Graphic Arts

Infrared and Black and White Photographs from Pepel

2010-07-22T16:38:00.000-07:00

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Pepel is an awesome photographer who works a lot with infrared and black and white techniques to achieve stunning and vibrant images. The use of infrared photography techniques makes Pepel one of the most unique photographers on the internet.

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[Sponsor] The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents: stylus | a project ...

2010-07-11T05:07:00.001-07:00

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[Sponsor] The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents: stylus | a project by ann hamilton

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The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents:

stylus | a project by ann hamilton

July 9, 2010 – January 22, 2011

Opening Reception: July 9, 2010 5-9PM

http://annhamilton.pulitzerarts.org

If the voice's call is the origin of speech – with its ability to hail, summon, or bestow a name – then perhaps the hand, raised to touch, or signal at a distance, is its silent counterpart. These two gestures form a call and response that provides the structure for stylus, a project created by Ann Hamilton for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Conceived in response to the Pulitzer's mission to be both a sanctuary and laboratory, the installation is structured around live acoustic elements and will be punctuated by participatory workshops which will occur throughout the project. This installation offers many opportunities for visitors to interact directly with Ann Hamilton's work.

As a visual artist whose contributions to contemporary art span three decades, Ann Hamilton's installations are notable in part for their capacity to weave a broad palette of media into engaging sensory environments. Known for a dense accumulation of materials, her work creates immersive experiences that respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites, while also engaging the public with broad questions of what it means to assemble in such spaces. While the Pulitzer building is the main structural element, the project spills outside the walls and onto the broader stage of the built and social environment of St. Louis and beyond.

View photos from the installation of stylus on Flickr.

In the following video, the Director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Matthias Waschek, talks about the upcoming exhibit and what it's about.

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando and situated in St. Louis' Grand Center district, the Pulitzer presents changing exhibitions and engages in a variety of programming initiatives involving the visual, literary, and performing arts.

Connect with The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts:
Website: http://www.pulitzerarts.org
Blog: http://2buildings1blog.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/thepulitzer
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pulitzerarts

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3716 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108

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The Tools of Arts and Industry

2010-07-06T18:07:00.000-07:00

The Tools of Arts and Industry: "

The Austrian tool manufacturer Franz Freiherr von Wertheim (1814-1883) was born in Krems and received international recognition for his knives and axes made from Styrian steel. He first exhibited his tools at the 1845 World's Fair and continued to present bigger and better displays every few years. This cabinet of his firm's hand tools was at the Paris Exposition of 1867. The following year, Wertheim published a sumptuous trade catalogue with forty-five lithographed plates of tools. According to OCLC, Princeton University holds the only copy in North America.

Franz Freiherr von Wertheim (1814-1883), Manuel de l'outillage des arts et métiers: à l'usage des écoles techniques, compagnies de chemins de fer et de navigation . . . [Handbook of the Tools of Arts and Industry: For the Use of Technical Schools, Railroad Companies, and Navigation]. Portfolio has title proper: Recueil des outils et machines. (Vienne [Vienna]: Charles Gerold fils, Libraire-Éditeur, 1869). Graphic Arts Collection (GAX) Oversize 2005-0002E

For more on the Wertheim company see: http://www.wertheim.at/0e_Biografie.htm"

Hand-painted books by Robaudi and Grivaz

2010-07-06T18:06:00.000-07:00

Hand-painted books by Robaudi and Grivaz: "

The French painter and illustrator Alcide Theophile Robaudi (1850-1928) first studied with sculptor Gustav Bonardel (1837-1896) and landscape painter Flix Malard in Nice before being accepted into the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There he worked under Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904) and his later work still shows the influence of Gerome's academic style. Robaudi became a sought after illustrator, designing plates for such authors as Dumas, George Sands, Balzac, Munger, and Verlaine.

Princeton University was recently given a unique copy of La cité des eaux by the French symbolist poet Henri de Régnier (1864-1936). The volume is completely hand- painted by Robaudi, including the text, in watercolor with gouache highlights. It was created and sumptuously bound for Louis Bougier in 1912, ten years after Régnier's book of poems was released.

