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Lois realized in high school that every design and communications problem presented an opportunity to do something unusual, exciting, dramatic, and unique.
If David Cameron wants to beat Gordon Brown next month, he might want to play a lot of tennis. According to this paper, anyway, gestures and small movements are enough […]
The fight over Cape Wind – a $1 billion, 24-square-mile offshore wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound – has dragged on so long (9 years) that books have been written […]
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Brian Henson talks about growing up with stuffed siblings.
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Puppetry is one of the oldest art forms, and its effect can't be replicated with 3D digital animation.
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Jim Henson knew the value of letting people make mistakes.
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A science background helped Brian Henson create his first scene ever in "The Great Muppet Caper."
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Brian Henson’s latest show is derived from early memories of watching his dad off-set with the Muppets.
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A conversation with the chairman of the Jim Henson Company
Don't look now, but "femivores" are back in the news. Femivores, if you recall, are women who embrace ultra-local food production as feminist statement. Usually this involves some kind of […]
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The most thrilling thing as a designer is making something that becomes a cultural phenomenon and impacts people.
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Magazines are supposed to be leading the culture by "telling people what the hell you think is exciting and dynamic and thought provoking."
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Angry letters from congressmen. Death threats. Lost advertising. In the 60's, these were often the result of a provocative cover image.
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Forget about culture-busting significance on the newsstand. The covers of today's magazines just aren't memorable.
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Inspiration isn't a bolt of lightening—it comes out of your own sensibilities and understanding of the world.
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The '60s "was the most heroic age in media communications since the twelve apostles," but the AMC show doesn't really get it.
"My work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit," says DJ Spooky. "We’re bombarded with sound at every level." In his Big […]
The members of the Senate Permnanent Subommittee on Investigations were angry. Their anger was predictably performative, and often nasty. McCaskill’s analogy of Goldman Sachs to a bookie managing bets on […]