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(Spoilers ahead) In Weapons (2025), cars are the hunting grounds for the villain of the film. This is in contrast to other horror films, in which cars are symbols of safety and an escape from violence. The film does this to blend multiple aspects of fear in American suburbia to
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I have never been a fan of Superman. I've always preferred Batman. (Though, I would be completely against him if he were real. A billionaire who decides to beat up criminals one by one with expensive tech instead of using his wealth and political influence to tackle the
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While thinking about how to address the problem of people doing things they're not supposed to do, I thought of art museums and how all of the methods they use to keep people from touching art. Excerpts from Komar (2019) Fiona Candlin, a professor of museology at Birkbeck
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As I was sitting in the design building working on my newspaper posts, Deb Scott, Associate Professor of Teaching at tOSU, gave me a piece of paper with a quote from Do Ho Suh printed on it and told me he's one of her favorite artists. So, I
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Passengers have been relaxing and catching time to breath on transportation long before the invention of the private car. Some issues, such as the need to relax in unideal circumstances, have persisted even after 150 years as seen in the paintings of Honoré Daumier. Here is an excerpt from the
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Below is a poem that is featured on the ODNR website as one of several contest award winners. I’m a nature lover. I have been for as long as I can remember. In the research process for this capstone project, it’s been too easy for me to get
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Sometimes the best way to experience the world isn't by flying to exotic locations. As Christopher Elliott from Forbes argues, the road trip is an accessible, practical way to see America using what you have in your driveway. America's love of road trips could give insight
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On the hunt for inspiration, I visited the Werner Center for the Arts, and I was struck by the exhibit Unruly Objects by Veronica Ryan. Excerpts from Unruly Objects Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Montserrat-born British artist Veronica Ryan. Spanning over four decades,
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I recently visited the Veronica Ryan exhibit at the Wexner Art Museum. I was interested in how her work displayed icons of the interior world such as pillows and how her adaptation of them as art could serve as inspiration for my own designs. Incorporating the philosophy of Ryan'
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Nursery rhymes and children's sing-a-longs have been an effective way to calm down and entertain children. However, with the improvement of child psychology practices and mood monitoring tools, the methods available to designers for creating child-oriented products have never been more precise. One key example
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Have you ever seen Seaspiracy? It's a documentary on Netflix that details how overfishing is destroying marine ecosystems and how fishing industries contribute to plastic pollution. As someone who was born on an island and loves the ocean, when I saw this article, I immediately wanted to learn
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When I saw the thumbnail for this article, I was immediately reminded of our interview with Joseph from Marble Plastics. When we toured their facility, we saw how they turned colorful bread tags and white refrigerator linings into giant sheets of what can only be described as birthday cake ice