Our anonymous donor also presented us with Edmond Rostand's Les romanesques (Paris, 1904). Unlike the Robaudi volume, this book is one of ten copies privately published by the painter Eugène Grivaz (1852-1915). Graphic Arts now owns copy no. 3. Each deluxe volume was hand-painted in watercolors and bound in an elegant, decorative binding.

U. S. Navy photographs. The end of World War II.

2010-07-06T18:05:00.000-07:00

U. S. Navy photographs. The end of World War II.: "

Here are two photographs published by the U.S. Navy photography unit, headed by Edward Steichen, to document the end of World War II.

Top. Allied prisoners of war cheering their rescuers, as the U.S. Navy arrives at the Aomori prison camp, near Yokohama, Japan, on 29 August 1945. They are waving the flags of the United States, Great Britain and The Netherlands. Gelatin silver print. Graphic Arts GA 2010.02142. Gift of Moses Bigelow.

Princeton owns a print of this Official U.S. Navy photograph. The original negative is now in the collections of the National Archives.Photo #: 80-G-490444. Department of the Navy, Naval History Center. 901 M Street SE, Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. 20374-5060. For more, see http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm

Bottom. Japanese Prisoners of War on Guam stand with heads bowed after listening to Emperor Hirohito announce Japan's acceptance of Allied surrender terms, 15 August 1945. Gelatin silver print. Graphic Arts GA 2010.02141. Gift of Moses Bigelow.

Princeton owns a print of this Official U.S. Navy photograph. The original negative is now in the collections of the National Archives.Photo #: 80-G-490320. Department of the Navy, Naval History Center. 901 M Street SE, Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. 20374-5060.

Graphic Arts Creation

2009-05-06T23:28:00.000-07:00

Graphic arts is a term applied historically to the art of printmaking and drawing. In contemporary usage it refers to the applied trade-skills of a graphic designer or print technician. The term can include the trades of lithography, serigraphy and bindery, among others. Graphic arts as a trade can be traced back to the first instances of the stamped image or word.

Traditional meaning

Graphic art is the process of creating a design on a medium like Rubber, Plexiglas, or other materials in order to transfer the images to the materials of choice such as paper, cloth, wood, metals, and plastics etc.

Early history: Tang Dynasty and Bi Shena

The technique of printing with carved wood blocks appeared about the 7th century, early in the Tang dynasty. It was invented as a way to inscribe thousands of sheets of rice paper with a memoir of a beloved Empress. Every sheet of paper was placed in hilltops and shrines all over China so that her name would never be forgotten.

Movable type was first invented by Bi Shena of the Song dynasty between the years 1041 and 1048. This invention was recorded by his contemporary Sen Koo in his Dreamworld Essays. During the 13-14th centuries, the agriculturist Wang Zen made an important contribution to the development of movable type printing.

Movable type was probably first used in Europe in the mid-15th century by Gutenberg in Germany, who also invented the printing press. This combination then rapidly spread to the rest of Europe, and later the world. Printing became a distinct trade.

Lithography

Printing process in which the printing surface is neither raised (see letterpress) nor etched into the plate (see gravure), but in which the printing and nonprinting areas exist on the same plane, and printing is effected by means of a chemical process that allows ink to adhere to only the parts of the surface to be reproduced. The process, which was developed in the late eighteenth century, depends on the fact that water and grease repel each other. Originally, the image to be reproduced was drawn on a slab of stone with a grease crayon. The stone was then dampened with water, but the grease from the crayon would repel the water so that, when a grease-base ink was rolled across the stone, the ink would adhere only to the drawing, and the stone would be ready for the application of paper to reproduce the drawing. Lithography ("writing on stone") is accomplished according to the same principle today, but the stone has been replaced by a metal plate and the technology of preparing the plate has become more sophisticated. Lithography is less expensive than either letterpress or gravure printing and is a reasonable alternative, particularly when an order calls for a short run.

Serigraphy

Color printing method in which ink is forced through a stencil placed over a screen; also called silk screen. A stencil is created for each color. Then, one at a time, each stencil is placed on a fine wire or silk screen. A squeegee is passed over the stencil so that the ink goes on the surface below, except where the stencil prevents the flow of ink. Because this process can be used on any surface, it is ideal for printing messages on T-shirts. Serigraphy is also usually the most economical method of printing small runs of posters and signs.

