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Dorms usually look very bland and unexciting. You want to make your new home away from home look inviting and comfortable as possible. Cheap and easy-to-make crafts will brighten things up without spending much green. Here are a few ideas:

• Paint a glass bottle and use it as a vase, or add a dew drops of paint into a clear bottle mixed with water to add a splash of color by your window space, or wherever you want.
• Post up memorable photos on your wall! It will cost less to tape these pictures on your wall than buying a large poster.You can even use other things like paystubs.
• Use pictures from magazines of your favorite sports team or celebrity and tape them on your wall.
• Use a bedsheet as a curtain to get rid of those bland window shades.

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“Imagine a world where the best ideas have the best chance to succeed. No more favoritism that places the wrong people on creative projects. Cut out the middlemen that arbitrarily recommend cost-efficient talent over the most deserving talent. Forget the corporate nepotism that appoints leaders based on relationships over merit. Every individual, team, and industry would benefit from a world where the most talented people got the most opportunity.”

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We’re proud to announce the arrival of our new wide format printer, Betty!

The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives (And How to Identify Them!)

This article discusses the necessary qualities/skills for someone to be successful in the creative field. This may be useful in thinking about how to write your resume or help you talk about what qualifies you for a job.

UMBC Transit Logo Redesign

Progression from top to bottom

Cory Blische & Andy Hsu

Website updated for the launch of our revamped blog. Thanks, Andy!

Geekosystem continues the conversation the New York Times started in its article about death and Facebook and the interesting questions that arise when the two intersect. No, this isn’t an article about “internet suicide,” in which someone attempts to remove themselves from all aspects of online social networking and community. This article looks to explore how the one-employee-for-every-350,000-Facebook-users team can manage a very sensitive issue better in the future.

“At the moment, a dead person’s profile will sit unchanged (that is, unless the person’s survivors have their passwords), and it will continue to show up in the profiles and home pages of that profile’s friends. The deceased’s survivors can either have the page removed, or “memorialize” it, which requires them to fill out this form, and include a link to an obituary or news article as proof of the person’s death.

“Ms. Chin said Facebook was considering using software that would scan for repeated postings of phrases like ‘Rest in peace’ or ‘I miss you’ on a person’s page and then dispatch a human to investigate that account.

“We are testing ways to implement software to address this,” she said. “But we can’t get it wrong. We have to do it correctly.”

How do you think Facebook can best deal with this? And what do you think about the future of media technology, especially as more issues like death that were previously experienced by a small circle of people “IRL” are being experienced by an increasing number of people through online communities?

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Visit the largest indoor antique show in the nation on Sept 2nd through the 5th! You will come across artful finds from all over the world right in our Baltimore area. Admission is $12 located in the Baltimore Convention Center. Take a friend with you and explore all the different pieces of art from all over the globe.

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Creative Review has a really great article talking about Logo design in 2010. I love the way that they have separated out different ‘trends’, it makes you more appreciative for the logo designs within their own trend.

They state ‘Transparency in logo design has become a bona fide design tool, like type or colour, not a trend. It’s too ubiquitous anymore to be considered a direction: it just is.’. I’m really interested in when this happened. You see re-branding happening pretty often nowadays, and if you pay attention you do see transparency and negative space being highly utilized.

If you look at the examples they give of innovative logos, you’ll notice that it is not longer a play on words, but more a play on space, texture, shapes, and your own mind. Advertisers and designers are counting on you to sort of fill in the blanks they have left us. They are creating puzzles within design, and allowing us to come to our own conclusions. Advertising and design is no longer an in your face approach, and it ponders the question: What’s next?

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