tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54587511004194290622024-03-19T05:25:24.057-07:00wow, brianprince is in artschool.brian prince and project artschool are the subject and the journal of an MFA experience.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-14458120756275122172009-09-11T10:27:00.000-07:002018-07-05T11:06:51.396-07:00projectartschool.comprojectartschool.blogspot.com is going down for a nap.<br />
<a href="http://www.2pas.org/archive/" target="_blank">projectartschool.com/blog</a> is waking up to new things.<br />
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as the PÄS plan rolls out, this blog will be set to the side and all new posts will be made at the new URL: <a href="http://www.2pas.org/archive/" target="_blank">projectartschool.com/blog</a> at that blog, i will blend together the works of pd (primate design), project art school (PÄS), all the progress, process, projects, lessons, events, inspirations, motivations and art involved with the two. it's all a part of the simplifying process. <br />
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i'm still working on the PÄS logo and will post ideas to the new blog when they are ready. i would really love some feedback on those. and along with the new logo will come a new web site to carry a consistent brand for PÄS. <br />
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as for the renovation of the store, it may not look like a lot has been done, but i can assure you, it took a lot out of me to gut the place. if everything goes well, i'll be ready to move in after next week when the contractors are down building it out. again, follow the progress here: <a href="http://www.2pas.org/archive/" target="_blank">projectartschool.com/blog</a><br />
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this blog will still be online as a resource and archive, however, since there will not be any new posts, i feel it's appropriate to show a shot of this:<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SqqkPb-ULLI/AAAAAAAABJU/7882q7IU5Cg/s1600-h/0911091219.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380293289961598130" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SqqkPb-ULLI/AAAAAAAABJU/7882q7IU5Cg/s400/0911091219.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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ok, now for anything new, visit <a href="http://www.projectartschool.com/" target="_blank">http://www.projectartschool.com</a><br />
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thanks,<br />
<a href="http://www.brianprince.com/" target="_blank">brianprince</a>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-47752676661535277282009-08-24T10:26:00.000-07:002014-10-15T15:02:55.183-07:00project artschool = PÄSas i seek to simplfy life, i strive to consolidate it's contents which can be very complicated. :) it used to be family + school + work = life. the past 19 months or so i've realized that my plate was much too full. family alone occupies the largest piece of the pie and to throw school on top of work on top of it all is just too much. <br /><br />i'm consolidating work and school, sorta. i haven't registered for any classes this semester, but instead will open an art store in downtown fullerton. for quite some time it's been an unattainable dream, until now. i've always wanted to be in hospitality or work with people on a retail level. being in school, i've realized some immediate needs for local artists and i'd like to offer them conveniently right here in downtown. i will combine those needs with my work, <a href="http://www.primatedesign.com"target="_blank">primate design</a>. and it will all take place at 115 S. Harbor Blvd. as soon as i can get the space presentable.<br />
<br />the space will be called PÄS (pronounced PAUSE). it's an acronym for Project Art School, but it also voices art in general. we should pause to view art, pause in life, smell the flowers, appreciate the details and in my retail environment, i'd like it to mean linger, but move on. it's a place where you stop, but it's not the final destination. it's a place where you find inspiration, then go on to create on your own. a place to think, and ponder ideas. all that in a little word: PÄS.<br /><br />as mentioned in a previous post, <a href="http://projectartschool.blogspot.com/2009/05/project-artschool-i-am-serif.html"target="_blank">27 May 2009</a>, i wanted to open an underground art&book supply. well, this is it – only not underground. it's smack dab in the middle of downtown. the idea is to offer the exact supplies the local art professor's are requesting of their students so that they don't have to drive to westminster, irvine or pasadena to get them or pay high shipping costs from buying online. <br /><br />in addition to catering to students' art supply needs, the space will be used for gallery exhibitions, professional workshops, and simply a place to come for inspiration with a library of art and design publications.<br /><br />naturally the consolidation of work and school also means i'll be combining the 2 blogs to create one interesting, all-encompassing Art Blog. the look will also change as i work on a new brand for PÄS.<br /><br />until then, i have a lot of work to do because this is only the beginning...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SpLb23zTOoI/AAAAAAAABIM/tIyhndHNCrY/s1600-h/0822091445a.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SpLb23zTOoI/AAAAAAAABIM/tIyhndHNCrY/s400/0822091445a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373599041144961666" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SpLb3cJkoMI/AAAAAAAABIU/GThZ6VogAFc/s1600-h/0822091445.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SpLb3cJkoMI/AAAAAAAABIU/GThZ6VogAFc/s400/0822091445.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373599050902053058" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SpLb3qonkqI/AAAAAAAABIc/J4mvgIMDSlA/s1600-h/IMG_0527.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SpLb3qonkqI/AAAAAAAABIc/J4mvgIMDSlA/s400/IMG_0527.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373599054790365858" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SpLb4A4mSmI/AAAAAAAABIk/EuDVKDcTBYo/s1600-h/IMG_0530.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SpLb4A4mSmI/AAAAAAAABIk/EuDVKDcTBYo/s400/IMG_0530.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373599060762970722" /></a><br /><br />soon projectartschool.com will not be this blog, but the vision of PÄS. linger in thought.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-33916120530988282252009-07-31T08:48:00.001-07:002009-08-07T12:19:54.952-07:00go ahead, quote me.<font color="white">brianprince says:</font><br /><font size="5" color="black">"graphic design is electronic music, while illustration is a band. both forms of art are neither less, nor greater than the other."</font><br /><br />yeah, i said it.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-91014684232263848122009-07-15T23:24:00.000-07:002009-07-20T00:11:11.547-07:00kill poet press: i made it into issue 7.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.killpoet.com/issue_7/issue_7.html"target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Sl7IYuVKU2I/AAAAAAAABIE/ObZW8cHRmHQ/s400/KP2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358940933696672610" border="0" /></a><br /><br />i'm not sure how it happened, but i got a piece into kill poet's latest issue. i think this is my third time submitting and i finally made it in. i'm honored to be published with the likes of kill poet. scheck it out... <a href="http://www.killpoet.com/issue_7/issue_7.html" target="_blank">killpoet.com<br /></a>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-87802280783123273462009-06-30T15:50:00.000-07:002009-06-30T18:01:42.695-07:00happy accidents: always something fresh.<a href="http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/top/img/ART152_interview_L0.jpg" target="_blank">david carson</a> defined graphic design in the 1990's. "the grunge" look was at it's peak and designers were rebelling left and right, and creating design materials by digitally spewing on the page. i'm so guilty of it and as a matter of fact, that's one the reasons i was attracted to this field. on the regular, i'm all about order, but there's something about controlled chaos that really fits my personality. the ability to use a computer to make things precise and call it art was the answer to my lack of knowledge in art, and now, ironically, i love the printmaking-splatter ink-brush stroke-torn edge-crinkle smudge stain, kneeling-on-the-floor-sweating, hands-on aspect of the work i do.<br /><br />today, "grunge" has found it's place (mainly in extreme sports and occasionally the wanna-be-youth marketeers) subsiding from the mainstream. and for a little stint, the ornate, curly-q, massive-layered-patterns reigned the mainstream, but now it's all about functionality. clean, clear, concise design with the the purest of typography. driven by, i believe, the explosion of 'screen' media.<br /><br />the more i experiment with "the cut-up" process and relate it to design, the more i realize that i'm way behind the current times. and i'm fine with that. cutting up design is very similar to what david carson stamped on the industry years ago. my studies this semester led me to understanding rhythm more and it's active role in visual patterns, deconstruction, book design – including syntax and the grid, and in graphic design’s general flow. (<a href="http://projectartschool.blogspot.com/2009/02/special-studies-research-structuring.html" target="_blank">paper 1</a> | <a href="http://projectartschool.blogspot.com/2009/02/grad-problems-research-rhythms-role-in.html" target="_blank">paper 2</a>)<br /><br />now that the semester has gone to the wayside (or wastebasket), the thought-bubble just popped and david carson splattered all over my walls. i should have been researching him much earlier. his latest <span style="font-style: italic;">werks</span> seem to still be very contemporary to me and not necessarily '90's'. check'im out:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqdTK29E6I/AAAAAAAABFc/esa3KJ86B0E/s1600-h/dcd_patterns_90005.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 264px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqdTK29E6I/AAAAAAAABFc/esa3KJ86B0E/s400/dcd_patterns_90005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353264059741180834" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqdNSNr4sI/AAAAAAAABFU/Sqp1Lp6xFHc/s1600-h/dcd_patterns_90008.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 264px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqdNSNr4sI/AAAAAAAABFU/Sqp1Lp6xFHc/s400/dcd_patterns_90008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353263958636356290" border="0" /></a><br />david carson: the new architecture book by paul anderson(harvard) and david salomon(cornell)"the architecture of patterns" covers designs in progress, june 2009.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqnM7ael5I/AAAAAAAABFk/QDSbdRxQUZc/s1600-h/newbook1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqnM7ael5I/AAAAAAAABFk/QDSbdRxQUZc/s400/newbook1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353274947632273298" border="0" /></a><br />david carson: lucky disasters. art w/out intent.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqnUs7Ni7I/AAAAAAAABFs/ysCf4aUn0Qk/s1600-h/cougar.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqnUs7Ni7I/AAAAAAAABFs/ysCf4aUn0Qk/s400/cougar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353275081181989810" border="0" /></a><br />david carson: cougar paper promotion.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqqBFxKzMI/AAAAAAAABF0/QHg_sdESzrQ/s1600-h/promoUSPricing.