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.

Satire

Recently there has been some agitation regarding

a satirical drawing depicting Barack & Michelle Obama from the

cover of a recent NewYorker magazine.

Some have argued that the drawing is of questionable merit; and have
insisted, that it is at the best, in bad taste, and at the worst, racist.

While others retort, that the illustration isn't really either in fact. These learned (wink) people reason, that the drawing challenges the actual racist stereotypes themselves, and makes fun not of the candidate at all - but rather, pokes fun, and points fingers at his critics, and their absurd, and rather antique calumnies.

I must admit in the spirit of clarity, that I agree with the latter,

and think that the cover is rather brilliant, despite its um... impact.

Since its publication a couple of weeks ago, the wits at Vanity
Fair magazine have responded to the conflict in their own notable way, by coming up with a cover of their own. A somewhat familial, and sympathetic riposte, as it were.

This cover depicts in its case, candidate McCain and wife, in an equally
absurd context, and is a play on the Obama cover imagery, American social history, political correctness, and on the nature and importance of satire.

Do compare and enjoy the ( short ) articles which are linked to
each magazine's particular name, and consider for yourselves, the effect
and nature of this tempest in a teapot.

Lastly, there is a "political" etching from the late 1800's, by James Gillray, (which admittedly - is perhaps a trifle, historically remote). Gillray was, much in the manner of the great Jonathon Swift, a true English satirical genius.

Gillray was a prolific artist and a merciless social critic. His work and
attitude continued a long and notably vigorous British tradition of political dissent, through satire - which mercilessly lampoons the rich, enraged the Royals and caustically challenged societies excesses and moral failings in general, and perhaps most importantly, all en flagrante, in public.

"Fashionable Contrasts; – or – the Duchess's little shoe yielding to the magnitude
of the Duke's foot, originally published by Hannah Humphrey on January 24, 1792.
The print shows the feet and ankles of the Duke and Duchess of York (Frederick,
Duke of York and Albany 1763-1827, son of George III, and Frederica Charlotte
Ulrica 1767-1820, his wife), in an obviously copulatory position, with the Duke's
feet enlarged and the Duchess's feet drawn very small"

and I think we are far, far, better off, for them having done it.

From the department of Totally Funny - but also rather pointedly poignant
and acridly accurate - a Gentleman's point of view on things graphical, a
slightly unguentistic rant kind of thingy - warning .... British Celebrity
chef style language - warning.... Click below to go to the site you narfy buggers.

http://www.vimeo.com/1465284 here's the link

read this short article if you are interested in type design, this headline is linked.

And speaking of headlines, here's one, I never thought to actually see. 

Isn't it funny, how, small, wonderfully ridiculous things such as this, 

make the larger, more mundane aspects of life ( ie. washing up, most 

relatives, and certainly all wars ) marginally more endurable. 

Don't you think ?

Q. " What is the best moment of the day ? A. When the new idea emerges from deep of the back of my brain to the front of my brain. It happens any time. " Milton Glazer

if it has cookies in it, it must be good.  Here's an inventive ad for Oreo's, follow the moving cookie

Agency: Draft FCB, New York
Chief Creative Officer: Chris Becker
Executive Creative Director: Sandy Greenberg, Terri Meyer
Art Director: Jeseok Yi
Copywriter: Claudio Lima
Photographer: William Tran

you need to click on the image to actually see it

in case you were wondering....

source unknown ?

the work of  Thomas Schostok , rather worth a visit.

a charming homage to Milton Glazer's famous 

1966 Dylan poster.  The contemporary illustration, 

entitled "Dylan's Brain" is by Andrew Nimmo and 

Beth Bartholomew and was featured in the May 08 

issue of  Vanity Fair  do cheek it out

click or diet

Here is some very interesting, contemporary work which certainly shades ( has been influenced by ) the work of Raoul Hausmann, (see above) but it's conceived and created, decades layer, and seemingly, worlds apart.

The graphic work of James Dawe, a young British designer, (see below) who certainly has a witty, deft touch.

The works appear politically antithetical, but visually they are quite sympathetic at least in origin. And, therein, lays the lesson, my leetle monkeys.

check the brilliant Mr.Dawe out. and check out the great Raoul too. just for a little more perspective. btw. the Hausmann images are entitled 1."the Art Critic" and 2."Self Portrait".

and as ever, click le image to enlargo.

Did you know V 2.0

"We are living in exponential times ... It is estimated that a weeks worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century ".



clickez si vous plait - thanks to Miss Z.

A both fascinating, yet, disturbing glimpse of the marked similarities & distinct differences between families the world over. Do check the link, via Time Magazine from the book Hungry Planet

Mid to late Victorian, home-front and colonial graphic amusements - as well as the now classic,  caveat/bromide for war torn Englando, the "Keep Calm & Carry On" it will be alright directive - which I can vividly remember my Uncle Kenneth uttering quite often, usually after he'd fallen down due to some post stress syndrome related gin and tonic accident. 

The sign, which I never actually saw in situ, (so no, you're so old jokes) was a kind of 1940's, "Don't worry be happy" ...  duck and roll ...  stiff upper lip kind of - 'Ministry think' that Orwell and the 60's both abhorred. Cynics may opine, that we love to be told what to do.                         I have my doubts.