Dmitri Siegel
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Cover art for The Information by Beck. Art direction and design by Matt Maitland/Gerard Saint at Big City Active with Beck. Sticker art by: Jody Barton, Beck, Juliette Cezar, Estell & Simon, David Foldvari, Genevieve Gauckler, Michael …
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World 6.0: Same as the Old World?
Screenshot from 2 Days to Vegas, developed by Steel Monkeys, 2006.Designing anything synthetic is driven by the opposing desires to replicate and transcend reality. On one hand, the virtual is compelling only in so far as it connects to …
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One of graphic design's strengths in its relatively short history has been its flexibility. The field has adapted to technological and economic changes over the last half century by absorbing elements of computer science, animation, …
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Designing Our Own Graves
DIY Coffin: You Can Kill Yourself Anywhere in the World for Under $399, Joe Scanlan, 2001A recent coincidence caught my eye while at the bookstore. A new book by Karim Rashid called Design Your Self was sitting on the shelf next to a new …
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It Takes a Nation of Lawyers to Hold Us Back
It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Photography and design by Glen E. Friedman, Public Enemy logo by Chuck D, 1988.When the Smithsonian Institution recently announced a deal with Showtime to create a joint venture called …
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Broadcast vs. Broadband
Remember the early 1990s, when techno-evangelists promised that television as we know it would soon be replaced by a searchable database of streaming video available at any time on your computer? Today, with the near-ubiquity of …
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Bartlebyâ„¢
In his classic story of Wall Street, Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville recounts the tale of a humble copyist employed by the story's narrator. Could Bartleby's perfectly crafted refrain be the appropriate response to a world where …
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Mysterious Disappearance of Carol Hersee
The story of Carol Hersee’s portrait as Test Card F: since it first appeared in 1967 on BBC2, Carol’s face has been on-air for over 70,000 hours.
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