A Hermetic Compendium Of Typographic Masonry

Le graphiste Richard Niessen aime les affiches typographiques. Il aime les manipuler, plutôt que les voir accrochées au mur. Pouvoir les poser au sol, les superposer et les découper. Pouvoir les tourner dans tous les sens comme une carte routière ou un plateau de jeu. C'est son format d'expression privilégié. Pour lui, le livre ne serait d'ailleurs rien d'autre qu'une compilation d'affiches. Les vingt-six sérigraphies présentées dans le Compendium hermétique de typographie maçonnique sont exposées pour la première fois dans le cadre de la Saison Graphique 2014 du Havre. Elles doivent être considérées à la fois comme des spécimens de caractères et autant de brèches prévues pour mieux s'immiscer dans l'univers de Richard Niessen. Tony Côme a écrit la préface de ce Compendium - résumé, synthèse non exhaustive d'un art. Des liens se tissent entre chaque spécimen, un réseau prend forme et l'on devine en pointillés les contours de trois constellations : le Signe, le Symbole et l'Ornement. Ici se situe l'inépuisable terrain d'expérimentation de Richard Niessen, son aire de jeu à géométrie variable. Bienvenue dans la citadelle hermétique !

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

"The Palace of Typographic Masonry is dedicated to the splendour and diversity of the graphic languages. Founded by Dutch graphic designer Richard Niessen, this imaginary building serves as a speculative platform for the variety, poetry and digressions of graphic design. The Palace presents the craft in an interdisciplinary cultural historical context and posits a new theory for the profession. Join us on a tour that takes you past more than 360 Palace 'exhibits'. A progress through nine stages: the departments of Sign, Symbol and Ornament; Construction, Poetics and Play; Order, Craft and Practice. Philosopher and writer Dirk van Weelden will serve you as your guide, offering his reflections on the items on display and introducing you to the people we meet when we enter a room"--Publisher's website.

"Tafuri's work is probably the most innovative and exciting new form of European theory since French poststructuralism and this book is probably the best introduction to it for the newcomer. ..."

An entertaining coming-of-age memoir from Steven Heller, award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times. Featuring 100 color photographs, Growing Up Underground takes readers on a visually inspired look back on being at the center of New York's youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s. Steven Heller's memoir is no chronological trek through the hills and valleys of his comparatively "normal" life, but instead, a coming-of-age tale whereby, with luck and circumstance, he found himself in curious and remarkable places at critical times during the 1960s and ‘70s in New York City. Heller's delightful account of his life between the ages of 16 and 26 shows his ambitious journey from the start of his illustrious career as a graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer. Follow his journey through stints at the New York Review of Sex, Screw, and the New York Free Press, until he became the youngest art director (and occasional illustrator) for the New York Times Op-Ed page at age twenty-three.

The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most stimulating components of an architectural course. Properly done, it can be a valuable contribution not only to the students own learning development but also to the field of architecture as a whole. This book provides a complete guide to what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and the major pitfalls involved. This is a comprehensive guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about undertaking the dissertation, including new material on CD-ROM and online sources, web based research techniques, digital images, alternative imaging strategies, key architecture links, referencing and new dissertation extracts. It clearly navigates the student through the whole process of writing, preparing and submitting a dissertation, as well as suggesting what to do after the dissertation has been completed. Subjects covered include how to write a proposal, which research methodologies and techniques to adopt, which libraries and archives to utilize (including special architectural resources on the net), as well as how to structure, reference and illustrate the final submission. The authors also take architecture students into new terrain, suggesting alternative methods of undertaking dissertations, whether as video, prose writing, multimedia or other forms of expression. Furthermore, this guide includes new examples of exemplary dissertations of all kinds, as completed by students in Europe and North America so that the reader can clearly see the kinds of work which they themselves might choose to pursue. Also in the Seriously Useful Guides Series: * The Crit * The The Portfolio * Practical Experience

Each volume in series discusses a famous painting or sculpture in detail, as both image and idea, in its context--whether stylistic, technical, literary, religious, social, or political.