaving paths of the three central characters (Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell) set in motion by events related to a drug deal gone bad near the Mexican-American border in southwest Texas in Terrell County.<br />While Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope, he stumbles across the aftermath of a drug-deal gone bad which has left everyone dead but a single badly wounded Mexican who asks Moss for water. Moss responds that he doesn't have any and searches the rest of the vehicles, finding a truck full of heroin. When he searches for the "last man standing" he finds him dead some ways off under a tree with a satchel with $2.4 million in cash. He takes the money and returns home. Later, however, he feels remorse for leaving the wounded man and returns to the scene with a jug of water, only to find that he has been murdered. When Moss looks back to his truck parked at the ridge overlooking the valley, another truck is there. As soon as he tries to run, he is seen, which sparks a tense chase by the gunmen in the other truck. This is only the beginning of a hunt for Moss that stretches for most of the remaining novel. After escaping from the gunmen at the scene of the battle, Llewelyn sends his wife, Carla Jean Moss, to her mother out in Odessa while he leaves his home with the money.<br />Sheriff Ed Tom Bell investigates the drug crime while trying to protect Moss and his young wife with the aid of other law enforcement. The sheriff is haunted by his actions in World War II, leaving his unit to die for which he received a Bronze Star. Now in his late 50s, Bell has spent most of his life attempting to make up for the incident when he was a 21-year-old soldier. He makes it his quest to resolve the case and save Moss. Complicating things is the arrival of Anton Chigurh, a hitman hired to recover the money. Chigurh uses a captive bolt pistol (called a "stungun" in the text) to kill many of his victims (and to destroy several cylinder locks to open doors), as well as a silenced shotgun. Carson Wells, a rival hitman and ex-Special Forces officer who is familiar with Chigurh, is also on the trail of the stolen money. After a brutal shootout that spills across the Mexican border and leaves both Moss and Chigurh wounded, Moss recovers at a Mexican hospital while Chigurh patches himself up in a hotel room with stolen supplies. While recuperating, Moss is approached by Wells, who offers to give him protection in exchange for the satchel and tells him his current location and phone number, instructing him to call when he has "had enough."<br />After recovering and leaving the hotel room, Chigurh finds Wells and murders him just as Moss calls to negotiate the exchange of money. After answering Well's phone, Chigurh tells Moss that he will kill Carla Jean unless he hands over the satchel. Moss remains defiant and soon after, calls Carla Jean and tells her that he will meet up with her at a motel in El Paso. After much deliberation, Carla Jean decides to inform Sheriff Bell about the meeting and its location.<br />At the motel, Sheriff Bell arrives to find Moss murdered by a band of Mexicans. Later that night Chigurh arrives at the scene and retrieves the satchel from the airduct in Moss' room. He returns it to its rightful owner, and later travels to Carla Jean's house and shoots her after flipping a coin to decide her fate. Soon after, he is hit by a car, which leaves him severely injured, but still alive. After bribing a pair of teenagers to remain silent about the car accident, he limps off down the road.<br />After a long investigation that fails to locate Chigurh, Bell decides to retire and drives away from the local courthouse feeling overmatched and defeated. For the rest of the book, Bell describes two dreams that he had the night before. In one, he met his father in town and borrowed from him some money which he eventually lost. In the second, Bell was riding his horse in a pass in the mountains where there was snow on the ground and cold all around him. As he rode, he could see his father up ahead of him carrying a horn lit with fire the color of the moon, and he knew that his father would ride on through the pass and fix a fire out in the dark and cold. And then he woke up.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-61542540978253446832011-01-23T14:39:00.000-08:002011-01-23T14:47:08.248-08:00Prey<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TTyv21wPAiI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/SF3v9q8Rf3A/s1600/preyhcfull.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rlYjQXmFnhc/TTyv21wPAiI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/SF3v9q8Rf3A/s320/preyhcfull.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565516596200276514" /></a><br />John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008), best known as Michael Crichton, was an American author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at #1 in television, film, and book sales (with ER, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure, respectively).<br /><br />His literary works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. His novels epitomise the techno-thriller genre of literature, often exploring technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. Among others, he was the author of Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next (the final book published before his death), Pirate Latitudes (published November 24, 2009), and a final unfinished techno-thriller yet to be released.