Design

The story about Gordon MacKenzie really spoke to me and what I do. As teachers of Art we should be doing all that we can to preserve that early artistic belief. I have always told my students that one of the common attributes of professional artist that I know is that they first and foremost believe in themselves.

Typesetting
Originally uploaded by adactioOn page 75 I really realized how much what was once a very specialized segment of design has moved into everyday life. Now type setting and font design are activities done by anyone typing (I guess it should be keyboarding) a letter or e-mail does. When I was in collage I took two semesters of commercial design that focused on the same activities that first graders now do (and are able to do better and faster)
Interestingly enough the photo above is a design element that in the past I would have dome much differently in the past. Before I would have had to create the image my self to avoid copyright problems or bought it from an agency. Now I am able to search Flicker and find an image under the Creative Commons label and use it with out charge only having to give attributions to the creator. So now everyone can add images to their design without cost and at any time.
If you click on the image you will find out where I found it.