Blog Reviews for week of 9/27-10/4

London Design Festival '09

One of my favorite things to do that I never get to do is visit museums. I don't really get time now that I am older but growing up in one of the most cultured cities in the world I did have an opportunity to visit many of NYC prized museums so when I went to London with the Hofstra in London program I made a point to visit the British museum. Industrial Design is often an element of art that is often under acknowledged so I thought that it was worth commenting that the Victoria and Albert museums showcased recent trends among European designers.

Twit This

Twitter has exploded as yet another social

More Marc Jacobs sites

Vogue UK article

Marc Jacobs Wikipedia article

Marc Jacobs.com Bio

Blog Reviews for week of 9/14-9/20

Who wants a Green car, Americans look better in red, white, and blue

From: pantopicon.be/blog

This article talks about the American car and how many critics believe that the American Industry has missed the boat so to speak.

Electric Car Recharging Station

The electric cars seemed to be where the gas efficient movement was going and then like the idea seemed to just evaporate. Gas guzzling SUVs like the Denali, Escalade, Yukon, etc flooded the market and it wasn't until like 3-4 years ago I started hearing about hybrids but what about the electric car.

Class notes

For brochure use font from the Font families provided. i.e Meta- font family fro the header; Palatino- font family for the body.
Leading is the space btw the lines. In brochure it should be 13.
Use 2.125 column width for text boxes.
Command+A= select All
Make sure you do not have words broken by hyphens
There is no need to indent for small brochures.

Class notes 9/10/2009

Factual- denotative (information design)

Suggestive- connotative

Serif

Sans serif

full page bleed- means that it exhausts all the printable area.

strategic designer- design thinking

Study of Economics not so Cost effective.

How the Federal Reserve distorts Economics profession

Why Economics is Bankrupt?

Apple releases Nano video

Apple was bluffing

I am avid Mac fan. I think Steve Jobs is a technology revolutionary. While I respect his great vision I know that the innovations are a team effort. Anyways, rumors have been all over the internet about the release of a Mac tablet. Most bloggers were certain that they would release the Mac tablet but to their dismay only the new iPod nano with video once unveiled.

Ooh Mom I want that for Christmas

Who gets to Decide what you want?

I chose this article because I thought it was very interesting that someone deemed this blog worthy. I thought it was one of those ephinanies that everyone has at some point. More commonly when they have kids lol. The following line

"Patients are taught what to want by doctors who prescribe new tests. And doctors are taught to do that by lawyers eager to sue if they don't. Imagine going home and saying, "the doctor wanted to give me another test, but I said no..."

As someone that aspires to be a lawyer I felt this post was particularly interesting simply because it gives a cynical yet very actual of representation of the relationships between two very prominent professions. It also touches on something which has been engrained in our culture that most don't even think about the idea that lawsuits play a heavy part in our medical industries.

9/8/2009

Class Notes:"God is in the details"- Mies Van Derrohe

"Nothing ever goes away. The new technology makes the old technology into art"- Marshal McLuhan

HIghlight- Lightest part of the photo

Gutter- WHere the two pages in a book meet at binding.

In Photoshop- option+magnify tool will zoom out.

Favorite quote of the class

" Look at this on a PC it may look terrible"- Prof. Klinkostein

Text on Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs was born in New York City. He attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City and graduated in 1981. At fifteen, Jacobs worked as a stockboy at Charivari, an avant-garde clothing boutique in New York City. From there, Jacobs entered Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. During his tenure at Parsons, Jacobs won the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award in 1984 and in the same year was also awarded the Chester Weinberg Gold Thimble Award and the Design Student of the Year Award.

While still at Parsons, Jacobs designed and sold his first line of hand-knit sweaters. He designed his first collection for Reuben Thomas, Inc., under the Sketchbook label. Following his studies at Parsons, Jacobs began to design at Perry Ellis (Ellis had recently died, so he wasn't there). Jacobs became prominent on the fashion scene when he designed a "grunge" collection for Perry Ellis, leading to his dismissal in 1993. With Robert Duffy, Jacobs formed Jacobs Duffy Designs Inc., which continues to this day. In 1986, backed by Onward Kashiyama USA, Inc., Jacobs designed his first collection bearing the Marc Jacobs label. In 1987 Jacobs was the youngest designer to have ever been awarded the fashion industry's highest tribute, The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent.

Jacobs and Duffy joined the women's design unit of Tristan Russo in 1989 as Vice President and President, respectively. In addition, Jacobs oversaw the design of the various women's licensees. In 1992, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, once again bestowed Jacobs with a great honor: The Women's Designer of the Year Award. In 1994 he produced his first full collection of menswear.

Jacobs is a prominent fixture in the New York City celebrity scene, having become something of a celebrity himself. The audience for his fashion shows typically includes celebrities like Kim Gordon and Vincent Gallo. Most of his collections make references to the fashions of past decades from the forties to the eighties. Disputing the claim by the designer Oscar de la Renta that Jacobs is a mere copyist, the New York Times Critic Guy Trebay has written "unlike the many brand-name designers who promote the illusion that their output results from a single prodigious creativity, Mr. Jacobs makes no pretense that fashion emerges full blown from the head of one solitary genius". Explaining his clothes, Jacobs has said "what I prefer is that even if someone feels hedonistic, they don’t look it. Curiosity about sex is much more interesting to me than domination. ... My clothes are not hot. Never. Never."^[

Blog reviews

New Ford Fusion. Enough to stay a float?

When I was car chopping last Winter, the idea of getting an American car didn't really appeal to me. Honda Civics, and Nissan Altimas. They were not only fuel efficient but they had sleek designs and more importantly were affordable. The article titled "Smart Design & IDEO Make The New Ford Fusion Hybrid Great" featured on the