Portfolio Motif 4
This months portfolio presents sketches by Ravi Bhagwat, an engineer by training and profession but an avid artist in his spare time.
Motif
Provides the artist with his motive and with his motivation.
Cyberculture
Gerry Mander considered a Guru of cyberculture has some provoking ideas about the role of computers in our life.
Motif Issue No 4
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Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced by organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world.
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On Choosing Type | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
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U&lc (Upper & lowercase) magazine, published between 1970 and 1999, was a defining voice in illustration and typographic graphic design. The magazine’s contributors were some of the most influential designers and artists of the time. Many proffered their talents at reduced rates, just to have their work included in the publication. From the first issues by Herb Lubalin and the later, almost equally striking designs of Bob Farber, as well as a roster of guest designers that reads like a “who’s who” of graphic design, U&lc had a cachet that was unmatched.
Feeling your way around grids : Articles : Mark Boulton
Susan Sontag on Photography .. continued
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Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism (1977) "Susan Sontag has written a book of great importance and originality. . . . All future discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is now bound to begin with her book."
—John Berger
Susan Sontag on Photography
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"Like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy-machines whose use is addictive. However, despite the extravagances of ordinary language and advertising, they are not lethal. In the hyperbole that markets cars like guns, there is at least this much truth: except in wartime, cars kill more people than guns do. The camera/gun does not kill, so the ominous metaphor seems to be all bluff - like a man's fantasy of having a gun, knife, or tool between his legs." (from On Photography, 1977)
Neville Brody - We're here to be Bad !!
Neville Brody was one of the controversial figures in the world of graphic design. He produced award winning and path breaking advertising, but also
had a lot to say about the political stand a designer should take. Some believe however, that in subsequent years he himself moved away from the radical positions he advocated so strongly.
"We're not here to give them what's safe and expedient".
"We're not here to help clients eradicate everything of visual interest from the face of the earth".
"We're here to make them think about design that's dangerous and unpredictable".
"We're here to inject art into commerce".
"We're here to be bad".In retrospect one can ask if he was right or only naive. But his manifesto made one think about some basic issues that are still unresolved.
Motif 2 Photography
Introduction to Motif 2 on the theme - Photography.
