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Ford Announces Partnership to Assure Steady Flow of U.S.-Made Chips
The automaker will team with GlobalFoundries on producing and developing semiconductors, crucial parts that have been in short supply. Source
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Bruce Blackburn, Designer of Ubiquitous NASA Logo, Dies at 82
Bruce Blackburn, a graphic designer whose modern and minimalist logos became ingrained in the nation’s consciousness, including the four bold red letters for NASA known as the “worm” and the 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial star, […]
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Is Graphic Design the C.I.A.’s Passion?
This week, the Central Intelligence Agency unveiled a new design for its website, CIA.gov, which wouldn’t have been news if the site had stuck to the formal signifiers of government authority: dense bureaucratic text, link […]
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Ron Cobb, a Pioneer in Science Fiction Design, Dies at 83
Ron Cobb, the artist and movie production designer known for his work on the spaceship in “Alien,” the DeLorean in “Back to the Future,” and some tipsy aliens in “Star Wars,” died on Monday in […]
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Everlane’s Promise of ‘Radical Transparency’ Unravels
Employees past and present are challenging management, saying the company’s ethical image was an illusion. Source
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Where’s Your Flying Car? Hyundai and Uber Say They’re Working on It
Curtiss Autoplane. Fulton Airphibian. Taylor Aerocar. Businesses and entrepreneurs have been promising a mass-produced flying car for more than a century. None have succeeded, but that hasn’t stopped Hyundai and Uber from wanting in on […]
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Ingo Maurer, Designer Known as a Poet of Light, Dies at 87
Ingo Maurer, a German lighting designer who was Promethean in his delivery of illumination — fashioning lamps out of shattered crockery, scribbled memos, holograms, tea strainers and incandescent bulbs with feathered wings — died on […]