- ARCHIVE / Site Q
- Ficciones Typografika Plus
Sarah Hummel
Above: Some recent hand made sketches developed by Sarah with her own resource defined. Fantastico! Click the image for a larger view and you will see some really interesting experimentation with the many possibilities of typographic form–all in a fictional setting.
This sketch collection is a continuation of a typographic exploration that begins with students [...] - Talisman / New Images
Doha, Qatar
Above: A few snapshots from Manar Al-Muftah’s recent Talisman show in Doha.
Above: Hanging the show.
Above: Guests at the opening on Sept. 3, 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, 2008.
It’s hard to underestimate this show’s importance. Mabrouk Manar, and may your example help lead the way for many new emerging artists.
For more [...] - City Pages / Matt Snyders’ RNC Arrest
St. Paul, MN
Above: A photo I took on the way home on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. City Pages reporter Matt Snyders has his version of last weeks concluding RNC events online. Mr. Snyders was seated next to me as we waited through the process for several hours, and was arrested himself (his credentials blatantly ignored). [...]
- An arresting development.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Above: From the Star Tribune’s photo series from last night (Sept.4, 2008). That’s me on the left with my old black messenger bag. (Thanks to K for finding this.)
As it happens, a friend and I were caught between two opposing sides last night and were arrested while we were trying to return to [...]
- Guardian / Polish Posters
Film Poster History and Analysis
Above: From the Guardian, a welcome review by Paul Rennie on the history of the Polish film poster. With Poland playing an awkward role in the renewal of archaic Cold War tensions and games, the irony of this history of state-sponsored design is striking.
Tangentially, it is also interesting to note this [...] - Bernard Canniffe / USA-UAE
Graphic Design Students Engage in a “Social/Cultural Intervention.”
Above: Process board from an ongoing exchange in Dubai between MICA (Baltimore) and students from Zayed University. The project involves a collaboration between students and faculty led by Bernard Canniffe (MICA), Dr. Nanci Takeyama (GD Instructor from Zayed University) and Peter Chomowicz (Env. Design Chair MICA). Bernard describes [...]
- Aftonbladet
Stockholm, Sweden
Above: Your columns got you down? Good medicine for a bad type day,
one can always rely on some pulse-raising zeug from the Aftonbladet.
Check in with Newseum daily, front pages from around the world. - Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 008
“Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand”
Elisabeth Workman writes: A recent, lengthy NYT investigation into the Pentagon’s PsyOps on the American public. For the short on time, check out the interactive media components. The primary source documents (for which the NYT had to sue the Pentagon to access) are available for download. And, in the spirit [...]
- Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 006
Above: Money exchange services (storefront detail).
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Estados Unidos. - Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 005
Spending some time with Elements of Style
- Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 004
A BEAUTIFUL PINWHEEL IN SPACE MIGHT ONE DAY BLAST EARTH WITH DEATH RAYS, SCIENTISTS NOW REPORT
A beautiful pinwheel in space out or a moment secretly but never
Say sorry. Sorry is anti-gravity like hello or nice weather
or poof and eff me. Sorry it’s not true sorry I’m going to eat you sorry it’s gone
I’m lost and [...] - PEN World Voices / Rattapallax
International Film Feast in NYC, April 29
Above: A flyer front I designed recently for Ram Devineni, Rattapallax Editor and Founder. Images, from top to bottom, are stills from two featured films, Unfed by Jason Lam, and Some Days, by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. (See his film below.)
The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film [...] - Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 003
Sebastian Horsley: Dandy Denied
On a strange, still noonday of March 2008 the British artist and writer Sebastian Horsley stood up in his trench and looked around and discovered an American customs official. The governments behind the front had known for some weeks that he had “nothing to declare but his genius.”
Political police systems—kindly reviewed in [...] - Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 002
Above: El-Catapulto, scale plans. ©EAB, 1997.
APRIL WOE IS THIS
Need you a hope zinging catapult / fresh artichoke / hallucinatory mint cream thingy///
The first hint that the kitties might be detached from our economic woes was in February\\ Damn this wayward upthinking patter //Midward\\ Upwestern downcline////
A list we’re on / you lost the bet\\\Terrestrial longings like [...] - Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 001
Call for Response
Above: Detail from the “River to Infinity–The Vanishing Points” exhibition by
Andréa Stanislav at the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program
and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Site Q is the name given by scientists to the recently discovered “ mystery Mayan city of fabulous art” in an area long known as La Carona, Guatemala. Quickly, what [...]