As it’s come up in class a couple of times, here’s a link to Mark Helprin’s NY Times op-ed from May 20, 2007.
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
“Everything I do always comes back to me”
Friday, April 18, 2008
“I always try to go in a direction where the final piece incorporates the process visually” A designer i have recently found interest in is the Austrian-born designer Stefan Sagmeister. The above images are direct examples of the the process being evident visually in the final product. The image to the left, an [...]
Anyone else into cameras?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
I collect cameras…I only have a small collection but it does boast a spy cam from the 70′s. Most of them are old and made of plastic. After a long day staring at a monitor it is fun to get outside and shoot without having to worry about all the technicalities. So when I came [...]
Graffiti breaking through
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
It was mentioned in class the other day that it would be nice if a “graffiti artist” would break through into the mainstream art-world. I may not remember that correctly but I believe it was along those lines. While no graffiti artist will probably reach the status of Gaughan or Van Gogh, several artists whose [...]
Technorati
Monday, April 14, 2008
As per our discussion tonight, a link to writingfordesigners.com on Technorati.
What makes a Graphic Designer and what makes us.
Monday, April 14, 2008
hey everyone I have some questions about what makes a graphic designer. This topic has come up often is still racking my brain about what make a designer and how that has anything to do with us as students in the quest for a carrer. So in my own quest for knowledge i found an [...]
Magazine/website combos
Friday, April 11, 2008
As per our discussion in the last class, I’ve been thinking a lot about magazines vs. websites. Particularly if there is a middle ground where the good qualities about a magazine and the good qualities about a website are properly combined. Its in my own belief that there is no one site that exhibits all [...]
Links from tonight’s discussion
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
A new web site on sustainable design is a graduate student project. I only looked at it briefly, but it appears to have links to a lot of valuable information: Creative for a Cause Readership studies came up in discussion. Here’s a link to the Readership Institute which is responsible for many of the eye-track [...]
Read
Sunday, April 6, 2008
For Wednesday: A Graffiti Polemic, AIGA Voice Of Fonts and Students (short) Speak Up! The Birth of the User, AIGA Voice
Entertaining and Informative speech by Ellen Lupton
Saturday, April 5, 2008
I found Ellen Lupton foreboding at first. but only because our 311 teacher had surprised us with a visit from a famous graphic designer that was going to critique our work. Although when i meet her she was nice and knew her stuff when it came to graphics. She went over every students work and [...]