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Central School -- Gord Cross

Central School — Gord Cross

All photos from Gord Cross Central School– Bridge Street Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum t was no secret that teacher Miss Lowe at the Central School in Carleton Place was mean. Well, she wasn’t mean in the dictionary sense- she was just a very tough disciplinarian. One day she instructed a couple of scalawags to stay after school in order that a mystery might be solved. Even though…

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Memories of Mulvey's Candy Stoire and Joie Bond -- Larry Clark

Memories of Mulvey’s Candy Stoire and Joie Bond — Larry Clark

Linda  I have unearthed some old notebooks from my closet. I thought at first that they would be from the 1950s, but have since concluded that they are much earlier-judging from the phone numbers. The 2L-4N number (2letter-4number) system was in place in the 20’s and the 2L-5N was phased out in the 50s. 5 numbers were also in place at the same time as the 2L-4N depending on the exchange/cities.…

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हिमाचल में डेढ़ लाख करदाता राशन सब्सिडी से बाहर, पढ़ें कैबिनेट के बड़े फैसले

हिमाचल में डेढ़ लाख करदाता राशन सब्सिडी से बाहर, पढ़ें कैबिनेट के बड़े फैसले

हिमाचल प्रदेश मंत्रिमंडल की बैठक बुधवार को मुख्यमंत्री जयराम ठाकुर की अध्यक्षता में आयोजित हुई।  बैठक में केंद्र सरकार की ओर से लॉकडाउन के कारण अर्थव्यवस्था पर पड़ने वाले प्रतिकूल प्रभावों से निपटने के लिए देश के लिए 20 लाख करोड़ रुपये के आर्थिक पैकेज की घोषणा के लिए पीएम नरेंद्र मोदीका धन्यवाद किया गया। यह पैकेज कमजोर वर्गों, व्यवसाय समुदाय, श्रमिकों और आम जनता को राहत प्रदान करके देश की…

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Emotional labour is a heavier burden for some of us | Leah Cowan | TEDxRoyalCentralSchool Source | YouTube | TEDx Talks Leah is the Politics Editor for gal-dem, a magazine written by women of colour and non-binary people of colour.

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Police Give Akwa Ibom Youths Five Days To Surrender Arms

Police Give Akwa Ibom Youths Five Days To Surrender Arms

The Police Command in Akwa Ibom on Friday appealed to aggrieved youths of Etim Ekpo and Ukanafun local government areas to lay down their arms within five days and embrace peace.

The appeal is contained in a statement signed by DSP MacDon Odiko, the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo.

The statement also enjoined the…

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केंद्रीय विद्यालय में निकली 8339 भर्तियां, जानें पूरी जानकारी

केंद्रीय विद्यालय में निकली 8339 भर्तियां, जानें पूरी जानकारी

केंद्रीय विद्यालय संगठन (केवीएस) ने 8339 पोस्ट पर बंपर भर्तियां निकाली हैं। इन पदों पर प्रिंसिपल, टीजीटी, पीजीटी, पीआरटी, लाइब्रेरियन और वाइस-प्रिंसिपल की नियुक्ति की जानी है। उम्मीदवार इन पदों के लिए केंद्रीय विद्यालय की ऑफिशल वेबसाइट http://kvsangathan.nic.in/ के जरिए अप्लाई कर सकते हैं। अप्लाई करने की तारीख 24 अगस्त 2018 से लेकर 13 सितंबर 2018 तक है।

रिक्तियों का विवरण प्रिंसिपल (ग्रुप-ए): 76 व…

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Typographi-what ? An insight into the stunning pages of the ground-breaking Typographica magazines

It does not sound like the title of a periodical. It sounds more like a science, or a religious belief. The suffix is what throws it off. The neologism Typograph-ica seems to encompass a set of rules regarding the mysterious and unattainable craft that is Typography.

In a way, the magazine does present some principles regarding the act of forming typography. However, the instructions published in the pages of the annual magazine do not serve an educational purpose. Rather, they mainly focused on breaking the fixed rules of typography. The journal aimed at defining this practise as an art. To do so, it encourage the contributors and readers to engage with “modern typography”, that is the “development of traditional typography”, as said in the editorial of the first magazine published in 1949.  In other words, the modern typograph had left its conventional printing industry roots, to mingle with “the twentieth-century painting, poetry and architecture”, as put by the founder of the magazine, Herbert Spencer, in his book Pioneers of Modern Typography, edited by Lund Humphries (1969). The aim, was to incorporate fine art practise in the serial practise of typography.

The first active move Spencer took, was to have his journal published by Lund Humphries, a leading publisher in illustrated art books. This enabled him to move the subject of his work to the art domain.

The second opportunity the young editor seized was to be appointed a teacher at the Central School of Arts and Crafts the same year his first issue of Typographica was published, in 1949. He was only 24, but his publication caught the eyes of Jesse Collins, a teacher at Central who brought him onto the team. The Central School became a location for his typographic experiments. Throughout his time as a teacher there, from 1949 to 1967, Spencer involved a lot of his students and his colleagues in the making of his groundbreaking magazine. They would contribute by presenting the research they had conducted on typography.

In Typographica 9 published in 1954, the work by teacher and graphic designer Edward Wright, and his students Germano Facetti, Don Hustein Ken Garland, and Derek Birdsall, were printed. (see below the full article “Pattern, sound and motion”). Faithful to Spencer’s vision, the article presents experiments in typography “which act upon different levels simultaneously”. The letters here are not solely thought of as a mere component of a word, but rather, as a carrier of multiple meanings. To Spencer’s colleague, Edward, letters were graphic elements “of structure and movement”: they were as much a base for a word to be formed, as already a form of graphic communication, independent from the word itself. The experiments he taught at the Central School were similar to Spencer’s vision in the sense that they both treated letters as a material that could be twisted, and worked on, as a sculptor would carve his marble. One page 16, Don Hunstein’s H’s, no longer are a reproduction of standard component of the Latin alphabet. Rather, it has become an abstract rectangular shape, hinting at an urban map. Ken Garland’s piece is not simply a reproduction of the letters s, t, o, and p. They express research on the concept of sound. The different intensities of sounds are not only illustrated, but presented graphically through different shades of black ink and different pressure of hand-press. The resonating quality of o’s are expressed through a vibrant movement of the letters, piled up on top of each others. The different shades convey the feeling of a movement, or that sound provokes to one’s ear.

Now, theses experiments on letters did not free the art of typography from serving a text. They did not aim at solely experiencing graphic design for the sake of experiencing graphic design.  Conversely, they targeted an even closer relationship between the letters and the text they would embody. As put in the editorial of the first issue of the magazine: “Typography is not an independent Art: it is a means to an end, not an end in itself. It must always be of service to the text, which is its raison d’être”. Freeing the design of a letter was meant to reinforce the subject matter of the text the design of the letters would compose.

The articles published in Typographica are symptomatic of the close relationships and collaborations that students and teachers were encouraged to develop at the Central School in the mid 1950s. The teaching method initiated by the Principal William Johnstone was turned towards collaborative exchange rather than top-down teaching strategies. A daring method which proved to have been amazingly fruitful in the case of graphic design development. Indeed, the longevity of Typographica, which was published from 1949 to 1967 in two series of 16 issues, and its consistency (the publications were annual, and sometimes bi-annual), proved that the craft of typography could borrow the intellectual reflections, and the artistic experiments of fine art practises.

Typographica might be the one book that can be judged by its cover: it looks just as fantastic as the content actually is.

Written by V.B.P.