It was an intense, but interesting, semester. Just waiting on one rather late project before submitting grades. Grades on the finals were typical–the 75.17 average was exactly what one would expect, with 94% being the high score (of which there were several) and 48% (thankfully only one) the low. Have a great summer everyone!
Final! Exam! Thursday, 5:30pm!
UPDATE: The final starts at 5:30, not 5:00….
Please don’t forget…we’ll be in FAB 249 (the usual place). See you there.
Projects due Today!
Don’t forget to bring your card/chess projects to class this evening. Chess people should bring their 3D files on a flash drive/CD-ROM/portable hard disk so as to collect them on my laptop. Please name your file with your last name!
Good luck!
What to expect from the Final Exam
The final will be all visual this time. First, you will be shown a series of images of artifacts from various stylistic periods or art/design movements and you will be asked to classify each one from the list which follows. You will have seen most of these images before from the readings or lectures, but there may be some that are new to you. All of them will have elements that are strongly evocative of their representative style.
UPDATE: Check the comments for people looking for others to study with!
Styles/Movements
- Ancient Chinese
- Ancient Egyptian
- Ancient Sumerian
- Art Nouveau
- Arts & Crafts
- Celtic manuscript
- Classical manuscript
- Gothic manuscript
- Incunabula
- Late Medieval manuscript
- Renaissance
- Russian Constructivism
- Secessionstil
- Spanish Pictorial manuscript
- Victorian/Industrial Revolution
Second, you will have to be able to classify typefaces on the basis of time (Old Style, Modern or Transitional) or form (Tuscan, Egyptian, Serif or Sans-Serif).
The mysteries of paper weight…
Minuteman Press in Arlington Texas has a great page to help unravel the weird system of U.S. paper weights (like 8.5″x11″ 24lb bond paper). It turns out that the weight, expressed in pounds, is for 500 sheets (a full ream)–not of the size of paper you are buying–but of the “parent sheet” that the paper is cut down from. In the case of 24lb copy paper, the parent sheet is 22″x17″–so 24lbs refers to the weight of 500 22″x17″ sheets. Other types of paper, like cover stock, have a different size “parent sheet” so you can’t directly compare weights unless you know the size of the parent sheet…Minuteman has some charts to get you started.
The Europeans use just one measurement–”gsm” (grams per square meter)–so you can always directly compare paper weights to one another without tables and calculators.
Typewriter History Links
Team Brain Storm’s presentation on typewriters piqued my curiosity about old typewriters, especially those with mechanisms which didn’t survive to the present day. Here are some of the more interesting sites I came across.
- Collection of the Virtual Typewriter Museum
- The Martin Howard Collection’s Visual Index
- The Classic Typewriter Page
- Flickr stream of Antique Typewriters (some gorgeous images here)
Welcome to the New BFA Design Students!
- Seth Brock
- Rupa Chadha
- Kaitlin Derespino
- Shannon Groves
- Kaitlyn Loos
- Lenore Messler
- Ellen Ornato
- Malahat Qureshi
- Dana Robinson
- Rae Siciliano
- Sarah Spencer
