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ART: Femme-Enfant by Dessie Jackson

Above are two stunning selections from Philadelphia-based artist, Dessie Jackson's, upcoming solo exhibit Femme-Enfant.

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David Carson: Design and discovery | Video on TED.com

David Carson starts off by talking about signs that are maybe not the best, but they show examples of minimalism. Then he moves on to talk about how we are using minimalism more these day's and because of that we are now starting to move back to having a lot more content in design. One particularity thing that stood out to me when he was talking about this was of a billboard that was done in a minimalist style that had been graffiti on and he comments on how the graffiti artist has also chose to use a minimalist style when vandalizing that billboard. That goes to show that maybe design influence the way that people think and respond to design. This leads Carson into talking about how design should connect with human emotion, it should have some value and meaning to it that people can grasp and responded to. I think this is something that is very important that I also struggle with doing in my design's. Sometimes I think it's just that I'm petrified of having my design fail that I personally fail to see that sometimes you have to stop worrying about failure because it will happen and just go for it or else you may never achieve greatness. The last thing Carson leaves us with is three main points, make design fun and interesting, put some investment into your work others will see it, and make it your own work. 

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Needless to say that was probably one of the coolest things I have seen. The Katachi Heroine magazine graphics and motions captivated me. The magazine did have a navigation page which was good with all the graphics that the things that were happening on the page and it was moving different directions. I also like how you could pull the top of the page down and then it would show all the different pages and you could scroll all the way across and figure out which page was what. That magazine was very interactive and I hope that I can learn front that and apply it.  

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Typography

_ What are the advantages of a multiple column grid.?

Using more than one grid allows for more flexibabilty for the formats that have a complex hierarchy. With multiple grids you can also create different area's of text to seperate subjects and create hiearchy to show the importance of one text over the other. It also doesn't matter if the text or image is just in one column or all of them.

_ How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line?

About 6-8 words for every line or 65 characters, although it is important to have a similar word count between all the lines in a paragraph.

_ Why is the baseline grid used in design?

It helps to anchor the elements of the layout.

_ What are reasons to set type justified? ragged (unjustified)?

Justified type makes good use of the space, is very compact shape, and is clean. Unjestiified text follow the natural flow and it avoids uneven spacing.

_ What is a typographic river?

The gaps in the typesetting that is throughout a paragraph that looks like a river of white becasue of the alignmetnt spacing.

_ What does clothesline, hangline or flow line mean?

An imaginary line that aligns horizontal to text that makes text easier to read and follow.

_ What is type color/texture mean?

The elements such as spacing, typefce, size, line measurement, which effects the font contrast, density, and the value which therefore makes texture and color.

_ How does x-height effect type color?

The color could be carious shades of the value of color due to the fact that is makes the font longer, shorter, or even lighter.

_ What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules?

When indicating a new paragraph you can use color, bold, highlights, symbols, explication, space, weight, italics and a new font. It should just be a drastic enough change that it is easy to understand that it is a new paragraph.

Below are the links I used to find this information. Great reads for designers!

_ http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/letter _ http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/grid/ _ http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/text/

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More photos by Rineke Dijkstra

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Compound Words describing Rineke Dijkstra's work

Adolescents + Awkward = Adoleward Nostalgia + Wistful = Nostalful Rough + Tender = Tenugh Honest + Vulnerable = Vulnerest Unpolished + Raw = Rawlished Vague + Intriging = Intiuge

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50 words describing Rineke Dijkstra's work.

Individuals People Normal Raw Adolescents Children Mothers Babies Real Suspicious Alienated Interesting Weary Hesitant Blank Shy Uncertain Self conscious Tender Awkward Uncomfortable Moved Curious Centered Contrast Open hearted Wistful Vulnerable Fragile Detached Indifferent Tense nostalgia Melancholy Inspired Mellow Quiet Serene Virtuous Pure Honest Urban Rough Unpolished Unrefined Sober Moody Posed Vague Gentle

KEY WORDS:

Adolescents, nostalgia, Unpolished, Vague, Vulnerable, Awkward. 

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Video of Rineke Dijkstra's video about people dancing at the Buzzclub..

