On Thursday, we considered design in the context of good form and its relationship to etiquette. I discussed the content of some recent and 19th century etiquette books.
I pointed in particular to
Gaskell’s Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition; together with the laws and by-laws of social etiquette and business laws and commercial forms, a political dictionary, a biographical dictionary, the government of the U.S., the states and territorial governments, colored charts, etc., etc., also a manual of agriculture, mechanics and mining, and A Guide to Parliamentary Practice, the whole forming a Complete Encyclopedia of Reference. Elegantly Illustrated.
By Prof. G. A. Gaskell... New and revised edition, edited by Loomis T. Palmer (Chicago, 1889)
sections on handwriting and calligraphy beginning here
accounting and book keeping here
and Family and Social Life, and Etiquette, beginning here
and more etiquette (interesting display)
I showed this example of a typography and etiquette exercise from Typography 1, Fall 2010 (Kyle Gibson).
We looked at and thought about emblem books, and particularly the standard three-part form of an emblem :
1 / inscriptio (motto or title);
2 / image (may be allegorical or not); and
3 / subscriptio (poetic or other further elaboration on the theme, or explanation of the image
The 3-element aspect of the emblem, with its potential for almost algebraic permutations, substitutions, etc., can be a good way of working with and gaining familiarity with one's material and its potential.
While conventional emblems are typically arranged hypotactically — one above the other above the other — this need not be the case. (The other typical arrangement is parataxis — something next to something else.
a (very) old introduction to emblems can be found here.
With regard to faces, and whose faces, we talked about Christian Boltanski, his Children of Dijon (1986); something here. The Montserrat library has some books on Boltanski.
Good to know about his Les Archives du Coeur at Naoshima in Japan. The archive "permanently houses recordings of the heartbeats of people throughout the world. Christian Boltanski has been recording these heartbeats since 2008."
For Tuesday 17 September,
please read through — and think about, in relation to your work and to seminar — the OED definitions for the words experiment (n.) and thesis (n.).
on hair — Ellen Gallagher (I'm reminded by a colleague) —
Skinatural (1997)
several articles etc., on Ellen Gallagher at Mixed Race Studies.
Thursday 19 September in the Underground, 9:30-11:30 am,
is the entrepreneurship alumni panel
Design Seminarians are welcome to attend this event, which happens during seminar time. Others should come to Seminar and, possibly depending on how many are present, one-on-one or smaller discussions of work in progress.
Here is the lineup for the entrepreneurship panel —Captain's Daughters / Seaside Sundries and Tea Bar (Provincetown)
Meghan O'Connor ’05
(her design thesis project)
@thecaptainsdaughters
Grapefruit (Northampton)
Justin Brown Durand ’05 and Ashley Brown Durand ’07
@grapefruitnoho, and
Mingo Gallery and Custom Framing (Beverly)
George Frary ’00 and Katherine Romansky ’07
@mingogallery
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