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqqBFxKzMI/AAAAAAAABF0/QHg_sdESzrQ/s400/promoUSPricing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353278042788252866" border="0" /></a><br />david carson: part of the worldwide rebranding of western union. 2009.<br /><br />more resources on th eking of happy accident s:<br /><a href="http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/" target="_blank">http://www.davidcarsondesign.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/january/guardian-gives-shape-to-obamas-words" target="_blank">http://www.creativereview.co.uk</a><br /><br />on another note, i've been <span style="font-style: italic;">retrospecting,</span> or contemplating my time in this program (and yes, still wondering the what, why, and how's of it) and went back one year to spring 2008 to see the work i did. none of it is related to my visions now, but it's still a piece of me. here are a few pages of my semester-end notes from ayear ago when i was supposedly just getting my feet wet. i believe it's even pre-projectartschool.com blog.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqxedtgBzI/AAAAAAAABH8/Nx-nQUtMIIQ/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqxedtgBzI/AAAAAAAABH8/Nx-nQUtMIIQ/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-1.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqxeBfTifI/AAAAAAAABH0/5iKNg6Cpuss/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqxeBfTifI/AAAAAAAABH0/5iKNg6Cpuss/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-2.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqxUBJzSLI/AAAAAAAABHs/l_1RakFsKos/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqxUBJzSLI/AAAAAAAABHs/l_1RakFsKos/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-3.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqxUFA_GTI/AAAAAAAABHk/td7B-EdtLUM/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwwPMeZzI/AAAAAAAABG0/DEOHo2UiDuI/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-10.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Skqwv5odNLI/AAAAAAAABGs/qUfn2sQXRig/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-11.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Skqwv5odNLI/AAAAAAAABGs/qUfn2sQXRig/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-11.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwvyxKkeI/AAAAAAAABGk/csX91rKhSxQ/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-13.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwvyxKkeI/AAAAAAAABGk/csX91rKhSxQ/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-13.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwgyUPUyI/AAAAAAAABGc/30xvchui_EU/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-16.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwgyUPUyI/AAAAAAAABGc/30xvchui_EU/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-16.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwgnVEjqI/AAAAAAAABGU/1BzsfSjDyiE/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-18.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwgnVEjqI/AAAAAAAABGU/1BzsfSjDyiE/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-18.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwgQ8GOxI/AAAAAAAABGM/dK75MFmdzW4/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-19.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwgQ8GOxI/AAAAAAAABGM/dK75MFmdzW4/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-19.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwgCn4PYI/AAAAAAAABGE/PIs9ioOVbsg/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-20.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwgCn4PYI/AAAAAAAABGE/PIs9ioOVbsg/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-20.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwfolU3jI/AAAAAAAABF8/j-OcRe26vBU/s1600-h/SPRNG08_REVIEW-21.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SkqwfolU3jI/AAAAAAAABF8/j-OcRe26vBU/s400/SPRNG08_REVIEW-21.jpg" alt="" id="brianprince spring 2008" border="0" /></a><br />umm, yeah.<br />i'm still getting my feet wet.<br />hmm.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-28925148168362803682009-06-28T15:33:00.000-07:002009-06-30T16:52:08.137-07:00cut-up: preliminary concepts for show in january.i have my first solo show in january and it's going to be based around the thread that holds my being together: words. since the beginning of my career in graphic design i've been concepting with words. and now that my run as an MFA graphic design student nears its end, i want to explore my time in words. there will be more than words in the show, including experiments with montage, the roller poem and the flicker machine strobing mad ambiance, but what it comes down to is what i see myself as – a word lover, as i've always believed: 1 word presents 1000 images in my head.<br /><br />january 19, 2010 is set for the opening but the ideas are still brewing. it will be in the Center Gallery of the Titan Student Union at Cal State Fullerton which is a pretty small gallery, but will be nice and intimate with the dreamachine as the centerpiece.<br /><br />the working title is <span style="font-style:italic;">CUT-UP: Words Are Image</span>, but very well may end up as <span style="font-weight:bold;">ONE WORD PRESENTS A THOUSAND IMAGES</span>. there will definitely be a handful of poems i've written. and i may feature a cut-up and/or visually stimulating works from a couple other artists.<br /><br />- - - - - <br />from my proposal:<br /><br />At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara, the man from nowhere, proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat. A riot ensued wrecked the theater. André Breton expelled Tristan Tzara from the movement and grounded the cut-ups on the Freudian couch.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SklGkhFpXDI/AAAAAAAABFM/V3AI-HRpVMI/s1600-h/cutup-00.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 98px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SklGkhFpXDI/AAAAAAAABFM/V3AI-HRpVMI/s400/cutup-00.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352887225277832242" /></a><br />A poem encourages, if not forces, one to focus on imagery, theme, and associative relationships, rather than on chronological causal structures as found in a novel or longer works of literature.<br /><br />In the summer of 1959 Brion Gysin, painter and writer, cut newspaper articles into sections and rearranged the sections at random, formalizing the cut-up method bringing the collage to writers, which has been used by painters for fifty years. Writers will tell you that often their best works are accidents and manifest out of a stream of consciouness that cannot be explained. The best writing seems to be done almost by accident, but for writers, until the cut-up method became explicit, all writing is in fact cut-ups. You cannot will spontaneity. But you can introduce the unpredictable spontaneous factor with a pair of scissors. (my first experiment <a href="http://projectartschool.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-first-cut-up-experiment.html"target="_blank">://here</a>)<br /><br />Graphic Design is, by nature, completely planned mainly because the end result must be universal and legible. but i don't think the process has to be...<br /><br />William S. Burroughs, who is most know for this process said,<span style="font-style:italic;">“The cut-up is actually closer to the facts of perception than representational painting. Take a walk down a city street and put down what you have just seen on canvas. You have seen a person cut in two by a car, bits and pieces of street signs and advertisements, reflections from shop windows - a montage of fragments. Writing is still confined to the representational straitjacket of the novel ... consciousness is a cut-up. Every time you walk down the street or look out of the window, your stream of consciousness is cut by random factors.”</span><br /><br />The cut-up is a mechanical method of juxtaposition in which Burroughs literally cuts up passages of prose by himself and other writers and then pastes them back together at random. This literary version of the collage technique is also supplemented by literary use of other media. Burroughs transcribes taped cutups (several tapes spliced into each other), film cutups (montage), and mixed media experiments (results of combining tapes with television, movies, or actual events). Thus Burroughs’ use of cutups develops his juxtaposition technique to its logical conclusion as an experimental prose method, and he also makes use of all contemporary media, expanding his use of popular culture. <br /><br />The cut-ups can be applied to fields other than writing. Dr. Neumann in his Theory of Games and Economic Behavior introduces the cut-up method of random action into game and military strategy: assume that the worst has happened and act accordingly. If your strategy is at some point determined . . . by random factor your opponent will gain no advantage from knowing your strategy since he can not predict the move. <br /><br />The cut-up method could be used to advantage in processing scientific data. How many discoveries have been made by accident? We can not produce accidents to order. The cut-ups could add new dimension to anything — film, photography, ceramics, writing, and even graphic design. There is no reason to accept a second-rate product when you can have the best. And the best is there for all. “Poetry is for everyone.” <span style="font-weight:bold;">The word is image</span> and this will be an exhibit of image and theme, mainly through the cutting and reforming of words.<br /><br />My thesis will consist of the my own personal explorations of Burroughs’ and Gysin’s experimental ideals. This exhibit is an introduction to those explorations with hopes of finding a new purpose and place for graphic design in the cut-up arena.<br />- - - - - <br /><br />i'm excited to finalize the details in the fall. but for now, summer will be spent with the family on the road...brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-21475894291417143452009-06-09T10:48:00.000-07:002009-06-09T13:28:36.647-07:00the dreamachine: sommerville & gysin's vision of flicker.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7Ci-YXGTI/AAAAAAAABE0/INDOVZfHJhE/s1600-h/chapel.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7Ci-YXGTI/AAAAAAAABE0/INDOVZfHJhE/s320/chapel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345423713851873586" /></a>it's been about six months now since i told myself that i was going to build my own dream machine (or flicker machine) and i've finally accomplished it. it's my first but definitely won't be my last. i used the template provided by "FLicKeR" the movie's web site (<a href="http://www.flickerflicker.com"target="_blank">flickerflicker.com</a>) but as i read <span style="font-style: italic;">Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine</span> by John Geiger, i'm finding that there are many ways to make the flicker-inducing machine.<br /><br />on my first dreamachine i used a world map for a couple of reasons — one to represent that the effects of flicker are universal and the visions or "drug-less high's" produced by the machine have no boundaries. secondly, as i study the Cut-Up in literature resulting in poetry, i wanted to explore the splicing of informational graphics. the idea to <span style="font-style:italic;">cut-up</span> something is to make it your own. cutting into the world map makes new names for the places that we already know and at the same time eliminates places we know, just as the effects from using flicker — creating a new world by tapping into our memory and the imagination and bring them to our consciousness, visioning unexplained instances. i will go into the effects of flicker in another blog post.