Design instructor Maria Galante draws our attention to this (free) webinar, that may be of interest —
From brand strategy to sonic branding, learn why typography plays a significant role in your brand development.
Tom Foley (Sr. Type Director, Monotype) and James Fooks-Bale (Sr. Director of Brand, Monotype).
Date/Time: Tuesday, 7 December at 1:00pm
information and register (free) at
https://www.monotype.com/resources/webinars/why-type-role-type-branding
More Bob Gill —
Which color is best?
at garadinervi.tumblr.com
an excellent design/typography-related tumblr.
from @iknowalotofthings (“A collection of modernist kid’s books.”)
Bob Gill, Graphic Designer Who Insisted the Message was the Mission, Dies at 90
obituary of this graphic designer, by Penelope Green, The New York Times (November 17, 2021) : B11 (paywall; pdf at seminar google drive)
Mr. Gill’s poster for Bob Fosse’s 1978 musical, “Dancin’,” is an indelible image for many New Yorkers.
Henry’s interactive maps
What might the instructions be? Where located? (only on walls?) Size. Why large. Why not small, and bound in pads? with a drop box (all boxes the same, for consistency and to suggest that this is all the same project).
alternatives to “Interact with me” —
Complete me
Mess around with me
Dance with me
Collaborate with me
Draw on me
etc.
etc.
There may have been some imbalance between pointilistic maps and others (with more lines or visual information).
Some of the minimalist, unlabeled maps look like maps of constellations.
shaped paintings
this in regard to Andrea’s first grid (of what John was calling a “landscape”-like abstraction) —
Ellsworth Kelly comes to mind. See exhibition catalogue in seminar library, or
do a Google image search, or see
Jason Farago, “Ellsworth Kelly changed the face of art. At 92, he’s still not done” at
The Guardian (31 July 2015)
John also mentioned Nicolas de Staël (1914-55; wikipedia), his landscapes and seascapes.
Guswalks
Eileen’s new group of Guswalk photographs prompted a discussion of pairings. Should it be two of the same, or different? Redundant (e.g., both blue), or complementary (formally or conceptually), or the detail in one standing out, because of its juxtaposition with another?
See TokyoMorningDetails.
We also talked about Gus's role in what gets photographed. For example, he might pause to investigate something at a location, that might not initially have drawn Eileen’s attention, and yet, standing there, something might come into view. Thus, a collaboration; some instances involving Gus more than others.
Head in the Cloud
Brooke presented printouts of earlier work, and some collages.
John mentioned Shigeyasu Gushima, his photographs (mostly (or all)) from the cockpit of an airplane.
tumblr (archive view)
shigeyasu-gushima.com
redactions
Emily showed typewritten results of her “redacted” journal pages. These need to be read (as opposed to “looked at”) to be properly engaged with, I think. We talked about how they might be presented in a book. This might involve the typewritten (or typeset) version on one side of a spread, and the full redacted/marked up version on the other. Probably not at actual size (smaller, I think, for the transformation); with the images scaled so that smaller journal pages appear smaller than the larger ones.
The suggestion has been made, several times, that a page of the journal might be selected and provided to others in Seminar, for their own redactions (or other treatments).
It occurred to me that the typewriter, as a poetry-making tool, was seen by some poets as a means to carefully position individual words and phrases anywhere on a page, visually. There had been so-called shaped poetry earlier (even centuries earlier), but some poets began to use the typewriter as a means by which to “score” the reading of their work. Kyle Schlesinger has written about this in his dissertation Letterpress Printing in the Postmodern Era : Poetry, Media, Typography (1995), which is in the seminar room library.
question (John to Emily) :
Have you experimented with reading these post-redaction versions aloud?
COP26
COP26 came up in Tuesday’s discussions.
2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference
wikipedia
summary of results (at The Guardian —
What are the key points of the Glasgow climate pact?
Analysis: Cop26 delegates made progress on emissions cuts and climate adaptation but fell short on coal
Greta Thunberg, You can shove your climate crisis up yer arse
Mention this here, because the airplane tie-clip designs that Brooke used in the “hemisphere” collages she showed, and Melissa’s angry/elegant collages/squares/book about women and — even if only indirectly — the sorry state of the world, somehow relate to climate change issues (and other related crises, that I’ll not attempt to list here).
Wondered if Melissa might be developing this work in parallel with feminist and futurist-oriented fiction; Ursula K. LeGuin and Octavia E. Butler come to mind.
I realize now, that even Will’s ruined house, on the beach, relates. A remnant of a lost civilization, and perhaps species.
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