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How to Meme What You Say

The linguistic theories behind what we're trying to say when we adapt and share internet memes.

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Framing in marketing: back to basics

First defined by Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the 1970s, the ‘framing effect’ essentially refers to the way that businesses and individuals choose to present information.

Since it was discovered, the Framing Effect has consistently been proven to have a significant i

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Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers of Our Era? –

When trying to understand how cities work – how they develop over time and how their social lives have come into existence – urbanists often look at infrastructure. Looking closely at the roads, railways, sewers, electricity lines and rivers that run through a place can often uncover some essential

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Neuroscientists identify singing-specific neurons in the brain

For the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that lights up when we hear singing, but not other types of music. These neurons, found in the auditory cortex, appear to respond to the specific combination of voice and music, but not to either regular speech or instrumental music. Exactly what they are doing is unknown and will require more work to uncover, the researchers say.

 

"The work provides evidence for relatively fine-grained segregation of function within the auditory cortex, in a way that aligns with an...

11 March, 2022

Shirley Cards

Photographer Ibarionex Perello recalls how school picture day would go back in the 1970s at the Catholic school he attended in South Los Angeles. He recalls that kids would file into the school auditorium in matching uniforms. They’d sit on a stool, the photographer would snap a couple images, and that would be it. But

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Is It Time to Move on From Big Tech’s Colorful Corporate Mascots? –

In 2018, the musician and writer Claire L. Evans began cataloguing examples of an increasingly ubiquitous style of editorial illustration she calls “Corporate Memphis,” a winking reference to the vibrant, patterned abstraction popularized by the Memphis Group in the 1980s. By now you know the style:

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Principles of Color Psychology in Mobile Application Design | by Dana Kachan | Design + Sketch

Have you ever thought about the impact of colors on the User Interface? Knowing how to use the right color is essential not only for aesthetic purposes but also for improving User Experience by…

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