Saturday, December 4, 2010

Final Project -- Essay on Field Notes

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The posts in this blog tagged "Field Notes" were written for my History of Graphic Design class during Fall quarter 2010 at Foothi...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Field Notes -- Typography in Australian Graphic Design

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Our reading this week discussed Typography in Graphic Design, and I read it while on my looonnnngg flight to Australia; I decided before I l...

Extra Credit -- Japanesque at the Legion of Honor

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Recently I took my mom to see one of the most beautiful art exhibits I've ever seen.  It's titled Japanesque: The Japanese Print in ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Field Notes: Heinz Edelmann, Graphic Artist

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I was originally going to write about Peter Max, who I thought had done the Beatle's Yellow Submarine art.  However, when I looked it up...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Field Notes: The Penguin Logo and its various incarnations

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Penguin Books is celebrating 75 years in 2010, and to celebrate I thought I'd post their logo evolution this week as part of our field n...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

Field Notes: Some WPA Murals in San Francisco

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One of my earliest art memories is seeing the WPA murals at the San Francisco Zoo, and just loving them (I still do).  I thought I'd do ...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Field Notes: It goes both ways; Asian Posters in the 1920s

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Ukiyo-e by Kitagawa Utamaro While doing our reading, I noticed that the book only deals with Graphic Art and Design influences in Europe ...