dig 1 here are some notable CD covers for you to peruse and
like many things in nature, if you click on them they will grow.

design one, don't forget the upcoming CD design project,
look around, get inspired, look carefully at designs you like.

d2 please check out, the T is linked !

Design Two, please visit the linked

site, and research/read about using

grid systems in layout and page

composition.The is linked

spring schedule

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Merry Christmas my fine young cannibals.
Do enjoy a gentle, merry holiday ... and
remember, I shall be watching. cheers TF

Sadly, our old friend and colleague Henry Lehmann

passed away yesterday.

I'd known Henry for about 25 years. He was a

real gentleman, a sweet and funny fellow, who really

loved to tell stories.

I can remember him as a young sharp and shiny Boulevardier,

talking and writing about art with enthusiasm and skill, and I can

also remember him as a white haired emeritus, slowly taking

his students about a gallery.

Henry was a rare kind of person, always gracious, elegant of mind and fair.

I will miss him. He was a diamond.

Free Beer and Sushi ( I'm lying )

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. (not all projects apply to all sections)

It can contain anything you want really beyond the basic assignments - it can contain re-working or improvements of projects or personal stuff you've done or just the assignments.

Put your portfolio 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.

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

Last class & complete.

Oh and .... I love watermelon sorbet.

the United States of Ameatia

Never one to downplay his own achievements, Wolfgang Weingart
explains why he has shifted his emphasis from design to teaching:
"I had to stop in order to let the things that I produced sink in, and
wait until the next, real explosion comes, so that designers in the
new decade can copy me again." Labeled by some as the father of
New Wave Graphics for his dramatic departure from Swiss style and
his maverick attitude toward design, Weingart considers himself an
"educational orphan." After studying under various mentors, Weingart
abandoned apprenticeship and institutional study altogether, and
accepted a position on the typography faculty at the Basel School of
Design. His unique style of wide lettering, spacing, underlining, and
layering photography with typographic images had an immediate
impact on the design world, and its influence on subsequent design
developments was instantaneous. Weingart advocates a triumvirate
relationship between design identity, typographic elements, and
printing technique. His combative relationship with new technology
is manifest in his efforts to prove, through both theory and practice,
that visual complexities can be produced by hand as well as by technology.
A teacher with an aggressive style, Weingart has given up designing to
travel the world in order to spread his idiosyncratic vision of design to a
new generation of graphic artists.

Five Ways to Change the World

digital one, please read the linked article. You will be quizzed,

for marks, in class. The word World is linked to the article.

here's the first paragraph.

So you want to change the world? Start by changing the built

environment. Buildings shape our experience and open up or

close down possibilities for life. Hardly anyone gets to realize

his or her visions for transforming society, but activism through

architecture is a place to start. Here I offer a guide, idiosyncratic

and partial, drawing on personal experience and American history,

to how architecture can contribute to social reform.

" I hate to say this, but if you really want to be successful,

you have to rethink the concept of the so-called work/life balance.

The most successful creative people I know do not segregate their

“work” and their “play”—it’s all the same. They love what they do,

and do it all the time. If you look at design as a job that you do

between 9 and 5 every day, you will earn a paycheck...and that’s all.

Talent will take you far, but determination will take you further.

I can’t tell You how many people I’ve heard moan about how they

could have started a business, gotten the great assignment, scored

a better position or whatever. The truth is, most people aren’t

willing to put the time and effort into accomplishing their goals.

It’s easier to just live their dreams inside of their heads instead

of putting in the sweat equity.

I look at successful people and I see the same patterns. I know a

photographer who, when starting his career, worked literally

around the clock, and even spent his own money to make shots

memorable. He never looked at an assignment as a job, but as an

opportunity to do something outstanding. He is still pushing

himself today and branching out into new areas. His renowned

career is nothing if not enviable.

When I started my business, I had no clients and very little money.

The first year I worked until midnight most nights, almost seven

days a week. Not only did I work past the point of endurance on

my design, I learned how to do basic billing. I wired my own network.

I wrote copy. I steeled myself and made cold calls. All of the long

nights paid off, I built a client base, and now, years later, I have a

thriving practice. You can achieve great things, if you’re willing

to put in the effort. "

Lynda Decker, Decker Design

dig 2 please check out this English student design blog.

It contains some interesting contemporary, as well as

vintage page layouts that may inspire you to re-do/improve

or upgrade your rapidly approaching minimum 10 double

page, magazine assignment. The circa 70/80's British

magazines are particularly bold & interesting.

