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RECOGNITION

Graphis Design Annual 2015 - Silver Award

Marketing and Promotion for the packaging design and production management of The University of Hartford - Hartford Art School Recruitment piece.

HOW Magazine - Annual Design Awards - 2014 - Best of Show - Marketing

Best of Show in Marketing and Promotion for the packaging design and production management of The University of Hartford - Hartford Art School Recruitment piece.

HOW Magazine - International 2013 Design Awards - Merit Award

Four separate Merit Awards in the following categories:

Posters • Packaging • Advertising • Brochure/Catalog/Direct Mail

Features - University of the Arts 2013-14 Viewbook

DesignWorkLife.com, TheDieline.com, The Inspiration Grid and FPO.com

BioImages 1998 Annual Media Exhibition - Citation of Merit

Citation of Merit awarded for presentation of images capturing all phases of the 1998 Total Solar Eclipse in the Dutch Leeward Islands on February 26, 1998.

DOUBLE PLUS PHOTO
WHAT’S IN A NAME…..
In an Appendix at the end of the novel 1984, George Orwell describes Newspeak. It’s the official language of Oceania, made to meet the needs of INGSOC. When it becomes universal, Orwell tells us, nobody will be able to commit unwanted acts or think bad thoughts because actions and thoughts cannot exist without language to describe or define them. Example: “Free” will mean “without.” A cat will be “free” of ticks, but people will no longer hanker for “freedom.” Things will be “ungood” or “double plus ungood,” but never bad. He asks us to believe that language affects life. For the purpose of his story, Orwell asks us to believe that limiting vocabulary limits thought and action.

The grammar of NEWSPEAK had two outstanding peculiarities. The first of these was an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech. Any word in the language could be used either as verb, noun, adjective, or adverb.

In addition, any word — this again applied in principle to every word in the language — could be negatived by adding the affix un-, or could be strengthened by the affix plus-, or, for still greater emphasis, doubleplus-. Thus, for example, uncold meant ‘warm’, while pluscold and doublepluscold meant, respectively, ‘very cold’ and ‘superlatively cold’.