Even to David Kelley, founder of the famous Stanford d.school and IDEO, a globally renowned product design company, design “has always been a funny word” (cited in
Camacho 2016, p. 88).

Today, as philosopher of art and culture Tsion Avital (2017) would argue, everything can be presented as a work of art, and everyone thinks that their opinion ultimately legitimizes what constitutes a piece of art.

In turn, any designed artifact can pass as a work of art, as long as someone identifies it as such, and this, according to Avital, lies at the heart of the confusion between art and design.

...These films are devoid of special effects, such as computer-generated imagery (CGI), that allows directors to create overtly grotesque visual effects and scenes of violence to enhance the spectators’ viewing experience.

“Hey, Z . . . your lips are a bit purple.”
Z looks at her with surprise and reflexively touches his lips as if trying to cover them.
“I’m just a bit cold,” he remarks.
“Are you sure? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you this pale.”

It is well-known that a major source of inspiration for Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee’s Frozen (2013) was Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen (1844). Buck and Lee follow the Danish writer’s story by building the feature’s plot on a search for the Snow Queen.

Outer space is a paradoxical environment. It has a dual nature which simultaneously provokes two sensations: astrophilia and astrophobia.

Feeling a bit jazzy today? Not in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The USSR and jazz had a love-hate relationship ever since the country’s formation in the early 1920s. To give an example, during his fruitful career, Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich wrote three ballets: The Golden Age, op. 22 (1929-30), The Bolt, op. 27 (1931), and The Bright Stream, op. 39 (1935).

The Bolt follows the story of Lazy Lyonka, a worker in a Soviet factory, who, together with an anti-Soviet plotter, decides to sabotage the factory’s machinery by putting a bolt into it. Their plan, however, is quickly foiled by Komsomol, a political youth organization of the USSR

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The possibility of interpreting the characters’ past in multiple ways produces alternative narrative tracks, or alternative histories, within the story world.