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September 26, 2022

Sly Cooper 20th Anniversary Celebrated With New Art & Merch

The beloved Sly Cooper sequence kicked off 20 decades in the past, and PlayStation is celebrating its anniversary with model-new goods for lovers to swipe.

September 23, 2022 marks the 20-yr launch anniversary of the 1st Sly Cooper video game, and developer Sucker Punch Productions is celebrating the franchise’s birthday with new artwork and goods. Across 4 installments the 3D platformer series has taken gamers all-around the entire world to system and execute daring heists together with a colourful assortment of anthropomorphic outlaws. Although no upcoming entries in the sequence have been introduced, the Sly Cooper 20th anniversary is a ideal prospect to celebrate the series’ earlier.

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Sucker Punch’s Sly Cooper titles are continue to thought of a highlight of the PlayStation 2 catalog, with the titular raccoon remaining just one of PlayStation’s most recognizable icons. Regardless of the PS2’s out-of-date graphics, the Sly Cooper series’ cartoonish art model has authorized it to stand the check of time and stay captivating to fashionable audiences. By getting cues from effective platformers that came before it, Sly Cooper was also ready to supply progressive gameplay with the titular character leaping, sneaking and climbing throughout just about every amount with fulfilling agility. 2013 observed the release of Sly Cooper 4 on PlayStation 3, although Sucker Punch was not concerned in the project and it unsuccessful to revitalize the franchise.

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A Sucker Punch Productions Twitter put up and a PlayStation blog post have uncovered new artwork and items to commemorate the 20-12 months anniversary of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. The very first video game in the sequence introduced on September 23, 2002, and the PlayStation site sees numerous Sucker Punch developers appear again on the beloved title’s development. To rejoice this occasion the overall series has been introduced to PlayStation Additionally Premium, and PlayStation has also uncovered other enjoyable merchandise like a Sly plush, t-shirt and art print. First Sly Cooper artwork director Dev Madan built the shirt and the amazing art piece, which will the two be available for order later on this yr.

PlayStation Reveals New Sly Cooper Loot For Enthusiasts To Swipe

Inspite of common rumors and ongoing desire from supporters, Sucker Punch recently revealed that no new Sly Cooper games are now in advancement. Sanzaru Video games created 2013’s Sly Cooper: Burglars in Time, getting the helm from Sucker Punch, but the announcement specifies that no studios are actively working on the franchise. This leaves the doorway open for another experience with the thieving raccoon and his loyal gang down the line, but its appears to be most likely that Sucker Punch is presently centered on delivering a sequel to the open up-entire world samurai recreation Ghost of Tsushima.

With its cartoonish type and simple attraction, Sucker Punch’s Sly Cooper series has left an unmistakable mark on the platformer style and the PlayStation lineup. Admirers were very first released to Sly, Bentley and Murray 20 several years back, and numerous nevertheless hope to see the gang embark on another adventure down the line. While Sucker Punch has moved on to new ventures, Sly Cooper proceeds to steal the hearts of enthusiasts.

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September 13, 2022

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Unveils 2022 National Design Award Winners

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Nader Tehrani, Melbourne School of Design, a new design school for the University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2014). Collaborator: John Wardle Architects

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York has revealed the 2022 winners of the National Design Awards, an annual award series devoted to recognizing innovation and achievement in a variety of design specialties. This year’s honors feature experts in nine categories: design visionary, climate action, emerging designer, architecture/interior design, communication design, digital design, fashion design, landscape architecture, and product design.

“[The 2022] National Design Award winners reflect the central role that design can play in addressing some of the most urgent needs of our time,” said museum director Maria Nicanor in a press release. “Attuned to increasing social and planetary challenges, all awardees, regardless of their category, have a regenerative approach to design work that takes into account our shared future.”

Selected by a panel of designers, the 2022 winners are Nader Tehrani (design visionary); WEDEW by David Hertz (climate action); Emily Adams Bode (emerging designer); Rural Studio (architecture/interior design); Giorgia Lupi (communication design); Felecia Davis (digital design); Willy Chavarria (fashion design); Kounkuey Design Initiative (landscape architecture); and CW&T (product design).

