ABOUT THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS | NYC
This is my semester post about one of my favorite places, The Center for Book Arts. The Center is dedicated to exploring and cultivating contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art...
View ArticlePRINTED MATTER | Now in Chelsea
Photo Essay with Text: “Justicia” | By Stephanie Segura Brooklyn: La Chamba Press, 2015 Yes, more about books…today is my day to remind everyone about those little creative places in NYC that we often...
View ArticleThumbnails Allowed at The Society of Illustrators…Let’s Sketch
SI Logo Designed by Bradbury Thompson We talk about “the process” week after week. Sketching and drawing as well as thumbnails or doodles are often the creative start to a process. In the winter of...
View ArticleGirls and Boys…Swedish Wooden Toys
On view at Bard Graduate Center from September 18, 2015 through January 17, 2016. There are over 300 “playthings” that date from the 16th to the early 21st centuries. These wonderful toys range from...
View ArticleIkko Tanaka
Last May, I happened upon the “How Posters Work” show at the Cooper Hewitt museum. Today, I am embarrassed to admit that this was one of the first times I had really considered poster design to be an...
View ArticleManhattan Street Performance: A Photo Essay
The process of developing my photo essay over the course of two months was an interesting one. For worse or for better, very little of my original idea survived to the final stages of the process. If...
View ArticleWhy are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?
FROM TODAY’S TED TALK: Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn’t just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors...
View ArticleNew York Books for Your Coffee Table or Your Coffee Break
As you know by now about my blogging on the latest and the greatest… I love books. I took a stroll after Thanksgiving dinner and that stroll led me right to The Strand on Broadway & 12th St. NYC....
View ArticlePrestone Printing Company Tour
A few weeks back, I was given the opportunity to visit Prestone Printing Company. This impressive print production facility is location in Long Island City. Glenn Baken, Parsons Graphic Design...
View ArticleAAS GD Type Meet up
Throughout the month of November and into the first week of December, I attended two out of the six AAS GD Type Meet up Peer Led Sessions. I met the lovely Lauren Peters-Collaer who is a third semester...
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