“some of the most elegant posters in America. . . Her sense of proportion is at once precise and measured, organic and humane.” –Joseph P. Ansell, chair of the Visual Arts Department at Otterbein College in Westerville Jacqueline Casey began working at MIT in 1955 and was assigned to produce summer session materials for the…
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The Real Issue: A Thought by Milton Glaser
“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.” -Milton Glaser
Without Aesthetic
“Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.” -Paul Rand
Awesome Bands, Awesome Posters
Thanks to gigposters.com
Concert Posters
Two posters I designed for my sister-in-law’s upcoming concert at Duquesne University.
Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market
The band I play with, Plural Form, is performing at the Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market this weekend in Syracuse, NY. It should be a great time, we’re all really looking forward to it. The Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market provides a marketplace for locally independent artist, designers, and crafters to…
Theme of the Day: Circles!
Some great designs I found on Flickr that use one of my favorite shapes, circles!
Fortune by Dobby Gibson
It can never be that way again.Every neighbor is, to some degree, a spy. When you arrive, they will have been expecting you. And still a cold wind washes silver through he gate. Smut glows from behind the gas station registers. Most things float when they die. They need you in wardrobe, fair enough, but…
It’s Obvious Why Rio Won the Olympic Bid…
they had a better logo. On second thought, I don’t know I can’t make up my mind. From the Rio bid site: “The Sugar Loaf in the shape of a heart represents the Brazilians’ indisputable passion and vibration for sports. The exclamation point replacing the numeral 1 in the writing ‘Rio 20!6’ symbolizes Brazil’s heightened…
Designers You Should Know: Anton Stankowski
“For him, design was a process, and at the beginning of every design process was not invention, but a critical exploration of the real givens” –The Design Theory, Curator: Peter von Kornatzki Maybe it has to do with Europe’s long and rich history and association with art. Or maybe it’s that Europeans just have more…