Prof. Jenna Spevack | COMD3504_D061 | Fall 2022
How do Beliefs Make a Person?
This presentation is a ssummarized version on what makes a person – what builds their identity. It talks about how designers/artists use their beliefs (opinions, practices, cultural traditions) to inspire them and present their views. Every person has their … Read More
Celebrating the African-American Practitioners Absent From Way Too Many Classroom Lectures by Madeleine Morley, Eye on Design, 2018, Typography as a Radical Act in an Industry Ever-dominated by White Men by Silas Munro, Eye on Design, 2019, and Design Gets More Diverse by Alice Rawsthorn, … Read More
I feel like I’ve genuinely accomplished so much. I’ve been keeping up with my assignments even though … Read More
Beliefs are something that range in a variety. Beliefs hold a huge significance for every individual. It’s what gives the word diversity to mean something other than skin color. However, in today’s society the world is very closed off. Though more diverse, a large group … Read More
The following is a draft towards an inredible piece of art created by Shannon Downey. A design that showcases her universal system, authorship, and social/political engagement. Thought never mentioned, her work alone is a style of avant-garde for not many artists use the medium she uses. Not to … Read More
Madeleine Morley; Master László Moholy-Nagy Saw Photoshop Coming, 90 Years Ahead of Time (2019), AIGA Eye on Design, László Moholy-Nagy; Typophoto (1925): Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field by Helen Armstrong on pages 32-34, Jan Tschichold, “The Principles of the New Typography” 1928: Graphic … Read More
F.T. Marinetti, “Manifesto of Futurism”; Aleksandr Rodchenko, “Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group”; and El Lissitzky, “Our Book”, Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field by Helen Armstrong, pages 19-31.
Hall, Sean. This Means This, This Means That : A User’s Guide to Semiotics, Laurence King Publishing, 2012 (Chapters 1 & 2) pgs 21-67.
The following chapters were interesting to read. They definitely gave me some new ideas and perspectives to think about. I … Read More
Armstrong, Helen. Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Pages 9-15.
Revisiting the Avant-Garde
From past lectures, I understood that “avant-garde” is originally a French term that related to the members of the army that would always be at … Read More
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