Bindery

Bindery refers to a studio, workshop or factory where sheets of (usually) paper are fastened together to make books, but also where gold and other decorative elements are added to the exterior of books, where boxes or slipcases for books are made and where the restoration of books is carried out.

Overview

A large traditional hand bookbinding studio or workshop may be divided into areas for different tasks such as sewing, rounding and backing the spine, attaching the boards to the book and covering the book with cloth or leather. These processes are collectively called forwarding and would be carried out in the forwarding department. This area of the bindery would typically have equipment such as sewing frames, guillotines, board choppers for cutting boards used as covers, laying presses for holding books when being worked on and nipping presses for flattening paper, board, etc.

The process of decorating or titling a book with gold or other metals, and/or different colored pieces of leather, is called finishing and is carried out in the finishing room or department. In a hand bookbindery this area would house the dozens or hundreds of brass hand tools that are used to impress gold patterns and figures onto leather one at a time, as well as the finishing stoves needed to heat these tools. In a more modern or commercial bindery, many decorative elements or letters are stamped onto a book's cover or case at the same time by use of a hot press.

Modern, commercial, bookbinding outfits range in size from the local "copy shop" book binder, using techniques such as coil binding, comb binding and velo binding to factories producing tens of thousands of volumes a day using such processes as perfect binding. The term, bindery, especially in copy and print shops, has expanded to include other forms of paper finishing, such as paper drilling, lamination, and foamcore mounting.

Tools of the trade

* Computers and software
* Process camera work, registration, crop marks & masking
* Cutting edge technologies

See also

* Communication design
* Graphic design
* Printmaking

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Flash & Animation

2008-10-21T03:37:00.000-07:00

Consider learning Flash and Animation online without goin' to school to pay tuition fees. We can learn a step-by-step process just reading and understanding the instructions and procedures outlined. Anytime and anywhere, online self-education will earn for us some knowledge about the subject offered....

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Video Animation...

2008-09-15T23:32:00.000-07:00

Video animation is perhaps the most popular form of animation. Video animation started back in the 70s with the increase in the number of VCRs in homes. As VCRs became a common home accessory, the animation industry also grew at a furious pace to cater to the increasing requirements of animated films, especially kids who just could not do without an animated version of their favorite comicstrip hero.

Demand was at its peak and consumers wouldn’t think twice before picking up scores of animation videos at their nearest stores. Another reason for the popularity of video animation was the increasing penetration television. With the advent of cable television and exclusive channels dedicated to animation films, their popularity reached unprecedented heights. Animation slowly made its way to mainstream movies. Animation has also been worked into major Hollywood hits to create unimaginable stunt sequences and other sequences, which could not be possibly filmed without animation. You have sequences in videos and films where entire cities are destroyed by volcanoes or humans being invaded by aliens. All these sequences appear spectacular to the naked eye and so realistic that it is hard to believe that these sequences were actually enacted using computer software.

Such has been the tremendous impact of animation software. The newer versions have made animation so much easier to do. Now even common people with a little bit of knowledge about computers and software can make their own animation videos. One can get extensive information about the latest animation software from leading online resources. One can find out about the latest video animation and the latest software on the market from these online resources.

The Artist Venue

2008-09-03T00:51:00.000-07:00

The graphic arts is a modern science of drawing things is such stylish forms and scales using different methods and approaches on different softwares in a computer. Today we use computers to create and make designs based on the materials to copy. Designers were drawing inspirations based on a certain idea to develop and create the desired product. Most product designs were for customers satisfactions, and for this cause the graphic artist has to render his service to satisfy customers.

The term graphic design* can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages. A graphic designer may utilize typography, visual arts and page layout techniques in varying degrees to produce the final result of the project.Graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.

Common uses of graphic design include magazines, advertisements, product packaging and web design. For example, a product package might include a logo or other artwork, organized text and pure design elements such as shapes and color which unify the piece. Composition is one of the most important features of graphic design especially when utilizing pre-existing materials or using diverse elements.