The Fundamentals of Graphic Design

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design by Gavin Ambrose + Paul Harris is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:
Graphic design as a discipline:
What is graphic design? -- What is a graphic designer? -- Group structures and working methods -- Graphic design today
Influences and creative elements:
Graphic design: art or craft? -- Industrialisation -- Technology -- Typography -- Consumerism -- Identity and branding -- Social responsibility -- Modernism and postmodernism -- Nostalgia and rhetoric -- Semiotics -- Vernacular
The graphic design process:
The brief -- Articulating design -- Sources of inspiration -- Design as problem solving -- Creative thinking -- Wit and humour -- Layers of meaning -- Development and experimentation -- Art direction -- Prototyping -- Commissioning art
Delivering the message:
Print -- Direct mail -- Information design -- Packaging -- Screen design -- Environmental design Procuring work:
Self-promotion -- Portfolios
The production process:
Basic tools -- Specialist colour -- File formats -- Print finishing

Graphis Photography Annual (2009)

The new edition of the Graphis Photography Annual has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. This annual features the best photography in the areas of advertising, architecture, automotive, beauty/fashion, digital, flora, food & beverage, interiors, journalism, landscape, nudes, portraits, products, sports, still life and wildlife.

Ragtrader (24 April 2009)

The latest issue of Ragtrader has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Contents include:

• Why Australian businesses should be concerned about Fiji
• How RAFW organisers have turned the global credit crunch to their favour
• What The former owners of Monti learned from the collapse

For more information check out the website:

http://www.ragtrader.com.au/index.cfm

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 2nd May to Fri 8th May 2009)

• LOOKING FOR MR GILL

In 1907 Eric Gill, maverick genius of the Arts and Crafts movement, set up home in Ditchling's High Street. It was the start of an extraordinary adventure that helped shape the artistic character of the departed century. It certainly had a profound effect on Ditchling. 'Looking for Mr Gill' is a personal journey by resident film maker Luke Holland, a journey in search of Eric Gill's Ditchling legacy.
Saturday 2 May 2009 2.05pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins

• MICHELANGELO REVEALED

A restorer working on a Michelangelo sculpture uncovers evidence showing that the official artist of the Vatican and the Catholic Church, was, during the period of the Inquisition, flirting with Protestantism. Michelangelo belonged to a secret fraternity that was active in trying to avoid a schism in the Catholic and Protestant Churches. All of his friends who were pushing for reforms within the church were subsequently put to death by the Inquisition. Michelangelo however, being too important for the Catholic Church's own propaganda, was spared.
Saturday 2 May 2009 3.00pm
SBS Rating: (WS)
Duration: 60 mins

• AUGUSTE RODIN: SCULPTOR

This program explores the life and works of artist and sculptor, Auguste Rodin.
Saturday 2 May 2009 4.00pm
SBS Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE ART LIFE: ALWAYS BUSY DYING - EP 3 OF 3

The final in a three part series investigating contemporary Australian art. Presented by Andrew Frost.
Sunday 3 May 2009 7.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (PG, Rpt) *Final*
Duration: 30 mins

• MESSAGE STICK: TWELVE CANOES

A series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Sunday 3 May 2009 1.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 2 - EP 8 OF 10

Honest, funny and revealing, The Gruen Transfer, a runaway hit in 2008, is about how advertising works and how it works on us. It lifts the bonnet on the carefully constructed and manufactured messages that surround us all. Examining the best and worst of advertising, acknowledging the art and science involved, The Gruen Transfer brings some of the pointiest and most creative minds in the ad industry together to discuss the power of persuasion.
Wednesday 6 May 2009 9.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (HD)
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has the previous season of this series available for loan.

• RIZE

A documentary by renowned photographer and video clip maker David LaChapelle, which demonstrates the rise of 'clowning' and 'krumping', a startling new hip-hop dance subculture, which has grown beneath the mass-media's radar.
Wednesday 6 May 2009 9.30pm
ABC2 Rating: (M)
Duration: 85 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors showcases the best new Australian inventions from the innovative to the inspirational, the weird and the wonderful. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: engineer James Bradfield Moody, science broadcaster Bernie Hobbs, and inventor and journalist Christine Kininmonth.
Wednesday 6 May 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: MIDLOTHIAN

When Pru and Richard Irvine come across a plot of land in the middle of the breathtakingly beautiful Midlothian countryside, they seize the opportunity to build a bespoke family home. However, the plot of land, an old industrial site complete with lime kilns, comes with a condition. They can build on it only if they become custodians of the kilns and, more importantly, that the house they build blends in with the landscape. It's a huge challenge and Pru and Richard want to build an uncompromisingly modern and moreover, large box of a house. It's just as likely to be a blot on the landscape as it is an enhancement.
Thursday 7 May 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins
*The Learning Centre has episodes of this series available for loan.

