NEW YORK (AP) New Yorkers can now pay allegiance to their borough with their shoes. Nike is offering limited-edition sneakers featuring different colors, logos and identifying laces for each of the city’s five boroughs.

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A LASTING legacy of The Tall Ships Races is fast taking shape in Hartlepool.

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The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, which opens at MoMA on Sunday, is brainy and bookish and gives us new ways of looking at art.

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Pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB’s operating profit was up 10% year on year in the 12 months to the end of June, bolstered by an uplift in advertising, according to results out today.

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A CHILDREN’S charity has repeated a call to criminalise the branding of children as witches or as being possessed by evil spirits.

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Francis Maude has criticised Labour’s spending on advertising as “inexcusable”, sending a clear warning message to a raft of media companies to expect a radical reduction in Government this year.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have reserved $1.75 million for television ads to help Carly Fiorina in the final week of the California Senate race. The commitment signals the GOP’s optimism about unseating three-term Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November. The Republicans plan to target the Los Angeles market, and the money …

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The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies has fired back at government criticism of its new advertising campaign against the proposed mining tax.

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So we’re in the meat aisle, and the steaks and pork chops have this Red Tractor logo, which says “Assured Farm Standards”. All supermarkets display the Red Tractor: mostly on meat and poultry but also on cereals, and even cans of Carling lager, where it patriotically reveals the barley comes from Britain. But what does the tractor, which sits on a Union flag, mean’

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Fair Trade is the story of two very different female survivors of the sex slave trade. The story of their journeys – from their separate home countries to London – is told in a powerfully honest and unsentimental way.

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A neighborhood next to Prospect Park offers tree-lined blocks of houses and prewar apartment buildings, along with a sense of community.

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Professor William Thomas Singleton, known always at “Tom”, was Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology at Aston University. As an applied psychologist, he had devoted the majority of his long academic career to ergonomics, the technological discipline of designing equipment, systems, and working environments in accordance with human capabilities and limitations.

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What’s Your Reaction’ First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the this year’s National Design Awards winners for a luncheon at the White House. According to pool reports, Michelle for a bright pink pantsuit by Isabel Toledo for the occasion. (No pictures yet!)

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What’s Your Reaction’ “What will our cities look like in 2030′ That’s the question we posed to three well known architecture firms. The results are stunning, and in many wats revolutionary.

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Researchers report that teens’ exposure to cigarette advertising at retail outlets substantially increases the odds they will start smoking. According to the findings, students who visited these stores on a regular basis were at least twice as likely to try smoking as those who visited infrequently.

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The number of ads on Facebook has rocketed by a third in the last year as marketers increasingly look to harness the world’s largest social networking site.

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What’s Your Reaction’ Google’s logo is looking far more colorful today. Wondering what’s up’ We’ve got answers. July 15 marks the 125th anniversary of Frank’s birth.

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A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry launched a new ad campaign today pushing the idea that carbon dioxide isn’t an …

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ITV has applied for permission to display its logo on the top of its studio complex on the South Bank. Read more >

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The Icon development in Street, Somerset, is built on a 4.9 hectare site that used to belong to shoe maker Clarks. The Clark family stipulated that the development must provide homes that were ecologically sound and met a variety of need when it sold the land.

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The YMCA has a fresh new look. The widely known nonprofit organization announced a major brand transformation Monday, adopting a more “forward-looking” logo called “The Y.” “We are changing how we talk about ourselves so that people better understand the benefits of engaging with the Y,” said Kate Coleman, senior …

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The architect, perhaps more than other professionals, is a mythical figure. He projects a marriage of expertise with panache. Seductive imagery with poignant words. A…

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Publicis Groupe said its acquired G4, a Bejing-based full-service advertising agency, to service Nestle SA throughout greater China.

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Architect Lord Foster of Thames Bank has given up his seat in the House of Lords in order to hold on to his non-domiciled tax status, it was revealed today.

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When Robin Boyd published The Australian Ugliness back in 1960, he argued for a more rigorous debate about our built environment, one brave enough to take on ideas of beauty, as well as ugliness. But has it happened’ One of our leading poets and novelists, David Malouf, has just been acknowledged for his writing about architecture. Malouf’s writing is infused with a sense of place that started …

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Children saw fewer television advertisements for certain foods, including those for sweets and beverages, in 2007 compared with 2003, according to a new study. However, children now see more fast-food ads, and racial gaps in exposure to all food advertising have increased.