<br /><br />i plan on writing down my experiences when using the dreamachine in the form of directly-written poetry. This way i can create a Cut-Up Poem without cutting it up after it's written, rather going through the cut-up process in my mind first.<br /><br />here are some pics of this beautiful creation:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BTSMfB4I/AAAAAAAABDk/OhAiF26gLHM/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_01.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BTSMfB4I/AAAAAAAABDk/OhAiF26gLHM/s400/brianprince_flicker_01.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422344781236098" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BTlgS5vI/AAAAAAAABDs/kX9BrySZvbg/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_02.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BTlgS5vI/AAAAAAAABDs/kX9BrySZvbg/s400/brianprince_flicker_02.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422349964601074" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7ESbDSQyI/AAAAAAAABFE/ExYSRNJ_Pks/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_10.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7ESbDSQyI/AAAAAAAABFE/ExYSRNJ_Pks/s400/brianprince_flicker_10.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345425628513583906" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BTi8wTqI/AAAAAAAABD0/NrqzS0uwWvk/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_03.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BTi8wTqI/AAAAAAAABD0/NrqzS0uwWvk/s400/brianprince_flicker_03.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422349278662306" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BT0HosRI/AAAAAAAABD8/DAPpoRzY9Jo/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_04.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BT0HosRI/AAAAAAAABD8/DAPpoRzY9Jo/s400/brianprince_flicker_04.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422353887703314" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BT56AuWI/AAAAAAAABEE/fXAAfxsmg_I/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_05.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7BT56AuWI/AAAAAAAABEE/fXAAfxsmg_I/s400/brianprince_flicker_05.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422355441170786" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7B0n0y-mI/AAAAAAAABEU/LUkX8j5Q_Gg/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_06.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7B0n0y-mI/AAAAAAAABEU/LUkX8j5Q_Gg/s400/brianprince_flicker_06.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422917523143266" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7B0ikwz7I/AAAAAAAABEc/nHBLRZ1RMcM/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_07.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7B0ikwz7I/AAAAAAAABEc/nHBLRZ1RMcM/s400/brianprince_flicker_07.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422916113715122" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7B09HZ6bI/AAAAAAAABEk/SLRIDcAN14w/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_08.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7B09HZ6bI/AAAAAAAABEk/SLRIDcAN14w/s400/brianprince_flicker_08.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422923238336946" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7B1A0k-1I/AAAAAAAABEs/t1r-qlizZ1E/s1600-h/brianprince_flicker_09.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Si7B1A0k-1I/AAAAAAAABEs/t1r-qlizZ1E/s400/brianprince_flicker_09.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345422924233112402" /></a>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-29487281507972522752009-05-30T16:20:00.000-07:002009-06-01T12:09:08.753-07:00steven heller called out my fate."I have finally come to the realization that my self-education was like a dormant childhood illness that has returned in adult life to haunt me." i had printed this summer-2005-article from <span style="font-style:italic;">eye magazine</span> (<a href="http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion.php?id=123&oid=303"target="_blank">eye opinion</a>) just over a year ago and stuck it with my stash of articles that may <span style="font-style:italic;">benefit me</span> or <span style="font-style:italic;">be of interest one day</span>. <br /><br />just like my box of inspiring printed pieces housing direct mail pieces, brochures and ads as well as my browser's bookmark folder stuffed with cool web sites, i tap into these inspiring archives when i get into a rut. i have an oversized folder with articles that i've collected from the Times, online, or Xeroxs from books and other pubs that i resort to when i seek inspiration.<br /><br />i have a meeting with some gallery directors next week to discuss a show i planned on exhibiting at the end of this semester. it was for the last project in my Special Studies class in which i withdrew after 85% completion. the space wasn't available any how, but is open for the beginning of fall. my biggest dilemma is if i should still exhibit my intended show — my decades book – <span style="font-style:italic;">progress shown at the end of this blog</span>)? or do i come completely off the wall and make a show from something unrelated?<br /><br />this is why i began the search in my <span style="font-style:italic;">article archives</span>. i have plenty ideas for an exhibit, just none have ever been flushed out... and the meeting is next week. and now after re-discovering this article, i can't help but to believe that i'm merely a "capitalist tool," as steven heller put so in-my-face-ly. but it's true. i have a knack for pleasing clients, presenting a clear message, and selling the goods. but, is my lack of formal training holding me from finding my purpose in the MFA program? am i really a graphic designer? or just a creative person with the ability to juggle administration...<br /><br />i should have been accepted into this program based on a social issue/graphic design problem that i wanted to confront over the next 3 years. instead, i was accepted based upon my "corporate" portfolio. perhaps my experience proved that i could think for myself with hopes that something would surface. well, after a year and a half, nothing has surfaced and i find myself completely alone. no comradery. no direction. no push. just a demand to create my own curriculum and plan to present to a committee. the news flash is loud and clear: i just don't have it.<br /><br />read heller's article published in <a href="http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion.php?id=123&oid=303"target="_blank">eye magazine summer '05 issue 56: "Me feral designer"</a> and you will see where i'm coming from.<br /><br />as for the exhibit in the fall, i'm still going to attempt it. i can't give up that easily. below is where my book was going. the plan was to extract the spreads and blow them up to present in a gallery setting... now, i thinking i'll do something much more interesting. as for the book, i was exercising a flow as the reader flipped through <span style="font-weight:bold;">the decades of commercial art in america</span> starting in the 50's. a rhythm would maintain with the chorus of vellum spreads showing a graphic transition of each of the decade "circles" as they separate the decade spreads.<br /><br />cover:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHDtxZK48I/AAAAAAAABCM/BwKJLhZ2Ug8/s1600-h/brianprince_483A_decadebook_coverjpg.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHDtxZK48I/AAAAAAAABCM/BwKJLhZ2Ug8/s400/brianprince_483A_decadebook_coverjpg.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341765824158557122" /></a><br /><br />50s:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHI_WJ7lvI/AAAAAAAABCc/T3C5vLK-Dng/s1600-h/snapshots_brianprince_decadebook1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 211px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHI_WJ7lvI/AAAAAAAABCc/T3C5vLK-Dng/s400/snapshots_brianprince_decadebook1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341771623642666738" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHI-a7Zz6I/AAAAAAAABCU/h5PFM8ssoW4/s1600-h/brianprince_483A_decadebook_50s.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 154px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHI-a7Zz6I/AAAAAAAABCU/h5PFM8ssoW4/s400/brianprince_483A_decadebook_50s.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341771607744040866" /></a><br /><br />60s:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJIqe3aKI/AAAAAAAABCs/850RwwSuiog/s1600-h/snapshots_brianprince_decadebook2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 211px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJIqe3aKI/AAAAAAAABCs/850RwwSuiog/s400/snapshots_brianprince_decadebook2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341771783718004898" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJIu-kKpI/AAAAAAAABCk/PXhSHwge7Hw/s1600-h/brianprince_483A_decadebook_60s.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 154px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJIu-kKpI/AAAAAAAABCk/PXhSHwge7Hw/s400/brianprince_483A_decadebook_60s.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341771784924703378" /></a><br /><br />70s:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJQjfzqUI/AAAAAAAABC0/DIMwBGk9tAQ/s1600-h/brianprince_483A_decadebook_70s.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 154px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJQjfzqUI/AAAAAAAABC0/DIMwBGk9tAQ/s400/brianprince_483A_decadebook_70s.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341771919281858882" /></a><br /><br />80s:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJXid2SYI/AAAAAAAABDE/MPv5WT_iBUI/s1600-h/snapshots_brianprince_decadebook4.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 211px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJXid2SYI/AAAAAAAABDE/MPv5WT_iBUI/s400/snapshots_brianprince_decadebook4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341772039264291202" /></a><br /><br />90s:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJdvWclpI/AAAAAAAABDM/fiFDjGaN6-U/s1600-h/snapshots_brianprince_decadebook5.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 211px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHJdvWclpI/AAAAAAAABDM/fiFDjGaN6-U/s400/snapshots_brianprince_decadebook5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341772145802122898" /></a><br /><br />and the NOW is even more incomplete than the 80s and 90s... i didn't have time to massage anything and before i knew it the semester was over. as i've taken the W's this semester, i've also taken a lesson. i know who i am and i will never stop learning, i just don't have control of the time line.<br /><br />finally, just for fun, even as i discovered that the decades mesh together with fuzzy borders, i wanted to explore type treatments that represent each in a poster:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHKLT76H0I/AAAAAAAABDU/Gl34UO25gHI/s1600-h/brianprince_decades-1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHKLT76H0I/AAAAAAAABDU/Gl34UO25gHI/s400/brianprince_decades-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341772928717037378" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHL4Zq8dsI/AAAAAAAABDc/sPYpNSMxQi0/s1600-h/brianprince_decades-2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SiHL4Zq8dsI/AAAAAAAABDc/sPYpNSMxQi0/s400/brianprince_decades-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341774802862241474" /></a>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-10364190897336520222009-05-27T09:24:00.000-07:002009-05-27T10:37:04.614-07:00project artschool: i am a serif.spring 2009 has ended now, and...