Typographic Poster | Samuel Garwood

Typographic Poser | Samuel Garwood

Above Poster by Samuel Garwood, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), in celebration of the typeface Helvetica.

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James Joyce—

Come forth, Lazarus! But he came fifth and lost the job.

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Alec Guinness, My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997, p. 135—

The raising of Lazarus from the dead is the subject of today's Gospel. The current sub-supermarket translation has Christ asking, "Where have you put him?"—as if Lazarus might be a basket, and later, "Lazarus, here! Come out!"—as if calling a terrier digging in a rabbit warren.

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Robert Byrne—

Cogito ergo dim sum: Therefore I think these are pork buns.

Typographic Poster | Erin Keiser

Typographic Poster © Erin Keiser 2015

Above Poster by Erin Keiser, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), in celebration of the typeface Myriad, designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly.

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Samuel Clemens, The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Charles Neider, arr. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959, p. 3—

For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whiskey toddy when I was six weeks old but I don't tell about that any more now; I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not, but my faculties are decaying now and soon I should be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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Franklin P. Jones—

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Art History Poster | Bailey Higgins

Art History Poster © Bailey Higgins 2015

Above Poster by Bailey Higgins, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), announcing a Call for Papers for the 5th Annual Art History Symposium at the same school on April 10, 2015.

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William Carlos Williams, The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams. New York: Random House, 1951, pp. 120-121—

[American expatriate painter Elihu Vedder in Italy] lived on a bare height somewhere in the fields of central Capri above the sea, and showed us his device for ridding his studio of flies. The screen door at the entrance was arranged in the usual two panels, one above, one below, a crosspiece in the center. But this crosspiece was set an inch back from the wire mesh, above and below, these edges thus remaining free.

"Flies always want to get out," he explained to us, "and will fly to the screen and the light of day. But we prevent them from escaping by barring the exits. [Instead] I leave a space for them. Thus I don't have flies." And he didn't, not many.

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Joseph Joubert—

To teach is to learn twice.

Art History Poster | Gina Hamer

Art History Poster © Gina Hamer 2015

Above Poster by Gina Hamer, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), announcing a Call for Papers for the 5th Annual Art History Symposium at the same school on April 10, 2015.

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Henry Oettinger [80-year-old typesetter, interviewed by Studs Terkel in Coming of Age]—

There is only one more thing I want to do as the time is running out. I want to win the lottery, buy three ships, man them with American Indians, and send them over to discover Italy.

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George Ade—

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Typographic Poster | Katherine Jamtgaard

Typographic Poster © Katherine Jamtgaard 2015

Above Poster by Katherine Jamtgaard, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), in celebration of the typeface Eurostile, designed by Aldo Novarese.

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Henry Moore, the eminent British sculptor—

[While studying painting at the Royal College of Art in 1921-24, one of his teachers was Arthur Beresford Pite, Professor of Architecture, who one day] arrived in front of my painting and for several minutes spotlighted his violent dislike of it. "This student, he said, "has been feeding on garbage." 

That Friday afternoon I could not work, but wandered around Hyde Park to work off my hurt feelings. I almost decided I would leave the college and study on my own.

Typographic Poster | Alexandria Toszegi

Typographic poster © Alexandria Toszegi 2015

Above Poster by Alexandria Toszegi, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), in celebration of type designer Paul Renner and his design of the typeface Futura.

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Fran Lebowitz—

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

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Judith and Neil Morgan, Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel. New York: Random House, 1995, p. 73—

One unborn scheme [devised by Dr. Seuss and his friend Hugh Troy] was to launch a private detective agency named Surely, Goodness and Mercy. Its slogan was to be biblical: "[Surely, Goodness and Mercy] Will follow you all the days of your life."

UNI Graphic Designers Win Big at AAF Awards

UNI CHAS Newsletter (March 2015)

Above Page 7 from the March 2015 issue of The Update, published by the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, University of Northern Iowa.

Graphic design students and faculty in the UNI Department of Art had ample reason to be pleased. In the wake of one of its students, Aaron Van Fossen, having been chosen by Communication Arts magazine (March-April issue) as one of the top 15 graphic design students in the nation, Aaron and other current students (among them Rachael Bair and Rhiannon Rasmussen) were awarded other prizes at this year's AAF judging, in both student and professional categories.

Typographic Poster | Alex Waters

Typographic poster © Alex Waters (2015)

Above Poster by Alex Waters, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), in celebration of printer Claude Garamond and the typeface that now bears his name, Garamond.

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Larry Rivers, What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 163.

The studio behind these windows [below the engraved building sign at 122 Second Avenue in New York] was the largest and lightest of the three on the fifth floor. Harry Holtzman, an artist, held the lease. He brought Piet Mondrian to the United States and offered him the use of that space. Piet walked up the five flights to look Harry's place over, decided he was not up to the climb. Harry found him a studio a little more down to earth, uptown. If 122 had had an elevator, Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie would have been called Second Avenue Boogie-Woogie.

UNI Art History Symposium | Erin Keiser 2015

Art History Symposium poster © Erin Keiser (2015)

Above Poster by Erin Keiser, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), announcing the schedule for the upcoming 5th Annual Art History Symposium at the same school, beginning at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 10, 2015. This was chosen as the winning events poster by the UNI Art History faculty. The top student art history papers (to be formally presented that afternoon at 5:00 pm) were submitted by Kelly Cunningham, Dana Potter and Linda Patrick. Awards will be announced at 6:00 pm, followed by a keynote address by Ohio University art historian Dr. Jennie Klein on "Spiritual Athletes: Performing Endurance." Free and open to the public at the Kamerick Art Building auditorium on the UNI campus.

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Robert MacNeil, Wordstruck: A Memoir. New York: Viking, 1989, p. 52—

If scientists could examine my brain, as they do the contents of murder victims' stomachs, they would find that I had gorged myself when young on plum puddings and fruitcakes of this seventeenth-century prose [of Anglican Church liturgy]; each word simple in itself, the combination rich and fruity, loved for the taste on the tongue, though years in the digesting; words for their own sake.

UNI Graphic Design Portfolio Night 2015

Portfolio Night Poster © Aaron Van Fossen (2015)

Above Poster by Aaron Van Fossen, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), announcing the program's annual Graphic Design Portfolio Night. To be held on the first floor of the Kamerick Art Building South (adjacent to the Gallery of Art) from 5:30-7:00 pm on Friday, April 17, 2015. Open to the public. Drop by any time, for as long as you'd like, to see the senior portfolios of (and to talk with) some of our graduating graphic design majors.

Among those exhibiting are Zach Bird, Kramer Dixon, Chase Murphy, Jeffery Fenton, Claire Jacobmeyer, Stephanie Mathena, Chelsea McNamee, Daniel O'Shea, Hannah Orlandini, Ali Schultz, Joel Steger, Danielle Shearer, Aaron Van Fossen and Maureen Villavicencio. Thanks to all the students, and to the event's tireless organizer, UNI Professor Phil Fass.