my kind of design

so clever. i love it. imagine if this was every ad campaign?

sav-a-lot still lifes

i wanted to channel a modern day raphaelle peale for this photo imaging still life assignment. (2 found, 2 composed.) beyond the allure of sav-a-lots dirt cheap prices, i've long been a fan of the crazy off brand names and colorful patterns of stacked packaging. not included in my final four (but totally purchased) were the "higglets hot n spicy" pork rinds and "fruity diamonds" cereal.

songs that got stuck in my head in september

i haven't done one of these in a long while... so here it goes. if i wasn't being so modest with the length i probably should have included the entirety of night ripper. it's my new secret staying awake weapon.

i'm never typing on a keyboard again

it's official. i love letterpress. and i love that we learned how to set type today by watching a vocational video from the forties. so good.

flash! in your face!

i can't figure out for the life of me how to get my flash files embedded in blogger (and i'm starting to think it might be impossible without changing the document size and re-building them all. which is not something i plan on doing...) but i really want to share these assignments we've been doing in gd 3. the class is, as far as i can tell, going to be all motion graphics. and shockingly, it's becoming one of my favorites. who knew code could be so fun? (or at least copying and pasting the code someone else painstakingly wrote...) so, for now, i'll just have to put some still shots and hotlink them. just click on the picture to play the game/answer the question/have your future revealed!

characteristics of a photograph

the thing itself
"he learned that the world itself is an artist of incomparable inventiveness, and that to recognize its best works and moments, to anticipate them, to clarify them and make them permanent, requires intelligence both acute and supple."


the detail
"he could only record it as he found it... he could only isolate the fragment, document it, and by so doing claim for it some special significance."


the frame
"the photographer looked at the world as though it was a scroll painting, unrolled from hand to hand, exhibiting an infinite number of croppings - of compositions - as the frame moved onwards."


time
"all photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time. the time is always the present... photography aludes to the past and the future only in so far as they exist in the present, the past through its surviving relics, the future through prophecy visible in the present."


vantage point
"and yet it is photography that has taught us to see from the unexpected vantage point, and shown us pictures that give the sense of the scene... an artist is a man who seeks new structures in which to order and simplify his sense of the reality of life."

our first assignment for photo imaging was to read john szarkowski's seminal "the photographer's eye" and respond by taking five pictures over five days. those were my five, along with some of szarkowski's quotes. he has such a poetic way of putting things everyone already knows about photography, but tends to overlook.

mmm... ice cream

free ice cream for graphic design majors/concentrators in front of the brown center tomorrow (tuesday) from 2:30 to 4 pm! and that is why we are the best major at mica.

(and this postcard is why i bribed you to drive me to the supermarket for a container of sprinkles at the end of the summer, ben.)