<br /><br />there may be a change soon. on this blog, project artschool. since the last third of my first half of the graduate program withdrew nothing new and injected nothing progressive, i'm forced to rethink my purpose here. lack of direction. lack of motivation. lack of the knowledge or research to create a decent thesis statement. i'm lost. and i'm fine with it.<br /><br />i have no regrets for anything. the past. especially these last three semesters. i learned a lot. i learned how to learn. i grew an interest in design literature. and discovered my place.<br /><br />i am a serif. with flare. juggling more. and more. than any (one) thing compared. to. compare... ison. i can be extreme. wear boxers. and sweat passion. a tagline. for the who, what, where, and why. but that’s only the half. as i jeopardize. a reputation. i am alive. a living oxy moron. who dares. death. daily. exposed. knowing that one can only grow. with others around. as you will find on this index to my (school) life. online. is merely on line. and no one will truly know me until they find time. to sit in a coffee house. and sip fine conversations. with cream and sugar. sweet nothings. envisioning. a life that is bigger. traditional. realist. fictitious. dreamer. i am a serif.<br /><br />so why all the long hours. drawn out. tail chasing. solitude. when i'm finding no purpose. when i dig up a graduate level graphic design problem that i want to explore, i will apply to an art school and hit it head on. i can't burn a bridge that was never built. until then, i will continue to be who i am.<br /><br />there's no surprise why this time will be eliminated. the summer is now necessary. i need it.<br /><br />my mind is currently focused on project artschool, the underground art&book supply...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Sh1xZxGgANI/AAAAAAAABB0/EgEncVkE4zw/s1600-h/pas_underground.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Sh1xZxGgANI/AAAAAAAABB0/EgEncVkE4zw/s400/pas_underground.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340549420622545106" border="0" /></a> Fullerton, CA<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Sh1xqelo4hI/AAAAAAAABCE/aLjIOS-dxC0/s1600-h/pas_underground2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Sh1xqelo4hI/AAAAAAAABCE/aLjIOS-dxC0/s400/pas_underground2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340549707710652946" /></a> Orange, CA<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Sh1xZsj_xyI/AAAAAAAABBs/icUcltw4V5M/s1600-h/pas_underground3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Sh1xZsj_xyI/AAAAAAAABBs/icUcltw4V5M/s400/pas_underground3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340549419404085026" border="0" /></a> Long Beach, CAbrianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-12224519701760563222009-05-20T10:38:00.000-07:002009-05-21T10:57:11.481-07:00Big Ant Int'l: Global Coalition for Peacehere is my biggest "Why Didn't I Think of That" moment...<br /><br />“What Goes Around Comes Around. Stop the Iraq War.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Global Coalition for Peace</span><br />Gold Pencil for Design award (Public Service Poster) at the One Show Design Awards. Four posters were designed to wrap around poles, campaigning for an end to the war in Iraq.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWTxAW3FlI/AAAAAAAABBE/8o8a43nxL-M/s1600-h/Global-Coalition-for-Peace-2a_thumb.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 132px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWTxAW3FlI/AAAAAAAABBE/8o8a43nxL-M/s400/Global-Coalition-for-Peace-2a_thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338335403436349010" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWTxH-gTCI/AAAAAAAABBM/SzJLARb_NL4/s1600-h/Global-Coalition-for-Peace-2b_thumb.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWTxH-gTCI/AAAAAAAABBM/SzJLARb_NL4/s400/Global-Coalition-for-Peace-2b_thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338335405481675810" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWTxcw6P_I/AAAAAAAABBU/06fO-XsiC6s/s1600-h/Global-Coalition-for-Peace-3b_thumb.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWTxcw6P_I/AAAAAAAABBU/06fO-XsiC6s/s400/Global-Coalition-for-Peace-3b_thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338335411061800946" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWTxkT17JI/AAAAAAAABBc/PlgeaFcXewE/s1600-h/Global-Coalition-for-Peace-3a_thumb.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 137px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWTxkT17JI/AAAAAAAABBc/PlgeaFcXewE/s400/Global-Coalition-for-Peace-3a_thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338335413087366290" border="0" /></a><br /><br />for the other two in the series, check out <a href="http://bigantinternational.com/" target="_blank">http://bigantinternational.com</a> under <span style="font-style: italic;">works</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertiser:</span><br />Global Coalition for Peace<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agency:</span><br /><a href="http://bigantinternational.com/" target="_blank">Big Ant International, New York</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Additional credits:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Creative director:</span> Alfred S. Park<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Associate creative director:</span> Frank Anselmo<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Art director:</span> Jeseok Yi<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Copywriters:</span> Francisco Hui and William Tran<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Source:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.theinspirationroom.com" target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 54px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShWVglRq3hI/AAAAAAAABBk/2N2x7PwAqcU/s400/TIR_logo_grey-on-white.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338337320312167954" border="0" /></a>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-52538612105034762682009-05-18T09:09:00.000-07:002009-05-20T09:14:29.316-07:00ditch poetry: international feature.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ditchpoetry.com/brianprince.htm"target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 184px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ShQrcimObvI/AAAAAAAABA8/e6AajEIXMic/s400/Ditch_header.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337939227664346866" border="0" /></a><br /><br />i just received notice that i'm an international feature in the Canadian poetry magazine <span style="font-style:italic;">ditch</span>. two of my poems were selected and can be viewed <a href="http://www.ditchpoetry.com/brianprince.htm" target="_blank">://here</a>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-48749264899545568442009-04-30T14:55:00.000-07:002009-05-07T09:29:13.963-07:00thesis proposal: Understanding Poetry to Teach Graphic Design.i may be on to something here...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Working Titles for Thesis Project.</span><br />• Teaching Graphic Design with Principles of Poetry.<br />• Understanding Poetry to Teach Graphic Design.<br />• Poetry and Graphic Design: Different Media, Same Approach.<br />• Poetry’s Principles Are Graphic Design’s Process.<br />• Poetry’s Principles Solve Graphic Design’s Problems.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Working Statements.</span><br />• Overcoming graphic design problems with principles of poetry are specifically understood when the principles from the Imagism Literary Movement are used to create effective conceptual logos, the flow of Free Verse and Narrative Poetry are used to create technical and informational graphic layouts, and embracing Cut-Up Poetry leads to enhancing decorative graphic elements and montages.<br /><br />• Many visual artists repel the power of words because they are blinded by image and therefore need to be taught the importance of the principles of poetry in order to identify their personal rhythm and intuition when creating successful conceptual, technical and artistic graphic design.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Overview.</span><br />Learning conceptual graphic design relies heavily on the students individual ability to translate ideas into graphic form with a sense that is pleasing to the viewer. Teaching it almost seems supernatural and unattainable. There is no formula that guarantees unique, creative conceptual results.<br /><br /> My plan is to improve graphic design instruction by creating methods that exercise a designer’s rhythm and intuition. These methods are rooted in principles from poetry through its literary movements and the study of it as an art form. Many visual artists repel the power of words because they are blinded by image. Conceptual graphic design has much to learn from poetry, old and new. As the outcomes of each are usually different (and sometimes considered one in the same), the processes are remarkably similar.<br /><br /> I plan to prove the direct correlation in the processes of writing poetry and creating multiple graphic design solutions through specific experiments and continued research. This thesis project will specifically address the following:<br /><br /> • The process of creating a logo by explaining the foundation of the Imagism Literary Movement<br /><br /> • The process to clean, legible and organized information and communication layouts through Free Verse and Narrative Poetry principles<br /><br /> • The process of designing decorative and montage graphics dictated by Cut-Up Poetry<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My Worth. The Subjects Worth.</span><br />As I discover inspiration through poetry and find a personal desire to understand it better, my recent enthusiasm for works of literature trickles into my professional trade – graphic design and advertising, encouraging new methods and experiments for use in the design classroom.<br /><br /> The ideals mentioned in this thesis proposal are worthy of experimentation simply because they propose formulas for conceptual thinking. They have the potential to revolutionize the way graphic design in taught. In addition to teaching design students graphic design principles – type, image, color, scale, I believe it is important to teach a concrete method for developing rhythm and intuition. Rather than requesting students to just “come up with an idea,” relying on life’s rhythm, this alternative approach encourages them to see design in another light and enables experimentation like never before, manifesting conceptual thinking.<br /><br /> The future for applying poetry’s principles to graphic design is endless. This thesis will cover three (3) specific areas of application to get the connections started. Once the lineage is clear, many principles in poetry can be interchanged, overlapped and/or evolved to suit almost any graphic design problem.<br /><br /> When inspiration is lost and research is exhausted, the role of rhythm and intuition suffer.<br />Applying poetry’s principles to graphic design problems opens new avenues to conceptual, technical, and artistic graphic design.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Strengths and Weaknesses.</span><br />In order to articulate the benefits in this proposal, it demands an author who has an equal passion for both, poetry and graphic design. That is my main strength. With a background of experience in conceptual advertising and with corporate structure, I am able to visualize the big picture and organize creative mayhem.<br /><br /> As a young student to poetry and real graphic design, I will continue to research the processes of each, digesting their parallels and noting their differences.