Earthwork

This earthwork by the artist Vik Muniz is funny and amazing at the same time. Much of his work is the combination of sculpture and photograph with a post-fluxus bend to it.

an alternative to visual sound

http://player.vimeo.com/video/5550645?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

CDEFGABC from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.

Aussie design heaven

This must be what design heaven looks like. The image attached is a showing of some of the winning posters that I helped select in a September 2010 judging as part of the Australian Graphic Design Association. The competition had a theme—to explain what graphic design can mean to the community socially, culturally, and financially.

Poster for Tomorrow

Pratt student, Ian Rousey, (an undergrad in the design program) won entry into a worldwide competition in which designers were asked to interpret the phrase “Death is not Justice.” Ian’s poster was completed as an assignment in my Graphic Design 2 class. It is an ingenious use of type and the research of statistics on the death penalty. Shown is the poster (left) sitting next to others being presented on the site. Congrats Ian. See the site at <http://www.posterfortomorrow.org>

Coney Island

On a recent visit to the Coney Island Freak Show I noticed a brochure that we designed for Gilbert Paper presented in a glass case alongside other memorabilia.

Brno, the Czech Republic

Photo from a presentation made this June 2010 in the city of Brno, the Czech Republic, as part of the Brno biennial. The event included the jurying of a large poster show, exhibition of Worksight designs, and lecture (as part of the symposium), answering the question posed: Are Ideas Enough Today?
An animated icon was made of each presenter, which included An animated icon was made of each presenter, which included Petr Babák (CZ), Oded Ezer (Israel), Andrzej Klimowski (UK/PL), Sato Koichi (Japan), Lizá Ramalho + Artur Rebelo (Portugal), Karel Martens (the Netherlands), Rick Poynor (UK), Igor Stanisljević (Croatia), John Walters (UK), Martin Woodtli (Switzerland), Alan Záruba (CZ).
The Czechs have a rich history of graphic designers creating groundbreaking work including Ladislav Sutnar who taught at Pratt Institute from 1946 to 1949. I received a BFA in graphic design from Pratt and now teach there, and the Czech audience was happy to see a photo of the school and current student work from my senior design class.

See a few posters as part of the judging

Great Jones Street Firehouse

This is a typical weekend scene of our next-door neighbors practicing and having fun—and not necessarily in that order. These people go out on runs approximately 20 times a day, most of which are false alarms, and never seem to complain. Pretty amazing.

Framing a House

The Taunton Press hired Worksight to design the cover and interior of a “how-to” book titled Framing a House as well as a series of “green” building books including Toward a Zero Energy Home and Green from the Ground Up.

Gummie Bier

Another label for Dr. Benny, this time for his latest creation, Gummie Bier. See Stim-u-ale in a previous blog entry (below). The labels are really used promotionally. They aren’t meant to sell the beer off the shelf, but are emailed to Dr. Benny’s friends and family, in order to properly celebrate the latest brew. My payment is in actual beer, and great food (at their party). I consider this a graphic design perk.

Brave Ellis’s first guitar recital.

Ellis (9-yrs-old) was worried about going up in front of his fellow classmates and performing the song he learned to play—his first (The Beatles’ All My Lovin’). Here is a blurry recording (sorry) of how he managed to push through the mistakes made along the way to finish the job. Congratulations Ellis! It’s perfect. Dad.