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The item I chose to analyze for this week is a small candle from World Market. The reason I found this object interesting is that, compared to many other companies, World Market generally makes their candles seem less flashy or colorful in…

This is a historic edition of The Washington Post, especially given the importance and relative rarity of presidential impeachment. The conclusory headline, "Trump impeached," is underscored by relating this step to the next - the senate trial. It’s…

This is the masthead for the online news site, Vox. This site was started in 2014 as a means to explain breaking news stories for readers. Their signature colors are neon yellow, gray and white. The aesthetic of the site is very modern and "hip",…

These images are of Vilem Flusser’s English edition of Does Writing Have a Future? Flusser’s book raises many different implications about this post-books transformation that Drucker’s “The Virtual Codex fromFrom Page Space to E-Space” also raises.…

This image came from a box of slides that were left in a house where the owner had died. Nothing is known about these images.

This is the Crystal Palace in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. It's actually a restaurant that serves fantastic chicken nuggets, but that's not the most interesting aspect of the building. Walt Disney was enamored with the idea of nostalgia, and so…

Internet memes come in many different formats and can therefore express many different meanings. A meme by itself, however, can only make so many expressions. But when memes are crossed over and combined, suddenly more opportunities are revealed. …

This is the book cover of John Berendt's 1994 best seller, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." This true-crime novel is set in Savannah, GA, and the cover was shot in Bonaventure cemetery.

The statue on the cover is called the Bird Girl,…

This is the logo that my brother-in-law designed for Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, one of Charlotte's oldest local breweries. Based just on the spelling of "Olde", this brand is intentionally drawing on their history as a long-time Charlotte brewery. The…

"Cuphead-Don't Deal With the Devil" is a run and gun video game that is extremely unique in it's style and story. The game was made almost entirely with 2D cel animation which is a very dated art style that requires hand drawn animation and many…