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Rainer Splitt’S Farbgüsse / Colorpours, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

Rainer Splitt (contemporary German artist) recently exhibited a series of what he calls Farbgüsse or Colorpours. The essays views these works in a context that may be described as "The Motion of Form and the Form of Motion."

Building A Digital Museum: Opportunities For Scholarship And Learning, Christy Allen, Rick Jones

Christy Allen

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The Art And Artifice Of Hand-Lettering, Lauren Gallow, Ellen Caldwell

Lauren L. Gallow

Is there a reason we’re so drawn to hand-lettering right now? Why are we craving handmade cards, signs, and posters in this moment? Why do we gravitate towards making hand-lettered flyers and signs and cards as opposed to designing on the computer? Maybe it’s just because we don’t know how to use Adobe InDesign and Illustrator… but we think there’s more to it than that.

Less Realism : More Meaning : Evaluating Imagery For The Graphic Designer, Stuart Medley

Stuart Medley

Typography' as a defining term has become interchangcable with 'graphic design'. and while font choice and application is seen as of paramount importance. image choice, virtually half , . of the communication design equation, is neglected in the theory and in pratice is left to the instinct of the designer. In this thesis I try to find approaches for graphic designers to understand image to the degree that they understand type. These approaches are tested through assignments for graphic design students and the results recorded and analysed. I seek to address the paradox that we are able to communicate more …

The Picture In Design: What Graphic Designers, Art Directors And Illustrators Should Know About Communicating With Pictures, Stuart Medley

Stuart Medley

Pictures are as vital to graphic design as type, yet graphic design theories barely give them a look. The seemingly unconscious nature of the act of seeing has meant that vision and pictures have been taken for granted. Finally, here is a way for graphic designers to understand pictures. This book explains the paradox that we are able to communicate more accurately through less accurately rendered images. There is a difference in the way pictures communicate depending on their realism quotient. The removal of realistic detail by the designer or illustrator allows for other aspects to be emphasized in or …

Presidio Trails:Overlapping And Unfolding Narratives, Lynn Sondag

Lynn Sondag

My paintings are inspired by a constant immersion in a familiar place. This allows me to notice subtleties created by sunlight fog and wind, and see an otherwise familiar environment with a new perspective. For the past fifteen years I’ve been exploring the ephemeral natural elements in the coastal landscape of San Francisco.

This most recent body of work, started in 2011, is inspired by the vibrant natural, historical, and cultural landscape of the Presidio National Park. The Presidio is a place that connects people both across time periods, as well as with in a single moment of time. The …

My Dead Mom, Lauren Gallow

Lauren L. Gallow

After my mom died I inherited all of our family photo albums and scrapbooks. Looking through these treasure books, I was drawn to three very special scrapbooks that my mom made in the late 1970s when she was a senior in high school and then during her first few years of college. I remember flipping through these books for the first time and having the uncanny feeling that I was looking at myself. I look so much like my mom in these photographs, it blew my mind.

Mythical Figures & Mucawas: Ceramics From The Ecuadorian Amazon, Joe Molinaro, Richard Burkett

Joe Molinaro

Pottery in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin is rapidly disappearing as plastic and aluminum containers replace the traditional pottery. Mythical Figures focuses on three of the best indigenous potters from the Kichwa culture: women who both make traditional pottery vessels such as the intricately decorated chicha drinking bowl called a mucawa, and who also create fascinating figurative work that comes from Kichwa mythology and their imaginations. The book contains photographic portfolios of mucawas and also figurative work made from clay, along with a wealth of images of pottery making and other cultural and environmental images. The authors have worked together for …

Ninth Letter Advanced Publication Course, Brian Wiley

Brian M. Wiley

Ninth Letter is a nationally recognized and distributed literary journal produced within the framework of a multi-disciplinary course that replicates professional practice. The studio blends students from all disciplines and all levels, and guides them through an intensive 12-week schedule that starts with a selection of texts curated by the Literary Arts program and culminates with the production of a 200+ page publication. During those 12 weeks, students are involved in all facets of design and the production process and because of this they leave the course with an amazing depth of skill and range of work that leaves them …