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Excessive? Maybe. But I was rewarded with my instructor’s comments in the margins: “Good!” next to the symbol of the sun which is not available in any standard font. “Nice sketch” next to the Illustrator graphic of a sketch of the equipment setup. “Good!” again next to the PostScript-generated graph that is far fancier than anything Excel could make. “Well laid out!” as a general comment at the end of the report, right...
Browse through any bookstore's graphic novel section and it will look like a tsunami has passed through, blasting the shelves with reams of indistinguishable Japanese manga. Like a red tide, most of it stinks. But some interesting manga flotsam has also washed ashore, strangely, by way of France, Spain and England. Since 2003 a Spanish publisher, Ponent Mon, in collaboration with a U.K. outfit named Fanfare, has published five books in the U.S. as part of a line they call nouvelle manga. They mean to start a new genre and the latest two, "Doing Time" by Kazuichi Hanawa...
...secret that ceramic and interior-design whiz kid Jonathan Adler is obsessed with all things preppy, from Ice Storm--style needlepoint pillows to Palm Beach pink and green. Adler is bringing his obsession--and his clean, graphic 1950s-inspired style--to festive fir trees and mantelpieces around America in a new collection of holiday ornaments and decorative accessories designed for Hold Everything, the Williams-Sonoma--owned home-accessories resource. "It's a modern take on Christmas, with lots of groovy geometry and improbable interpretations of traditional holiday colors. Instead of red and forest green, we did pink and lime," says...
This nonsensical pastiche—especially in its frenzied but unfocused graphic energy—feels very contemporary, very post-modern. It’s tempting, then, to compliment Consalvos’ work by calling it years ahead of its time (Consalvos worked between 1910 and 1940). But one of the major traps of dealing with “outsider” art is that in welcoming it into the mainstream (no matter how well-meaning our efforts to legitimize it may be) there is a real danger that we will lose sight of the qualities that make it special...
...appellate court will look at the transcript to determine where there are any legal infirmities [in the case] as opposed to factual infirmities,” he said, citing as an example a situation where a judge admits graphic autopsy photographs as evidence that are likely to inflame a jury...