Monday, February 08, 2010

Worth a Look

Here are some posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time:

The Windy City is blowing Toronto away

The Globe and Mail: "The Windy City is having another season to make other theatre cities envious.
By the time the Tony Awards roll around in June, a record number of Chicago productions and plays will have gusted over to New York."


'War of the Worlds' plans U.S. invasion

Variety: "The aliens are COMING! THE aliens are coming!
For the past few years, the U.K., Europe, Australia and New Zealand have been visited by an arena tour of a musical version of 'The War of the Worlds,' toplined by an 11-foot tall hologram of Richard Burton."


Know Before You Go: Tickets May Come at a Higher Price Than You Realize

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "As part of our Terms of Ab(use) project, we pay close attention to the fine print of online agreements for provisions that are potentially dangerous to consumers. We've noticed a troubling change in the way event planners restrict the rights of individuals who attend their shows. Where once these limitations had to fit on the back of a ticket, increasingly event organizers have moved their fine print online, where they are able to use even more contract law to avoid the limits of trademark and copyright law and actively control what ticket holders can say or do even after the event is over."


Start Spreadin' the News

Carnegie Mellon University: "They want to be a part of it — New York, New York — and they are. In fact, alumni from the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon perform on stage in major opera companies, musical theater productions and with world-class ensembles around the globe."


The Value of Design

BusinessWeek: "Back in December, I published a somewhat bad-tempered blog post. Titled 'Come on Designers. Step Up', the piece was prompted by an article in The Times of London, in which designers and the design industry were hauled over the coals for, essentially, being a waste of taxpayers' money. In this instance, designers had created a new logo for the British National Health Service that nondesigners quoted in the piece (including British MP Greg Hands) deemed both unnecessary and expensive."


Design the Art Works Logo

Art Works: "How would you represent the phrase “art works” in a single image?
“Art works” is Rocco’s guiding principle for his work at the NEA. The phrase has three meanings: “art works” are the plays, paintings, dances, films and the other works of art that are the creation of artists"


ESTA Behind the Scenes Holiday Card Student Design Contest

iSquint.net: "Behind The Scenes, an initiative of The ESTA Foundation, announces its first-ever holiday card student design contest, open to any lighting, set, video or costume full-time design student interested in creating an original design for a 2010 card."

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