<br /><br /> Creating a curriculum for the design classroom should flow directly out of the relational studies between poetry’s principles and graphic design problems. This is an area that will take much focus as I fervently critique the three parts of this proposal.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Goal.</span><br />Opening the creative mind can be dangerous. It often leads to procrastination, misdirection and frustration. Learning poetry’s principles and applying them to graphic design problems is a guided process with a solid foundation.<br /><br /> Success will be determined when a design student who shuns the written word, finds and appreciates the process of poetry and understands its power in every individual’s rhythm and intuition. Over time, when there is a method to control conceptual design, this will have been proven and opened to further exploration of more principles and more problems.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SgINIOCqUAI/AAAAAAAABAw/OpKXTiSmgmY/s1600-h/bp_bib_2009.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SgINIOCqUAI/AAAAAAAABAw/OpKXTiSmgmY/s400/bp_bib_2009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332839343619461122" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Proposed Bibliography.</span><br />Lupton, Ellen and Phillips, Jennifer Cole. <u>Graphic Design The New Basics.</u> New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.<br /><br />Bringhurst, Robert. <u>The Elements of Typographic Style (Second Edition).</u> Vancouver, BC: Hartley & Marks, 1996.<br /><br />Flynn, Keith. <u>The Rhythm Method, Razzamatazz, and Memory. How To Make Your Poetry Sing.</u> Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 2007.<br /><br />Butler, Mark J. <u>Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music.</u> Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.<br /><br />Hurtik, Emil and Yarber, Robert. <u>An Introduction to Poetry and Criticism.</u> Lexington, MA: Xerox College Publishing, 1972.<br /><br />Woolman, Matt and Bellantoni, Jeff. <u>Moving Type. Designing for Time and Space.</u> Geneva: Rotovision SA, 2000.<br /><br />Tufte, Edward. <u>Visual Explanations. Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative.</u> Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, LLC, 1997.<br /><br />Tufte, Edward. <u>Beautiful Evidence.</u><br /> Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, LLC, 2006.<br /><br />Tufte, Virginia. <u>Artful Sentences. Sentences as Style.</u><br /> Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, LLC, 2006.<br /><br />Wigley, Mark. <u>The Architecture of Deconstruction. Derrida’s Haunt.</u><br /> Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.<br /><br />Lyne, Sandford. <u>Writing Poetry from the Inside Out. Finding your voice through the craft of poetry.</u> Naperville, IL: SourceBooks, Inc., 2007.<br /><br />Drury, John. <u>Creating Poetry.</u><br /> Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 1991.<br /><br />Bennett, Audrey. <u>Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, A Reader.</u> New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.<br /><br />download the pdf <a href="http://www.brianprince.com/projectartschool/2009/0409/brianprince_thesis-proposal.pdf">://here.</a> it lasts longer.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-81357760051340713192009-04-23T10:47:00.000-07:002009-04-24T11:16:41.866-07:00typography, the original instrument.not only an instrument or tool, but a necessity. as the gentleman referred to jazz in this video, you need to learn the instrument or the music will be horrid. typographic care is evident in a good designers work and attributes to both, the rhythm and intuition of good design.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Xg5O0l7ybY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Xg5O0l7ybY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />as the famous alex "ajax" jackson once said:<br />"i was a better designer before adobe allowed for multiple "command z's" (edit undo's) because i had to think about every move i was making."brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-50051540852340455322009-04-20T08:24:00.000-07:002009-04-21T00:27:44.112-07:00AIGA-OC: 4th annual student design contest.AIGA-OC, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, Orange County chapter held its 6th Annual Portfolio Review and 4th Annual Student Design Contest last saturday, april 18th at Chapman University. i arrived with about a half an hour until it ended with shorts and flip flops on. as i walked in, i was surrounded by over 100 students from so cal design programs with portfolios in-hand, dressed to impress, being reviewed by 30 creative professionals from local companies like Y&R Brands, Oakley, Walt Disney Imagineering, Pencilbox Studios and many more (<a href="http://www.orangecounty.aiga.org/2009/04/03/portfolio-review/"target="_blank">see list of reviewers here</a>). i quietly made my way to the back where the projects for the contest were.<br /><br />to my surprise, i managed to take <span style="font-weight:bold;">Honorable Mention</span> for my <span style="font-style:italic;">Chicago 2016 Campaign</span> that i designed last Fall '08.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1u3CQQJYI/AAAAAAAAA_g/csr9Cl7fqG8/s1600-h/Chicago2016_LOGO_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1u3CQQJYI/AAAAAAAAA_g/csr9Cl7fqG8/s400/Chicago2016_LOGO_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327035826026063234" /></a><br /><br />The campaign consisted of a logo, poster series, welcome package including event tickets, and temporary tattoos.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1yNBMkMQI/AAAAAAAABAg/iXPJvntBW34/s1600-h/Chicago2016_Poster_Series_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1yNBMkMQI/AAAAAAAABAg/iXPJvntBW34/s400/Chicago2016_Poster_Series_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039502234169602" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1yM0GGV5I/AAAAAAAABAY/AW6ab2cjL4o/s1600-h/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1yM0GGV5I/AAAAAAAABAY/AW6ab2cjL4o/s400/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039498717386642" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xyu5AX5I/AAAAAAAABAQ/e_B0Z6bsQvM/s1600-h/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package2_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xyu5AX5I/AAAAAAAABAQ/e_B0Z6bsQvM/s400/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package2_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039050643693458" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xyXfOpyI/AAAAAAAABAI/IrQbBCwH-y4/s1600-h/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package3_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xyXfOpyI/AAAAAAAABAI/IrQbBCwH-y4/s400/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package3_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039044361561890" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xyAY7yNI/AAAAAAAABAA/VsVXi0WSvW8/s1600-h/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package4_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xyAY7yNI/AAAAAAAABAA/VsVXi0WSvW8/s400/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package4_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039038161144018" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xx9gMIJI/AAAAAAAAA_4/aaZrTyeV4cA/s1600-h/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package5_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xx9gMIJI/AAAAAAAAA_4/aaZrTyeV4cA/s400/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package5_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039037386268818" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xx8oM0CI/AAAAAAAAA_w/P-aLHkwHAOg/s1600-h/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package6_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xx8oM0CI/AAAAAAAAA_w/P-aLHkwHAOg/s400/Chicago2016_Welcome_Package6_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039037151432738" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1yiNLQdcI/AAAAAAAABAo/e1LMheSBUL0/s1600-h/Chicago2016_Temporary_Tattoos_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1yiNLQdcI/AAAAAAAABAo/e1LMheSBUL0/s400/Chicago2016_Temporary_Tattoos_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039866227160514" /></a><br /><br /><br />i left with a certificate that graced my misspelled name, but they promised to send me a corrected one next week.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xNnvYFyI/AAAAAAAAA_o/z2ghG0pU3XA/s1600-h/AIGA-OC_brianprince.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/Se1xNnvYFyI/AAAAAAAAA_o/z2ghG0pU3XA/s400/AIGA-OC_brianprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327038413069096738" /></a><br /><br />to find out more about the contest and a complete list of reviewers, click <a href="http://www.orangecounty.aiga.org/2009/04/02/student-design-competition/"target="_blank">//here</a>.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-9041239129882597382009-04-15T10:27:00.000-07:002009-04-15T10:46:32.672-07:00JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: AlloSpheret(wo w)ords: holie molie.<br /><br /><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/JoAnnKuchera-Morin_2009-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JoAnnKuchera-Morin-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=516" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/JoAnnKuchera-Morin_2009-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JoAnnKuchera-Morin-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=516"></embed></object><br /><br />JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... (Recorded at TED2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 06:28.)<br /><a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joann_kuchera_morin_tours_the_allosphere.html"target="_blank">source</a>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-44914443224938279212009-04-13T08:08:00.000-07:002009-04-14T08:22:37.482-07:00abbott miller: everybody dance nowif i was somewhat close to new york, i'd be heading over to the AIGA National Design Center to see this show. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Everybody Dance Now: 20 Years of Dancing in Print</span> is an exhibit of visual and performing arts magazines <span style="font-style: italic;">Dance Ink</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">2wice</span>, designed by Abbott Miller.<br /><br />somehow, i know it relates to the work i'm doing now.<br />have a look here: <a href="http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/exhibit-dancing-in-print" target="_blank">http://www.aiga.org</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/exhibit-dancing-in-print"target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SeSpN4_1RBI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/4yi_EwM-D5o/s400/AIGA_dancing_in_print.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324566715562279954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />on another note, i've been pretty stale here on projectartschool.com. mainly because two-thirds of my life has been dominating one-third – school. i'm taking a big fat W in my 503A, grad problems class, simply because i do not have the time to dedicate to it right now. a W is a withdrawal. however, i'm still experimenting with some of the original concepts i started in that class, and as i won't get a semester's credit for it, i will be advancing my research towards a defined thesis topic.