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

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.

the remarkable photographs of Guido Mocafico

TYPOGRAPHY image is linked

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. Walter Gropius

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everybody visit his site, Newsmap, which is both a program and an interesting, visual way to display data, the name is linked.

things most remarkable No. 13 ( for an actual extra mark ) what is the thing depicted below ? No rambling guesses, only a succinct answer will do !

D2 please read this linked article (it's short), from the Design Museum in London (via the TIMES) on Design and sustainability. the image s linked. extra marks if you can identify the person in the photo !

D1 & 2 Please browse this linked site. Called Colour Lovers, it's a web site dedicated to colour, for research, inspiration and expression. Much like Kuler colour, (as well very much worth a visit) you can discuss colour with other people, download patterns and color pallettes, directly to your desktop for use in design. Many of the colour combination represent real ingenuity and skill in working with colour. They are really useful and can improve your work dramatically.

Design one, please peruse the I Love Typography web site. During the next couple of weeks we will be discussing type, its history, design and contemporary uses. It may seem to you to be a relatively small part of design, but it is an essential aspect - as much as colour, line or concept is. Many interesting designs have failed due to the designers lack of type awareness. So check the site out, especially the popular and recent articles sections found on the right side of the page, and please read sections 1 to 4 of "History of Typography", it's a great site. the word typography is linked

Everybody please check out Nick Dewar's work. He's a Scottish illustrator working in the US whose work is technically astute and wonderfully inventive, yet astonishingly simple. Which proves, or at least should argue, that things don't need to be complicated to be interesting, and that a good creative idea, trumps technique every time. His name plate is linked. There is an interesting page where he has a questions and answers section, questions asked by students .... the icons on the top right will take you there.

D1&2, please visit Wesley's portfolio site. An entry portfolio for
admission to design school, Wesley has given a lot of thought towards
its design, and throughout its manufacture he's maintained a very high level
of precision and a deft awareness of the materials he is using.

This level of expertise, is something to aspire towards in design. Concise,
elegantly simple and fluently expressed, the project represents careful
planning, certainly numerous trail and error phases, but above all, an
appreciation of its design and an attention to its detail.

Everything matters, it must fit seamlessly together, and like a violin,
it must, before all else, suit its purpose.

the portfolio label is linked.

design two, please visit this site, for ideas, and inspiration for your book
cover assignment, due sometime after the product.

if any of you can dance like this exactly, not sort of, but

exactly, you will not have to do any assignments ever again,

and will you'll get an A in all your classes, really, I'll fix it !

Sorry, but this offer is open only to current students, and Wesley

and (yes, that's really his name). So start practising .... this is important

check this out !!

http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1266205154949RA58

The fashion world's leading voices have paid tribute to the outlandish avant-garde "genius" of Alexander McQueen, the British designer found dead at home in London, after an apparent suicide.

McQueen's death comes just over a week after his mother, Joyce, died and almost three years since his close friend and style guru, Isabella Blow, committed suicide.

"He was an imaginative designer and a show-stopper," said the powerful head of the Paris couture federation, Didier Grumbach, of a designer ready to court controversy with "bumster" trousers and ripped clothes, or to send stuffed animals or an amputee model out on the catwalk.

Alexander McQueen (16 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) RIP

here's Salvador Dali, the Patron Saint of Surrealists walkin the dog.

Dig one, note Hector Guimard's metro station railings.

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.