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We’re on Oprah!

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Gurdy Leete

Oprah Winfrey and her camera crew came to visit Maharishi University of Management, the Maharishi School, Fairfield, and Maharishi Vedic City recently. Oprah’s hour-long show about our community airs Sunday night, March 25, and I’m pretty excited about it. Here she is on campus:
For more information about all that’s going on here, you might also enjoy checking out our special programs on campus in July:
www.experiencetheself.org/
and/or:
tm.org
www.travelfairfieldiowa.com

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On Maharishi’s Global Family Chat

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

Today I had the pleasure of reporting some of our department’s news on the global daily Webcast Maharishi’s Global Family Chat. Here are links to some of the news items that I mentioned:

Saving the Disposable Ones, which was directed by our professor Stuart Tanner and is available now at amazon.com.

The nature photography of our professor Ken West.

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Wissile’s new iPad

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

Wissile, who is a terrific student in my Web design class, waited in line at the Apple Store in Des Moines for hours yesterday and succeeded in buying an iPad 2 before they sold out. He made a brief video of this adventure and promises to post more of his thoughts about his new iPad in the next few days on his YouTube channel.

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Creating Layers of Meaning with Color, Type, and Imagery

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

Today in class we’re exploring how you can build hierarchies of meaning that echo the theme of your Web site by orchestrating texture, tone, position, scale, and color to highlight the meanings of the type and imagery in the site. We’re looking at these sites to get insight into that:

Type

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The Power of Rhythm

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

In class recently we looked at how important rhythm is in changing the meaning and feeling of what you want to show. In order to create balance, we need to keep in mind figure and ground, colors, layers, etc. Here are some pages we analyzed in class in terms of rhythm.

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Websites for Internships

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

This new site helps you look for internships in various fields all over the country:

The Sierra Club says this is the best internship on earth:
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Images, Copyright and Fair Use on the Web

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

Today in class we’re going to think about images, copyrights, fair use, and free software. Here are some links that I’ve found useful in that realm. I put them on our class wiki too.

Free Images

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For my new class in Web Design

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

I’m starting a new class in Web Design and Web Animation today. Here are some Web sites we’ll explore to find examples of excellent Web design:

And here are some free tools I like for writing HTML and CSS:
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Color

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

In class recently we examined how we can use color to evoke feelings and emotions, and how the meaning of colors varies from culture to culture. Here are some websites we checked out:

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Trends in Web Design

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Gurdy Leete

Here are some trends we examined in class recently: HTML5, the next major revision of HTML, will make it easier for web designers to build more sophisticated technology into their sites.