Remember to always backup your work. this is linked

I'd meant to post these over Halloween, knowing that some of
you are very interested in vintage illustration. The word Halloween
is linked to the great site that these covers came from, enjoy.

as an aside, for Dig 2, please read the article linked to this. Thanks to Zarine for der link.

things most remarkable No. 12 ( for an extra mark )

who uses this font in a lot of their work ? and has for years

Extended Evening Lab Hours

until the end of the semester, the lab will be open

an extra 2 hours

Monday ( 2 hrs commencing after last class )
Wednesday ( 2 hrs commencing after last class )
Friday ( 2 hrs commencing after last class )

groovy

Irving Penn (June 16 1917 - Oct. 7 2009) 

Last week, aged 92 years, an artist of rare genius, passed away. Irving Penn, was an iconic American photographer. Renowned for his uniquely elegant sense of line and form, virtuoso command of natural, classical lighting, and perhaps most notably - his wonderful ability to express the commonplace in the most remarkable of ways.
Irving Penn worked succesfully for decades for all the shiniest magazines in New York and Paris as a studio illustrator, but he was perhaps - as revered artistically for his personal - more private work, than for the brilliance of his commercial fashion and product photography.

Instantly identifiable, Penn's images, more than any other photographer of his generation defined studio photography, and he has had an indelible influence on each succeeding generation of photographers that were fortunate enough to know his work. Irving Penn is irreplaceable, a true visionary, rest in peace. his name is linked, please read

A particularly gifted former student who has since gone on to far away fame and fortune as an animator and 3D imaging software developer, sent me this interesting site.

Digital two please have a visit; a site about informatics, the emerging if reluctant marriage of information and imaging - now enjoying a great leap forward far removed from the land of bar graphs and pie charts.

Word to the wise my little monkeys, while the author of the site genuinely enthuses that beauty is possible in the world of quantization, his work itself, regrettably, is not that remarkable.

In Our Library (an antique colloquialism if there ever was one, they store these things called books, perhaps you've heard of them ?) are a number of really beautiful texts by Edward Tufte, if you're at all interested in the subject or plan to pass our class, (and it is an interesting and vigorously evolving field of work) have a look at his books. the word informatics is linked ...

digital one, consider for a moment how this

cupboard/sideboard by Ettore Sottsass Jr.,

differs from that of the furniture we recently

studied by Carlo Bugatti. Be prepared to

discuss it. both names are linked

In 1980, Ettore Sottsass, Jr., one of the senior

Italian designers of the time, founded the Milan

design cooperative Memphis with two colleagues,

Andrea Branzi and Allesandro Mendini. Memphis

pieces, such as the "Casablanca" cabinet displayed

here, were self-consciously flamboyant riffs on the

postmodern design then in vogue. Although the

cooperative lasted only for five years, its risky

exuberance expanded the boundaries of modern

furniture and continues to influence designers today.

The Plain Beauty of Well-Made Things

digital two, please read the linked article

Arising from our class discussions. Digital 1 ( both sections ) , carefully read and generally commit to memory for next weeks class, not the class immediately threatening, but the next.

The following ....

Try to identify the defining or central characteristics of the individuals, the works, or movements linked to the names below.

I vigorously suggest that you follow the links or connections along their natural progression, perhaps from person to person, or work to work, or even movement to movement, as one might also follow a country path wandering along. Just look about. Try to both appreciate the works themselves, and try also to begin to perceive the enduring connections between them, and recognize that they are as art works or moments in Art History, inextricably bound to each other by context. Each person or work having an effect, an influence upon the other.

It is some of the finest of modern art and represents some of the pivotal

redefinitions of style and ideas, in Modern Art History.

no.1 Vincent

Try not to be obsessive with the minutiae, endeavour to comprehend the work or movements in rather broad strokes (sorry about the pun) so to as better understand the general historical context and the progression of styles, philosophies and ways of working. If you find this all a trifle overwhelming, just think of it as gossip, because some of it frankly, is. Cool

no.2 Davide

no.3 Paul Gaughin

no.4 Cubism

no.5 Henri

no.6 Impressionism

digital too, visit this site.

design two - do work hard on your layout project, as it does tend to show when you don't ...



.... search, investigate, explore - try new things. Go back the way you came and look again, keep moving, collect, experimento, eat ice cream

www.lapp-pro.de/ check this out.

The name light graffiti struggles to do these displays justice.

The fantastic spectacles of colour - which are the latest trend in street art - are as impressive as fireworks.

A host of light sources, from flash lights and bike lights to blinking LED lights, are used to 'paint' a picture straight onto the camera lens. Also known as light drawing or light painting, these arresting images are created with long exposure cameras in the dark. Sometimes the exposures run on for longer than an hour.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1210538/Pictured-The-incredible-light-graffiti-created-host-light-sources-shine-straight-camera-lens.html#ixzz0QA1wXtTJ

my dear hipsters, here's my fall

schedule click to resize image,

and here's the url http://myclass

outlines.blogspot.com/ for the

course descriptions, should you

need. see you soon. aaaaaaarrrr

hhhh !!@^*@3 sputter cheers tf

hope your summers going swimmingly, I'm wearing flippers, and imagining I'm a porpoise on purpose

Dieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern from Victoria and Albert Museum on Vimeo.

I'd like to wish everyone a perfect holiday with lots of surprises, brilliant discoveries and extra ice cream. For those of you leaving us, best luck and always remember to always wear clean elephants. Cheers TF

visit the remarkable Jessica Hische, so cool she's peppermint

my new favorite poster, from Steven Soderbergh's
latest film, I've yet to find out the designer's name,
any ideas ?