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I Buried The Fireworks Under The Tree, Sihan Zhu

Masters Theses

Unreachable memories always surround me. I've been trying to extract logical parts from my chaotic memories, hoping to find a connection with the world within the soundless, intangible black fireworks stored in my retina under the grand fireworks display. When I first encountered intaglio printmaking, I impulsively drew subconscious memories on the plate, arranging them along some chaotic storylines. Gradually, I realized that I needed to create my own logical structure. So I started using specific visual symbols and repeating them, using the repetition of the printmaking process to search for logical clues. Printmaking with its special rhythm allowed me …

Liquid Border, Yingfan Jia

Masters Theses

A River is a mighty and constantly-evolving force, leaving behind an intricately designed and constantly changing system. Not just a river, the Rio Grande stretches all the way from Colorado before intersecting with the US-Mexico Border in southern Texas - a point where the powerful forces of nature now merge with a clearly-defined political boundary. The outcome of this is a unique ecological niche, which may often go unnoticed despite its distinctiveness.

Texas is famous for its farms and ranches, and the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas was once an agricultural hub. However, urbanization and the depletion of water …

Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer

Masters Theses

This is an artist talk contained within a book. It is 816 pages and 49 minutes long. Closed captions run across the spreads. A video of this talk can be watched on bendenzer.com/making-then-meaning

At RISD, I’ve been prompted to expand the scope and tools of my practice and to reflect on questions of meaning in my work.

I spend my days making things, but I’ve never really had good answers to questions of why I make the things I make, or what their meaning is. I don’t think there are simple answers to these questions.

I think meaning comes from …

Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills

Masters Theses

Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …

Solutions Human Centered Approach To Conservation, Illustration Department, History, Philosophy, + The Social Sciences Department

Illustration Course Work & Materials

"These essays were were written and illustrated by students at the Rhode Island school of Design in February, 2021. Their perspectives are entirely personal and reflect their efforts within a 5.5-week fused studio/seminar course that was centered on the Sixth Mass Extinction and how biodiversity is changing because of humans. Discovering that science communication is more than delivering just the facts, students were invited to research a topic of personal interest that is relevant to human impacts on biodiversity. Through analysis of data and other scientific information, each sought to synthesize their research and opinions on their topic through a …

Draw Down Books, Draw Down Books, Kathleen Sleboda, Christopher Sleboda, Zak Jensen, Nejc Prah, Daniel Eatock, Maziyar Pahlevan, Benoit Bodhuin, Bráulio Amado, Jost Hochuli, Ian Lynam

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Draw Down Books exhibitors. Draw Down is an independent publisher located in the northeastern corner of the United States. Created in 2012, Draw Down publishes small books about graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, art, and architecture.

Framing Questions And Modes Of Inquiry In Illustration Process And Critique, Robert Brinkerhoff

Faculty & Librarian Work

Every creative act begins with a question—whether consciously or unconsciously formed—and illustrators may enhance their approaches to visual problems by framing a line of critical inquiry that invigorates conceptualization. While inventories and lists of questions are suitable ways to begin, there exist many different modes of questioning—verbal and non-verbal, manual and cognitive, linear and discursive, intuitive and rational, integrative and deconstructive. This chapter explores diverse methods for inquiry in problem definition and resolution, describing a variety of models and incorporating observations by professional artist-educators to expose different strategies for illustrators.

The Illustration Game, Jaleen Grove, Illustration Department

Faculty & Librarian Work

A satirical survey of the history of American illustration 1959-2019 in the form of a boardgame.

Present And Future Adventures In Illustration, Jaleen Grove, Illustration Department

Faculty & Librarian Work

This article discusses current trends and the future of illustration. Several illustrators and educators are interviewed, such as Anita Kunz, Armando Veve, Barbara Nessim, and Martin Salisbury. Topics include publishing, virtual reality, children's books, diversity and representation, high tuition, and the lesser respect and pay that many illustrators experience. The article also relates the history of American illustration 1959-2019 in the form of a tongue-in-cheek boardgame The Illustration Game, in which players advance through the years, encountering typical events in the industry. The game-board is scattered with historical funny-in-hindsight quotes of well-known illustrators, designers and other professionals, which illuminate …

The Illustration Game: Quotes & Notes, Jaleen Grove, Illustration Department

Faculty & Librarian Work

Liner noes included with The Illustration Game boardgame providing sources of quotes and in-depth commentary by creator Jaleen Grove.

Si Lewen's Parade : An Artist's Odyssey, Si Lewen, Art Spiegelman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

1 volume (unpaged), 71 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color). Opened one way, the accordion-fold book is unpaged and is comprised of Si Lewen's Parade with a short introduction by Art Spiegelman and a short excerpt of an interview with Si Lewen by Steve Grieger and Laura Mirsky from 2007. Opened the other way, the book contains a 71 page commentary by Art Spiegelman about Lewen and his work. "Si Lewen's Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country--a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. …

2nd Hand Reading, William Kentridge, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations. Reproduction of an altered book created by drawing and painting in a copy of The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Second Edition, volume I, A-M, 1936. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

Little Nemo In Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!, Winsor Mccay, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

[150] p. : chiefly col. ill. "Splendid Sundays, 1905-1910". Includes bibliographical references. Gift of Tim Finn.

