The Metropolitan Museum of Art – MetPublications is a free online catalog of out of print publications on Met exhibitions and catalogs. After a quick browse through their site, I downloaded a 200-page catalog titled American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including the Leonard A. Lauder Collection by David [...]

As designer Dave Farey described himself, facetiously but with an undercurrent of truth, “Nothing I have done is original. It’s all based on the 26 letters of the alphabet and the Arabic numerals.” via The Font Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries | Smashing Magazine.  

The topic in my foundations class this week is symmetry. While most artists and designers I know speak about visual weight, or how a symmetric or asymmetric composition feels, symmetry is ultimately a mathematical phenomena. So I leave some of the dialog to the mathematicians. Check out this short promo for Professor Ian Stewart’s book, [...]