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When Robin Boyd published The Australian Ugliness back in 1960, he argued for a more rigorous debate about our built environment, one brave enough to take on ideas of beauty, as well as ugliness

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In May of 1968, Charlotte Posenenske, a thirty-eight-year-old German minimalist with a thriving career, published a manifesto. The first lines read like Donald Judd (The things I make are variable / as simple as possible / reproducible); the last was a Dear John to sculpture (Art . . .

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Scientists in Germany have elucidated the architecture of the largest protein complex of the cellular respiratory chain.They discovered an unknown mechanism of energy conversion in this molecular complex. The mechanism is required to utilize the energy contained in food.

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Job advertisements increased 2.7 per cent last month in a sign the labour market is still edging forward.

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Advertising revenue on Australias free-to-air television channels in capital cities climbed an estimated 15 percent in the first half of the year and will keep increasing in the current quarter, the Australian Financial Review reported, citing Nine Network director of sales and marketing Peter Wiltshire. Wiltshire expects a full-year growth rate of about 13 percent, the newspaper said.

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Is listening our most unsung sense’ That’s the premise of the Liquid Architecture sound festival which runs for four weeks and goes to seven cities around Australia

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A SHERIFF has thrown out a bid by the Church of Scotland to claw back money paid to a design company for work on its logo.

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Via Curbed LA : Romanian architect Haralamb Georgescu designed the Beverly Hills home after it was commissioned by Italian writer Pier Maria Pasinetti in 1958. According to Willow Glen Partners , the house was created specifically to entertain, and has hosted such Old Hollywood luminaries and design stars as Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Gina Lollobrigida, Ingmar and Kabi Bergman, and Gio and …

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Revised EU rules on organic food labelling, including the requirement to display a new logo, came into force on 1 July.

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A ceramic sculpture of children’s author Beatrix Potter is unveiled by her great-great niece in Denbighshire.

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Win one of three pairs of tickets to the National Theatres spectacular new production Welcome to Thebes – a new play by Moira Buffini. A school student campaign for fairer schoolwear has led to supermarket chain Tesco doubling the number of Fairtrade cotton school uniforms they stock.

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Projected on the NT flytower, this programme of short films from the BFI archive shows the evolution of the South Bank from the opening of Waterloo Station , via the Festival of Britain, to the cultural building sites in the 1960s and a night with cineastes at the National Film Theatre.

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A Government minister apologised today after calling Commons Speaker John Bercow a “stupid, sanctimonious dwarf”.

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Emerging Ghana is a plan for an eco-affordable single family house for the emerging middle class of Ghana. The design recently won first place in the international design competition Open Source House, a non-profit organization that aims to provide better, more sustainable housing in low-income countries.

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Facebooks quest for the worlds best technological talent continues. The social networking behemoth has hired Matt Papakipos the leader and key architect of Google Chrome OS and VMWare Vice President Jocelyn Goldfein onto its engineering team. To say

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A sculpture of Glasgow comedian Billy Connolly is set to take pride of place at a new development of social housing in the city.

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Here are 13 designs you probably won’t be seeing on Google’s homepage anytime soon.

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Illegal immigration crackdowns popping up across the country have a common thread: a 44-year-old constitutional law professor and former Bush administration attorney who crafted the legal framework behind Arizona’s controversial immigration law. 

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Global advertising spending is expected to rebound this year as emerging markets continue to invest in the media.

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We live in a world that requires a strong-branded message to reach large numbers of people, and if the message of mindfulness can transform even one child’s life is it worth getting the word out’

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QI have just upgraded my computer to Windows 7 from Vista and I want to personalise my folders with logos. Is this possible’ AThere are several ways that you can personalise folders in Windows 7 but they all come from the same place. Right-click on the folder and then left-click on Properties.

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We have seen dozens of Apple’s print ads for the iPad in national newspapers and magazines, all of which have been variations on the same theme: An iPad sits comfortably on the lap of a user who is navigating the device with an index finger. In the ads featuring a male using the iPad, he is always shown reading the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, while the ads with female users always …

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On the agenda: a class on how to make red velvet cupcakes; Gay Pride Weekend; celebrating the full moon; and a cheese-eating competition.

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The nation’s designed landscape heritage is rich, varied and fascinating — especially in our cities where the Harvard educator and landscape architect Hideo Sasaki saw a great design opportunity for the “betterment of [the] human environment.”

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