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TSG Sponsors Flux08 Student Design Competition
The Sutter Group, a full-service marketing communications agency offering advertising, interactive and marketing solutions, today announced that it has sponsored Flux08, as student design competition hosted by the AIGA and Shepherd University, a liberal arts university in Shepherdstown, WV. This sponsorship helps to fund the yearly competition which allows student designers to submit entries to be judged by a panel of accomplished, professional designers. The design categories for the competition include: poster design, environmental/packaging design, identity design, publications, websites/interactive, motion graphics, and miscellaneous.
Additional information, including a list of winners in each category can be found at www.fluxdesigncompetition.org/.
“We’re really glad to have the opportunity to support an event that nurtures and encourages young design talent across the United States,” said Karen Sutter, founder and president of The Sutter Group.
About The Sutter Group
The Sutter Group is a 21 year-old full-service marketing communications agency headquartered between Baltimore and Washington, DC in Lanham, Maryland. The firm blends large-agency technology bandwidth and boutique studio design talent to produce creative communications solutions that deliver proven results. The Sutter Group offers all elements of marketing communications services including: branding and marketing strategy, advertising, corporate identity, e-learning, direct marketing, special events, viral marketing, graphic design and Website and interactive design. The firm is a WBENC certified Women’s Business Enterprise, a certified Maryland minority business enterprise and is on several AIMS GSA schedules. For more information visit http://www.sutter-group.com.
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NASA@Home and City Reviewed in WIRED Magazine’s Science Blog
It’s not true, as I grew up thinking, that Velcro or Tang are spinoffs of the U.S. space program. But I can live with that. There are plenty of things that are.
As an easy guide to some of these highlights, NASA has released a clever around-the-house and around-the-city Flash site (link takes you to their multimedia page, click on “NASA Home and City”) that details a whole host of common materials that do in fact owe their existence to the space program.
A few of my favorites: The Dustbuster vacuum owes its origin to work Black and Decker did for the Apollo missions, developing a portable handheld drill for extracting core samples from the lunar surface. Most enriched baby food today includes ingredients that were developed out of research into using algae as a recycling agent during long-term space travel.
The first retractable NFL stadium roof, at Houston&rquo;s Reliant Park, was built with a semi-translucent fabric stronger than steel, made possible by research into spacesuit materials. The same stuff has since been used all over, including at the Denver International Airport, and the San Diego Convention Center.
And of course there is hyper-spectral imaging, which is in all of our lives, right? This involves technology used by NASA satellites to monitor temperature and climate changes. Now also used to monitor frozen chickens.
Many of these space-to-the-home technologies will be familiar to longtime NASA-watchers. But I’m going to guess that a few surprises will be there for everyone.
Image: Screen shot of NASA City feature. Credit: NASA
From http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/nasas-in-your-f.html by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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