Nader Tehrani is this year’s recipient of the design visionary award. The founding principal of the Boston-based architecture firm NADAAA, his wide-ranging residential, commercial, and institutional projects span the globe, including countries such as China and France. Tehrani’s many previous accolades include the prestigious Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, which he received in 2020.

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WEDEW generates renewable energy, heat, cooling, biochar, and water inside a 20-foot modified shipping container while sequestering atmospheric carbon into useful applications (Malibu, California, 2021)

The 2022 climate action awardee is WEDEW, a water generator designed by California-based architect David Hertz, FAIA. It can manufacture more than 2,000 liters of water in one day while also harnessing excess heat to produce renewable energy. “WEDEW operates at the intersection of food, energy, water, and carbon transformation,” states the Cooper Hewitt release. “The processes of biomass gasification and atmospheric water generation have been combined in a single system that creates valuable resources while closing waste streams.”

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Excerpt from Bode SS21 lookbook, titled A Year Off (New York, New York, 2021)

This year’s emerging designer honoree is Atlanta native Emily Adams Bode, who debuted her high-end menswear brand Bode in 2016. The first female designer to present at New York Fashion Week: Men’s, the Parsons School of Design graduate “expresses a sentimentality for the past through the study of personal narratives and historical techniques,” according to the museum release. “Modern workwear silhouettes united with female-centric traditions of quilting, mending, and appliqué shape [her] collections.”

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Rural Studio, Thermal Mass & Buoyancy Ventilation Research Project, part of a multi-institutional research project to investigate how to create a more responsible building system.

Rural Studio is the recipient of the 2022 architecture/interior design award. Part of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University in Alabama, the immersive program places architecture students in the state’s “under-serviced, persistently impoverished” Black Belt region where they design and build homes for local residents.

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Giorgia Lupi, Mindworks: The Science of Thinking, data visualization and experience design for the world’s first working lab dedicated to behavioral science, hosted by the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, 2020). Project Partners: Abbott Miller (Pentagram), Luke Hayman (Pentagram), K&S Partners

This year’s communication design honoree is Giorgia Lupi, a data-visualization expert, TED Talk veteran, and partner at Pentagram—a multidisciplinary design studio with offices in New York, Austin, London, and Berlin. Her clients have included Google, the United Nations, the Museum of Modern Art (where her work belongs to the permanent collection), and more.

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Felecia Davis, Stretch Sensor Knit, Pemotex Shrinking Yarn and Stainless Steel Fiber Resistive Yarn (Borås, Sweden and State College, Pennsylvania, 2015). Collaborator: Delia Dumitrescu

Felecia Davis is the winner of the National Design Award for digital design. A specialist in computational textiles—which, according to the Cooper Hewitt release, “respond to their environment via programming, embedded sensors and electronics”—Davis is an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University. Along with nine other designers, she was highlighted in the “Reconstruction: Blackness and Architecture in America” exhibition at MoMA in 2021.

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Willy Chavarria, Uncut FW22, a runway show held at the historic Prince George Ballroom—an iconic hotel that fell into ruin and was eventually restored by the organization Breaking Ground to become a homeless shelter

The recipient of the 2022 fashion design award is Willy Chavarria. Inspired by his childhood in California’s San Joaquin Valley, the senior vice president of design at Calvin Klein creates conceptual clothing “that blends the emotion of art and modern politics into a reactionary story of the human will,” the museum release states. “[Chavarria’s] collection has a hard edge with a strong message of anti-hate sentiment, including bold statements about racial, economic and sexual identity.”

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The Kibera Public Space Project, by KDI

This year’s landscape architecture winner is Kounkuey Design Initiative. With practices in the U.S., Kenya, and Sweden, the 16-year-old firm combines disciplines such as urban planning and civil engineering to produce equitable and inclusive green spaces. KDI has collaborated with the World Bank, Harvard University, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, and others.

Helmed by Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy, New York–based CW&T is the 2022 winner of the product design award. The team’s vast array of creations includes everything from ball bearing-equipped jump ropes, engineered for maximum speed, to compasses for astronauts and 3D printed lamps. This year, their work was included in an exhibition at the Design Museum of Chicago.