[4] Forbes listed Crichton in tenth place in its list of "Top-Earning Dead Celebrities" of 2009.<br /><br /><br /><br />The novel is narrated by the protagonist Jack Forman, who is an unemployed software programmer who used to work with artificial intelligence. He is fired for attempting to expose an internal scandal in his company, MediaTronics. As a result, he is forced to take the role of "house-husband" while his wife Julia works as vice-president for Xymos, a nanorobotics company. Julia claims that Xymos is on the verge of perfecting a revolutionary new medical imaging technology based on nanotechnology.<br /><br />The story starts with a series of strange events happening in rapid succession. Jack's baby daughter Amanda develops a very strange painful rash that propagates and becomes very severe. While the doctors are unable to find the cause of the rash, an MRI scan instantly cures her. Amanda's room is visited by a special team of Xymos personnel. Later, Jack is surprised to see the memory chip of an MP3 Player belonging to his son corroded into powder. During this time, Jack also begins to suspect that his wife, who comes home very late and shows aberrant behavior, is having an affair. MediaTronics contact Jack, explain to him that they have become a contractor of Xymos and offer to rehire him as a software consultant for Xymos to help deal with a problem in the PREDPREY algorithm, which was designed at MediaTronics under Jack's leadership. The following night, Julia hastily leaves home shortly after arrival to go back to work. Jack and his son both see what looks like the silhouette of a man in her car, although Julia denies it. Julia ends up crashing her car through a guard rail and over a small drop. At the scene of the crash, Jack spots the Xymos special team in a van, wearing strange gear, who immediately leave when he begins to get close to them.<br /><br />Convinced that Xymos is somehow connected to all these strange events, Jack accepts MediaTronics' offer and travels to the Xymos manufacturing facility, known as "fab plant", in Nevada. At the fab plant, he is joined by members of his old software development team - Mae, Charley, David, Rosie, Bobby and Ricky. Ricky, now working for Xymos and in charge of the fab plant, gives Jack a brief tour of the building, and explains that the company was under contract from the Department of Defense to create a swarm of nanorobots that act as a camera for reconnaissance and spying. The swarm is created by genetically modified E. coli bacteria, which create gamma assemblers from raw materials that, in turn, manufacture nanobots.<br /><br />Ricky claims that building contractors failed to properly install filters in a certain vent in the building. As a result, hazardous elements such as the assemblers, the bacteria, and the nanobots were blown into the desert, evolving and eventually forming autonomous swarms. These swarms appear to be solar-powered and self-sufficient, reproducing and evolving rapidly. The swarms exhibit predatory behavior, attacking and killing animals in wild, using code that Jack himself worked on. Most alarmingly, the swarms seem to possess rudimentary intelligence, the ability to quickly learn and to innovate. The swarms tend to wander around the fab plant during the day but quickly leave when strong winds blow or night falls.<br /><br />The nanoswarm kills a rabbit outside the complex, and Jack goes outside with Mae to inspect. They find that the rabbit died of suffocation resulting from the nanobots blocking its bronchial tubes. While Mae goes inside for equipment, Jack is attacked by the swarms. He barely manages to get through the airlock inside the lab before falling unconscious from anaphylactic shock.<br /><br />The team explains to Jack that they believe Julia is the reason the swarms wander around the plant: During the earlier days of swarm appearance, Julia had started an attempt to make personal contact with them, first "entertaining" them with kid toys and then testing their intelligence using colored blocks. As time passed, Julia gained more affection for the swarms. In turn, the swarms, especially one of them, developed an affinity toward her.<br /><br />Persuaded by Jack, the team decides to destroy the swarm. They believe that the swarm must have nested in the desert to reproduce. They attempt to find this nest by tagging the swarm with radioactive isotopes and following them back to their nest at night. Under the cover of a strong wind that forces the swarms to remain dormant, the team goes outside to a storage shack to find the isotopes and build a spray device. However, as the wind dies down, four swarms attack the shack and eventually kill David and Rosie. The rest of the team are forced to take shelter in the cars parked outside. The Swarms begin an attempt to enter the cars.<br /><br />The team notices that these swarms are more advanced than the ones they saw before. They are capable of tracing tracks, tripping their prey by making the ground slippery, taking snapshots of their prey and forming a flat surface to display rudimentary still images.<br /><br />Eventually, the swarms find a way to enter the cars, but not long before the wind picks up in speed again. Jack and Mae manage to escape to the lab before losing consciousness, but Charley falls unconscious outside his car after he sprays his swarm with the isotope. Bobby, Vince and Ricky refuse to go outside and help Charley. Jack, dizzy and nauseous, goes back out again to save Charley as the swarms attacks again. Using a motorbike found in David's car, Jack manages to get himself and the semi-conscious Charley to the safety of the airlock before he falls unconscious again.