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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
The catchword is re-fresh. At all costs and by any means of the technology made available. Top of the list is the cell phone. By way of example, Censis, the Italian institute responsible for gathering censuses and behaviour surveys, recently published a poll which stated that 79.8% of young people consider the cell phone the best way of getting the latest current affairs updates, even if they only receive the headlines and not the full story.
It is this constant re-freshing that can cause a sort of neurosis, an anxiety caused by reconfiguring one’s mindset by continuously introducing new elements and new stimuli, but not ... Read More
Editorial Illustration, the primary market for illustrators in the United States, has been experiencing a decline in recent years. However, the territory outside of the traditional publishing market has been expanding at a rapid rate. The class Beyond Editorial, whose work is featured here, explores this fruitful landscape, giving students a taste ...
“Upgrade”, in the sense of bringing up to date, of refreshing one’s knowledge, practices and style, seems to be the catchword of the moment. One’s very survival seems to depend on it! But it’s an imperative that induces a sense of anxiety at the thought of being out-of-step; of being left behind; of redundancy. It’s a sense of anxiety ...
The United States has been called the land of opportunity, the place where life can begin anew. Today America is a destination for young people from all over the world who want to further their studies. The best American Universities attract talent, allow direct contact with research and support student innovation. We met one of these talents, Enri...
One of the top of the pops - art-wise, that is - at seventy the man has no intention of sitting back, taking it easy and telling tales. No, indeed! He's still very much craving for new experiences, as frisky and fiery as any mustang colt on the plains back home. Born in North Dakota into a family of Scandinavian extraction, James Rosenquist has ex...
Bright red. What does it mean? The Communists’ flag and the red carpet the Royal family walks on, a pool of fresh blood after a car accident and the body of a Ferrari? What language do I refer to, which part of my own vocabulary or that established over the history of images must I look for, to understand what a colour can tell me? Here, in o...
Mr. Sharpe, what is your relationship to information nowadays? Do you feel to be in contact with the babble of the world, to “refresh” is relevant for you and for a writer in general? My relationship to information is like that of a fish to water. The very oxygen that feeds each cell of my body is tainted with information, and, to paraphrase K...
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 in a family of Mexican extraction. She's currently one of the most complex literary voices of the United States. Legend and history, poetry and prose, the radio and music, English and Spanish are interwoven in her writings like the threads that go to make up the warp and weft of a caramel coloured rebo...
Let’s take irony: a linguistic picklock, a means for coping and coming to grips with an ever changing world, a way of putting oneself on the board. Irony hasn’t much currency lately, a circumstance that often makes for cultural doldrums. How does irony fit into your works? Well, I take it as a personal commitment to ensure that all my works ...
How is Digit updating the web? What do you think about new developments in the Internet? Stuart Jackson: One way we update the web is not to increase its complexity, but to simplify and demystify it. Our company ethos is “simple human interaction” which might seem strange - the idea that simplicity has become a fundamental element of a comp...
Four years on into the new Millennium and Europe has turned out more than 500,000 new EAN codes, those thick and narrow bars that adorn the packaging of all sorts of consumer products (source: AC Nielsen). In the UK, for instance, up to 700 new entries have been counted a week. These hefty figures are one of F the most ostensible examples of the...
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