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11.04.2009

Hot wins ‘The Future of Digital Reading’ design challenge

Josh Damon Williams
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Hot is extremely pleased and humbled that our team’s submission was chosen as the winner of Core77 and Portigal Consulting’s 1-Hour Design Challenge, called The Future of Digital Reading. We were blown away by the quality and smarts of the competition, and we’re thrilled to be…

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10.12.2009

Producer, Project Manager… What’s in a Name?

Margot Merrill Fernandez
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Recently the Producer Group at Hot Studio re-examined our label. “We’re producers… right?” we asked ourselves in a heated internal meeting.

I fully recognize that no one outside of the design industry would understand why some interactive producers cringe when referred to as (God forbid!) a “project manager,” “account manager,”…

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05.07.2009

Business acumen for a better world

Maria Giudice
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Calling all designers!

I want you to use your talent and skill to help save the world. One person can make a difference and inspire others to do the same. I have the remarkable privilege to share a stage with three remarkable women who are generating change inside their…

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01.19.2009

Photoshop Ad-Busting

Cathy Lo
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Subway advertisements of Britney Spears, Leona Lewis, and Christina Aguilera got the wheatpaste treatment with giant Photoshop tool boxes, perhaps commenting on all the behind the scenes image making that goes on in that world. It also reminded me of another real world / digital world mashup, Continue reading

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01.08.2009

Cal Academy Teachers: Inspiring the next generation of scientists

Jisun Suh
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In September 2008, California Academy of Sciences reopened in a new, breathtaking building designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. The new Academy is the greenest museum in the world (LEED platinum certified) and houses an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under…

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