December 12, 2021

Rodney L. Cooper Obituary – TheTimesNews.com

Rod Cooper passed into the mysteries of the universe on November 29, 2021. He was proceeded in death by the love of his life, his wife, B. J. Brantley Cooper. Devoted father to daughter Brantley Elliott Cooper, life mate Ryan M. Fitzgerald, and proud grandfather to his “buddy” Peyton Cooper Splawski, all of Greensboro. He is preceded in death by his parents and bother Gary Cooper. He is survived by his brother-in-law James Brantley, wife Kathryn, and nieces Allison and Meredith, all of Wendell.

A true southern gentleman, throughout his life Rod maintained the highest standards for himself. From hosting guests to reaching out to friends and family, he believed in making the world a better place through beauty, excellence and giving. His dry wit, sense of humor and ability to laugh at himself and at life, will leave a void in all who knew him well.

Rod was born April 12, 1951, in Burlington, North Carolina to Ellen Forbis Cooper and Wayne Harris Cooper. From the time he was able to hold a pencil Rod drew pictures and planned spaces. On his eleventh birthday, he began formal painting classes with his first box of oil paints. Rod’s mother was an artist and teacher. Her love of art and design affected and informed his life’s passions. She loved decorative arts, and he was weaned on antique stores and art galleries. Rod’s father supported his efforts from the time he held his first crayon.

Rod’s art and design education began with a summer session at The NC School of the Arts in high school. In 1973 he received a BFA from UNC Chapel Hill with a double major in Studio Art and Art History. He did graduate studies in Art History at UNC Chapel Hill and then lived in NYC and Washington, D.C. where he furthered his career. He continued his education in Washington with graduate studies at American University, classes at the Smithsonian Museum, and classes with Clement Conger, former Director of the State Department public rooms and collections.

Upon his return to North Carolina, he became Director of The Firehouse Gallery in Alamance County, served on the Board of directors for the Alamance County Arts Association and taught drawing and painting classes at Alamance County Community College. His first adult exhibition of art was at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in 1975. Rod’s work in the home furnishings industry and the decorative arts began at The Alderman Company in High Point as a set designer, graphic designer and finally Creative Director. He wrote copy, designed photo shoots, and was an award-winning art director of hundreds of catalogs and ads. He also restored homes and interiors for clients and himself.

In 1987 Rod co-founded Cooper and Cockerham, Inc., a marketing group doing branding, design, art direction, production, advertising, printing, data services and fulfillment. He was President and Creative Director until 2002 when he became Creative Director Emeritus. Rod created office interiors and did showroom design for many furniture and fabric manufacturing clients. He designed furniture, wallpaper patterns and fabrics. During his time as art director, Rod designed over 1000 room settings. Today, Cooper Cockerham, Inc. successfully does business as C2.

In 2010, he retired to be caregiver for his wife who was diagnosed with early-onset dementia. Upon retirement, Rod began painting again. In 2012 he had a one-man exhibit at The Shop at Green Hill coming full circle from the show in 1975. In 2016 he had a show of large works at The Center for Visual Arts and in 2018 he exhibited at the View on Elm Gallery. His paintings hang in the collections of Wells Fargo, BB&T, Lloyds of London, and many private collections.

He continuously gave generously of his time and funds to various organizations in the community. Rod gave his paintings freely to support charity auctions. He was a volunteer for Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and served on the board of trustees for six years. Rod also served as a volunteer for Weatherspoon Art Gallery at UNC-G and was on the Association Board of Weatherspoon. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church where he was a Sunday school teacher and usher. Rod was designer of the Governor’s Guest house during the Hunt Administration and a volunteer for The Barnabas Network, did reading assistance at Jones Elementary school and Our Children’s House.

The family wishes to thank Constance Garner and Diane Quillen with At Home Care for the amazing care they provided. We would also like to thank Dr. Clarence Owen for being an advocate for our dad, especially the past few months.

A celebration of his life will be held on Sunday, January 09th, at five o’clock, 2022, at Undercurrent Restaurant, 327 Battleground Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27401. Services provided by Triad Cremation and Funeral Service.

Rod always surrounded himself with flowers, planting, gardening, so the family requests no flowers but rather donations to Weatherspoon Art Museum or Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art.

Posted online on December 11, 2021

Published in Burlington Times News