I'm a visual communicator. I got edjuhmacated in the 1980's, when the nom-de-mode was graphic designer. I'll admit that graphic designer has a certain 'cachet' about it that 'visual communicator' seems to lack. It somehow implies a discipline that is more purely visual, with less dependency or regard for the mass-communicative (and also 'marketing' goal-based) properties of the field.
That being said, for my undergrad we had two solid years of fine-arts curriculum. So perhaps Graphic Designer is a more appropriate name for what I am.
I was fortunate enough to attend college when they had a gaggle of Bauhaus instructors– one of my professors actually met Gropius, and another had been a product/disciple of the Black Mountain School. This for the price of a public university education!
So there is certainly a thread of the fine artist that runs through my soul.
You can imagine my joy when, on an afternoon car trip, I got to hear this podcast.
I highly encourage you to check it out.
I highly encourage you to check it out.
and in the same vein…
I heard this podcast about the disagreeable relationship between Gropius (the Bauhaus founder) and the wife of Lazlo Moholy-Nagy.
I guess all your creative heroes die. I learned the truth about Hitchcock a couple of years ago, and now Manet and Gropius join him in the realm of being "merely human." If someone finds some stuff on Hopper, I will probably sink into a depression.
[link will take you to the article page, click in the "play" triangle in the upper lefthand part of the photo for the podcast.]
