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Online auction site eBay is opening a Christmas pop-up retail store in London’s Soho next week, with interiors and experiential elements designed by consultancy Push UK.
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The FM100 Hue Test is an easy-to-administer test and a highly effective method for measuring an individual’s color vision. Used by industry for over 40 years, the test is used to evaluate and rank color acuity. This portable, 15-minute test analyzes how accurately you see color. The easy-to-use scoring software indicates where you have a color vision deficiency such as color blindness.

About the Test
The Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test itself is used to separate persons with normal color vision into classes of superior, average and low color discrimination and to measure the zones of color confusion of color defective people. Some examples of its use are:

Examination of inspectors of color goods, color graders and color matchers
Testing for type and degree of color defectiveness
Detection of poor color vision in sales people
Selection of applicants for vocational training
Design of specialized tests for color vision
Measurement of effects of medical treatments
Independent control on validity of other color vision tests.

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The D&AD Awards have been running since 1962 when the organisation was founded by luminaries including David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes. From the 2,500 entries in that first year, the Jury of 25 awarded one Black Pencil and 16 Yellow Pencils to outstanding creative work from across the design and advertising industries in the UK.

While the UK still leads the way in submissions and awarded work, with almost 40% of entries, the 2011 D&AD Awards received work from 64 different countries. The Jury (now made up of over 140 judges) awarded 53 Yellow Pencils and six Black Pencils, with the body of work encompassing the range of digital, advertising and design craft disciplines.

http://www.dandad.org/dandad/latest/news/d-ad-awards-2012-are-open-for-entry

Design Festa is a biannual international art event, and everyone can exhibit as long as its original.
10,000 artists exhibit, buy and sell their works in a variety of mediums turning this two day event into artistic chaos!

Artworks filled with creative spirit, converge within a vast spider’s web of innovative energy, theatrical art, culinary cuisine, and spur of the moment impromptu performances featuring cutting edge fashions, catwalk shows and so much more. Challenge yourself by walking through the Design Festa art world.

http://www.designfesta.com/about/index_en.html

‘Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions’, says the narrator of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel Vanity Fair.

Humbugs, falseness and pretension aside, Vanity Fair magazine’s covers have always been stunning – and now, they have been brought together in a lovely collection of postcards.

Vintage Postcards from Vanity Fair comprises 100 cards, each displaying a different Vanity Fair cover from the 1920s and 1930s by designers such as Paolo Garretto, William Cotton and Eduardo Garcia Benito.

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