"Course description: Beginning with the history and underlying ideas of branding and identity design, this course will examine the development of classic identities as well as seminal identity designers and design studios. We will also review contemporary cases that highlight the challenges of brand and identity creation in specific sectors including fast-moving consumer goods, durable goods, services, organizations, places, and ideas. At the same time, we will examine both critical viewpoints around the practice of identity design and speculate on the future of brands and branded environments."
"This PSSC film utilizes a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots within the viewing area. The fine cinematography by Abraham Morochnik, and funny narration by University of Toronto professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume is a wonderful example of the fun a creative team of filmmakers can have with a subject that other, less imaginative types might find pedestrian."
"The specific title of the class is "COM 230: History of Print Media." I'm calling the class "a history of print culture." The primary goal of this class is to teach students about the culture of "print media" in an era when that culture is being joined (and in some cases, overtaken) by a culture that we might variously call digital culture, online culture, or the culture of the web."
Article about the effort to read through Barthelme's entire list of suggested readings for his students. Perhaps more interesting is the actual list itself.
"Frequently, during that hot summer, Dennis would write a dozen cards which had been ordered; we would deliver them, and with the twenty-five cents thus obtained would buy a watermelon. Young Dennis was generous then; he is generous now."
Learn how to correctly drive through an intersection, correctly give a mixed-race handshake, correctly be tied up, and also how to avoid a subway car passing over your head. No doubt indispensable.
"A squirrel like that's a waste of time, and Squeak has work to do!" A great example of the little known genre of of educational films—Squirrel Porn. More educational and weird shorts here and here.
