The artist’s dilemma: what constitutes selling out?

The artist’s dilemma: what constitutes selling out?

Yoav Litvin, The Rockefeller University Intellectuals, academics and artists play a unique role in society: they preserve and defend both freedom of expression and the morality of choices. Artists can use their work as a means to communicate messages of dissent and...
Sublime design: an ode to the layout grid

Sublime design: an ode to the layout grid

The Tibetan Book of Proportions, produced in Nepal during the 18th century. The Public Domain Review Zoe Sadokierski, University of Technology Sydney Staring at a blank page is daunting. Where to make the first mark? As designers have known for centuries, one way is...
Yes, Google has a new logo – but why?

Yes, Google has a new logo – but why?

In a world that is already filled with clutter, simplicity is a strong message. Google, Author provided Per Mollerup, Swinburne University of Technology As you’ll no doubt know, given the blanket coverage thus far and the fact you evidently use the internet, Google...
Why universities should get rid of PowerPoint and why they won’t

Why universities should get rid of PowerPoint and why they won’t

Reading off a PowerPoint slide doesn’t make you a teacher. from www.shutterstock.com.au Paul Ralph, University of Auckland Do you really believe that watching a lecturer read hundreds of PowerPoint slides is making you smarter? I asked this of a class of 105 computer...