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It's auction week in New York! Sotheby's might have the flashy new digs in the Breuer Building, but Christie's is still at Rockefeller Center, casually offloading multiple collections of masterpieces.
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In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a collaboration with the people of a different country and culture. But it didn't quite go to plan. Every picture looked the same. 30 years after the "People's Choice" series, it seems the landscapes which Komar and Melamid painted have become the landscapes in which we live. From film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that ev...
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Every logo designer has a different approach, but most of them would agree that there are certain steps in logo design process all professionals share.
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In 1843, Ada Lovelace published the first nontrivial program. How did it work?
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