Edgar Arceneaux: Hopelessness Freezes Time
The strata of the Earth is a jumbled museum. Embedded in the sediment is a text that contains limits and boundaries which evade the rational order, and social structures which confine art. In order to read the rocks we must become conscious of geologic time, and of the layers of prehistoric material that is entombed in the Earth’s crust. When one scans the ruined sites of prehistory one sees a heap of wrecked maps that upsets our present art historical limits. A rubble of logic confronts the viewer as he looks into the levels of the sedimentation. The abstract grids containing the raw matter are observed as something incomplete, broken and shattered.
– Robert Smithson
California Community Foundation: L.A. Makes Art Brochure
This brochure shows the type of creative alchemy we aspire to here at DGS. “L.A. Makes ART” is a campaign we developed for California Community Foundation (CCF) highlighting the considerable impact donors have on the arts in L.A. County. Included in the collateral is this brochure—a double book made through the use of a “z fold”. One brochure, two agendas: informational and directive.
Temporary Services: Prisoner’s Inventions & Revolution As An Eternal Dream
Temporary Services has a knack for locating and highlighting really interesting off-beat materials and then turning that stuff into great books. In 2005 the excellent WhiteWalls press approached us about designing Temporary Services collection of drawings by a prisoner named Angelo. The resulting book, Prisoner’s Inventions, highlights the ways prisoners cobble together tools (a tattoo gun made from a Walkman, a paper clip, and a pen, as well as cups from toilet paper) adding amenities to their spare existences.
Prisoner's Inventions. Book design by Department of Graphic Sciences.
Department of Graphic Sciences part of Chinatown’s New Creative Class
The Department of Graphic Sciences is featured in the Sept. 9th LA Downtown News article titled Chinatown's New Creative Class.
New Year, New Vision, New Exhibitions
Greetings and Happy New Year! We took a much-needed break over the holidays, after a whirlwind fall here at DGS. For our holiday gift this year, we pulled out our table top letterpress, some spray paint and a selection of deliciously soft museum board and made this print of a hummingbird on a florescent orange, pink and gold background. Did you know the fluttering wings of these tiny yet industrious birds move in the pattern of a figure eight? Here's to an infinitely creative and prosperous twenty eleven.
Upcoming exhibition:
China: Insights
Pomona College Museum of Art
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