Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics

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Typography – that is, typography the reader can comprehend and understand – is based on certain fundamental principles. As long as letters, words, and sentences are used to transmit information, these same principles will remain valid – even in electronic media. Part one of this publication discusses the typographic elements; the microaesthetic qualities of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, lines, and geometric elements and their diverse applications. Part tw… More >>

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Getting Into Art School

If you’re interested in any element of the visual arts, including graphic design, painting, photography, illustration or sculpture, then an art school may be exactly what you’re looking for. They offer courses that are specifically designed to enhance your skills and knowledge in your chosen field of art. Generally art schools don’t have as much focus on extra subjects, such as science or math, whereas larger institutions generally include those subjects in the degrees they offer. An accredited art school or college, however, is still able to offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

To be accepted into art school, there are some criteria you will generally need to meet. The admissions committee is looking for applicants with the following attributes:

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The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

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Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In The Visible Word, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. She argues that Futurist, Dadaist, and Cubist artists emphasized materiality as the heart of their experimental approach to both visual and poetic forms of representation; by mid-century, howe… More >>

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