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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 / 6pm / Bohannon Hall

Philadelphia-based Daniel Heyman, painter and printmaker, has recently concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. For this work, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey, where he has talked face to face with more than 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of their American captors.

“Sometimes people think art should be pretty, and this isn’t very pretty,” Heyman admits.

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The Sieur du Luth Fall Lecture and Symposium, featuring world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli, will take place from 2 - 6:30 pm on Thursday, September 18 in the Pelli-designed Weber Music Hall. Five architects, each with a stake in the growth of the University of Minnesota Duluth campus, will give an afternoon symposium on Campus Architecture. Cesar Pelli will deliver the opening address.

Continue reading "Campus Architecture Lecture:" »

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Fall 2008, Graphic Design2 students have recently noticed these trends in visual culture...

Students, Please post your item to the comments below
(+ include a link to the item if it is viewable on the web, or send me a jpg!)

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Fall 2008, Digital Studio students have recently noticed these trends in visual culture...

Students, Please post your item to the comments below
(+ include a link to the item if it is viewable on the web, or send me a jpg!)

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Stefan G. Bucher creates a brand new monster every day, time-lapsed before your very eyes. He talks about graphic design, illustration, ... here:
344design.typepad.com

His work is also featured on the new issue of MimoZine, a flash-drive magazine from Boston.

this drive is designed by Gary Basemen. I will bring mine to class for show and tell!

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Duluth council OKs Tiffany window sale
Brandon Stahl Duluth News Tribune
Published Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The city council passed a resolution early Tuesday morning allowing the city administration to sell the “Minnehaha�? stained glass window. The window, currently housed at the Depot, could bring the city anywhere from $1.9 to $3 million, money that would go to repairing the city’s budget deficit and building up its reserve fund, Mayor Don Ness has said.

go to the Duluth News Tribune link to log your opinion with a vote.
Duluth council OKs Tiffany window sale

The image was inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1855 epic poem “The Song of Hiawatha.�? The poem tells the legend of Hiawatha and his sweetheart Minnehaha by the shores of Gitche Gumee (Lake Superior). The enormously popular poem is partially responsible for historical misconceptions about these fictional characters.

Designed by Tiffany’s artist Ann Westin, the window was commissioned by the state of Minnesota for our exhibition pavilion at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. After the World’s Fair, the state sold the window to the St. Louis County Women’s Auxiliary, (raising money for it by schoolchildren donating pennies...!)

Jim Heffernan's commentary

More facts about the window > Who is Minnehaha? > The history of the window >
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=72831

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Art Director, educator and curator, Steven Heller is one of the most prolific writers on the topic of graphic design, ever. Does he even sleep?
His bio on Wikipedia.

We are using his Design Literacy book as a text in Graphic Design 2 this semester.
Check out his Print Magazine blog for daily observations about all things design...

The Daily Heller:
http://blog.printmag.com/dailyheller

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September 5 -6 2008 / Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU

For one weekend the PICTOPLASMA NYC conference transforms the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts into a character design Mecca. The event brings together an international scene of artists, designers and agencies and offers a unique forum for all those working with the visualization and application of character design. Whether illustration, animation, graphic design, urban vinyl, underground plush, street or fine art - the emphasis is not on the limits of style or format, but on the shared dedication to explore character-driven aesthetics. The lively exchange between the various disciplines highlights the importance of character design in contemporary visual culture.

from their website

http://www.pictoplasma.com/nyc/

i wish i could go to this

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2 design students, Saejean Oh and Kathryn McFarlane, from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA talking about their choice of Benjamin Franklin and their creative process in arriving at an innovative solution to a class project based on Serious Play.

