Posts By: Tony

Friday also needs some
Lebbeus Woods

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// The scar is a deeper level of reconstruction that fuses the new and the old, reconciling, coalescing them, without compromising either one in the name of some contextual form of unity. The scar is a mark of pride and of honor, both for what has been lost and what has been gained. It cannot

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Parts & Whole

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Seems like collage is showing up frequently this fall—here are a few sightings. From The Avant Garde Diaries the video below on Mark Wagner. From Design Observer an interview by Rick Poynor with David Banash on his new book: Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption. From Eye Magazine and its current issue, Rick Poynor

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integrated means
both/and/all

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Read more about this project at Hornet Inc and Motionographer. The use and range of analog and digital means here is wonderful! A fine lesson when some may say drop this skill or this tool or that medium—this old or new way of thinking or that. More please.

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BLDG BLOG, more—

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If you have not already found BLDG BLOG, check it out. It is a very fine design blog on architecture, urban planning, and details worthy of a close look.  A few of you in GD4090 will find this of interest among many of the other articles on BLDG BLOG. The author, Geoff Manaugh, is now focusing on expanding Gizmodo’s

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Flight thru Instruments

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A few years ago this wonderful book issued by the US Navy (1945) and designed by Harley Earl showed up on several information design blogs. It was difficult to find for a while and its price increased considerably. Not so anymore—I just found a nice, reasonable copy.

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Both/AND
ALL media

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//so the cool thing about putting video on an overhead projector is that the camera can’t interpret the image properly and it makes things look like they’re breaking apart- see the part with my hand and the brush? pretty perfect.// —Andrea

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Sequence

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  Next: Notation, Duration, Sketch with Frame. stay frosty don’t dis the process (and something about plastic)

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Narrative Environments

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All environments hold a story—some are more explicit than others, some more active, dynamic, educational and desirable. Keep the baubles of the past—that static decoration that filled the food court and a role long gone. Sculpture, architecture, landscape, information and interaction design have grown together and synthesized to bring something more. I spoke with some

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— Andrei Codrescu, The Posthuman Guide to Dada

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Q&A

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Extra credit for the first right answers to the questions in the right column.

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Design Manifestos

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A partial history of designers sorting out their values and putting ink/press to paper. El Lissitzky on typography from 1923 and some thoughts on his future-cast at Eye Magazine: The words on the printed surface are taken in by seeing, not by hearing. One communicates meanings through the convention of words; meaning attains form through

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Graphic Design Shows

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Just a reminder of two graphic design shows you may want to visit— Paul Rand (Atlanta) Graphic Design Now in Production (Winston-Salem, NC)

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well worth a read—
AIGA, direction, language, purpose, more

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Less than a day ago, Design Observer posted an open letter from several past AIGA presidents, medalists, and board members to the AIGA and its current board. I hope you will read it. The letter concerns the proposed sale of the AIGA national “headquarters” building and a campaign which pits a characterized old static mindset

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