Journal #3: Graphic Design in the Renaissance

During the Renaissance, a new awareness of how the page is organized and decorated. It is not only to reflect a religious message and of the divine, but a thoughtful esthetic design of the page, sentences, and letters. I never thought about the history of the printed book, being an avid reader, its something I should have paid more attention to. Little things like Roman and italic type, were first used in this time.
I always thought that fire was the biggest invention/discovery, but this week’s reading has totally changed my mind on that. The typographic changed the world, it allowed for ideas to be heard, and knowledge to be spread widely.

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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 #8: George Lois

George Lois(1931-Present), designed 92 covers for the magazine, Esquire. For this journal, the focus is on Lois’s subway advertisement for Goodman’s Matzos, designed in 1960. The large-scale matzo, foresees the pop-art trend, specifically, with close up everyday objects.

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