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...designers at Harvard can also learn about graphic design through GSD student publications. For instance, “New Geographies,” a doctoral student journal distributed by Harvard University Press, has featured a different emerging graphic designer in each of its four issues of 2009. In this way, GSD doctoral students are able to highlight new talent in the field of graphic design and enjoy a fresh aesthetic for each issue...
...good way to establish a working definition of the contemporary Hipster is through comparison to past social movements that we now identify as counter-cultural, because that is how Hipsterdom understands itself and how it is marketed. The genealogical basis of today’s Hipster is in the Beat Generation. The Beat-Hipster’s legitimizing counter-cultural features were the unconventionality of their semi-nomadic lifestyle, the sexual openness, and commitment to expression freed from formal technique. The music, appropriated from Black Americans, was bebop. Most importantly the Beat-Hipsters were sincere...
...Urban Outfitters and American Apparel as purveyors of the Hipster v-neck t-shirt, the video and celebrity are the beneficiaries of corporate acceptance. The pan-sexuality of Gaga is ‘counter-cultural’ to the extent that her work maintains corporate sponsorship, the same way that grungy-looking Hipster flannel is the outcome of either time spent thrifting or money, not neglect...
...scene as a burlesque satire that serves as an appropriate conclusion for a picaresque novel. But disregarding this critical debate, the ending serves as the ultimate example of Twain’s tendency to sacrifice substance for satire. The deeper issues of the novel are thrown aside to make way for a happy and entertaining ending...
...We’re just trying to make it more interesting, give it a story, give it more character,” Chance said. “We designed it so that a good way for people to survive is to band together and form teams and work with strangers...