Announcements

By: elke |

After our short excursion, you’ve had the task to select one image and suggest 3 titles for the image. There are no rules in regard of the titles, it might be descriptive, mysterious or adding supplementary information. If you’re stuck, try the Title Generator for inspirations or just for fun 😉

Artist books

By: elke |

Ed Ruscha: Every Building on the Sunset Strip One of my personal artist-book highlights is Ed Ruscha’s ‘Every Building on the Sunset Strip’ from 1966. It is a small zig-zag fold book with the dimensions 18.0 x 14.2cm (18.0 x 750.0cm fully opened). He captured every building along Sunset Boulevard and merged the images manually into… Read more »

Text in the Image

By: elke |

Good morning everyone! As I have an awfully soar throat today, I just write to you. It was great to see the variety of images you took with text in them last week. As mentioned, I would like you to edit, alter, change the text today in one of your images. Please consider which typeface you use,… Read more »

Text in the Image

By: elke |

Text may be a dominant part of the image and grab the viewers attention and even might change the way of interpretation. Some artists and designers work specifically with it: Barbara Kruger Matt Siber – The Untitled Project (author of Visual Literacy in Public Space) Matt Barnes: Cold Stations Ralf Peters: Petrol Stations Recommended reading: Roland Barthes: Rhetoric… Read more »