Australian Photography (May 2009)

The latest issue of Australian Photography has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Art & Australia - Vol. 46 No. 3 (Autumn 2009)

The latest issue of Art & Australia has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. You can also view the website here:

http://www.artandaustralia.com.au/default.asp

image courtesy Art & Australia

Japan Architect - No. 73 (Spring 2009)

The latest issue of the Japan Architect has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. You can also view the contents here:

http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/2maga/ja/ja_frame.html

md : moebel interior design - No. 4 (2009)

The latest issue of md: moebel interior design has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 25th April to Fri 1st May 2009)

• RIVIERA COCKTAIL: EDWARD QUINN, PHOTOGRAPHER, NICE

A biography of celebrity photographer Edward Quinn, an Irishman who made his name on the French Riviera photographing film stars at the Cannes Film Festival in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sunday 26 April 2009 2.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 50 mins

• THE ART LIFE: MILLIONS OF IMAGES - EP 2 OF 3

We examine the influence of advertising, media and art on our lives and talk to some artists who take these ideas as the background of their work.
Sunday 26 April 2009 7.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (PG, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: ANATOMY - MUSCLE, EP 3 OF 3

Anatomy is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories - Skin, Heart and Muscle - which explore how sexuality and the body work together as driving forces in the creative process. Muscle is an intimate film about the extremes of strength and frailty in the human body. For Simon Yates, Jo Lancaster and Mozes, the three members of nomadic performance troupe Acrobat, the body is everything.
Tuesday 28 April 2009 10.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (M) *Final*
Duration: 30 mins

• TALES FROM A SUITCASE: GEORGE GITTOES

This episode centres on George Gittoes, one of the most important and influential artists in Australia today, whose profound interest in the effect of war and civil conflict has led him to trouble spots all over the world.
Wednesday 29 April 2009 2.30pm
SBS Rating: (PG, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors showcases bright minds from across the country as they discover ingenious solutions to the problems of our lives. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: agricultural scientist - Chris Russell, materials engineer - Veena Sahajwalla, and designer - Alison Page.
Wednesday 29 April 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: MONMOUTH

Inspired by their love of the past, gothic architecture and horror movies, Jo and Shaun Bennett decide to build an Addams Family-style house, complete with stained glass window, huge stone fireplace and a massive oak staircase adorned with gargoyles. They plan to do all of this on just 400,000 pounds including buying their block of land.
Thursday 30 April 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins

The Architectural Review (March 2009)

The latest issue of the Architectural Review has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Contents include:

View:
Mies van der Rohe Award; Kenneth Browne remembered

Comment:
Kieran Long previews next month's relaunched AR

Buildings:
University building, Milan, Italy - GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
Car museum, Stuttgart, Germany - DELUGAN MEISSL ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS
Applied arts centre, Ruthin, North Wales - SERGISON BATES
British High Commission, Colombo, Sri Lanka - RICHARD MURPHY ARCHITECTS
Winery, Peñafiel, Castilla y Léon, Spain - ROGERS STIRK HARBOUR + PARTNERS
Boathouse, Fuβach, Austria - BAUMSCLAGER EBERLE

Process:
Sanjeev Shankar's New Delhi art installation

House:
Jouse, Sanjkik, Taiwan - C-LABORATORY

Reviews:
Jewish cemeteries; James Gowan; Arts & Architecture reprint; Meili and Peter monograph
Palladio at the Royal Academy; Sutherland Lyall's valedictory Browser

Delight
Freeze Alaska - exploring the hyperborean existence

Communication Arts - Vol. 51 No. 1 (March/April 2009)

The latest issue of Communication Arts has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Features:
Communication Arts at 50 by Patrick Coyne - How a sideline business became the largest journal of visual communications. / Herman Miller, Inc. and Steve Frykholm by Ellen Shapiro - American design icons in Zeeland, Michigan. / Harry Chester by Art Chantry - The forgotten creator of cheezy monster type. / Timeline - A 50-year overview of design and advertising and their relationship to politics and culture. / Milton Glaser by Cathie Bleck - A conversation with design’s unstoppable statesman. / Fifty Years of TV Graphics by Angelynn Grant - On-screen graphics have come a long way. / Tim Mantoani by Anne Telford - This San Diego photographer uses a disappearing medium to document the masters of photography. / Fifty Years of International Coverage - A look at creative work from around the world. / Ad Campaign for CA - Goodby, Berlin & Silverstein’s 1987 ad campaign for CA is still funny 22 years later. / Visual Communications Genealogy - A visual map of creative mentorship. / Exhibit by Jean A. Coyne - The latest and best in visual communication from here and abroad.

