A little time management can make you a way better designer
There are designers or design students who barely have time to do the things they want to do. And by then, they are usually too tired to even think about them.
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Author: Joe Senior
Ultra-Cool Dwarf Stars May Host Planets With Ultra-Cool Life
Written speculation about life beyond the confines of Earth dates back thousands of years, to the time of the Greek philosophers Epicurus and Democritus. Unrecorded curiosity about this question undoubtedly goes back much further still.
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From a 16th-Century Book to a Robot-Assisted Performance, Artists Explore the Legend of the Golem
Noise-math philosopher Norbert Wiener once aptly compared the old Jewish myth about the golem with cybernetic technology. Viewed through that lens, everything from transhuman artificial life cyborgs to anthropomorphic robots to humanoid androids to posthuman digital avatars bear the mystical mark of an artificial body madly turning on its creator.
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Listen to a Rare Recording of an Eyewitness Account of Lincoln’s Assassination
Among those in Ford’s Theater who actually saw the chaos unfold was one Joseph H. Hazelton, a stage and film actor who was working as a program boy. In 1933, by which time he was the only living witness to the event, Hazelton gave a detailed account of what he had seen at the May Company’s Exposition Hall in Los Angeles.
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How the Imagery of the Russian Revolution Married Ideology, Politics + Progressive Graphic Design
It’s remarkable how a graphic style that emerged 100 years ago from a backdrop of political turmoil, seismic societal shifts, and radical ideologies can still feel as aesthetically visceral today as then. The 1917 October Revolution in Russia ushered in many changes; and perhaps the only of those to not have fallen out of favor is its distinct graphic style.
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