Journal #2: Alphabets

Alphabets are especially crucial to graphic design and what makes us human. Having a written language is what separates us from primates. Alphabets opened up communication and sharing of ideas. For the Greeks, refining the alphabet allowed them to create geometry. Alphabets also, allowed for mass number of people to become literate.
Growing up, I went to a Jewish day school and had to read from the Torah(written in ancient Aramaic.) So it's especially fascinating to see how a language such as Aramaic arose in the East.

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Journal #7: Alexy Brdovitch’s Harper's Bazaar Cover

I immediately recognized Alexy Brdovitch’s cover for the June 1951 Harper’s Bazaar. He captured the essence of summer with the bold colors. The cropping of the model’s face and legs draws attention to the beach clothes instead of the fashion model. Harper’s Bazaar is still a huge fashion magazine today along with Vogue, Allure , and countless others.

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 #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/

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