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[DT]: Drug Makers Dial Down TV Advertising

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:49:23 +0000

Pharmaceutical companies have cut spending on television advertising by 20 percent over the last five years, according to a Nielsen study. Analysts expect drug advertising to continue to fall as more brand-name drugs face generic competition.

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[DT]: 92 Percent of Ads in Florida Were Negative

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:18:06 +0000

Mitt Romney and the and #34;super PAC and #34; supporting him vastly outspent Newt Gingrich and his super PAC.

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[DT]: Germany returns Afghan sculpture

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:15:03 +0000

Germany returns an ancient pre-Islamic sculpture looted during Afghanistan and #39;s civil war, officials say.

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[DT]: Faith Ladd, 5-Year-Old Girl, Identifies Brand Logos In Adorable Project

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:41:46 +0000

Faith Ladd is drawn to the BP logo mostly because it and #39;s bright, colorful and resembles a flower. So when the spirited 5-year-old and her father were driving to grab some food on Sunday, she spotted the sign and asked if someone designed the logo.

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[DT]: Construction Rises as Architect Billings Show U.S. Nonresidential Rebound

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:50:53 +0000

Private nonresidential construction may pick up this year, as demand grows for new U.S. projects.

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[DT]: Yu Zhou: Bring Fair Trade to Electronics

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:41:36 +0000

Debates in the United States in response to these disclosures have been how to assign blame or whether consumers can force Apple to be more ethical. This is not enough. The problems are certainly not limited to Apple or Foxconn.

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[DT]: Branding academic publishers and #39;enemies of science and #39; is offensive and wrong

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:18:32 +0000

Publishers have made more scientific research available to more readers at a lower unit cost than ever before Writing in these pages last week, Dr Mike Taylor used strong language to support his assertion that academic publishers have and #34;drifted out of alignment and #34; with science – language that demands a response. I won and #39;t comment on the multiple references to one significant publisher – which is just …

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[DT]: Will the World Ever See Fair Trade iPads’

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:03:23 +0000

The truth is that consumers don and #39;t really have a good option when it comes to buying and #34;ethical and #34; smartphones and tablets. Why is that’ Why is there Fair Trade coffee but no Fair Trade electronics’

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[DT]: Sculpture gift sitting pretty

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:50:49 +0000

SPANISH artist Jaume Plensa has donated two of his works to Yorkshire Sculpture Park after his first major UK exhibition ended last Sunday.

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[DT]: 10 tips for creating the perfect logo

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:15:09 +0000

There are dozens of scientific and design-based studies that make this point rock solid: the simpler your logo, the easier it is to recall. This, after all, is the sole purpose of your branding for a company.

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[DT]: Architect outlines his UTG plans

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:28:18 +0000

The architect behind plans to transform Aberdeen and #39;s Union Terrace Gardens outlines his vision to city councillors.

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[DT]: Shane L. Windmeyer: Work It Failed… Now What About Logo’

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:38:06 +0000

It and #39;s no wonder ABC executives thought Work It would be OK. Just watch Logo and see how low we have set the bar. I did not fight to have access to Logo so that I could watch gay, privileged, white men complain about hookups and fashion.

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[DT]: Carla Leitao: Dustism, Creatures and Speculative Materialism in Architecture: An Interview With Alisa Andrasek/Biothing

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:08:29 +0000

I have previously reflected on concepts of and #39;particle architecture, and #39; architectural design which engages the potential future varied performances of microscopic levels of fabrics that build designed spaces and the large ensembles they can create.

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[DT]: Shipdham-based BAM Nuttall given civil engineering contract for King’s Lynn incinerator

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:43:05 +0000

An Anglo-US waste consortium hoping to build a controversial incinerator on the edge of King’s Lynn has awarded a civil engineering contract for the scheme, it was announced today.

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[DT]: State of the Union Key to Obama Election Re-Branding

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:53:15 +0000

Tonight, you will get to meet Obama the battle-hardened, wonkish reformer. You will get to know him very well in the next 41 weeks.

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[DT]: Copper temple sculpture stolen

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:38:47 +0000

A copper sculpture of a temple worth more than £1,200 is stolen in Powys for its scrap metal value, police believe.

