Who Did Who?
Above: A background image in Backupbrain.com – a joint project of Tom Negrino and Dori Smith which serves as the offsite storage of Dori’s memory somewhere to store all those links she knew she’d want again someday.
Below: The advertisement of IFMR, inviting applications for their 2007 – 2009 PGDBM courses. The following ad appeared on billboards in certain parts of the city in addition to ads in leading national newspapers and magazines.
So who did who? As Dori of Backupbrain.com points out, the two images are based on 19th century concepts of Phrenology – a theory which claims to be able to determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head.
October 17th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Try a Google image search on phrenology. You’ll find that we’re all borrowing from the same 19th century pictures — no harm, no foul.
You can find out more about phrenology from Wikipedia.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Dori, thanks for pointing that out. I thought it was a classic case of ‘inspired’ design. :)