some required/essential visiting for both 1 & 2, ... yes you.
the peach of a peach is linked, the brilliant ilovetypography
website. clickez los fritas y picturas

the fascinating work of David Tobin Smith , the name is link'd.




























click on the images to exPAnD

actually found on the street, go figure. update .. the fiendish
Ms.Z has informed me that the quotes from Radiohead. Who knew ?

a San Francisco/Minneapolis ( ? ) design entity, the Test Pilot Collective  

of major graphic, interface and typographic grooveness

This poster was part of a bigger project 

directed toward Nike’s efforts to centralize 

a font ( not funk ) bank for all Nike designers 

worldwide. 

The poster was created by sixteen in­house 

designers, each of whom designed a part 

independently.

 

All of the designs were then composed into 

the inspirational poster created for all 

in­house designers. 

The back of the poster highlights the font 

used in the design.

remember to click the image to 

enlarge it, you mwumby shellfish

Key Magazine Cover
Designer:  Dirk Barnett
Illustrator:  Carin Goldberg

things most remarkable No.9
for extra marks - what are they ? ... exactly .
( ... and judging from your mid-term work, 

some of you really could use the extra marks, 

especially Really Big Larry and Wanda One Shoe )

and like everything else in nature, click to enlarge

i scream, you scream , we all scream for Edvard Munch cream

Today we had a visit from a 

young designer Mr. Sean Yendrys. 

A brilliant former student, Sean 

graciously came back to talk to 

us about the Montreal Biennale. 

It was an interesting discussion, 

which touched upon street art, 

the politics and financing of public 

art and performance, free speech, 

Banksy's et al and the history and 

traditions of Biennale's in general. 

I recommend that you all check 

out the Montreal Biennale site and 

familiarize yourselves with what 

the Biennale is all about. It's still 

looking for volunteers to help out, 

and it might be lot of fun and really 

interesting to get involved with.

low tech fun; a simple, inventive change from the whole 

blindlingly similar, commerce driven, pseudo-high tech, 

lame o, way too shiny, pop record, how does my hair look, 

all about the big sales, music video thingy. it's invention 

kids, and has a sorta hand made in the basement with your 

friends kind of, lets try it this way feel to it, big up !

le New York Times

treading that impossible line, between essential 

but cruelly dry information and dynamic design, 

brilliantly. Informatics - click me donut brain

EMIGRE magazine, cool. way cool, uber cool, totally uber way cool. 

All the hipster kids know about it, do you ?  ..Get with the program

Dead Star, by Michel de Broin, is made from leftover batteries 

at the end of their day. I'm never gonna throw a battery away again.

looking for a great resource for vintage images for 

your work or amusemento, look no farther you.

cliquez moi, svp

the new york public library digital gallery

from the everything comes from somewhere series ....

an interesting if tangential article that my more ruthless, and well dressed students may enjoy. 

one of the few charms of middle age ....  if there are any,  is finally being able to see how things connect, or at least suspect how they might connect, and also, noticing how there are everywhere, very fine, nearly diaphanous ( look it up ) threads, that join so many human endeavours and aspirations together.

like design and the cowboy shirt, enjoy

what a fantastic piece of work; funny and true in equal measures

please click me, now. Yes, now. This now. That's it.

Dig 1 and 2, also read this interview with Zuzana Licko in
Eye magazine, the picture is linked !

dig 1 and dig 2, both, please read the interview with Zuzana
Licko, found at the site below, before next class, also peruse
the interesting web site GLOSSÁRIO TIPOGRÁFICO

just because it's perfect

dig 2, layout/tableaux assignment.

Here are some current/actual examples.

A simple but effective visual prose - a robust, interesting. layout. and also enjoy, some visual gossip, extra stuff from fashion week, held last week in NYC, whether it's miscellanea or marginalia, its your call.

Do consider, please, how the layouts fit together or how they contrast. Do they collide visually, against their neighbor or entreat you towards the next page or image ? Consider the conversation that the page elements must be having amongst themselves. Is it a nice chat over a latte or a sibling's screaming match ?

Then look far, far, below, for a much earlier post on the genius Alexi Brodovitch, and please compare/contrast all this recent work, this current approach with his.

Please try to remember everyone ! 
there always should be enough cake !

(personally, that just about sums it up for me, at least metaphysically) I do have other opinions, on other less corporeal topics, but eugenistically at least, the cake bit covers just about everything of actual importance. It can be, as other great philosophic insights have been, applied universally, to seemingly, all human concerns, conundrums and constructs.

 

Let there be cake !  I mean really, .... what else is there to say ?

some wonderful illustrations by Brasilian designer/illustrator

Rubens LP, do check him out. and here

is link.

digital one, don't forget to review the video tutorials located here.

Select the getting started section, and get started. the link is below,
do at least the first three video tutorials before next class, or I will kill

this piece of sushi, by eating it.

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

time to wake up, and it's the last chance.

my new schedule
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There once was a time - long long, ago - where people themselves actually used hand tools and touched physical materials. Some of these items were called, pens and paper, people also used, these strange little picturesque rectangular things, called "stamps".

Adventurous souls, desirous of some form of written human contact, might actually, on a sunny day ( there were sunny days too, long ago) walk to something called a "mail box".

Here, they would just leave the letter ( amazing I know..), for apparently, another human called a "postman", would conduct the handwritten letter on forwards, towards its eventual destination.

Is seems, or so I've been told .... that, ..  as well, once upon a time , ( clearly, must have been well  before Einstein's General Field Theory )  not all time and all space was identical, ..... things and people might be, actually far apart, separated somehow, by time or space, or by fate,  but somehow they acted and somehow they felt,  closer together too ? 

But that was a long time ago, in a far, far distant galaxy. A place apparently, where people still could remember how to use their hands.