Some really nice pieces came out of my screen printing class, here are some samples from my classmates:
Today I gave a quick presentation at FIT about using this blog—and future company—as an exploration platform. Here is the audio in case you’re interested:
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Related post: The Importance of Creativity
I’ve been working on a new project for the past two months and today decided to make my process transparent. The project in essence is a bootstrapped design company (HelloNoam), one that self-designs, and produces products and publications. I’m hoping to self publish my first book in the coming three weeks, a bit behind at [...]
I looked at Bruce Mau’s book Life Style before, but was always either intimidated by it’s huge size, or too distracted to actually dive into the content or see the overall theme. This week one of my professors recommended that I look at Mau’s work, and so I picked up Life Style at my school library. [...]
Typography, even when poorly executed, can never be taken for granted; not is it ever accidental. Indeed, beautifully typeset pages are always the result of long experience.
Good typography has a simple structure.
The argument about symmetry and asymmetry is futile. They each have their own areas and special possibilities.
I stumbled on The Form of the Book: Essays on the [...]
Massimo Vignelli describes modernism as the
“commitment against greed, commercialization, exploitation, vulgarization and cheapness.” †
In essence the sustainability movement is modernism with a new name. The green movement is against greed (or gathering materials beyond the essentials), against commercialization (and instead about going local), against exploitation (which means supporting fair work environments), and against cheapness (which means [...]
Thanks to the improvement of cascading style sheets, web typography today is much more attractive and controlled. The web is also dominated by publishing platforms such as Wordpress and Movable Type. The growing popularity of these platforms is great for writers, as they make both styling and publishing content easy and possible all from one [...]
On one side of the room sits a designer who is setting type on a perfect grid, and on the other, a designer is handwriting all copy onto a poster. Which one will solve the problem? It’s hard to tell, but a very political person might say, “it depends on the context of the problem”. Massimo Vignelli once [...]
Great images from the NYPL Digital Gallery, view more images and the rest of this collection by visitng: digitalgallery.nypl.org
Monday was the last day of the Reinventing Grand Army Plaza exhibit. My first encounter with the exhibit was across the street on Union. “What in the world is that ugly red banner?” I thought out loud, and continued my walk home through Prospect Park.
A week later I stumbled upon the Pentagram blog and found that they [...]
