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Somehow I got through college without reading anything by Gertrude Stein and now I really wish I had. Recently I was introduced to her stylized writing in the book, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey. Florey describes Stein as a fan of sentence diagramming, but not exactly a follower of the proper grammar it is meant to teach.
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Last spring Q Collective partner, Mark Sanders, and I taught Experimental Typography at Parsons The New School for Design. The class challenged students to redefine the conventions of typography and in the process, discover the potential for enhanced communication. The first half of the semester was spent on subproblems or short projects that encouraged exploration and innovation in two, three and four dimensions.
Art in the Park
New Yorkers were invited to sculpt city space in a myriad of colors of string with Danish artist Karoline H. Larsen and American artist Jasmine Zimmerman on May 13, 2007 in McCarren Park, Brooklyn.
- Gallery by: Sandie
- 10 March 2009
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One of my favorite places to see typography used in innovative and varied ways is the New York Times Sunday Magazine. The Society of Publication Designers' Winners Gallery has an impressive archive of award-winning layouts, many of them from the Times magazine.
