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...best known for his “Hope” poster featuring President Obama—the day-long lecture series provided historical, theoretical, and practical insights into the relationship between design and society. The lectures ranged in subject matter, from the ways in which the Obama campaign used design to the controversy surrounding intellectual property that was sparked by Fairey’s use of an Associated Press photograph in his “Hope” poster. Steven Heller, who has acted as an art director at the New York Times for 33 years, provided a historical view...
...hearken back to last year's Undergraduate Council election season, you'll remember that there was one particular duo running for the presidency and vice presidency: Roy T. Willey '09 and Nicholas B. Snow '09. During the campaign, a little fact emerged about Willey and Snow: their involvement in the Harvard Polo Club. And it confused a lot of people who had never heard about it, like Derek M. Flanzraich...
...Well, it's not exactly straight from people who want to "protect marriage." The zombie-like figures in NOM storm ad are actually actors - whom in retrospect Gallagher might have some regret over hiring. Shortly after the NOM ad was released, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, got its hands on some of the characters' very watchable audition tapes. (The audition videos were a huge hit on YouTube, but were quickly removed due to copyright infringement...
...flavor." Joe Solmonese, the president of HRC, said he doesn't know how his organization got the audition tapes - he would only disclose, "I assume someone sent them to us from where the people auditioned." In addition to the casting call videos for the storm ad, NOM's television campaign has inspired a bonanza of YouTube spoofs. See this, this and this...
...Embryonic-stem-cell research, for instance, wasn't an issue during the presidential campaign, in large part because John McCain and Obama both support it. Candidate Obama pledged to reverse the ban on stem-cell funding, and his Inaugural Address - in which he vowed to "restore science to its rightful place" - served notice that he would not wait long to do so. So it didn't come as a surprise to Catholics when, on the morning of March 9, the President signed an Executive Order allowing research on embryonic stem cells to go forward after an eight-year halt. Obama...