<br /><br />in my other class, now my only credit-seeking class for spring, i'm working on a book that displays 6 decades of influential commercial art in america. it's been a lot of work, but has been very educational and inspirational. i'll be posting some of my progress soon.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-67494089946162364222009-03-30T22:07:00.000-07:002009-03-30T22:25:51.485-07:00this. spring break two thousand nine.for reasons i cannot explain the brakes came on so easy this semester as i contemplate during spring break starting today a revelation that my classes are far too behind my thesis topic is hiding a mystery that quite frankly i'm tired of seeking all i want to really do is write but get guilty feelings like i'm wrong then i find myself searching my archives of works nothing to be proud of except the words. <br /><br />somewhere in the middle of that run-on sentence i found this string of words that talks about <span style="font-weight:bold;">this</span>. <br /><br />typography.<br /><br />rules i strive to live<br />by.<br /><br />always check your kerning. start off with negative tracking. at least negative ten. don't write vertical when communicating quickly. (hotel and motel are the exception.) nor with uneven or unbalanced words.<br /><br />please don't leave your typesetting to a sign shop. they only own silly fonts have no taste in typographic usage and don't design with a purpose. this pome is for them. listen up.<br /><br />location is key. place your type carefully. simply. in a second. always close-up double oh's. closer than your average kern. look. moon. poop. food. be sure the captial Tee and whY is close to your lower case oh. To. Yo.<br /><br />and spread your double el's. million. brilliant. trillion. killer. don't ever use a font named after a city. ever. and move comic sans. to the trash can. on a mac. or recycle bin. if you're a user of i.b.m.<br /><br />make a capital vee and a capital eay comfortable. VAGINA. ENDEAVOR. tighten the kern. the space between them. simple rules. of typography. watch and observe. it's easy to learn. use your keyboard with caution. perhaps go back to a pen.<br /><br />know your printer. eat breakfast with them. drive in their car. always shake their hand. photoshop is not graphic design. neither is a computer. <br /><br />idea is king.<br /><br />it's solving a problem. it's a service. translating a message from one to<br />another. from bow to target. the arrow. straight. narrow. responsible for the end result. the viewers perception.<br /><br />there's meaning. there's reason. visual plus verbal equals message. graphic design is a verb. a+b=c. providing closure. problem solved.<br /><br />communication.<br />the life i'm ruled <br />by.<br /><br />that was supposed to be read slowly. start over.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-39300586274073572882009-03-24T10:22:00.000-07:002009-03-25T22:23:07.351-07:00sound in motion.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JI2MFvOC94A&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JI2MFvOC94A&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-47929500578322358712009-03-23T11:22:00.000-07:002009-03-23T11:24:14.772-07:00words in motion.<a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=53995151">Mos Def - Words - The Ecstatic - in stores Spring 2009</a><br/><object width="425px" height="360px" ><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=53995151,t=1,mt=video"/><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=53995151,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-71725909640926795592009-03-17T16:06:00.000-07:002009-03-19T16:44:14.769-07:00503A : project 02 : static/dynamic study<span style="font-style: italic;">Same Content, Different Deliveries: A Sound/Silent Experiment</span><br />using one of my favorite contemporary poems by Jack Henry, i started to explore the way we read and digest communication delivered online. this is just a skim off the top of the ultimate goal, but i feel the questions proposed here are a good beginning.<br /><br />TESTING THE AUTHOR'S ROLE IN WEB COMMUNICATION<br />As content becomes more dynamic, the reader becomes more lazy because the content is working for the reader. When content is static, the reader has to act, scroll and interact, forcing the reader to think for themselves.<br /><br />S T A T I C<br /><p class="style22" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>movie making</strong></span></p> <p class="style22" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;">i remember walking<br />down 6th in Los Angeles<br />over near Spring Street</span></p> <p class="style22" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;">a movie crew stood around<br />talking in walkie-talkie's about<br />this and that</span></p> <p class="style22" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;">i stood and stared</span></p> <p class="style22" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;">an hour passed before<br />a tall man w/thin eyes<br />yelled, "action"</span></p> <p class="style22" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;">a car came around a corner<br />smashed into another<br />a guy jumped out<br />and started to run<br />before the director<br />yelled, "cut"</span></p> <p class="style22" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;">everyone applauded</span></p> <p class="style22" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;">a homeless guy<br />walked through<br />the scene, stopped<br />at a trash dumpster<br />pulled out some cans<br />kept moving</span></p> <blockquote style="font-family:courier new;"> <p class="style22"><span style="font-size:130%;">and no one said a word</span></p><p class="style22"></p></blockquote><p></p><br /><br />D Y N A M I C<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> (refresh your browser to watch again.)</span><br /><iframe src="http://brianprince.com/projectartschool/2009/0309/jackhenry-dynamic/" frameborder="0" height="250" width="450">Your browser does not support iframes. contact me at 714 336 6170 for further instruction.</iframe><p></p>QUESTIONS & RESULTS<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Overall Synopsis</span><br />I feel that the reader has lost many aspects of control the minute you put the content on the Web. However, this experiment is for Web based communications and whether Static design or Dynamic design is better.<br /><br />I came to two conclusions: 1) if the reader has an interest in the content, then Static gives freedom to the reader allowing them to think through the content themselves as opposed to 2) if the reader has no interest in the content, then Dynamic will give them a chance to be told what the content says.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When the reader has control of the content (static), is the communication more or less effective than when the reader gives control of the content to the author?</span><br />More effective. It benefits the reader to pause when they need and move on when they need. If the content is designed properly, the pace should lend itself.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is static design an outdated form of communcation? Is it more of an idea-stimulant?</span><br />No. Yes, it gives the reader control.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What do static design and dynamic design have in common? Do they both depend on rhythm?</span><br />They both tell a story. Each line is a step in the story line and each stanza is a new scene. Everything depends on rhythm, even reading the stock report.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is dynamic design mere eye candy? Entertainment?</span><br />No. Especially not in this case, it's just as plain as the static page. It takes away the scrolling function and the line-break potential, as it controls the content.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is static design is just informative? Serious?</span><br />Yes. According tot he author, but the reader can do whatever they like with it.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Which one stimulates the brain more?</span><br />Static. The reader is left with the decision making on pace and rhythm making their experience with the words their own.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Which delivers the message quicker? Better?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">More memorable? More personal (w/emotion attached)?</span><br />These are subjective to the reader, depending whether they read fast, or are even interested in the content and care enough to move forward. The static design allows for that choice.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In what situations are these attributes relevant?</span><br />When the reader has an interest in the content. However, if they do not, the dynamic design is more enticing.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Does more dynamic mean more clear? Or overdone and confusing?</span><br />More clear. But perhaps not as beneficial.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Does sound integration fall into the category of static or dynamic's design communication?</span><br />It would improve both.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What leads the revolution: new eyes? or new authors?</span><br />New eyes definitely. New authors have to account for the new eyes that read their content.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-81880981357947280182009-03-11T20:44:00.000-07:002009-03-18T11:26:39.281-07:00483A : project 2 : 45 rpm album cover<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB8Y5UrVDI/AAAAAAAAA-4/bzT8awC5LV4/s1600-h/calexico-15.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB8Y5UrVDI/AAAAAAAAA-4/bzT8awC5LV4/s400/calexico-15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314384327443436594" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Calexico album cover for a special pressing release.<br /><br />in order to research Calexico's music, i had many listens on their <a href="http://www.myspace.com/casadecalexico" target="_blank">myspace page</a>. i was inspired to create a desert feel but not wild west. more contemporary. i also really enjoyed the diversity of instruments and the laid back influence in the music. i knew a natural paper is what i wanted to capture the feel, but i needed to be inspired for the design before i got caught up pasting a cactus on it.<br /><br />it hit me when i saw one of my favorite blankets in the trunk of my car. it was the inspiration and motivation behind the design of this 45rpm album cover.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScByqnh5xdI/AAAAAAAAA84/NKOAmYIDn3Q/s1600-h/calexico-01.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 350px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScByqnh5xdI/AAAAAAAAA84/NKOAmYIDn3Q/s400/calexico-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314373636788438482" border="0" /></a><br /><br />from then, i knew what had to be done. the process of designing it started with this:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScBwTlmT3lI/AAAAAAAAA8w/ij41Io4smTQ/s1600-h/calexico-synth.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 81px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScBwTlmT3lI/AAAAAAAAA8w/ij41Io4smTQ/s400/calexico-synth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314371042109808210" border="0" /></a><br />i recorded "Alone Again Or" that was streaming online into garage band. then took a screen shot of the track editor. this served as the center of my pattern intentions as mentioned in the <a href="http://projectartschool.blogspot.com/2009/02/special-studies-research-structuring.html" target="_blank">project 01 paper</a> i wrote in february.<br /><br />i simplified the sound waves into one-color black.