Word: posterity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amount of artistic control given to student graphic designers also varies. “It really depends on the director. Some have very specific visions for the posters, and we’ll meet several times to replicate those images as closely as possible, and others simply come into a meeting with me with a general feeling about what they’re looking for,” Ding said. Ding’s latest project, creating the poster for the HRDC’s upcoming production of “The Pillowman,” actually involves a small...
When Y. Joy Ding ’10, a Computer Science concentrator, received an email from the script clearance team of the upcoming Facebook movie, she was excited—and totally surprised. As it turned out, Ding, who had designed the poster for the Fall 2009 Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production of “The Flies,” was asked to sign a release form. The film’s producers had seen and liked her poster and wanted to use it to decorate the set for the dorm room of Facebook creater Mark E. Zuckerberg...
...production of The Flies, the show’s director envisioned a Western-themed retelling of the original play by Jean-Paul Sartre, so the Harvard production of the show featured a specific aesthetic invoking the American West. Correspondingly, Ding’s poster for the show incorporated this visual motif, and it was this unusual image which captured the attention of the producers of the Facebook movie...
...even with the President's affirmation, Holder was fighting a losing battle. The public backlash against a civilian KSM trial had already cost the White House the support of many Democratic leaders in New York. Republicans, meanwhile, were busy turning Holder into the poster child for White House weakness on terrorism, and some polls showed that most Americans agreed with them. "The only two people who still believe in civilian trials," says one of the meeting's attendees, "are Holder and the President."(See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...
...museum quickly changed. "Admission: one pot of gold, to be sure and begorrah," the Irish Sunday Tribune mocked in the headline of a derisive article about the museum last month. The blogosphere, too, has been fizzing with indignation in recent months. "Truly the Jedward of museums," railed one Twitter poster, referring to the Irish singing twins John and Edward Grimes, who appeared on Simon Cowell's The X Factor talent show in the U.K. and Ireland last year. (The twins became more famous for their garishly colored matching attire and bouncy dance moves than for their singing talent.) Analysts also...