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...scene of a film or play.” “‘Graphy,’” she continued, “means virtuosity, or the skill of descriptive, pictorial art.” The term, however, does not simply describe virtuoso set design. Media scenography labels an entirely new fusion of visual and auditory creation that reaches far beyond the classical theatre into modern performance spaces. It is, in its own way, a form of “multimedia storytelling,” according to Hagebölling...
...Academy of Media Arts, which she co-founded in 1988, has established a unique curriculum. Whereas elsewhere visual art fields are largely taught separately, the Academy advocates the integrated teaching of film, television, art, design, and theory. After studying at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, the Annenberg School of Communication, and the Tisch School of the Arts, Hagebölling decided to synthesize these media into one field of study: Audiovisual Media. “Light, kinetics, space, performance, energy—these are the roots of the work we are doing at the Academy...
...Census worker, another pricey line item. In all, it will work out to about $49 per person, which makes you wonder whether the government should have just sent an e-mail instead of a packet that looks like junk mail. (How about spending a little more money on design?) But the Census officials worried about privacy, so the increasingly irrelevant post office, whose volume dropped 13% last year, gets a spring boost...
Automakers, meanwhile, are developing their own battery capability. Ford, for one, believes that designing its own lithium-ion battery packs will help streamline the development of its electric vehicles and reduce the cost. Design experts will be brought in-house, says Nancy Gioia, Ford's director of global electrification. By developing battery packs, Gioia says, "we get the volume and scale of more than 1 million units on our battery-management systems. Our suppliers aren't in a position to do that...
...excitement back to the field - and an undiscovered realm of possibilities in which to play. A lot still needs to be done, though. (TIME's app has a few glitches, for instance.) And the iPad that's on sale now will continue to evolve as Apple works on its design and as consumers offer their reactions to the way it delivers content...