this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010









Greetings Earthlings, here's but one of a million or more remarkable images found in Washington's Library of Congress Digital Collections.

There's a vast array of subjects (say Vast Array in a Pirate accent, go on you know you want to..) that you can visit, either in person in Washington, or online using this link. You can download for free, differing size files up to and including archival quality images at almost 900 dpi, or roughly lets say 50MB files, nearly any size you want on any subject. From the Atom Bomb, to early Jazz.

It's an amazing resource for images, history and ideas, and they encourage you to visit.

Likewise, in London at the V & A Museum or Paris's Bibliotheque National, you can sit at a large weathered leather top table, hand a staffer your request card, and they will bring you the actual object you seek, by hand, wether it's a faded sepia photo, fragment of ephemera, old and famous book, or some notorious document.

They are a truly amazing places, in fact they're national treasures. You can spend the afternoon going through Conan Doyle's original manuscripts, Lewis Carrol's pictures of Alice, or Napoleons love letters to Josephine.

Certainly better than standing in line at Euro Disney you putz. See the world, to know the world. AAAArrgghh ...

oh .... click on the image or I'll smack you

Sunday, April 18, 2010

click or a kitten will diet

An important reminder: !

Digital 1 and 2 you must hand in at the beginning of the last class a "portfolio".

It should contain all of your work (graded or ungraded), all of the assignments for your particular class.

Such as, but not limited to: the Pollock assignment, the David Carson Project, The Blog, any/all layout typesetting assignments, le Magazine, the Sculptural letterform poster, the Street Sign assignment, the Onomatopoeia assignment, and the Film Titles assignment, etc. (note: not all projects apply to all sections). Every section is slightly different.

It can contain anything you want really, beyond the basic assignments - it can contain re-working or improvements of earlier projects, like the book or CD, or product assignments or personal stuff you've done or just the assignments, as you wish.

Put your portfolio, your greatest hits, on a USB key (it will be returned next semester) or on a DVD (it will not be returned), make sure that all the files are there, correctly.

If I open the portfolio and there are files missing, well you can guess what the result will be. Remember to always check your files on another computer, so as to ensure that it is universally openable and all the parts are there.

This is not an optional or negotiable part of the class, it is resolutely, absolute.

Last class & complete. If you have questions, see me in class.
D1 -perhaps these will help inspire you, during your TEXT form assignments.









































Thursday, April 01, 2010