Serious Play Conference Link
http://www2.artcenter.edu/designconference/

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I love this book, which I just read out loud to my son. Paris, train stations, automatons, and the early magic of cinema. How can you go wrong?

http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/about_hugo_auto.htm
This 526-page book is told in both words and pictures. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is not exactly a novel, and it’s not quite a picture book, and it’s not really a graphic novel, or a flip book, or a movie, but a combination of all these things. Each picture (there are nearly three hundred pages of pictures!) takes up an entire double page spread, and the story moves forward because you turn the pages to see the next moment unfold in front of you.
(from the website for the book)

And this collection from the Getty:
Devices of Wonder
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devices/flash/

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15 Great Examples of Web�Typography | i love typography, the typography blog

Brush up on typography this summer...
play the font game
http://fontgame.ilovetypography.com/
and use
What the Font?!
to help you identify those hard to match typefaces
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

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Women's Design History Project

sometimes a difficult topic to research, this archive makes it easier!

found via this excellent Design History Page
http://www.designhistory.org/index.html

and thoughts on new books on the subject
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/030274.html

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YouTube - MaternaCord Commercial

Perhaps the art student at Yale would have had more success if she had taken a comic approach?

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Yale Senior's 'Abortion Art' Whips Up Debate, Protests - washingtonpost.com

“The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body,�? Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said in a written statement e-mailed to the News this afternoon.

http://yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24528

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliza_Shvarts_abortion_art_controversy#Yale_College_statement_and_rebuttal

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFMwegIZgH0

this is the best tour of UMD ever!

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Attend this Lunch and Talk
Lake Superior Advertising Federation
with guests from
SAYLES GRAPHIC DESIGN
John Sayles and Sheree Clark
Tuesday, May 13th
11:45 am
Tweed Museum of Art, UMD Campus
Cost is $10 for students

YOU MUST RSVP by this Friday, May 9th.
RSVP to Jen Walker at (218) 722-4421 or at
http://www.lakesuperioradfed.org/program_signup.php

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The Cans Festival

Banksy's Cans Festival, a three day graffiti art extravaganza happened this past weekend in London. Work will be visible in London for the summer... if you pass through, check it out.

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Duluth Art Institute presents:
EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS
the exhibit runs Mar 6 – Jun 24, 2008

Opening Reception
Fri May 9, 2008 5-7pm

This show features some ambitious UMD students
http://www.duluthartinstitute.org/html/exhibitions.html

from the DAI website:
The work of these student photographers transcends the usual perception of “student work�? and their ability to participate competently in this type of exhibition reflects highly on the strength of the photography program in the Department of Art and Design at UMD.

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Digital Studio students were discussing the use of laser technology for performance based graffiti onto architecture...

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video

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10th Duluth Home Grown Music Festival :: 2008
Don't miss this potluck of great music at venues all over town April 27 - May 4.
Including UMD students

Jerree Small and COYOTE
10pm Sun 4/27 | Pizza Lucé

and

Trevor Klueg in United Men Divide
10:15pm Fri 5/2 | The Encounter

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Design students can plan ahead to attend this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...

http://www.agichicago.org

from the conference website:
On September 23-28, 2008, over 1000 of the world’s top designers, students, educators and graphic arts professionals will converge in Chicago for the 2008 AGI Congress and AGI Student Conference. Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) will bring their annual Congress to America for only the third time in fifty years. Billed as the global design event of 2008, the event will present lectures, exhibitions, and a host of unique interactions with the world’s most notable leaders from the design profession.

Speakers include
paul sahre
john bielenberg
niklaus troxler
carin goldberg
michael bierut
paula scher
rick valicenti
seymour chwast
dana arnett
and others

Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) is a not-for-profit organization comprised of the world’s most respected graphic designers, illustrators and commercial artists. With representation from over 15 countries, the collective work of AGI members represents the finest packaging, identity, publication, illustration and poster works in the world.

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2 - 4 pm Saturday April 19th
UMD Student Exhibit Opening at the Tweed Museum

Dean Bowman was a good sport about trying on the artwork

like this sculpture by Cathy Hesch

and here are some more pics from the event...
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jrock2/08exhibit/

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Four intrepid Graphic Design 1 students from UMD braved the blizzard conditions
to attend AIGA MN Portfolio one on one event last weekend.

More comments by these go-getters...