Fresh:
Noumeda Carbone - Layers of line, color and light infuse the work of this illustrator in Florence, Italy. / Steven Wohlwender - Facial expression and body language play prominent roles in the work of this San Francisco photographer. / egg - Passion for sustainability runs deep at this Seattle agency.

Columns:
Web Watch - The Brooklyn Academy of Music integrates online content, and three design history sites. / Design Issues - DK Holland and others reflect on 50 years of change. / Emerging Media - Sam McMillan asks forecaster Paul Saffo, "What lies ahead for designers?" / Advertising - Ernie Schenck on how Peggy Olson found the future of advertising. / Design Culture - Wendy Richmond reminds us to use everything. / Typography - Allan Haley asks top typeface designers, “What’s new?” / Business - RitaSue Siegel’s history of the communication design business. / Environment - Phil Hamlett on what designers expect from sustainablility (and vice-versa). / Opinion/Commentary - Kathleen Maher explores technology’s impact on visual communications. / Design Trends - Socially-conscious design is on the rise.

Fashion Theory - Vol. 13 No. 1 (2009)

The latest issue of Fashion Theory has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Letter from the Editor / Valerie Steele -- Between Studio and Catwalk - Artists in Fashion Magazines / Antje Krause-Wahl -- Pollock in Vogue: American Fashion and Avant-garde Art in Cecil Beaton's 1951 Photographs / Änne Söll -- The Velvet Touch: Fashion, Furniture, and the Fabric of the Interior / Freyja Hartzell -- The Myth of Street Style / Sophie Woodward -- Exhibition Review Genio y Figura. La influencia de la cultura española en la moda / Ana Cabrera and Lesley Miller -- Exhibition Review Dior: The New Look / Gillion Carrara -- Book Review Fusionable Cheongsam / Yueh-Siang Chang -- Book Review Fatto in Italia: La cultura Made in Italy (1960-2000) dopoguerra agli anni Settanta / Simona Segre Reinach

Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture

Integrated design in contemporary architecture by Kiel Moe is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre.

Contents:

U.S. Federal Building San Francisco, California Morphosis -- Manitoba Hydro Downtown Office Project Winnipeg, Manitoba Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects -- The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park New York, New York Cook + Fox Architects -- Lovejoy Building Portland, Oregon Opsis Architecture -- 290 Mulberry New York, New York S H o P Architects -- The Clarence Kingston, Ontario Behnisch Architects and Next Phase Studios -- 557/559 Boston, Massachusetts Utile -- D D B C Model Residence One Tucson, Arizona D D B C : John Folan & Mary Hardin -- ecoMOD Charlottesville, Virginia University of Virginia School of Architecture/John Quale -- Chicago Residence Chicago, Illinois Wheeler Kearns Architects -- New Residence at the Swiss Embassy Washington, D.C. Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten -- Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado Adjaye Associates -- North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh, North Carolina Thomas Phifer and Partners -- The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, Ohio Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: S A N A A -- Crown Hall Renovation, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois Krueck & Sexton Architects -- Lavin-Bernick Centre for University Life Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana V J A A -- Seminar II Building at the Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington Mahlum Architects -- Milton Academy Science Building Milton, Massachusetts The Rose + Guggenheimer Studio -- Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 2 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona richärd + bauer -- University of Arizona College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Tucson, Arizona Jones Studio -- Sidwell Friends School, Middle School Renovation and Addition Washington D.C. KieranTimberlake Associates -- Technology Access Foundation White Center, Lakewood, Washington MillerHull Partnership -- Artists for Humanity EpiCenter Boston, Massachusetts Arrowstreet -- Pittsburgh Glass Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture with Bruce Lindsey -- Gleneagles Community Center West Vancouver, British Columbia Patkau Architects -- Water + Life Museums Hemet, California Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build -- U.S. Border Patrol Station Murrieta, California Garrison Architects -- Fire Station 10 Seattle, Washington Weinstein AU Architects and Urban Designers

William Kentridge

William Kentridge: telegrams from the nose: films, sculpture, drawings, tapestry, etchings is a catalogue from an exhibition held at the Annandale Galleries from 11 June-19 July 2008.