The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

4 v. in boxed set, [80] p. of plates : ill. (some col.). Portfolio box (61 x 43 cm.) includes 3 sketchbook facsimiles and 1 volume of text (88 p. : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.) "This first edition is limited to 525 copies, of which 500 are for sale": inside cover of box. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 22, 1997-Feb. 8, 1998. Library has copy no. 489. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund. Includes bibliographical references.

The Passover Haggadah, Heinz Seelig, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

80 pages : color illustrations, 25 cm. Text in Hebrew and English. Issued in slipcase. Gold illuminations. Signed by the illustrator. Gift of Lisa Schachner.

La Case Vide, Bernard Tschumi, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

1 case (28 pages, 20, [1] leaves of plates) : illus. (some color). Folio (London, England) ; 8. Cover title. Published to accompany exhibition organized at the Architectural Association, London. French text with English translation on opposite pages; interview in English. CONTENTS: La case vide / Bernard Tschumi -- Point de folie--Maintenant l'architecture / Jacques Derrida -- Trick-track / Anthony Vidler -- Interview between Alvin Boyarsky and Bernard Tschumi.

The Sea People, Jörg Müller, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

[36] pages : chiefly color illustrations. Translation of: Die Menschen im Meer. German edition published in 1981. Summary: The superiority of the differing ways of life on two neighboring islands is put to the test when gold is discovered on one of them. Illustrated title page. Case binding

The Changing City, Jörg Müller, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

8 folded leaves in portfolio : all color illustrations ; 33 cm. First American edition. Oversize. Translation of Hier Fällt ein Haus, dort steht ein Kran und ewig droht der Baggerzahn oder Die Veränderung der Stadt. "Here, in eight, full-color, fold-out pictures ... Müller has created an accurate portrait of urban decay and change that is equally true of the city scene in the United States."--inside front cover. SUMMARY The sequence of eight illustrations, which are based on documents in Swiss and German municipal archives, shows how one section of a city changes at three-year intervals between 1953 and 1976. …

The Changing Countryside, Jörg Müller, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

7 folded leaves in portfolio : all color illustrations. Translation of: Alle Jahre wieder saust der Presslufthammer nieder oder Die Veränderung der Landschaft. Originally published in Switzerland, 1973. "A Margaret K. McElderry book." Seven large, foldout pictures in full color depict the decline of a Swiss countryside from 1953 to 1972. "Third American printing"

The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, Gwendolyn Brooks, Timothy Jones, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

[36] pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 26 cm. All the tiger's fierce qualities do not satisfy him; he wants to be stylish and wear white gloves. "First Edition, Second Printing" Stapled binding. In clear plastic cover. Walter Lorraine Fund. Formerly in the collection of Tidewater Community College.

Peaches, Dindga Mccannon, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

126 pages : illustrations; 22 cm. A young black girl growing up in Harlem tells about her life with her family and her ambition to be an artist. Paper dust jacket with color illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

Children Of Night, Edgar White, Dindga Mccannon, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

38 pages : illustrations; 24 cm. Chronicles some of the pleasures, dreams, and experiences of a young black boy living in the South Bronx. Paper dust jacket with color illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

Tie Lines From Dupont / Featuring Qiana® Nylon, Alden Willard Cole, Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, Dupont

Alden Cole Fashion Illustration Archive

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Sati The Rastifarian, Edgar White, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

[31] pages : illustrations (some color); 26cm. Illustration on title page, type in black and brown. Five-year-old Sati misses his home when he leaves the West Indies to come to New York for an education. Illustration on dust jacket. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

Élégance Fashion Portfolio, Alden Willard Cole, Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources

Alden Cole Fashion Illustration Archive

folder with individual folded pages

Wool Bureau Fall Fashion Looks, Alden Willard Cole, Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, Wool Bureau

Alden Cole Fashion Illustration Archive

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Willy, Helen H. King, Carole Byard, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

47 pages : color illustrations; 21 x 27 cm. 1st edition. "Library edition" Dust jacket with color illustration. Catching the troublesome rat besieging the kitchen challenges a ghetto youth's cleverness and establishes him as the family protector. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

Aloneness, Gwendolyn Brooks, Leroy Foster, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Cover printed in blue and black and with illustration. Photo portrait of the author on back cover. Photograph by Howard Simmons. Stapled binding. Library has second printing January 1983. Inscribed to Martha Drake and signed by the author.

Notes And Projects For The Large Glass, Marcel Duchamp, Arturo Schwartz, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

217 pages : illus. (some color). Text in English and French. Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.

The Rabbits' Wedding, Garth Williams, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. Double, illustrated title page. "Printed in the United States of America"--Title page verso. Two little rabbits, one white and one black, decide they want to remain friends forever, so they marry each other in a forest wedding. Illustrated book jacket, some tears and paper wear, loss. Case binding. Walter Lorraine Fund.