Word: designations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman said upon leaving the screening, "What do you want for $9?" What you get in The Phantom Menace is a panoramic entertainment with several terrific set pieces of action, stalwart acting from the Brits (and some very raw work by the kids), a precise, luscious visual design, a multilevel climactic battle and a funeral pyre that echo Return of the Jedi, and a triumphal coda from the first Star Wars film (1977). All that, and a lot of talk...
...Lucas who wants to dazzle filmgoers with his luxurious bestiary. The Gungan klutz Jar Jar Binks, who talks (sometimes unintelligibly) like a Muppet Peter Lorre and walks as if he had Slinkys for legs, is more annoying than endearing. But the junk dealer Watto is a little masterpiece of design: cinnamon stubble on his corrugated face, chipped rocks for teeth, the raspy voice of Brando's Godfather speaking Turkish, hummingbird wings that give him the aspect of a potbellied helicopter. He, Jar Jar and the other computer-generated critters are seamlessly integrated into live action--a superb technological achievement...
DIED. TIBOR KALMAN, 49, Budapest-born guru of progressive graphic design; of non-Hodgkins lymphoma; near San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through his firm M&Co. and his role as editor in chief of Benetton's socio-political house magazine Colors, Kalman promoted social activism as much as innovative, anti-Establishment design techniques. (See Eulogy...
Tibor Kalman had no ambitions to be a graphic designer, but he became one of the best and most influential practitioners of that strange profession. He inspired many, myself included, and infuriated the rest. He was all over the place--he steered Interview and Colors magazines in radical new directions; he brought artists into Times Square redevelopment projects; he created books, watches, furniture, posters, signs and menus. I worked with him on a film, a video clip and a number of record and CD covers, and his enthusiasm, sense of invention and plain wicked fun was contagious. Tibor...
...result, Tek.Xam, is an eight-part test that requires students to design a website, build and analyze spreadsheets, research problems on the Internet and demonstrate understanding of legal and ethical issues. Says Linda Dalch, president of VFIC: "If an art-history major wants a job at a bank, he needs to prove he has the skills. That's where this credential can help." This year 245 students at VFIC's member colleges have gone through the program. The long-term hope is that Tek.Xam will win the same kind of acceptance as the LSAT or CPA for law or accounting...