Tuesday, November 12, 2019

open tabs, week 12

Jack Stauffacher

printer, typographer, whose facing-page layout of Plato's Phaedrus came up this morning, in discussion of Rebecca's Chapman/Wilson Odyssey

memoir by Chris Pullman at Design Observer


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designer Lucienne Roberts and design educator Rebecca Wright, their edition of Charles Dickens his Great Expectations — presenting interpretations of that novel's first page by 70 designers and typographers.
here
and (in much greater detail), this article by Rebecca Fulleylove


Andrew, his "Have Kids" brought these two essays to mind —

"Can a Woman Who Is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?" :
The lives of two painters, Celia Paul and Cecily Brown, tell very different stories about what it takes to thrive in a medium historically dominated by men.
by Rachel Cusk. The New York Times Magazine. November 7, 2019
here
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and

"The Muse at Her Easel"
a review of Celia Paul, her Self-Portrait (2019)
by Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books (November 21, 2019 issue)
here
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asterisks point to pdfs. these are not for the faint hearted. The online version of the Rachel Cusk's New York Times essay includes reader comments, which are various and interesting.


abstract animations

Norman McLaren, Dots (1940)
Norman McLaren, Pen Point Percussion (1951)

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