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playground. “I got started in the early twenties while I was studying at the Bauhaus. We were working in many different media and I became interested in photography as a new and fascinating art medium.”(pg.1 Bultman) His reaction was to the past, looking at designs created during the Vienna succession and Art Deco and prior, he looked at the earlier treatments of typography and set out to revolutionize the way typography was used by creating the Universal alphabet, “(it) reduced the alphabet to…

In 1985, Peter Moore created the Air Jordan I design for Michael Jordan, which went on to become the most iconic and popular design out of all the Air Jordan models. The concept was brought into being at the Nike Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Since, the original release of the 1985 model, the Air Jordan I has been modeled in numerous colorways and low and mid versions of the original high top shoe. Although, the shoe comes in a variety of styles, it is rarely seen having a collaboration.…

older sister Pipsan, and his parents lived in Finland, his parents would regularly entertain artists, musicians, sculptors, professional architects, and several other intellectuals including names such as composers Jean Sibelius, and Gustav Mahler, art critic Juius Meier-Graefe, writer Maxim Gorki, and sculptor Carl Milles. In 1923, he and his family, moved to the United States, following…

Walt Disney Productions. Walt Disney was one of the greatest animator to create cartoon characters. During Disney high school career he attended McKinley High School in Chicago. There he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. At night he would take courses at the Chicago Art Institute. At the tender age of 16 years old he…

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both which would serve as her greatest influences (2). At college she met her first love: a boy named Leo who she dated for a few months, but before him she thought emotions could be gotten over (5). Rand also studied screenwriting at the State Institute for Cinema…

This year I wanted to focus on the aspects of design, I felt I had been spending too little time on in the past years teaching. Technical Theatre I, is such a basic condensed class I felt Technical Theatre II needed to be a more in-depth look at script analysis and design, I had never had enough Technical Theatre II students to have a stand-alone class, now I do. Since each year Texas University Interscholastic League holds a competition for design, and we had never competed, I felt it was time…

Every once in a while there is someone who changes the world of movies forever. One of the most influential movie makers was Walt Disney. Walt Disney went through many trials before making it to the top of the success ladder. But when he did, he thrived there. He created movies and characters that now star in many animated Disney movies today. Disney was, in short, one of the most amazing people to walk the earth. Walter Elias Disney, also known as Walt Disney, was born in Hermosa, Illinois, on…

is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.” As a person whose life has spanned across Kuwait, India, Chicago, and now Colorado, I have personally experienced how education has improved the lives of individuals and communities. Conversely, I have observed how the lack of education and access for it have blocked the advancement opportunities of…

As I walked through the museum, I looked for a piece of art that spoke to me on a personal level, having picked a Mexican Museum it wasn’t hard seeing a sculpture or painting and relating it to my childhood or connecting it to my visits to Mexico. As I was leaving, I stopped by a colorful painting that really grabbed my attention, and looked at the description and the painting for some time. I was with my younger brother and had explained to him the details of the museum visit for this class,…