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Here is  video that was done by Rineke Dijkstra called "I see a woman crying"

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Photographer Rineke Dijkstra talking about "The Krazyhouse"

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The photographer that I chose for our last project was Rineke Dijkstra. She is a Dutch photographer who lives in Amsterdam. Most of her works are single portraits in a series that shows her work. Much of those works are specific groups like people at the beach, soldiers, adolescents, and clubbers. The picture that really defines Dijkstra's moment of  artistic beginning is when she took a self-portrait after swimming. And thus her series on young beach goers began. I'm excited that I get to explore more of Dijksta's work because people in photographs interest me and most of her work is a series of portraits which I find intriguing. 

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After watching the History of Typography by Ben Barrett-Forrest I learned a few new things about type that I had not known before. Something that stuck out to me in the beginning that I had never really thought of before is what he said about and how type is timeless but always changing. Type is made up of the same characters just in different forms, which makes it both timeless and ever changing. Another thing that I thought was interesting is that after the introduction of italics there was a big gap from around the 15th century until the 18th century until there was a new typeface that was created. I think its interesting how something like San Serif can be so unpopular and then eventually caught on and become popular. Also another thing that I didn't know was that Helvetica is thought to be the world's favorite type. I do appreciate Helvetica but I wouldn't say that it is my favorite font. I really enjoyed how Barrett-Forrest made the video and gave some really interesting information on type. 

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Tobias Frere-Jones

Tobias Frere-Jones was born in New York where he grew up createing art from a young age. Frere-Jones has been exhibitng his art from the age of 14. Frere-Jones later went on to the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduation Frere-Jones went on to work at the Font Bureau in Boston where he spent seven years learning under David Berlow. While he was ther he had two typefaces designed. Some of his well known fonts include Gothic, Interstate, and Poynter. Frere-Jones now teaches at the University of Yale as a typefce design proffessor. When Frere-Jones left the Font Bureau he connected with jonathan Hoefler and now have company together name Hofler & Frere-Jones Typography where they create typefaces for a varitey of companies, one of thoe clients being President Obama on his presidential campaign signs. 

http://designhistoryresearch.wordpress.com/category/tobias-frere-jones/

Tobias Frere-Jones's Gotham font on the presidential signs

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Erick Van Blokland

Erick Van Blokland is a graphic and typographic designer. Blockland graduated from the Royal Academy for Fine and Applied Arts in The Hague. After graduating Van Blokland went to work at MetaDesign where he worked with van Rossum on experimenting with computer programming and how to conect it to type design. At this time is when Van Blokland and van Rossum created the typeface Beowolf which is describe to have a 'mind of it's own'. This font was considered very radical and got them a lot of publicity. Van Blokland worked at a variety of places, one of those places being David Berlows FontBureau. But eventually Van Blockland settled at The Hauge again where he still works with van Rossum on type, corporate designs, music, aniamation, website, illustrations, magazines, and interactive designs.

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/designer/erik_van_blokland/

Erick Van Blokland's font

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Berry Deck

Barry Deck is a typeface  designer from Iowa. Deck graduated from Northern Illinois University where after graduation he wen to  work for Lipmon & Simmons as their junior designer in Chicago. After working their for a while he then went on to become the graphic designer for Kim Abrams Design. Deck then decided to go back to school and while he was there Deck, Lorraine Ild, and Ed fella studied an experimental approach to design and type. When school was over Deck moved out to New York where he created his own typeface that was quite radical and stirred up a lot of controversy within the design community. Most of Decks typefaces are a kind of distorted style. Deck eventually made his own company called dymedia and has done work for company like VH1, Pepsi, Nicelodeon, and Reebok. 

http://www.barrydeckgroup.com/

Creative Director: Berry Deck

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Paul Elliman is designer and artist. One of the typefaces that Elliman is known for is his Found Fount which is a collection of found typography. Most of Elliman's work is centered around the relationship between the human voice and typography. Elliman tries to find how the imitate other langages, non-verbal messages, sounds of the city and other forms of sound into design and art. Elliman's work has been exhibited in a few places such as the MOMA, Kunsthalle Basel, Victoria and Albert Museum, anyang public art project, and London Tate modern. Not only is Elliman an artist and designer he is the supervisor for werkpaats typografie, but also the senior critic for the graphic design program at Yale.

http://art.yale.edu/PaulElliman

Paul Elliman's font