This week’s big news is that Paul Shaw, acclaimed New York-based type designer, historian, and author, will be making a rare West Coast appearance, thanks to Nik Hafermaas’s Graphic Design department. During his stay Paul will participate in typography classes at Art Center. He’ll also conduct a weekend “urban lettering” walking tour of downtown L.A., [...]
This Friday, February 15th Art Center’s Paul Soady will deliver a presentation to my Loyola Marymount University class. Come hear why Eric Gill was one of the most important typeface designers of the 1930s and how his Perpetua font family still remains vital and relevant today. It’s one of the public programs hosted in conjunction [...]
Come learn from L.A.’s legendary art director Mike Salisbury as he discusses his diverse career selling sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. It’s next Thursday evening, November 15th at 7:30 in Art Center’s L.A. Times Media Center on the Hillside campus. It’s part of my Design History 2 classes, and it’s free and open to [...]
Andrew Byrom’s been around Art Center quite a bit recently. There was Petrula Vrontikis’s 3×3 in June and his three-day workshop last month. But if you haven’t yet seen this acclaimed British born, L.A. based graphic designer, or want to hear more, he’ll be presenting to my Loyola Marymount University Design History class next Friday, [...]
Lots of special guest speakers coming up in my “Design History 2″ time slot this semester. Dates below. Mark your calendars. Further info on all events to follow.
• Thursday, Oct. 25th, 7:30 pm, LAT Media Center –
“Petrula Vrontikis’s 3×3: Type Guys”
Kyle Cooper: Founder, Prologue and Imaginary Forces, creative film design agencies.
Jeremy Mende: Principal at MendeDesign, [...]
3×3: Type Guys*
Three men that have crafted the way typography is seen, understood, and interacted with.
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Los Angeles Times Media Center (LAT)
Art Center College of Design, Hillside Campus
1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
Kyle Cooper Founder, Prologue and Imaginary Forces
Jeremy Mende FAAR, Principal at MendeDesign and Associate Professor at CCA
Simon Johnston Designer/Artist/Professor [...]
For my imPrint feature this week I interview Sean Adams. In my opening paragraph I mention a TeachEvil story I posted last year about Sean. And that story linked to another imPrint feature I wrote.
Does that make this TeachEvil post way too meta?
Anyway, my title is, “How Sean Adams Transforms His Childhood Insecurities into Brilliant [...]
Mark your calendars – Thursday, June 28th, 7:30pm – for ACCD’s 3×3, hosted by Petrula Vrontikis. As most of you know, each term the Graphic Design department hosts three local professionals to speak on a particular topic. And this semester’s theme is “Eccentric Types.” So here’s the line-up:
> Andrew Byrom, Graphic Designer, Typeface Designer and Professor
> [...]
Before Shepard Fairey went on stage at the Ahmanson a few weeks ago – details here – he told me that his Subliminal Projects gallery in Silver Lake was currently showing Jamie Reid’s work. Since I cover punk’s bad boy of graphics in my “Design History 2″ class I checked it out and was impressed [...]
The Debris Project is a Tumblr blog featuring “the failed design explorations pushed off to the side of our layouts and sitting on the pasteboard. Layering and accumulating over days. Layering…… and accumulating…… over days.” This totally makes me want to start collecting screen caps of the edges of my projects. Exciting, inadvertent design.
(Tumblr from [...]