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Last week, we attended Where the Truth Lies: A Symposium on Propaganda Today, organized by SVA and the PhD programs in history and sociology of The Graduate Center at CUNY. Organizers Stuart Ewen, Steven Heller and Mary Jeys brought together a diverse panel of academics, journalists, designers, marketing execs and a documentary filmmaker, all in an effort to take the pulse of contemporary propaganda and discuss new methods being utilized to distort opinion and perspective. Speakers weighed in on the persuasive effects of everything from corporations in the classroom and viral marketing to the social and political advantages of ethical spectacle and the rise of the commentator class.

Above, we offer you a distilled (nay, propagandized?) version of that afternoon. For more information about the speakers and their presentations, please visit the event site: http://wherethetruthlies.org/.

For our inaugural video podcast, we visited Deitch Projects to celebrate the release of Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister. The book and gallery show bring together many of Sagmeister's previous designed sentences while still leaving room for animatronic gloves, celebrity steam writing and large scale banana type. As always, the result is beautiful and full of wonder.

If you are interested in designing and submitting your own bit of wisdom, please visit www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com.

Stefan Sagmeister, Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
Through February 23 2008
Deitch Projects
76 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013 map
p: 212.343.7300