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.