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So Long, Farewell…

chad — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:03:48 +0000

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!

chad — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:58:29 +0000

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!

chad — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:18:29 +0000

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

chad — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:28:22 +0000

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).

Protected: Sterling Readings Part Two

chad — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:10:54 +0000

Protected: Sterling Readings Part One

chad — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:09:21 +0000

Enter the Drawdio…

chad — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:38:25 +0000

Jay Silver’s Drawdio homepage.

There is a kit available from LadyAda’s Adafruit Industries…

The mysteries of paper weight…

chad — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:43:36 +0000

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

chad — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:37:25 +0000

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!

chad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:31:43 +0000

Seth Brock
Rupa Chadha
Kaitlin Derespino
Shannon Groves
Kaitlyn Loos
Lenore Messler
Ellen Ornato
Malahat Qureshi
Dana Robinson
Rae Siciliano
Sarah Spencer