Journal #1: About this blog and Me

In this blog, I will journal my findings and reflections on the course, "History of Graphic Design."

My name is Abigail, I was born in Israel, and love the unique approach Israelis bring to art and especially graphic design. I currently live in the Bay Area. I'm taking this course not only for my major of graphic design, but to have a better understanding of my future profession.

(Fun fact; I ride horses and have been riding competitively for 10 years.)

Art has always been an active part of my life, from museums to drawing in coloring books, my parents put an emphasis on art and travel.

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Journal #10: David Tartakover

Israeli graphic designer, David Tartakover, was born in Haifa(so was I) in 1944. He was since then opened his own studio in Tel Aviv. He specializes in different aspects of visual communications, specifically Israeli culture and politics. Since 1976, He is a senior lecturer in the Visual Communication Department of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. He is also a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), and president of the Graphic Designers Association of Israel (GDAI). Some of his most notable work, is the Peace Now logo in 1978, and became a bumper sticker. This was the first political bumper sticker in Israel. Tartakover's mural in Tel Aviv, Israel Peace Now logo, 1978 https://www.tartakover.co.il/

Journal #6: Modern Art

Drawn by the Spanish artist, Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory, 1931, is an iconic surrealist painting. Salvador(1904-1989) described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs.” The seaside cliffs in the background, are inspired by Salvador’s Spanish home and are the only object painted with a sense of reality. A technique, Dali often used called “the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling,” meaning, he took placed everyday objects such as ants and melting clocks and distorted in an unfamiliar way. Works Cited: “MoMA Learning.” Willem De Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52 | MoMA , www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/1168-2.

Journal #11: Final Project

Similar to pictographs, petroglyphs are also images instead of letters, but are engraved into a cave or a rock. A pictograph maybe be a pictograph as well. Pictographs are basic drawing or sketches literally representing an object, idea, or an animal. Unlike petroglyphs, pictographs were not sketched into a hard medium like a cave wall. Ideographs are symbols inside the pictograph or the petroglyph that represents ideas or concepts. Ideographs are similar to modern-day traffic signs. Phono, meaning sound or voice, and grams meaning a drawing or something is written; phonograms are images that illustrate a sound the picture would make. Phonograms created a type of writing called, cuneiform. Cuneiform, is a complicated writing system with 560 signs. An alphabet is consists of graphic symbols or characters, that when put together, create the basic sound of a language. Alphabets are much more efficient than cuneiform or hieroglyphics that required the memorization of hundreds of symbo...

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