How A Pretty Face Can Push Visitors Away

One of the issues that came up in the course a number of times related to the use of images of people and specifically of faces in the graphic materials we produce. The article How A Pretty Face Can Push Visitors Away
gives some interesting insights into this matter based on the heat map analysis done for a hair color ad.

Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

I'm spreading Marxist materials!
Oy Gevald!

Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception: "Dialectic of Enlightenment"

This is a very interesting article, if a tad dry.
I was impressed by how accurately the article analyzes our current state of affairs, even though it was written over 60 years ago...

Mike

curious

curious

Exercises 4-5-6 are now online

Exercises 4-5-6 have been put online so that you can all identify and describe in brief your work.
All albums are viewable here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mikedarnell

Please make sure you identify each project you have created for the course.

All the best,
Mike

the Serge Group - Sergio Waksman Design - Photographer Bud Lee

A cool design studio I bumped into - you may want to poke around here...

the Serge Group - Sergio Waksman Design - Photographer Bud Lee

"You Suck At Photoshop" on TIME magazine

Don't you just love being ahead of the curve?

While searching for a link to publish for you guys regarding the Photoshop tutorials I told you about: "You Suck At Photoshop".

I was happily surprised to discover that the freaky tutorials I thought were an esoteric corner of the internet had made it into the hallowed screens of TIME magazine online: The Photoshop Guys Revealed! - TIME

Don't forget - you saw it first at the HIT...

: )
All the best,
MikeDarnell.name

dork magazine.

Ever so often I bump into a really cool online magazine - this is one of them:
dork magazine.

Enjoy...
MikeDarnell.name

The exercise "Packaging - Shelf and Shipping" is now online

The exercise "Packaging - Shelf and Shipping" is now online.
Students were asked to prepare a shelf package and a shipping package for give-away promotional items designed by their classmates in a previous exercise.
They were also required create a design for a logo and for a poster for the shipping company supposedly responsible for their efforts.

These are the projects presented:

Aziza Web Magazine

A brand new Israeli based design and culture magazine - check it out at:
Aziza Web Magazine

New Israeli design magazine RSS on the blog

I recently updated the blog and added an RSS feed from the blog-zine "Redesign", dealing in Israeli and global design. The blog-zine is a project run by feelternet.com for Regba and is a prime example of content driven marketing. The writing is done by design columnist Aryeh Berkovitch, who also teaches at HIT - so everything leads back home...

: )
Mike

THE BRIDGE - Indigenous Knowledge as a Bridge to Sustainable Design

THE BRIDGE - Indigenous Knowledge as a Bridge to Sustainable Design

WebUrbanist

This has to be one of the best online resources out there for a quick refreshing view at everything from urban design to subversive art and strange architecture.

Check it out:
WebUrbanist

Having an Art Emergency? - Visit the E.R...

Emergency Room is a daily updated platform for artists burning to express themselves regarding "emergencies". In the art Emergency Room there is no time to lose...