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jrock2/rockblog/119852.html#comments

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Art + Design Annual Student Exhibition
University of Minnesota Duluth
Tweed Museum of Art

The Student Show opening is canceled for tomorrow night and
REscheduled for NEXT SATURDAY A F T E R N O O N>>

SO SEE YOU...
SATURDAY APRIL 19
2 to 4 PM

http://www.d.umn.edu/tma/exhibitions/08students.html

Record Cover series by Tiffany Szerpicki

Come see the show, enjoy the free food and receive awards!

Digital Image series by Amber Szerpicki

Whether or not you have work in the show, it's important to support your friends!

Special thanks to our exhibition jurors:

Robin Murphy, MFA, Cranbook Academy of Art, creates functionally and sculptural ceramics in her Bayfield, WI studio. Robin was the juror for studio art work in the annual student exhibition.

Jeff Johnson is the founder and owner of the Innovative Spunk Design Machine in Minneapolis. Jeff selected the graphic design works for the annual student exhibition.

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Alison Aune and several art education majors from UMD recently attended a National Art Education Association conference in New Orleans to present their project.... The Turkish Tulip and Arabesque: A University and Community Collaboration presented by Alison Aune-Hinkel with Natalie L. Patrick, Debra Lindholm. Inspired by Turkish decorative arts, university students and art teachers developed and disseminated lesson plans for children that integrated botanical, symbolic, and geometric patterns.

They had a great trip down there. One highlight for Alison was attending a doll making workshop with the legendary Faith Ringgold. Alison was simply glowing from the positive experience!

More about the conference + special workshop:
http://naea2008.digication.com/faithringgold/Session_Description/

Here's a pic of Faith and Alison with her doll:

Read more about Faith Ringgold here:
http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/bio.htm

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Here's a new blog about design ...

http://24-7designheaven.com/24-7dh/

There's a great gallery of images and rambling insights about visual culture
Check it out!

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Yesterday Jeff Johnson from Spunk Design Machine in Minneapolis spoke to our students about his work.
See SPUNK's work >>
http://spkdm.com/

Jeff is a terrific speaker and students were really inspired. Many were impressed by his positive energy and playful irreverence for a wide range of subjects. He spoke with passion about his creative process, career journey and love for working with clients. All this while dressed in full Viking costume!

Picture this guy, with long blond braids, fur trimmed vest and horned headgear.

I was heartened by his take on the career potential of the young creatives in the room... He pointed out the downturn in the traditional advertising model of interruption and the upturn in creative formats that welcome or invite the audience in to a conversation. It's an appealing, friendly model of communication. Again I was reminded that skill sets that include storytelling (from storyboarding to motion graphics) are key for students entering the market today.

Jeff will be spending today judging the UMD student exhibit which opens next Sat in the Tweed Museum.

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The New York Times had an article on gender toys and Ugly Dolls this Sunday. They claim that Ugly Dolls are particularly appealing to boys.

http://parsonsillustration.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/ugly-dolls-for-boys/

Here is a website devoted to vinyl toys and a link to blank DIY toys you can buy and alter...
http://www.myplasticheart.com/c/008DIY/DIY+Corner.html

This week we wrapped up our DIGITAL PLAYLAND projects in Digital Studio 2 class.

view gallery of projects
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jrock2/digital_playland/

Students were asked to investigate recreational and playful opportunities for adults in digital culture. Some areas of interest : virtual worlds, video games, web comics, character design and toys created using digital tools.

Here's an image from Sam Pickard's project. His wacky character designs for an imagined video game are created using 3d modeling techniques.

More project ideas and reflections by students...

Continue reading "PLAYLAND Revisited" »

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Simply too expensive this year to fly away ...stuck in a wintery mix over break.
Anyone else get away... notice anything cool in visual culture?

My highlights were eating very good food at Nick and Eddies in Loring Park and the Red Stag Supper Club in Nordeast MPLS.

This place is a cross between organic gourmet AND a Wisconsin supper club. Excellent food + cool atmosphere.

logo by
http://playdesignwork.com/playground/category/green-design/

My best culture hit was wandering around the new wing at MIA. If you can't get to actual sunshine... you can at least warm yourself by a painting...by Pierre Bonnard

in my favorite museum in Minnesota.
http://www.artsmia.org

Yesterday Jesus rolled aside the giant snowball blocking his tomb, stepped out and saw his shadow (in the form of a bunny holding a basket) and told everyone that we still won't see Spring until June!

same old Duluth... this was Easter LAST YEAR too.

but last year at least spring break was delightful...