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[DT]: Ramsey student is finalist in national fashion design competition

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:57:04 +0000

A RAMSEY student has been picked as one of five finalists for an international fashion award and will see her clothes modelled on the catwalk.

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[DT]: Advertising or Not, Billboards Have a Towering Presence

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:09:56 +0000

Their legality is often debatable; sometimes their safety is, too. But giant signs along highways are a prominent fixture of the cityscape.

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[DT]: Gamal El-Zoghby, Pratt Architecture Professor, Wants His Child Pornography Case Dismissed

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:53:09 +0000

EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — An architecture professor arrested after firefighters battling a blaze at his Jersey shore home found a 1970s magazine depicting naked prepubescent girls plans to seek dismissal of the child pornography charge though a pretrial intervention program, his lawyer said Friday.

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[DT]: Architect Lord Foster: and #39;Why I back the Thames hub and #39;

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:23:40 +0000

Lord Foster says the Thames Hub vision is a UK-wide initiative bringing together high-speed rail, freight logistics, aviation, energy, a new Thames Barrier for flood protection, green tidal energy production and regional development.

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[DT]: In New Ads for Bing, and #39;Doing and #39; Is the Thing

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:36:05 +0000

The new ads for the Microsoft search engine focus on young athletes, or as one executive put it, and #34;real people doing inspiring, cool things and inspiring other real people to do inspiring, cool things. and #34;

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[DT]: An Architect Returns to His First Triumph

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:39:31 +0000

The architect Kevin Roche has a long list of notable works to his name, but he was first known for the Ford Foundation Building, which was completed in 1967.

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[DT]: Robot design competition won by Aspatria pupils

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:28:28 +0000

A team from an Aspatria school have won a Cumbria-wide design competition.

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[DT]: Robot design competition won by Aspatria pupils

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:59:04 +0000

A team from an Aspatria school have won a Cumbria-wide design competition.

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[DT]: Down on the Farm, a Sculpture Finds a Second Life

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:16:12 +0000

The Pennsylvania Farm Show and #39;s famed butter sculpture finds a new use this year, returning to a dairy farm to be processed into biogas.

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[DT]: Obama to Start Advertising as Early as Thursday

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:34:50 +0000

The time was purchased in Michigan, Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina – all states with significant numbers of electoral votes

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[DT]: VIDEO: Parliament logo and #39;puts off the public and #39;

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:15:56 +0000

Parliament and #39;s portcullis logo can be seen by the public as closed and unwelcoming, or even a gate to keep them out, an adviser to the Speaker has said.

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[DT]: Portcullis logo and #39;not welcoming and #39;

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:27:12 +0000

Parliament and #39;s portcullis logo is seen by the public and #34;as a gate to keep them out and #34;, an adviser to the House of Commons Speaker says.

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[DT]: South Carolina Republican Debate: and #39;Mount Myrtle and #39; Sand Sculpture Greets Visitors

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:34:58 +0000

The sculpture is called and #39;Mount Myrtle and #39; and has three different elements. One part features all Republican candidates. The only problem is that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is in the middle — he dropped out of the race earlier Monday .

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[DT]: Improved ergonomics for wheelchair users

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:15:09 +0000

Engineers have succeeded in developing an ergonomic seat for electric wheelchairs which encourages the user to move around frequently. The aim is to enhance the freedom of movement of wheelchair users with a range of disabilities.

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[DT]: Tributes to Birmingham architect

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:03:26 +0000

Tributes to the Birmingham Central Library architect who has died aged 87

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[DT]: Hull councillor John Fareham suspended after branding disabled protesters and #39;retards and #39; on Twitter

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:26:12 +0000

John Fareham, Hull City council’s Tory group leader, made the comment on Twitter following a heated debate over budget cuts last February. He has now been suspended for 20 weeks.

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[DT]: PAC Deluges South Carolina Airwaves With Anti-Romney Ads

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:37:15 +0000

A and #34;super PAC and #34; supporting Newt Gingrich began running ads featuring people who lost their jobs when Mitt Romney and #39;s former equity firm took over their companies.

