Mag Reviews

Computer arts
There was an article i nearly ficked past until i saw the headline, it's called tradgedy and change. The article tells of how the London bombings although horiffic did cause some monumental changes and issues in journalism. Traditionally journalists wrote stories, photographers were paid to take them or for royalties, this article tells of how the bombings were the beggining of a revolution. At the time of the bombs the news crews had very little in the way of imagrey except footage of cars and ambulances screaming through empty streets, then both bbc news 24 and sky news both started using imagrey and footage taken by the public on camera phones then posted on either blogs or image hosting websites. This has begun many issues like should people get reoyalties for mobile phone pictures? are these people not just "citizen journalists"?

Computer arts
This article is called "design Icon" it tells about the myths and urban legends surrounding coca cola and it's logo, the logo is 120 years old, sells in over 200 countries and is cosidered the most well known logo on the planet. The logo is clearly working seen as coke is worth £39 billion. The logo is written in Spencerium script, and the glass bottle design is trademarked. The piece of the article i was most interested in was the section on was it coke that turned santa red and white, and apparently no. Santa has been red and white in imagry from as early as the 17th century. But coke still exploit this every year with the same famous santa advert, with the lights and the lorries...and most importantly santa drinking it of course.

Computer arts
The article in computer arts is about the mtv logo. MTV has been around since 1981 at that time however they thought that showing music videos 24hrs a day was a bit sketchy and a concept that wouldn't catch on, how wrong could they be. The logo was designed by a company called Manhattan Design, they were a very small company competing with much larger, more well established competition.