Our response to color is almost primal. Color can make us desire something or recoil from it. Color as symbol is an admixture of culturally rooted meaning and deeply personal experience, and it is always evolving. Yet color is perceived differently and with varying subtly […]
Author: helen_lane
Marion Fasel – Jewelry Author, Expert, Journalist and Friend
Rescheduled for March 14th at 3:00 PM in the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre. On February 28th at 3:00 PM, FIT students and faculty are invited to a Love Your Library 2014 interview with Marion Fasel, jewelry author, expert and journalist. As the person interviewing her, I […]
How do I look . . . when it’s not in Vogue?
Locating specific articles and images from pre-1970’s fashion and “women’s interest” periodicals can be difficult. Many of these magazines were given late or spotty coverage by the big publishing companies that provided periodical indexes to libraries (precursors to library databases). For instance, it wasn’t until the mid-1950’s […]
DIY Infographics for Business Students
Would you like to turn this . . . . . . . into this? Video of making an infographic with Infogr.am Back in September 2012, I wrote about the ready-made infographics that can be found in library databases like Mintel. Since the […]
An idea
Every year at about this time, the FIT Media Design Club holds an exhibition of their works at the Museum at FIT. Last year it was entitled Death 2 Pie Charts and featured some truly stunning information graphics. This year’s kinetic 4th Dimension exhibit, currently on display, […]