International Typographic Style Analysis

Why do we all have different interpretations of art? Because we all are different in some way, our identity defines us and how we look at the world while our actions shape us and world around us. The works of Wenda Gu and Gordon Bennett both reflect aspects of their identity, whether that be personal, spiritual, cultural or psychological. Both artist are similar in many ways, notably for their reflection on personal experiences as cultural minorities.

The essay "How We Listen," by Aaron Copland was published in New York, both an individual attitude and the aim attitude occur in each separate plane that is being described. The individual attitude is where everything is taking place in the listeners mind, where as they are unaffected by the world around them. Aaron Copeland stated we all listen to on three separate planes which are; the sensuous plane, the expressive plane and the sheerly musical plane.

The Universal Language of Music: Mr. Tolbert was elected to Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University Gallery of Distinction; received the Miami Dade County Commission of Achievement and was inducted into the Florida’s Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame in November 2011.

Graphic Design has always been an ever evolving and changing field. Graphic design-like activities can be found throughout history like the ancient cave paintings or the manuscript of the Middle Ages. As the true purpose of graphic design is to communicate, technology has since made this process more effective, extending the reach and spread of information. This allows graphic design to have a higher level of impact that cannot be achieved without the use of technology.

The post 1945 period saw a considerable amount of changes in music. Different styles emerged, such as serial music, electroacoustic music, minimalistic music, and many others. Minimalism originated in ‘downtown’ New York City ring the early 1960s, and was initially considered to be a form of experimental music, as it was a totally different style of music as to what Stravinsky or Shostakovich wrote. Richard E. Rodda’s view on Minimalistic music was that it was based upon multiple repetitions of slowly changing chords. Minimalism evolved due to the ambitions of composers during that time. Many early minimalist composers, especially those from California and ‘downtown” Manhattan during the 1960s and 70s wanted to break down the barriers between different styles and compositional techniques of music. This was due to the fact that the society of these places put great emphasis in creativity and music that was an alternative to the common styles of music. In Minimalism, “stasis and repetition replaced the melodic line, tension and release, and climax of conventionally tonal music Loops, phasing, stasis, and tonality were all prominent features, used differently (though to similar effect) by each composer” (Lucy Davis “minimalism”).

Lucille Tenazas is certainly the kind of person who welcomes all sorts of experiences with open arms and lets them sink into her mind and feelings and purify her personality. All bits of her experiences, particularly those with a cultural and social aspect, have turned her into an exceptional figure, a figure that is respectable to everyone.

I chose to write about Jim Germaux’s Parallel Play because it evokes beauty in a unique way using pattern, line, and color

My first Carnegie Hall experience wasn’t what I expected it to be. As I entered the balcony of the Stern auditorium, I was amazed by the beautiful design of the white and gold walls and the beautiful red seats. Upon looking at my Concert Quick Guide I noticed the first symphony Leon Botstein was conducting was Arnold Schoenberg! When I flipped the guide to observe what else was in store for me, my eyes opened wide as I saw Mozart! I felt as if I wasn’t completely ignorant towards the classical music world, here I am in Carnegie Hall for the first time and I have a general background of the two original composers of Chamber Symphony No. 2 and Great Mass in C Minor.

In 1898 Théophile Alexandre Steinem created the color lithograph Dance on the Outskirts of Town that is in the Dallas Museum of Art as part of their Paris at the Turn of the Century exhibition (Figure 1). Despite the images small size and use of dark colors, it captivates the viewer with an exciting scene that focuses attention with lines and carefully placed figures. In this essay I will examine how Steinem used medium, line and color. I will discuss how these elements are used to create shapes, direct the viewer and depict the atmosphere of late 19th century Paris.

This paper is a reflection on the Redlands Symphony Concert that occurred on Saturday, February 11th, under the direction of Maestro Ransom Wilson. The rehearsal schedule was somewhat normal, or what I understand to be “normal” in the professional field, with about two and half hour sessions on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. However, the Thursday time was reserved for just the strings, giving wind players only two rehearsals before the concert. The amount of time allocated for specific pieces also felt normal, with more time spent on the bigger work, in this case Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, moderate amount of time on Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and the remaining time on Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture. I was able to take part in this

In the first decade of the 20th century the ongoing experiments with pure form continued. A group of designers in Glasgow, Scotland became well known for their use of form and their inspired designers from all over the world. “Although the Glasgow group received a cool reception in the British Isles, designers in Austria and Germany were inspired by the move toward geometric structure and simplicity of form.” (britannica) The quote shows that this group’s work had become well known and it inspired others from all over the world. Also, in Austria a new group of designers led by Gustav Klimt formed the Vienna Secession. “These artists and architects rejected academic traditions and sought new modes of expression. In their

Soon, ITC Souvenir became one of ITC’s most popular offerings – too popular, in fact. Ubiquity is never kind to typefaces; as a typeface becomes overexposed it also becomes a cliché with graphic design cognoscenti. Souvenir’s popularity peaked and then receded, but the enduring appeal of this attractive design remains undimmed.

Covering the period from Gutenberg1, who first introduced the mechanical moveable type printing in Europe during the fifteenth century, to the twentieth-century Postmodernism, the scope of the research is trying to analyze several well-known Latin typefaces that have been frequently employed and lasted for a long time in the age of mechanical reproduction. Instead of hand-written text or every single variation of typefaces that ever existed in history, the thesis and organizing structure serve Modernism as the touchstone around which the past centuries of Latin

The first example I am going to look at is Herbert Bayer’s ‘Universal’ alphabet. Bayer studied at the Bauhaus under Moholy-Nagy amongst others and became director of printing and advertising at the school. In line with the radical new ideas of how design was to be addressed, something had to change in the way of typefaces. Black letter type was the most popular at the time but its “archaic form clearly did not belong to the machine

The start of modernism being the Pioneer Phase took place between the middle of the First World War and the crucial movements from 1929 to 1933, early 1930s being know as the International Style. Pioneer Phase is a chain of variations and individuals who took charge to the problems faced when dealing with the appropriate design that would symbolise the twentieth century. They did so by focusing on three core elements of design, architecture, graphics and furniture.(P.Greenhalgh,1990, p. 91) The Pioneer Phase could simply be classified as a collaboration of ideas in which designers envisioned how the world could create a way in which improves the “material conditions” and mould the consciousness of humankind.(P.Greenhalgh,1990, p. 3). Modernism