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScBz8SdK2TI/AAAAAAAAA9A/5RvvL-K7inY/s1600-h/calexico-synth2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 21px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScBz8SdK2TI/AAAAAAAAA9A/5RvvL-K7inY/s400/calexico-synth2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314375039880714546" border="0" /></a><br /><br />then, went to town re-creating southwestern patterns and finally copying the flow of the one in my blanket.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB4uefesRI/AAAAAAAAA9o/wSfHW5gzP5s/s1600-h/calexico-02.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB4uefesRI/AAAAAAAAA9o/wSfHW5gzP5s/s400/calexico-02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314380300151599378" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB4uJRTm8I/AAAAAAAAA9g/yj89uTzT-2o/s1600-h/calexico-03.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB4uJRTm8I/AAAAAAAAA9g/yj89uTzT-2o/s400/calexico-03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314380294455008194" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB4tGbP6OI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/Q6Qpi4FVXaM/s1600-h/calexico-05.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB4tGbP6OI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/Q6Qpi4FVXaM/s400/calexico-05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314380276511533282" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB4sfeZtrI/AAAAAAAAA9I/TJlm043MiA4/s1600-h/calexico-06.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB4sfeZtrI/AAAAAAAAA9I/TJlm043MiA4/s400/calexico-06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314380266055775922" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB5MWXSqrI/AAAAAAAAA9w/eee6ZwGZcKQ/s1600-h/calexico-07.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB5MWXSqrI/AAAAAAAAA9w/eee6ZwGZcKQ/s400/calexico-07.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314380813365848754" border="0" /></a><br /><br />when i had the pattern i was looking for, i added the logo and printed it in reverse on a color laser. my plan was to do xylene transfers onto some funky papers. first i tried butcher paper, but it came out way too dark, then cardboard, but it was very uneven. the purpose to do the transfer was to get a distressed look, but it was at the point of illegibility – so i ended up using some Fabriano watercolor paper, or is it printmaking paper? i can't remember, it's all pretty much the same. and instead of using the potent xylene solvent, i picked up some wintergreen oil from the local pharmacy to make the transfers.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB6RGwf_MI/AAAAAAAAA94/28sZbrrHYmE/s1600-h/calexico-10.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB6RGwf_MI/AAAAAAAAA94/28sZbrrHYmE/s400/calexico-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314381994587585730" border="0" /></a><br /><br />i love the watercolor paper because i was able to have torn edges which really added to the feel of the whole piece. not to mention the physical softness in the paper.<br /><br />after making the transfers, i trimmed and assembled it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScE8dsxgubI/AAAAAAAAA_A/4i5LycmqJBA/s1600-h/calexico-08.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScE8dsxgubI/AAAAAAAAA_A/4i5LycmqJBA/s400/calexico-08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314595516206594482" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScE8dzCPHUI/AAAAAAAAA_I/TC4DaDH8n_Q/s1600-h/calexico-09.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScE8dzCPHUI/AAAAAAAAA_I/TC4DaDH8n_Q/s400/calexico-09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314595517887356226" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7E0zwzII/AAAAAAAAA-Q/Ja1QeUEAKyU/s1600-h/calexico-11.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7E0zwzII/AAAAAAAAA-Q/Ja1QeUEAKyU/s400/calexico-11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314382883122629762" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7FdozsaI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/lhwSeudaqpU/s1600-h/calexico-12.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7FdozsaI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/lhwSeudaqpU/s400/calexico-12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314382894082535842" border="0" /></a><br /><br />i really like how the greens transferred onto the off-white paper. it gave the perfect contemporary desert feel.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7FjmT0NI/AAAAAAAAA-g/JGBDpQJcVMg/s1600-h/calexico-13.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7FjmT0NI/AAAAAAAAA-g/JGBDpQJcVMg/s400/calexico-13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314382895682670802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7_AwHgdI/AAAAAAAAA-o/o4MW87S4j6c/s1600-h/calexico-14.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7_AwHgdI/AAAAAAAAA-o/o4MW87S4j6c/s400/calexico-14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314383882760978898" border="0" /></a><br /><br />oh, and the last minute violator that had to match the piece.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7_TW0b5I/AAAAAAAAA-w/iDvfS4pTk6o/s1600-h/calexico-16.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/ScB7_TW0b5I/AAAAAAAAA-w/iDvfS4pTk6o/s400/calexico-16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314383887755145106" border="0" /></a><br /><br />overall, i'm very happy with it. the only thing is i couldn't get the wintergreen (ben gay) smell out of my studio for about a week.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-16414687401702973262009-03-04T11:10:00.000-08:002009-03-06T11:36:27.610-08:00buckminster fuller institute.i subscribe to the bfi.org e-newsletter and 9 times out of 10 i'm inspired by the innovative thinking out there. it always seems to put me in check and it gets me off my high-<span style="font-style:italic;">fineart</span>-horse and brings me down to the science-<span style="font-style:italic;">designwithpurpose</span>-earth.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bfi.org"target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 164px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SbF11e7QIII/AAAAAAAAA8o/2DDQvtrzp6s/s400/buckminster-fuller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310154997341626498" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.bfi.org" target="_blank"><br />check 'em out http://www.bfi.org</a><br /><br />Bucky was one fantastic human being.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-82253628159678343042009-02-28T20:52:00.000-08:002009-03-06T11:17:21.328-08:00grad problems research : rhythm's role in graphic design503A : project 1: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rhythm's Role in Graphic Design</span>, brian prince<br /><br /> The purpose of the research in this paper is to develop a basis for proving how rhythm is the fifth element of graphic design, and furthermore, the most important element. Topics explored herein include: life’s rhythm and the responsibility of the designer to be in touch with everyday human behavior; and the parallels between designer and music composer, designer and poet, and their roles as authors.<br /><br /> To critique graphic design, the academy usually breaks the art down into four descriptive categories, what I’ll call the four elements of graphic design: scale, color, typography and image. All important in the design process, each element brings a necessary cornerstone to a solid design. But, what I’ve discovered as a Graphic Designer, is that those elements need an emotional tie to make them effective to the audience. That emotional tie is rhythm. The designer as author has to understand A) the process: be as involved as possible in the initial research of a design problem in order to add real value, and B) the emotion: has to understand its readership as if they were the reader and be able to control what they are viewing.<br /><br />The designers role IS rhythms role, making the relationship between content and the reader a synergetic harmony.<br /><br /> To be in tune with the viewer (reader/audience), the author must understand their needs. Articulating their needs into an effective, strong result is the challenge. This is where rhythm comes in. The term, human-centered design sprouts out of this very idea. It starts in the research, which can be as complicated as understanding the mind sets of a people group you’ve never encountered to as simple as a familiar everyday experience. The end user’s experience is the goal in mind. If you’re not pushing the right buttons at the right time, you will be out of tune and left with ineffective communication. The designer must become the ethnographer in every design problem he faces. In an article titled, Impact: Inspiring Graphic Design through Human Behavior, (Ia. ch. 21) the authors and principles of a design firm, IDEO, break down their fundamental step of the design process: contextual observations – getting into the environment, hands-on, personal interviews; and analogous experiences – loosely related, but inspiring to the project topic.<br /><br /> Design thinking should be immersed in the rhythm of the subject.<br /><br /> IDEO finds human-centered research to be inspiring to design. While I agree with that, I also feel that it is the basis for good design. It is the designers job to observe, organize, and tell the story appropriately in order to create effective communication. In order to obtain rhythm, the designer must embrace all three. Directly or indirectly, communication is persuading the reader to believe in something. Assuming you are in your target market, or playing the right sport on the right field, this persuasion plays the same role whether you’re translating music, poetry, or visual communication, all equally important.<br /><br /> Now that I’ve discovered how important the relationship between the content and the reader is, the responsibility of the author is greater than ever. To illustrate that, I first explored the similarities between an electronic music composer and a designer. When I say electronic music composer, I mean as in music producer, not wedding or radio disc jockey. The most obvious similarity is that they are both arrangers as opposed to creators. Ultimately something new is created in the end because each arrangement is unique, but the content was not from scratch. Rather than just playing someone else’s record, a good composer/producer carefully selects, combines and manipulates different parts of records into new compositions that differ substantially from the source materials. (II. pg. 33) I can easily swap out the title Composer/Producer with Graphic Designer or Poet in that statement and it would work just the same.<br /><br /> Granted the many levels of music, production, genres and sub-genres, the relationship I’m analyzing is between the electronic music composer—one who samples other music but creates a new rhythm, the poet—one who takes a dictionary of words as reference to create a new structured rhythm, and the designer—one who uses elements relevant to the subject in need of communication. Electronic music rarely has vocals and poetry rarely has music behind it, while design is mainly viewed with the eyes. Despite all three authors depending on different senses to absorb their message, they are all grounded in rhythm.