An Ode to Papyrus, by Dustin Britt (@ Matchstic)

Copied and pasted directly from Matchblog, HERE.

Ready to open your own local coffee shop?

Say no more, you need Papyrus.

Yoga instructor?

Papyrus is the answer to your design dilemma.

Getting ready to start a sermon series on Joshua at your church?

Papyrus!

Billion dollar director making a strange movie about blue aliens?

What says other-worldly better than Papyrus?

Sushi?

Is there really another choice?

Designed by Chris Costello in 1982, the Papyrus font was originally hand-drawn over a period of six months by means of calligraphy pen and textured paper. Costello described his goal as a font that would represent what English vernacular would have looked like if written on papyrus 2000 years ago.

A sarcastic - yes - but true look at how something can be visually popular, successful, & even trendy and too often slowly creep from the simple enjoyment of it => copycats => obscurity. Reminding me that, like Alvin said yesterday, “restraint is increasingly important“.

For more on the wild world of Papyrus use in design, you can check out: www.papyruswatch.com.

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ART 338 @ Larkspur Press

The Intermediate Digital Imaging class is working on a project in relation to Prof. Bolden's poetry class. The assignment is for the art students to partner with poets and create broadsides to illustrate their poems. As an introduction to traditional letter press broadsides and printing, we traveled to Larkspur Press in Monterey, KY to visit Gray Zeits. He was quite gracious and allowed us to tour the press and explain the letter press process as well as show us examples of the work they do.

To find out more about Larkspur and see examples, you can visit their site HERE.

On a side note, here's a favorite video on letterpress that we watch in ART 234...

Kappa Pi Christmas Party!

Its that time of year again, for our annual Christmas Party. This year Daniel and his wife Holly will be hosting us at their house. The time will be from 5-6:30! Everyone needs to bring a couple of things to this party. The first being a sweet treat to share. They will be providing something Savory!

The second thing everyone needs to bring is a found object! This will be for our AMAZING gift exchange. This cannot be something you have bought! Find something really cool, then wrap it up and see what you receive in return! Be creative with your object!

After the party we will all be headed to the UK Open Studio so everyone should come out and see what other art students at our level are accomplishing! It will be held in the Reynolds building from 6-10.

Artistic Encouragement

A word from Ira Glass, host and producer of This American Life. By the way, we have seasons 1 & 2 of the television series in the LRC (but not really because I have season 2 checked out).

UK Open Studio, Friday

We'll be visiting UK's art department for their annual Open Studio this Friday, December 4. It's a great chance to mingle and see what other art students are doing. The event runs from 6-10 PM. For more info, click HERE.

We are also planning a department Christmas party on the same evening. Stay posted for more information.

Thanks,
DK

Tedious book animation

So if you ever think your work is tedious take a look at this. All hand cut by the New Zealand book company. No computer anything in this one.

"look me in the eye"

Matt Hubbard's Senior show will be opening this Thursday Dec. 3rd from 5-7pm. Everyone should come out to support Matt and all of his accomplishments as an art major at Georgetown College. His show includes 11 works and will be held in the Cochenour Gallery. This provides an intimate space for the viewer to interact with the works. Again it will be a great show and refreshments will be provided!

Artist Kelly McKernan

"
Kelly McKernan is an artist and illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia who has, since her youth, possessed the ambition to be a full time creator. She is a graduate of Kennesaw State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While her training was in traditional painting, her focus has been in mixed media, specifically in combining film photography and advanced darkroom techniques with aqueous media painting. Over the last two years, Kelly has received local, national, and international recognition for her unique work, has been printed in a number of major publications, and is currently showing with several notable galleries. She is also a member of the Cheap Paper artist collective."

Click HERE to see more at her site. You can also view her work (in progress) HERE at Flickr.

New artist to see.

Make sure to check out this commercial sculptors insane work.
HERE and in the bar on the right