On Aegina, Greece.

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Students who attend any of these Design lectures in the Twin Cities can receive extra credit in my classes...

Insights: Design Lecture Series is co-presented by AIGA Minnesota and the Walker Art Center for more than 20 years, AIGA Minnesota’s Insights: Design Lecture Series brings leading designers and design thinkers from around the country—and around the world—to the Twin Cities. Lectures are held at the Walker Art Center Cinema on Tuesday evenings during the month of March.

These lectures are webcast live on the Walker Channel. Encore viewings are available through the Walker Channel archives. webcasts
http://channel.walkerart.org/index.wac

Spring 2008 Lectures:
March 04 Marian Bantjes
check out her work at:
http://bantjes.com/
March 11 Lorraine Gauthier and Alejandro Quinto
March 18 Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels
March 25 Ed Fella
http://edfella.com/
for those who love the hand-drawn

more info:
http://minnesota.aiga.org/events/2008/03/17627822

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A fascinating and refined area of visual culture:

http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com

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On the heels of our Digital Composite project, I found a series of satirical photoshop tutorials on YouTube. ( short films from MyDamnChannel.com) They may be faster to view on YouTube though.
Caution: These may be a bit raunchy for some, but if you've spent hours trying to master photoshop, they may make you laugh til you cry!

You Suck at Photoshop ( episodes 1 - 6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_X5uR7VC4M

or
http://laughingsquid.com/you-suck-at-photoshop-by-donnie-hoyle/

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http://labs.digg.com/arc/

On Digg, stories are arranged around a colorful circle.

http://www.electronicbookreview.com

Electronic Book Review's colorful interface was designed by Anne Burdick.

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Ann Klefstad, the Duluth News Tribune Arts & Entertainment reporter, has created a new blog entitled 'Makers' to encourage discussion in our arts community.

check it out
http://www.areavoices.com/makers/

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I really love the blog, Design Sponge, which posts all sorts of interesting ways that artists and designers are playfully enhancing our visual world. Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. I was happy to find this guide to cool spots in the Twin Cities, students should copy this list and plan to visit a few of these shops and galleries on your next field trip south:

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2007/11/twin-cities-design-guide.html

Some of my favorite places to hit include:
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Bibelot shops and Robot Love.

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In Spring 2008, Graphic Design 1 students have recently noticed these trends in visual culture...

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In Spring 2008, Digital Studio 2 students have recently noticed these trends in visual culture...

One of the things that I have noticed is just how universal a logo can be that even when it is converted into a foreign language it is still legible just by its typeface and distinct color.

posted by David Warner

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In Spring 2008, Digital Studio 1 students have recently noticed these trends in visual culture...

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This unique to Minnesota art event is worth the field trip...

http://www.artshantyprojects.org/

Opening Day: Saturday, January 19, 2008
Closing Day: Saturday, February 23, 2008

Last year was the fourth and to date biggest Art Shanty Projects organized by David Pitman and Peter Haakon Thompson as a program of The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, some 65 artists built Shanties, performed, created sculptures and interacted with the public. Over 3000 visitors braved the artic chill as temperatures ranged from –12 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit to interact with artists and shanties, see Art Cars and participate in activities from boggle to knitting to karaoke. The show received extensive media coverage, bringing a large and diverse audience including lake residents, ice fishers, suburbanites, city dwellers, artists and snow-mobilers.

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The Student Art Guild recently created a surprising stir on campus by displaying an unclothed manikin of a child in an evolving installation in a hallway showcase. An anonymous complaint from outside the School of Fine Arts took offense at this display of child nudity.

What do you think?

read more about the showcase on
Art Guild's blog here:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mccu0154/artguild/2007/12/display_case_excitement.html

Other recent controversy is brewing in the Tweed Museum this week...

