Experiential History of Graphic Design

10/20/2021

Great perspectives...

What if we engaged in a short dérive in an effort to examine stories that have not been told in design history? Guy Debord coined the concept of the dérive as an unplanned journey through spaces, where participants pause their everyday life routine to follow unexpected paths....

03/17/2021

Former Mason Professor Quigley exhibition!

02/18/2021

Interesting read!

We’re all familiar with the “Communist aesthetic”—its bold graphics, hyperrealism, and often stark color schemes. Less familiar is the tender side of this ideology. In The Gay Agenda: Homoeroticism in Communist Propaganda, a provocative online discussion last month between film historian Bad...

09/25/2020

Terrific short film!

Our 48th Quarterly Limited Edition for the Fall of 2020 is the “United States of Letterpress,” which features the work of nine independent letterpress…

08/16/2020

Linocut process with printing on a Vandercook SP15!

11/29/2019

Coming next spring for the first hands-on letterpress course at Mason—reglets!
Sign up for AVT 419/496 Letterpress Printing today.

07/19/2019

Excited to hand over the Experiential class to Mel Parada this coming academic year—it’s going to be awesome!!

05/03/2019

Final portfolio production!

04/11/2019

Paper making!

01/27/2019

01/20/2019

Type bank is coming down to Mason tomorrow, just in time for the Spring semester!

01/12/2019

Working up new letterpress workshop materials, including quiz material!