Zohar Manor-Abel

“I share the view that students who let social network style, like SMS (text) abbreviations, such as L8R, and emoticons (like smiley faces) slip into their more formal communications, run the risk of being viewed as poor communicators by very influential people, such as potential employers and graduate school review boards.”

– Social Media Today | Students Failing English Due to Twitter, Facebook

Following a panel for my college and course alumni, I decided to take a deep look at the branding and the website of the University of the Arts and its colleges.

I took this test few years ago, when I joined StumbleUpon. I haven’t logged in to the site in a few years, until today, when I saw my result  and I decided to take the test again. Its interesting to see the differences in me, from being creative to becoming managerial. Funnily, it happened in [...]

Could it be right? It almost sounds like a joke. For me, it is just another point to prove how ridiculous the world, and more accurately, the capitalist world, has become. Slashdot reported that US Patent and Trademark Office issued a really broad patent for a “mobile entertainment and communication device“. “It’s a patent for [...]

Last night we went to New York to eat sushi. Yes, just for the sushi. The train (NJ Transit) was free for a week for students and yesterday was the last day. So we packed our things and hopped to New York. The sushi and the maki were great and cheap (like it should be [...]

How did I get to where I am now?I am studying in CSM, graphic design, third year. Trying to work on my projects, trying to finish this year with dignity, trying to figure out what I’d like to do. I started as a graphic designer, evolved into a film maker, and now I am a [...]

As I explained briefly before, it is one of the most hectic times I came accross in my life. like living on the edge of a nervous breakdown but I believe that I took it too far. As most of the creative people working for their living (and not creating for the sake of the [...]