After I resigned from the appointment of Dean of CVPA College of Visual and Performing Arts in 1981, I applied for a twelve-month (two semester) leave of absence for the following year from SMU to assist President Bernstein of Brandeis University to upgrade the design of their total program of official university publications. I looked […]
In Words
Metaphor and Semantics
For the past thirty years I have been intrigued by the processes of acceptance and integration of new and world changing concepts in the Arts; literature (new styles of unfolding narratives embedded in lyrics, poetry, fiction and journalism), music, dance and stage performance and visual arts and architecture. It is perplexing to see often on […]
Ivan Massar’s Musings
A Short Biography The many portfolios of his images present a professional photographer’s life-retrospective of a true love for people of all walks of life, the environment and disparate places and moods, and the conflicts engendered by the variety of human and inhumane conditions, from Martin Luther King’s march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to […]
Visible Language
Even Cavemen Could Do It Better
The Need for Change in the Design Paradigm:Adding Communication Eloquence (Data Search and Collection, Information Synthesis, Conceptualization and Generation of Contents and Information Management) to Traditional Form and Text Dexterity By Dietmar R. Winkler From the insights of Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician, a great sentiment for a distinct and useful mission for a […]
Ivan Massar
Real activists live their responsibilities. They don’t talk. They do. I met many important persons at MIT, but none was as significant as Ivan Massar, a Black Star photographer who collaborated on many of the MIT projects, not just with me, but also with Jackie Casey and Ralph Coburn. From 1945 on, I grew up […]
Ralph Coburn
Ralph Coburn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1923. His father taught romance languages at the University of Minnesota. In 1926, the family moved to Miami, Florida, where his parents founded a private school. The Coburn School was run by Ralph’s father, who spoke six languages, while his British-born mother, who had lived in Paris […]
Kenneth Hiebert
It is my belief that Kenn Hiebert was the true founder of the American design school for Swiss Design in the United States, even if he would fight me tooth and nail against this description. But it is my contention that he was a messenger of a distinct way of evolving visual languages and solutions […]
Childhood Reflections
At the beginning of every festival season, in winter, there is a lot of loneliness surging up in me, no matter how hard I try to cover it up. I felt always abandoned, from childhood on, especially by my parents – my mother died early and left me unprotected to life; my father always felt, […]
Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl
In my mind, Sharon Poggenpohl is one of the very few design scholars and educators, that have earned my respect and admiration justly and through a yeoman’s commitment and hard work to aid students, graduate students, faculty colleagues, and practicing professionals to either apply sound available knowledge and tools for success or to develop them. […]