<br /><br />During the evening, security cameras show another alarmingly more evolved swarm in the vicinity of the facility that can form into a 3D replica of Ricky. This swarm acts as a decoy while other swarms stealthily carry away the dead corpses of David and Rosie.<br /><br />As night falls, Jack, Mae and Bobby set out to find the swarms. While searching for them, they discover that one of the swarms, now so evolved that it can operate without solar energy, is moving the now deceased Rosie through the desert. They follow the body to find the swarms nesting in a cave. As some of the swarms come out of the cave after them, a Xymos helicopter arrives and traps the swarms inside the cave using its powerful draft. Mae and Jack then venture into the cave and proceed to exterminate the swarm, their nest and their organic assembly plant (which looks very similar to the original Xymos assembly plant) using explosive thermite caps. They return to the Xymos plant, exhausted.<br /><br />At the plant, Jack, Mae and Bobby are enthusiastically greeted by Julia, who was earlier discharged from the hospital and was brought in by the chopper. Julia's behavior seems to be extremely aberrant: She seems to heed to nothing else other than trying to entice Jack and kissing him, even when Charley is found dead in the locked communications room with a swarm flying around him and the communication links cut. Jack cannot understand how the swarm got inside the rigorously protected airtight building, why Charley would have disabled the facility's communications, or why Julia and Ricky seem to be coming up with various out-of-character ways of how he died.<br /><br />Jack wakes up early the next day and finds Mae looking over a security camera's video. To Jack's horror, the video not only reveals that Julia and Ricky had an affair but also shows how Charley engaged in a vicious fight with Ricky and Vince. All of them end up in the communications room where Julia kisses a subdued Charley, injecting a stream of swarm into his mouth.<br /><br />Eventually, Jack and Mae realize that everyone in the facility except themselves have been infected by a symbiotic version of the nanobot swarms. These nanobots, although evolved alongside the other swarms, do not show aggressive predatory behavior. Instead, while they seem to invigorate their hosts' physical statistics and their perception, they slowly devour and take over their hosts, initially affecting their decisions and then controlling them, while allowing them to travel and contaminate others.<br /><br />Jack comes up with a plan to destroy this new strain. Mae and Jack drink vials containing a form of phage that kills the nanobot-producing E. coli bacteria. The phage would protect them from infection. Jack then proceeds to take a sample of the phage and pour it into the sprinkler system and drench everyone with it. He tricks Mae into alerting Julia and the infected team. They set out to stop Jack. In the vicious struggle that ensues, Vince is killed and Jack, who barely escapes death multiple times, finally manages to dump the sample into the sprinkler system.<br /><br />In order to prevent the sprinkler system from triggering, infected-Ricky disables the plant's safety network. However, this is exactly what Jack wants, as Mae has already allowed the phage into the assembly line, causing the phage to reproduce rapidly. The assembly line is rapidly overheating because of the no longer active safety system. If Ricky and Julia do not turn on the safety system the assembly line will burst, filling the lab with the phage. The infected-team, who are now doomed either way, choose to re-activate the safety network and get drenched with the phage. Jack and Mae escape the facility in a helicopter shortly before the facility explodes due to a methane gas leak combined with thermite Mae has placed in the building. After returning home, Jack infects all his children with the phage to eradicate the potential nanobot infestation. Mae calls the U.S. Army and sends a sample of the phage to her lab.<br /><br />Jack puts together all the missing links. The corrosion of the memory chip in Eric's MP3 player as well as Amanda's rash were caused by gamma assemblers. The MRI's strong magnetic field detached the assemblers from her. These assemblers were most likely brought home by Julia. Knowing this, Julia called in the Xymos special team to scan Amanda's room. The person who Jack spotted in Julia's car was in fact the cloud of nanobots.<br /><br />Jack also discovers an e-mail on Julia's laptop that indicates that the release of the swarm in the wild was not accidental. Julia had authorized the release of the swarms in the first place in hopes that it would evolve and solve their problem, failing to realize the potential consequences of their actions. Consequently, one of the swarms infects Julia and then Ricky, who both die in the fabrication plant explosion.Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273323000245624337.post-78122394167865515312010-12-10T17:11:00.001-08:002010-12-10T17:11:38.624-08:00BehanceJake and Dinos Chapman<br /><br /><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Drop-Cap-for-Jake-and-Dinos-Chapman/857282">http://www.behance.net/gallery/Drop-Cap-for-Jake-and-Dinos-Chapman/857282</a>Kate Sutphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713673178036284173noreply@blogger.com0