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[DT]: Bank of America Puts Its Advertising Account in Review

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:05:47 +0000

The company spent an estimated $300 million on advertising last year, and had not reviewed its ad assignments since 2005. A lot has changed in the economy, and at the bank, since then.

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[DT]: Hope for factory girls sculpture

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:57:19 +0000

The artist commissioned to create a sculpture honouring Derry and #39;s factory girls will be ready by 2013

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[DT]: Architect Metzstein dies aged 83

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:37:17 +0000

Tributes to influential architect Isi Metzstein who has died aged 83

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[DT]: Hepworth sculpture up for auction

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:13:38 +0000

A sculpture by the artist Barbara Hepworth is expected to fetch more than £100,000 at an auction in Essex.

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[DT]: Anne Tyng, Architect and Partner of Louis Kahn, Dies at 91

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:04:56 +0000

Ms. Tyng wrote extensively about geometric architecture and was also known for her romantic partnership with the celebrated modern architect Louis I. Kahn.

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[DT]: Diane Abbott sparks ANOTHER Twitter race row after branding taxi drivers as racist

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:24:28 +0000

The shadow minister for public health has sparked further fury, a day after her ‘divide and rule’ tweet, this time suggestion Black Cab drivers don’t stop for black customers.

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[DT]: Mobile-Advertising Company Millennial Media Files for $75 Million IPO

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:07:32 +0000

Millennial Media Inc., the second- largest mobile-advertising company in the U.S., filed for a $75 million initial public offering.

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[DT]: Ads Featuring Overweight Children Make Some Experts Uncomfortable

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:22:04 +0000

Heavy children talk about their obesity in a series of ads that have experts debating whether aggressive public health campaigns are educational or exploitative

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[DT]: Martin Ford: Google’s Cloud Robotics Strategy — and How It Could Soon Threaten Jobs

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:46:53 +0000

I think that many economists and others who dismiss the potential for robots and automation to dramatically impact the job market have not fully assimilated the implications of machine learning.

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[DT]: Ben wins Gleed school logo design competition

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:15:05 +0000

Winner Ben Weathrill with headteacher Janet Daniels and Richard Robinson from Lincolnshire Cooperative. Photo: SG121211-141NG To order photos call 01775 765433

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[DT]: Gingrich Standing Falters as Negative Advertising Dominates Iowa Airwaves

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:05:49 +0000

As Iowa (BEESIA) Republicans take in the final appeals before tomorrow’s caucus voting, one major lesson the candidates will take away: Going negative works.

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[DT]: Advertising legend MAURICE SAATCHI celebrates the joy of simple ideas that changed the world

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:39:15 +0000

The ideas that have changed our lives most are often the simplest. Simple ideas enter the brain more quickly and stay there longer.

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[DT]: Ted Hughes’s jaguar sculpture hints at poet’s demons

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:16:02 +0000

Poet’s family to sell rare jaguar sculpture that they believe shows his pain over Sylvia Plath’s death Ted Hughes’s fascination with jaguars inspired some of his verse, but it was little known until now that it also led him to create two sculptures. One of the sculptures, pictured for the first time in today’s Observer , is seen by experts as a self-portrait of a complex man who struggled …

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[DT]: Facebook page advertising dead whale’s teeth from Old Hunstanton is condemned

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:11:39 +0000

Police investigate West Norfolk man’s claims to be selling the sperm whale’s jaw bone and teeth – illegally.

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[DT]: Iowa’s million-dollar attack ads

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:20:54 +0000

The millions of dollars being lavished on attack ads in Iowa is a bad taste of things to come in the 2012 presidential election A tide is flowing through American politics: a tide of money unleashed by a supreme court decision that opened the floodgates to unlimited spending on advertising by so-called “super pacs” – political action committees loosely affiliated with individual candidates. Iowa …

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[DT]: BootsnAll: The Most Exciting Cities For Architecture Buffs

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:55:06 +0000

Here are seven great cities for architecture buffs and a few highlights not to miss in each one.

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[DT]: Ads Let Candidates Speak for Themselves, to Their Detriment

Design / Technology in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:11:31 +0000

The prevalence of in-their-own-words advertising campaigns is helping to make the Republican primary campaign a ferociously negative contest.

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