Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Friday, April 28, 2023
STUDENT EVALUATIONS
DEAR CLASS, IT WAS A REAL PLEASURE TO BE YOUR TEACHER.
IT'S TIME TO EVALUATE MY PERFORMANCE.
AM A FALLIBILIST AND A SKEPTIC. I NEED YOUR FEEDBACK.
THIS IS YOUR VOICE. YOUR EVALUATION IS ANONYMOUS. IT'S GOOD METRIC FOR THE SCHOOL.
DID YOU LIKE IT? SAY IT. DID YOU HATE IT? SAY IT.
AM THE MARK NOW,
GO AHEAD!
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Post Typography's (LETTERS WITHOUT RULES)
Post Typography's message:
We each will carve our visage from the faceless screen, and let the ink from our pens bleed into our hands and paper. We will cast off the shackles of Photoshop to return to the freedom of letters without rules. We are the Times New Romans! We are the Franklin Gothics!
Chen Shaohua's (MODERN DESIGN)
Chen Shaohua is one of the most representative designers in China today. Since he enrolled at the Xi'an Fine Art Academy in 1972, he has participated and led almost all the development and reform of graphic design in modern China.
As the earliest professional designer, Shaohua opened the first private commercial design studio in Shenzhen in southern China. Before this career, he worked on exhibitions, advertising and movie graphics. In 1978 he entered the Central Art and Design Academy of Beijing to study traditional Chinese decorative art.
After graduation he went back to Xi'an Fine Art Academy to teach and research modern graphic design, and he now trains many graphic designers, who are now the majority group in the field of modem Chinese design.
As the first teacher to advocate reform of design education in China, Chen provided Beijing's Olympic Candidate City logo in 2000. He is a visiting professor at several universities and his blog is visited every day by thousands of students and designers. He also puts great effort into working for the benefit of all Chinese designers.
first thing first manifesto, 2000
the FTFM, launched by Adbusters, is a document of purpose of a generation of designers talking about concerns and priorities of the profession for the twenty-first century. the 34 signatories are amongst the most respected of the profession.
click here for the full text of the manifesto, and list of signatories.
There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help.
We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication -a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design.
List of images for final exam, spring 2024
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