Kelley Bell, associate professor of Visual Arts, received an honorable mention for her design of the catalog Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology in the 2013 Museum Publication Design Competition — for the category of “exhibition catalogs” — presented by the American Alliance of Museums.

The catalog, designed by Bell and published by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, was written by Lisa Moren, associate professor of visual arts, and curator for Command Z.

Bell’s honorable mention was one of only nine acknowledgements in the category, in this nationwide, juried competition open to all “noncommercial cultural institution[s] offering exhibits to the public.”

Command Z was presented in the spring of 2012 in the CADVC.

Back when computers were still just number-crunching machines, Douglas Engelbart foresaw their more powerful application in helping humans collaborate.

One summer day in 2000, I was in the Silicon Valley offices of the computer peripherals maker Logitech for a demonstration of a gimmicky new mouse. It was only mildly interesting, until a soft-spoken older gentleman came into the room. It was Doug Englebart. Because he is credited with inventing the computer mouse, Logitech’s public-relations people were hoping he could help illustrate just how far the device had come since he conjured one out of a block of wood in the 1960s.

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That’s why startups are raising so much money.

I was casually talking to my co-founder of Uncover, Mike Potter, yesterday about all the large seed rounds we’ve been seeing over the past few years. They’ve been getting larger and larger every month, it feels like. Two of the reasons often talked about by the media are that there’s just more money to be invested than ever before and that engineers and designers are more expensive because of such a high demand for them. Those answers seem perfectly plausible, but I’d like to add a new one to the discussion. I think it’s that startups just take much longer to get off the ground post 2010 than they did in the previous decade – there’s too much competition for peoples’ attention.

You can have a successful launch, get written up in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and all the other tech blogs. Maybe the WSJ and NY Times will cover you too, but with so many articles being posted about the latest tech startup, press is becoming less and less effective in driving people to your startup. There are a couple hundred other articles that readers could be reading. You’re one startup out of hundreds of thousands, whereas once you were one in tens of thousands – or maybe better.

The pure volume of startups trickle down to whatever market you choose to approach. With more startups, it goes without saying that there are more in your market. There’s probably at least one, if not a dozen startups, doing the same thing (or similar) to what you’re doing. So, again, you need to raise more money to buy more time to get out ahead of your competitors in your market.

To me this is a sad state of affairs for the tech startup industry. It’s not going to end well. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to work out for any party involved – entrepreneur or investor – and we’re already starting to see the fallout. Startups are shutting down left and right, acquihires are the only sub-$50m deals I’m seeing, and only the few are getting rich with big deals.

Sales become a much bigger deal than they once were before too. New startups can no longer rely on organic growth. You need to put dollars and man power behind acquiring customers. The days of being “found on Google” or through “word of mouth” within the first few months of launch are far fetched at best. That takes time and time is why companies are raising so much money these days.

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