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Student Spotlight


NowWhat Poster Design blog
To the design world at large, Seattle design means three things: Modern Dog, Art Chantry and Grunge. Of course there's much more. But that's the quick sum-up, and there's validity in it.

At Cornish College of the Arts, hand lettering and illustration are mixed into graphic design. There's no Swiss influence-- no Church and State division between those who manipulate type and image and those who make drawings. The design tradition here is based on a radical past. Unlike many design students who work in silo'd buildings, students here mix daily with the musicians, dancers and theatre people in other Cornish programs.

This month's spotlight is on three juniors at Cornish who have taken on the long-term project of making music posters for people performing music here. They've started a company: NowWhat.

RISD students take heed: these students are doing things that you are not doing, and vice-versa. They're interested in what you're doing and I know, having met all the juniors in Graphic Design at RISD recently, you're interested in the kind of thing they're doing. Both design programs have something the other does not, and that makes for some good conversation. So I recommend you all get in touch.

NowWhat : a study in flannel

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I put these and some recommended books on my bookstore page if you want to get them now.
--N

Thank you to the unnamed Good Samaritan below.--N.

FYI: To not super stress on getting books, ask seniors that have taken history of vis com for some of the text. We'll be gladly to lend it to you. :D


Hello from Natalia:
OK. This semester I will be teaching a section of VisCom, a section of Senior Studio, and two sections of History of VisCom.

If you are enrolled in one of these classes, I suggest you buy required texts now. There will be a big flood of orders on Amazon for all of these books as we get closer to September-- all of them are very popular texts. We will be using texts from day one in the classes.

VisCom: The required text is:
This Means This, This Means That:
A User's Guide to Semiotics [Paperback]
by Sean Hall

Senior Studio: In my section the required text is:
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field (Design Briefs)

History of Visual Communications:
History of Graphic Design, Meggs,
one of the most recent editions, and
Graphic Design, A concise History, Hollis.
and
The Elements of Style: Strunk and White
This year, Strunk and WHite is a required text.
Ask former students why.

We will use all books extensively. Past students may be willing to part with texts. Go ahead and advertise used texts on this page, should you so desire.