Education

Hitler declared his paintings degenerate. Of course, Lyonel Feininger was actually one of the 20th century's most important American avant-garde artists: at various times a Cubist, Expressionist, and Secessionist. He's also well known as one of the Bauhaus's original faculty, and was even a distinguished newspaper comic strip artist. But a photographer? Really? Truth is, [...]

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Prostate cancer can be caught early. All it takes is a finger in the right direction. But saying so and showing where to go are two different things. So, the Prostate Cancer Foundation in the Czech Republic asked Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners New York, USA to do their digital wizardry to make people get [...]

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Yes, Summer is just a Winter and Spring away, and it is never to early to think of your Summer plans. So, below are a few of the SVA Summer Residency programs that I'm involved with. Covering type, social advocacy, writing and sound. SVA Masters Workshop in Rome May 27 - June 10 Studying graphic [...]

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Forget the Rose Parade; the real reason to be in L.A. right now is Pacific Standard Time... the arts program, not just the zone. A six-month "happening" that kicked off in October, PST is the largest collaborative art project ever undertaken in Southern California. Over 60 museums, galleries, and other institutions allow us to immerse [...]

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Bracket is a tabloid publication produced in The Republic of Singapore that features "everything in between. Ideas, voices and processes that are overlooked and under-appreciated." The current issue, Vol. 03 of eight, is devoted to "Education." Others focus on craft, hunger, ethics, spirit, and more. Guest edited by Chloe Seet, this issue is the reproduction [...]

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By Hunter Wimmer By day, I have the good fortune of spending time with young designers looking to hone their skills and gain insights into the craft and business of design — I’m a teacher. In our program, we keep a fairly robust two-way conversation going with our students through a few electronic forums and [...]

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Cooper Union and the Type Directors Club teamed up in the fall of 2010 to sponsor Type@Cooper (known informally as CooperType), the first postgraduate certificate program in type design offered in the United States. The extended program*, coordinated by Cara Di Edwardo and led by Jesse Ragan and Alexander Tochilovsky, covers a wide range of topics: techniques, technology, aesthetics and personal [...]

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The posters beckon us to unite against economic inequality, exploitation, and oppression. They could be signs from an Occupy rally, or even from AIGA's recent national conference [right]. But at Cal State Long Beach they're part of Peace Press Graphics 1967–1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change. Organized by the University Art Museum and [...]

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Tomorrow night School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Being American," an exhibition surveying responses by visual artists to some of the most pressing social issues in America today. Culled from various forms of contemporary visual culture, the works address topics ranging from recent environmental catastrophes to the pervading effects of the economic crisis; from the [...]

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I delivered what was probably the best talk of my career this past May in Lancaster, PA—and that's big coming from someone who is neurotically self-critical. I was invited to do the commencement address at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, a small school in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country area, and accepted without really thinking [...]

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