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design vs. art

Monday, November 20th, 2006

i’ve been thinking about rob storr’s comment the other night – in which, more or less, he said designers tend to make work that is not art. yet, we  would ideally long to be artists if we were not occupied as designers. and, that it sometimes takes an artist, like warhol, to re-appropriate design and elevate it to the status of art. (correct me if i’m wrong).

i instantly reacted badly to this comment. but, on further thought, i am not so upset. why were his words so offensive? is it because we are not recognized as artists, while enrolled in a school of art? or is it because we don’t want to be artists, we are happy being designers, and a little lost as to how we can discuss our practice and relate to our peers within the school of art?

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All this discussion about Crits

Monday, November 20th, 2006

For the most part, I think our class crits have become much more engaging this year.

But, in general, I think most of us were disappointed with the interdisciplinary crit last week. So I am not sure why everyone is so eager to have more interdisciplinary crits next semester. I imagine people have ideas about how to improve the open crit discussion – so what are everyone’s thoughts?

Also, it is almost the end of the semester, and we haven’t had our own crit. I propose something towards the end of next week.

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final crit thoughts

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

maybe a little early, but…

it makes sense for my final crit to be all the things that did not work, or that are not currently working. Final crit is basically a pat on the back for the things you have done rather than being an actual critique of any work.

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Beer, Pizza … oh, and Crit

Thursday, October 26th, 2006


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Now that we’ve all gotten a little more settled in, we’ve set aside a night to discuss each other’s work and ideas in a less formal setting. You bring whatever you want to talk about and we’ll supply the food and booze. This is a chance for both years to engage with, and get feedback from, each other. We did this a bunch of times last year and many found it very helpful. So, the first clubhouse meeting will take place this Sunday evening at 7 o’clock p.m. Word!

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Debriefing with Paul Elliman

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Next stage in our thesis.

Send Presentation to the editors to prepare for publication.
Think about captioning our work as next stage.
How do we keep the dialogue about the work going in this way. Individual presentations to the rest of the class? What kind of exchange would be good?

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Thursday, October 5th, 2006



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Brad’s Dad

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Brad, a fellow second year, just told me a story about how his dad started a company (called Paper Ink - great name) during the time of the dot matrix printer (the kind with spools) wherein they would buy used paper that had not been torn at the perforations, but had been printed on one side, cover that printed side with characters (maybe courier) and resell the paper (i am assuming cheaper than new paper) to large corporations to use the other side.

It eventually failed, but, I love this idea.

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Blog name

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Rob’s options are as follows:
gdblog1.com (which I already own)
16designers.com

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School begins

Friday, September 8th, 2006

School began on Wednesday.

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The first post

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

This is the first post for the class of 2007 Graphic Design MFA. Woohoo!

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