A forum for people using plexiglass to make prints

Robert Rauschenberg discussing ideas and motivation behind his piece "Erased De Kooning"

The new documentary by the director of Helvetica (follow the link on the top left for Helvetica).

Great video on right that explains some of Guston's imagery and personal history.

A slideshow, in chronological order, showing Khan's growth as an architect and his concentration on the relationship between people and the buildings they live/work in.

Gary Hustwit made the film:
http://www.helveticafilm.com/director.html

He is currently working on a new design-oriented film called Objectified:
http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/

Helvetica was produced in association with Veer, a design-house/type-house/art-house and all around culturally motivated kind of place (they have a free catalog that's worth ordering):
http://www.veer.com/

If you ever have to buy Helvetica, here's where to go:
http://www.linotype.com/searchresult?q=helvetica

Helvetica was a new version of Akzidenz Grotesk:
http://typophile.com/node/17655?

Stefan Sagmeister:
http://www.sagmeister.com/index.html

Hermann Zapf:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Zapf

Hoefler/Frere-Jones:
http://www.typography.com/home/index.php?affiliateID=

Erik Spiekermann:
http://spiekermann.com/en/

David Carson:
http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/

Paula Scher:
http://www.paulascher.com/

Wim Crouwel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Crouwel

Absolutely marvelous tool. You select specific colors and then it finds images that contains those colors from the Creative Commons pool in Flickr.

Adolf Wolfli was confined to a mental asylum in Germany where he created a tremendous and complex body of work that included paintings, drawings, writing and combinations of all three.

This is a thread for discussion of the Green Poster Project that AR319 and AR419 is tackling.

We discussed the idea of energy vampires in class today.

Here are some links:'
http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/greentips/energy-vampires.html
http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2008/10/30/energy-vampires-causing-distress-in-many-ways/
http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/environment/enviro_images/pledge_energy_vampires.jpg
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/008/trans008vampireenergy.html
http://www.tvakids.com/vampires.htm
http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/images/gallery/17/2007/07/medium_799783165_28ae417e00_o.jpg

Oprah has a different view:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/03/11/o.energy.vampires/index.html

A lot of propaganda:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

Rodchenko:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rodchenko_alexander.html

Gout:
http://scienceblogs.com/moleculeoftheday/images/gout-cartoon.jpg


The problem:
Convince people to unplug things, turn lights off.

The solution:
Simplicity, strong imagery, distinct colors, easily understood information

A description of Albers book of prints from 1972. If you move your mouse over the upper left of the main image - you'll get the controls for a slideshow that shows some of the images from the book.

An unconventional - and very old print titled Werewolf by Lucas Cranach. There is no full moon, no fangs, no howling - just a yard littered with bodies and body parts and a horrific depiction of a small child being carried away in the mouth of a madman whose only indication of wolf-ness is what may or may not be long ears coming out of his hair.

A woodcut from 1512 titled Werewolf by Lucas Cranach.

If he was French, he was undoubtedly a good chef as well as a werewolf.