Art School Sketchbook: Archeology Notes

Important observations during an "Archeology of NYC" class...

Good to know those private art school dollars didn't ALL go to waste!

-xoh

Art School Sketchbook: Some Prose

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This one was written in layers, over the course of a semester. 

You can read the range of my emotions, in rings.... like the cross-section of a tree.

Mina News

Hi Folks...

I heard some sad news today... Mina fell & broke her hip while visiting in Queens.

The powers that be are now hustling to get her transfered to a hospital here, at which point I'll go visit her. I know she has no idea what a blog is, let alone that she has so many fans on my blog, but if you guys would leave her a kind note in the comments, I'll print them all out & bring them for her to read while she's recovering.

Thanks in advance,

xoh

Art School Sketchbook: The Pressure

Seriously.

*Ed Note: the roses were a find that was left behind in the media workshop garbage. I should explain that back then, we horded things like xeroxes of fonts, architecture mags, letraset, color swatches, paper samples, and SO much more. In later posts, I will delve more into how we presented our design projects without the use of computers.

Art School Sketchbook: Intro

Digging into my old journals, has me craving my Art School sketchbooks....

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There is SO much content in each page, that it's hard to choose which ones to show you.

For example, this page has notes from the person sitting next to me:

"Would you like to go to the poster show together, Oct. 21?"

My response: "I'd like to, but I can't plan that far ahead."

WTF!? Why couldn't I just say YES? If someone asked me NOW, I'd certainly say YES.

I wish I could go back in time to so many of my no's & change them to YES.

There's also a simple line drawing I did of our teacher, (who I might have bad-mouthed at some point) 

leading this other person to defend her.

And the question that has been answered, finally, all these decades later:

"Artists NEVER buy pens– then where do they get them from?"

They steal them.

xoh :-)

Journal Excerpt: Mistake

Winter, 1984.

Graphic Design Trix

This is my favorite new trick.

It's a website that shows you your selection of text in every font that's open on your system.

How groovy is THAT?

xoh