Amelia Stier

Manyday Now

CD 1, CD 4, Everyday, Photography, Procrastination — Tags: Angeline Tournier, Donuts, Kelsey Dake, Sean — Amelia @ 2:18 pm

When Kelsey and I stay up late working, we occasionally make midnight donut runs to the Winchell’s near her house.

And donuts displays fit into modular dreams very well.

These are my birthday shoes from Angeline Tournier in London.

I call this one “floral bag, out of focus”

Sean teaches the chillins about oldstyle numerals and when to use them.

A riveting Communication Design 4 critique. Obviously the TA’s job is to look for photo-ops.

Sometimes you find broccoli in the weirdest places.

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Chermayeff & Geismar

CD 1, FriendlyPresident™, Inspiration, Things I Didn't Make, Things I Like — Tags: Alvin Lustig, Architectural News, First Termies, Fused Metaphor, Ivan Chermayeff, Sean Adams, Tom Geismar — Amelia @ 1:41 am

Way back in first term–knee high to a grasshopper as I was–we were assigned in Communication Design 1 to make a magazine cover for Architectural News using the idea of “fused metaphors.” We were told to make lists of each of the things to be represented (in our case America and architecture), and find a way to combine them metaphorically. Our reference material was a series of such covers, inspiring at the time, but not memorable in my over-stimulated mind.

This term, in the same class (which I now TA), Sean is showing presentations of noteworthy designers each week. My job is to compile images and make a slideshow to share with the kiddies and help them with their visual literacy. When we chose Alvin Lustig and Ivan Chermayeff, I was excited to do the research, but I wasn’t expecting to find so many ingenious examples of this “fused metaphor” business. In my further inspection of the Architectural News covers by Chermayeff & Geismar that I hadn’t seen since first term, I found new inspiration in the simple yet intelligent solutions.