Week 17 - Final 2008 Post

It's all about design this week. Thanks to Amanda for mentioning the awesome NYTimes magazine ideas edition as it's chock full of awesome stuff.

1. This was on the back page. Kind of a neat idea for expressing patents in America. The drawings are renderings of what the artist thinks the items may look like. What do you think of the small drawings? This covered the inside back cover. Is this effect storytelling? A good way to spice up some boring information?

2. This is a regular column in the NYTimes magazine: Questions For. Peruse the folks interviewed, read one or two. What do you think of the full page interview? The full page dedicated to a single source? Is this something The Voice should look into? What person could fill the page? What group? How could we use this to our benefit? Or, is a full page too much for one story?

Excellent comments this first semester. Enjoy the break.

Fun with typography

Text for the assignment.

Do good work! Print at the end of class.

Design Assignment stuff

Here are the photos for the design assignments

Dog 1

Dog 2

Dog 3

Dog 4

Here is the text for the assignment

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Week 16

1. Here's an interesting article about teasing from the NYTimes. What are your thoughts on this issue? Is there any forms of teasing that go on at MA? Is this something to look at for a future article?

2. An interesting follow-up to our article on cheating. Clearly the article in last year's paper wasn't an anomaly. What are your thoughts on this study? Do you think this issue needs to be revisited considering the community response and the lack of follow-up we've had this year?

Google and Censorship

Read this article from Sunday's NYTimes magazine and comment on it. What are your thoughts? What do you think about the cool graphic headline? What troubles do you see with internet censorship in the future? There's lots this article covers, so dig in and share your thoughts.

Please post all thoughts by 8AM Thursday morning.

Week 15

I will post three times in December. You have until the end of the month (12/31) to comment on the posts.

1. A pretty interesting human interest piece from the NYTimes. Not only is this a unique story, but it's well written and digs into the subject quite well. What do you think of this piece? While we have the Wildcats of the Issue in the sports section, how might The Voice work in more single person profile pieces to spice up its pages? And I'm talking about more than a review. What kinds of things are MA students doing outside the classroom, on-campus that merit a little spotlight?

2. With the recent trouble in Mumbai, this article from CNN discusses the role of Twitter in the fiasco. There were some moments when Twitter was the ultimate news source, and other times when it seems to fail. First, what is Twitter and how does it function? Second, how do you see Twitter playing a role in the future of news gathering and reporting? Is it a good tool with the potential for awesomeness? Or, like many other social networking tools, is it something that should be discredited for its lack of veracity?