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Yale School of Art
1156 Chapel Street, POB 208339
New Haven, Connecticut, 06520-8339

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GRAPHIC DESIGN Art469, Advanced Graphic Design: History, Editing, and Interpretation

A probe into questions such as how artists can be present as idiosyncratic individuals in their work, and how that work can still communicate on its own to a broad audience. Concentration on making graffiti, i.e., the design of a set of outdoor marks and tours for New Haven. A technological component is included, both in the metaphor of designing outdoor interaction as a way to learn about screen-based interaction, and in the final project to design an interface for a handheld computer. Lab/materials fee: $150. Prerequisites: Art 264a or 265b, and ART 368a or b, or permission of the instructor. Julian Bittiner and Douglass Scott

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Schedule

Oct 12 … Introduce facade project
Oct 19
Oct 26 … Facade complete … Introduce poster project
Nov 2 … Flyer complete … Introduce stamp project
Nov 9
Nov 16

Nov 30
Dec 7 … Final crit

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Images from the first class

Albers’s discussion of the stencil font

The following text features translations of essays by Josef Albers regarding his rationale for the development of his Schabloneneschrift alphabets. The Translations were executed by David Blocher for the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Regarding the Economy of Typeface(a)

Flowing type - that is, written elements lined up in a regular fashion - corresponds to flowing speech, to the uniformly stressed linguistic representation. Epic language requires its purest application.

We don’t speak like this at all any more. Life today doesn’t take place at a steady pace; we can no longer be classical.

Time is money: events are determined by economics. We live at a fast pace and move accordingly. We use shorthand and the telegram and code. They are not the exception, but rather the rule. Our speech is condensed, and using only expression and gestures as language can no longer be forbidden, as it was with the Greeks.

Because we must increasingly think in economic terms, we will become more and more Americanized. A new world is coming. The new libraries in America have few books, but very many magazines. We’re moving in the same direction. We read newspapers more frequently than books. The book dealers

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Lost Book Found

If you want to look at the movie again, I posted it here (DivX AVI, 246mb).

It’s playable on Mac and PC with VLC Media Player.

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Links from Oct 12

Blinkenlights
Musee Quai Branly
Institut Monde Arab
Wodiczko
GD 2006 show
GD 2007 show
Mile of String
Moma QNS
Port Authority
PS1 Warmup flyers

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Undergrad show

  • Rachel
    • 3 posters (reprint)
    • 4 flyers
    • Flyers in situ
    • Stamp
    • Facade
  • Meg
    • 4 flyers
    • Flyers in situ
    • Flyer folded
    • Stamp
    • Facade (projection) (Roxane & Max)
    • Tour
  • Juan
    • 3 flyers
    • Stamp
    • Facade

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