<br /><br /> Rhythm is an absolute when articulating the patterns of each author. Each can feed off each other and still work in harmony because they all contain the common denominator: rhythm. Each has a duty to be a descriptive rhythmic pace-setter. As lyrics add another dimension to music, images add depth to words, and so on. And as mentioned earlier, the audience is a crucial factor in the effectiveness. Professional writers demand a reader, electronic music composers demand a dancer, and graphic designers demand a viewer. There are so many parallels between the three authorships, even in their evolution of tools. Music can be made with an instrument or electronically, while poetry can be written or typed and graphic design, drawn or computer generated. To me, these author-playing comparisons are important when exploring rhythm because when you align anything with music and poetry, you automatically associate movement and flow. I feel those associations are lost when thinking of graphic design because of either A) the eyes can’t sing or, B) design is perceived as the stand still medium.<br /><br /> Just as an electronic music producer can change up a beat, or a poet can break up a line to control pace, the designer can enhance the meaning of of a message by attaching emotion to their design. If rhythm was absent, we’d have loud monotone high pitches on the dance floor, unruly, page-full novel-lengthed poetry, and design consisting of only the four basic elements.<br />Max Bill once said in reference to one of his Bauhaus colleagues, Josef Albers, “Each picture has a unique ‘sound’, and this ‘sound’ is its ‘meaning’, each ‘tone’ finds it atonement.’”<br /><br />to download the pdf click <a href="http://brianprince.com/projectartschool/2009/0209/rhythms-role-in-design_brianprince.pdf">://here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bibliography</span><br />Ia. Bennett, Audrey. “Impact: Inspiring Graphic Design Through Human Behaviors.” Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, A Reader. Ed. Givechi, Groulx, Woollard.<br /> New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. 306-310.<br /><br />Ib. Bennett, Audrey. “Shaping Belief: The Role of Audience in Visual Communication.” Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, A Reader. Ed. Tylor, Ann C.<br /> New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. 36-50.<br /><br />II. Butler, Mark J. Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.<br /><br />III. Herford, Marta. Max Bill: No Beginning, No End.<br /> Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-24517872769818022472009-02-27T20:47:00.000-08:002009-03-05T21:02:29.925-08:00special studies research : structuring rhythm483A : project 1 : <span style="font-weight: bold;">Structuring Rhythm</span>, brian prince<br /><br />Rhythm is everywhere.<br /><br />It’s hard to put it in a box. From brushing our teeth to writing a love note, human life requires rhythm. Rhythm is a looping pattern. It’s a repetitive movement or procedure with uniformed recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like. But not always.<br /><br />In search for rhythm’s origin, the list tops with music and poetry — music, for it’s pattern of regular or irregular pulses consisting of strong and weak melodies and har monies; and poetry, for it’s rhyming patterns and line breaks. Rhythm and Blues can almost be classified as both put together. But what does Rhythm and Blues look like? Often overlooked is visual rhythm, a rhythm that is not sound and a foot-tapping instigator, but a rhythm that enters through your eyes. As the idea of Rhythm is so big, this paper will break down a few elements in which I believe make up the structure of rhythm, or rhythm’s behind-the-scenes blueprint. I chose to explore visual patterns, deconstruction, the grid, and syntax in the context of graphic design’s general flow.<br /><br />While studying wallpaper, my mind was opened to the endless variations in which pattern can be viewed. It was at this beginning point that I realized how big of a concept pattern is. At first impression, my thoughts were that patterns are only decorative characteristics, space-fillers, serving to only please an asthetic and not a design function, when really, they are much more complicated than that. Wallpaper originated from a practical, utilitarian function in tapestries which where used to keep the drafts out of upper classmen’s palaces. The intricate and dramatic designs were symbols of royalty. It’s no wonder that floral embellishments have made their way back into design. Ornate flourishing is in itself creating rhythm and “the structural analysis of pattern is central to modern design theory.” (I. pg. 185) Just as in ancient patterns on wall coverings that flow from a central motif, today the practice of pattern-making shares the same artistic values spawning from a central core. Pattern starts with the very simplest of marks. It progressively gets more and more complicated as you manipulate and duplicate the mark. Whether it’s a dot or an single ornate flower, it’s a combination inter-weaved together which forms a texture greater than itself. With the simplist of tweaks, the texture can be read completely different. To me, that’s the power of rhythm.<br /><br />Contrary to creating a pattern, deconstruction takes complexities and simplifies them to their purest form. This too is a valid contribution to the structure of rhythm. The act of deconstruction is defining the individual parts of the original. Going backward or deeper into ones research will result in the undiluted beginnings. It’s like reading a definition to a word you don’t know, but then finding words in that definition that you don’t know, so you find yourself looking up a deeper meaning. This also plays on the idea that with the slightest of tweaks, something completely new can be created. In graphic design this is important because when I deal with the source, I’m able to communicate more efficiently. Breaking down an idea or the logic of a given problem allows the designer to anaylize the literal applications and origins as opposed to studying a translation. In order to study visual rhythm in the sense of graphic design, it’s important to understand deconstruction. It allows me to re-examine what I read or what I’ve heard and listen to the details “rather than the traditional scholarly labor of excavation.” (II. pg. 3) The way language is strung together using text is essentially impure. Examing text on its own makes a clear argument for itself and truly allows for an open sight of the big picture. A famous poet and painter from the Beat generation, Brion Gysin, explained that no one owns words. Anyone from anywhere can put together any words and they become their own. He also devised the cut-up method of poetry which is taking existing writings, cutting them as to rearranging them, thus creating your own. Text is concealed by language and we have to abuse it in order to find the original. This applies to graphic design in a huge way considering we are merely designers arranging already-created elements onto a page. Deconstruction also teaches me to liberate the true meaning of a problem. If I were to borrow an element or a typographic style, I better know where it’s coming from. I can’t just say I like it because I think it’s cool. The greatest thing about graphic design is that we always create something new in the end because the arrangement will more than likely be unique.<br /><br />The third element covering the structure of rhythm is the foundation for all graphic design elements, the grid. The grid is the very casing in which scale, color, type and image are held. These are the fundamental elements in design but I’ve always felt that it’s more than that. The purpose of my research of the grid in regards to rhythm is to illustrate how rhythm affects the four concrete fundamental elements with an emotion. The placement of content in the structure of a grid creates a harmony with the reader and the content. Not only does this apply to a single layout on a single page, but can relate to something as minimal as the strokes in a logo to something as broad as a large text book. The grid may seem like a universal uniform that is very rigid and unforgiving, but the reality is it allows for the most fluid, freeing kind of work. It’s all about how you use it. If you were to translate a newspaper spread like the Stocks section into music, you might get a very rapid and busy monotone, but a magazine article might sing to you in scale and white space. This is rhythm in a still space. This is the freedom the grid allows the designer. Appropriately, Andy Warhol says, “Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium.” When you can accomplish balance and flow in a rhymic way, you capture your audience. I believe the reader needs highs and lows to get excited and to take a break from the content. Just like life, communication needs rhythm. When you open a book the story doesn’t normally begin until about the tenth page. There is a syntactic build up that gets you there. By definition, syntax is a system or orderly arrangement. A pattern or language, more or less, is the confinement of design, but how you deconstruct and arrange it is the rhythm.<br /><br />In order to liberate rhythm in graphic design, I believe it needs to be taught as one of the major elements in graphic design. From complicating to simplifying, from restricting to liberating, graphic design has the vitality of life and their common denominator is rhythm.<br /><br />As the elements discussed in this paper function in our daily lives, so does rhythm. In my attempt to divide rhythm into these categories it’s really just a scratch on the surface. I felt that defining the structure would set up a good argument in defining rhythm in the graphic design world. What I really discovered is that it’s merely impossible to structure rhythm when rhythm structures everything.<br /><br />to download the pdf click <a href="http://brianprince.com/projectartschool/2009/0209/structuring-rhythm_brianprince.pdf" target="_blank">://here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bibliography</span><br />I. Lupton, Ellen & Phillips, Jennifer Cole. Graphic Design the New Basics.<br /> New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.<br /><br />II. Wigley, Mark. The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt.<br /> Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.<br /><br />III. Tufte, Virginia. Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style.<br /> Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press LLC, 2006.<br /><br />IV. Weiss, Jason. Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader.<br /> Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458751100419429062.post-22732907581818697512009-02-23T12:13:00.001-08:002009-02-23T12:22:56.592-08:00inspirational discoveries.i came across some cool stuff on the Web today and wanted to share:<br /><br />g-speak<br /><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2229299&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2229299&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/2229299">g-speak overview 1828121108</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user922585">john underkoffler</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.<br /><br />a house designed to challenge growing old<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SaMFW3lRQrI/AAAAAAAAA8g/GWct-1_lpW0/s1600-h/03destiny-600.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2Q7ydcmWaoQ/SaMFW3lRQrI/AAAAAAAAA8g/GWct-1_lpW0/s400/03destiny-600.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306090676408107698" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/garden/03destiny.html"target="_blank">the NY Times article.</a><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/garden/20080403_DESTINY_FEATURE/index.html"target="_blank">watch the video.</a>brianprincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12775279972388490687noreply@blogger.com0