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Helvetica was designed by swiss designer Max Miedinger along with Eduard Hoffman in 1957. As with many swiss creations precision and accuracy are held in the highest regard, Helvetica being no exception. With such a clean design the typeface spread … Continue reading →

American Splendor is a popular comic series by the author Harvey Pekar. His rise to fame is an amazing story and is told in the biographical film of the same name (American Splendor). The film is about Harvey Pekar’s rise … Continue reading →

Throughout the duration of watching American Splendor, I couldn’t help but notice several similarities between this movie and Scott McCloud’s book: Understanding Comics. The first thing that I noticed is that McCloud refers to comics as “the Invisible Art”. This … Continue reading →

During the visit to the WSU art museum, I found Robert Rauschenberg’s Autobiography,  to be the most interesting. It features three large lithograph prints that tell a narrative of his life. The first image is of his astrological birth chart overlaying … Continue reading →

I think that this piece by Jenny Holzer holds a lot of power, the use of all capitalizations and the close proximity by each letter brings the text together to create almost an image of a book of poetry. The … Continue reading →

One of the pieces in the art museum that stuck out the most to me was “ We Are Pro-Choice” by Nancy Spero. Nancy Spero used stylized representational images to touch on the darker subjects of humankind. I find this … Continue reading →

The work I chose was “Unalpabetic #1 (unabashed)” by Pat Boas.  This work is the word ‘Unabashed’ with each letter painted over the other, in various sizes, colors, weights, and cases.  The text here makes the image, the letters become … Continue reading →

In the Washington State University art museum, these posters caught my eye. I think that they have a powerful message, and are very thought-provoking. The series of posters were created by Ken Chu to highlight and normalize the gay Asian … Continue reading →