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Monthly Archives: November, 2009

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Recruiting Quotas

Eric J. Garcia -
Comics

Night Walk

Jesse Knowles -
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Silence Speaks Volumes

Caroline Liebman -
Since a knee injury set Elizabeth Adamczyk back from running six years ago, her bicycling habits have turned from rehabilitation into a routine. For people...
Arts & Culture

Read about a bad despot or beer in hell, a writer’s blog, now a book

Adam Bienvenue -
Despots are bad. George Saunders’s novella, ''The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil,'' employs Lorax-like imagery and Orwellesque allegories to make this point clear.
Arts & Culture

Sex Ed

Whitney Stoepel -
A giant plush vulva confronts gallery-goers entering “Everybody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009” at I Space.
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Publishing the Obama brand

Anne Mortel -
“Designing Obama”, a book chronicling the role of art and design in the Obama campaign is being published unconventionally, using funds raised on the web...
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Design Heroes

Brittnay Robinson -
These twelve badasses revolutionized graphic design. Protecting the public from mundane magazine spreads, boring book covers, and no-fun front pages, these artists brought innovation to graphic design in the fields of photomontage, logo design, illustration, and typography.
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Pedal Power

Silas Reeves -
The male dominated culture of Critical Mass bike rides prompted a DIY activist movement for mass rides to include GLBTQ bikers and empower female cyclists...
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Grave Reminders

Caroline Liebman -
Just before midnight on January 4, 2006, 50 year-old Isai Medina was walking his bike down the sidewalk near Western Avenue and Cortez when a drunk driver swerved and hit him. Medina, an avid participant in Chicago Critical Mass, was...
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Field Trip to Motown

Brandon Kosters -
...Daniel Quiles and Kymberly Pinder took a group of students to see two significant artworks in Detroit: Diego Rivera’s mural Detroit Industry in the Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Heidelberg Project by Tyree Guyton...
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A View To Learn

Anne Weber -
By redesigning the space on the eleventh floor of the Sharp building, Stephen Farrell, associate professor of visual communications, aimed to create a more cohesive community...
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Newsworthy

Natasha Vemulkonda -
Sharp Building renovations opening next fall - H1N1 101 - New students’ semester experience and future choices
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F Newsmagazine wins the 2009 Pacemaker!

Paul Elitzik -
F Newsmagazine won the Pacemaker Award for 2009, given by the Associated Collegiate Press. Our cartoonists also won the awards for editorial cartoons, co-sponsored by Universal Press Syndicate
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Thanksgiving

Eric J. Garcia -
Arts & Culture

Interview with Jeanne Steig

Brandon Kosters -
Multimedia artist/author, and widow of the late cartoonist/author William Steig

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