Neal Petersen's MFA show was shut down due to inclusion of explicit sexual imagery.
That show has now been reopened, coincidentally around the same time that the Duluth News Tribune came to report on it. That show is up in the student gallery until Sunday. See for yourself what all the fuss is about!

some links:
AIGA
Art, Censorship and Courage
by David Rhodes May 23, 2006
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/art-censorship-and-courage

National Coalition Against Censorship
http://www.ncac.org/art/

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Students who have attended special lectures or other events offered as XTRA credit can post their comments here:

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Hi Joellyn,
I came across a video of a digital art device called the I/O Brush. It has been around
for a year or two so you may have seen it, but thought I'd send just in case you haven't.
I am amazed by what can be done with it. It is essentially a camera brush that picks up color, texture and video that you can paint with on a special screen canvas. It is just unbelievable and I thought you would really like to see it.
Happy Viewing,
Jodi

http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/
There are video demonstrations towards the bottom of the page.

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Don't Miss this lecture in the Tweed!
Bill Thorburn
Tuesday,October 16, 2007, 6pm

Bill Thorburn became founding principal of Carmichael Lynch Thorburn (CLT)in 1996. CLT, Minneapolis, specializes in the design needs of clients looking to establish their identities and build their brands.

Thorburn has 20 years of internationally recognized design expertise. He started way back then with a fine arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He worked in the agency setting for several years and then became design director for Dayton–Hudson's– Marshall Fields. With CLT, Thorburn exercises his vision for strategic, powerful, lasting design every day. His list of client work is impressive: Nike, Microsoft, Harley–Davidson, Neiman Marcus, Dayton's, Caribou Coffee, ESPN, and Porsche, just to name a few. Bill Thorburn's design work is included in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum of Art in London, and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. He has also had individual exhibits in Japan and London.

some recent work by Carmichael Lynch Thorburn>

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

A friend sent me this link to a video that morphs faces of women throughout European art history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

It's hypnotic.

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I didn't travel too much this summer, but did take a trip to Seattle in June. There I scouted out a few quirky art boutiques. I found a string of small storefronts on 2nd Avenue, near the Pike Place Market and my old haunts in Belltown. There is a trio of shops called Fancy Schmancy Pants. Nearby is my favorite new little gallery, Nancy.

Nancy is a tiny gallery and gift shop owned by artists Kate Greiner and Aaron Murray, who are also husband and wife. I am a fan of Aaron's work which I was delighted to run across a few years ago when he had a booth in the pike place market. He makes amazing miniature ceramic sculpture, woodcut prints, and humorous hand painted trading cards. It is inspiring to see young artists carving out a funky niche for their work in a city filled with high-end retail stores.

Nancy
1930 Second Ave.
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-441-7131

http://www.fancyschmancypants.com/

You can buy blank vinyl toys and customize them.

Schmancy
specializes in plush and vinyl toys (which I currently enjoy collecting)
1930 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 728-8008
http://www.schmancytoys.com

Fancy / Pants sells unique jewelry and underwear
http://www.fancyjewels.com/

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Graphic Design 2:

Please post your recent observations of visual culture here:

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ART 2016 + Art 3017 : section 3:

Please post your recent observations of visual culture here:

Matt Schulz saw some interesting street art in Spain:
While I was studying abroad in Spain last spring, I became very aware of the massive amounts of graffiti in the area I lived. The interesting thing about some of this graffiti was that it didn't use text as a subject, but figures, portraits, that looked more like paintings on canvas than graffiti with spray paint. The control of the spay paint and detail in which they completed the pieces is pretty unbelievable. Not to mention the speed that they completed them in.

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ART 2016 + Art 3017 : section 1 :

Please post your recent observations of visual culture here:

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ART 1013: section 2 : Noticing

Please post your recent observations of visual culture here:

Jane Ollila visited Chicago this summer and noticed this:
While in the windy city, I loved to explore the architecture, graffiti, history and street art. I think my favorite part of Chicago is how the city has so many historic places and buildings, yet modern art can still be found in the middle of these sites. I also like the diversity of the city and how it is integrated in the various expression of Chicago art.