You can view further information about this exhibition here:

http://www.annandalegalleries.com.au/htmlpages/artists_bio.php?artistID=34

Fast Fashion

Fast fashion is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Cotton Processing

Cotton processing: spinning, knitting, dyeing, cutting is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Clothing Design & Manufacture

Clothing design & manufacture: how clothes are designed, manufactured and sold is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Nylon, Fibre to Fabric

Nylon, fibre to fabric: how nylon is spun and woven is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

The Men's Fashion Reader

The men's fashion reader / edited by Peter McNeil and Vicki Karaminas is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Introduction: The Field of Men's Fashion
Part 1: A History of Men's Fashion Section
Introduction 1. From Black in Spain to Black in Shakespeare, John Harvey -- 2. The Three Piece Suit, David Kuchta -- 3. Macaroni Masculinities, Peter McNeil -- 4. Thomas Carlyle and 'Sartor Restartus', Michael Carter -- 5. Dandyism, Visual Games and the Strategies of Representation, Olga Vainshtein -- 6. A Tale of Three Louis: Ambiguity, Masculinity and the Bowtie, Rob Shields -- 7. Uniforms and the Creation of Ideal Masculinity, Elizabeth Hackspiel-Mikosch -- 8. Better and Brighter Clothes: The Men's Dress Reform Party, Barbara Burman -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Part 2: Masculinity and Sexuality Section
Introduction -- 9. California Casual: Lifestyle Marketing and Men's Leisure Wear, 1930-1960, William R. Scott -- 10. 'His Clothes': Fashionable Gay Masculinity and the Shopping Experience, London, 1950s-1970s, Clare Lomas -- 11. Uber Men: Fashionable Heroics and Masculine Style, Vicki Karaminas -- 12. The Italian Job: Football, Fashion and That Sarong, Stella Bruzzi -- 13. From Catwalk to Catalogue: Male Models, Masculinity and Identity, Joanne Entwistle -- 14. The Transvestite Continuum: Liberace-Valentino-Elvis, Marjorie Garber -- 15. Dragging It Up and Down: The Glamorised Male Body, Mark Simpson -- 16. Class, Race and Masculinity: The Superfly, The McDaddy and The Rapper, Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith Halberstam -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Part 3: Icons: The Evolution of Men's Wear Section
Introduction -- 17. The Genesis of the Suit, Anne Hollander -- 18. The Reinvention of Tailoring, Michael Zakim -- 19. The Japanese Suit and Modernity, Toby Slade -- 20. Clothes and the Modern Man in 1930s Oxford, Laura Ugolini -- 21. A Note: A Charismatic Art: The Balance of Ingratiation and Outrage in Contemporary Fashion, Richard Martin -- 22. Modern Masculinity and the Rise of School Uniforms, Jennifer Craik -- 23. Texas Livestock Auctions: A Folklife Ethnography, George A. Boeck, Jr -- 24. American Denim: Blue Jeans and Their Multiple Layers of Meaning, Beverley Gordon -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Part 4: Subculture Section
Introduction -- 25. The Zoot Suit: Its History and Influence, Holly Alford -- 26. Back to Africa: Reggae and Rastafarianism, Dick Hebdige -- 27. Cultural Responses to the Teds, Tony Jefferson -- 28. Rock, Fashion and Performativity, Noel McLaughlin -- 29. The Warhol Look, Mark Francis and Margery King -- 30. 'Macho Man': Clones and the Development of the Masculine Stereotype, Shaun Cole -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Part 5: Consuming and Creating Style Section
Introduction -- 31. Fashion and the Man: From Suburb to City Street. The Spaces of Masculine Consumption 1870-1914, Christopher Breward -- 32. Fashioning the Playboy: Messages of Style and Masculinity in the Pages of Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963, Becky Conekin -- 33. 'It was Style with a Capital 'S'': Versions of Being Male Presented at the Beautillion Ball, Annette Lynch -- 34. New Men and New Markets, Frank Mort -- 35. Consuming Masculinities: Style, Content and Men's Magazines, Tim Edwards -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Conclusion

Printwork

Printwork: capture the best publication and promotion is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Print is Having a Relationship -- Works -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements