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| Art History Symposium Poster © Zach Bird 2014 |
Thursday, February 27, 2014
UNI Art History Symposium | Zach Bird
UNI Art History Symposium | Alex Rogers
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| Art History Symposium Poster © Alex Rogers 2014 |
UNI Art History Symposium | Jake Earp
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| Art History Symposium Poster © Jake Earp 2014 |
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Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector—
Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country [Holland] is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Iowa Snowstorms and Beyond
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| Conference program booklet © 2005 |
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Alfredo Veiravé (Argentine poet), "Memories of Iowa City and the international Writing Program" in Paul Engle, et al., The World Comes to Iowa. Ames IA: Iowa State University Press, 1987, pp. 195-196—
Starting in September, I already began thinking about what snow in Iowa would be like. As autumn wore on and winter came, that promise was approaching…until one morning when I woke up I heard a noise at the bedroom window. It sounded like a bird lightly touching the glass. While I was coming fully awake I had memories of similar sounds, such as that of some strange animal rubbing against the glass. And suddenly I remembered the snow, and I jumped out of bed and went to the window. There it was: snow. During the night the whole countryside had changed to white as if by magic. I was so excited that we had to get dressed and run out into the street to feel the light, magical Iowa snow.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Long Midwestern Winters
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| Story Illustration © Kim Behm |
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Richard Critchfield, Those Days: An American Album (New York: Dell, 1986), p. 156—
But the snow, the unchanging blackness and whiteness of it, the bitter cold, the ceaseless wind—it could give you a really bad case of "cabin fever" if you let it. Father [a country doctor] used to tell about finding patients in remote farmhouses, most of them women, who'd made themselves ill with depression and loneliness over the long winter. All the early settlers had tales of women on isolated homesteads going mad. Even our farm, just a half mile south and two miles west of Hunter, could get pretty lonely. In the dead of night the sound of a coyote—three short yelps and a long howling wail—can be just about the most desolate sound there is.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Theatre Poster | Michelle Watson
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| Theatre poster © Michelle Watson 2011 |
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Stanley Elkin, Early Elkin (Flint MI: Bamberger Books, 1985)—
We read, I've told my classes, to die, not entirely certain what I mean but sure it has something to do with being alone, shutting the world out, doing books like beads, a mantra, the flu. Some perfect, hermetic concentration sealed as canned goods or pharmaceuticals. It is, I think, not so much a way of forgetting ourselves as engaging the totality of our attentions, as racing-car drivers or mountain climbers engage them, as surgeons and chess masters do. It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads…I haven't said it here, am almost ashamed to own up, but once I opened books slowly, stately, plump imaginary orchestras going off in my head like overtures, like music behind the opening credits in films, humming the title page, whistling the copyright, turning myself into producer and pit band, usher and audience.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Theatre Poster | Erich Bollmann
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| Theatre poster © Erich Bollmann |
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Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957), p. 5—
It is our parents, normally, who not only teach us our family history but who set us straight on our own childhood recollections, telling us that this cannot have happened the way we think it did and that that, on the other hand, did occur, just as we remember it, in such and such a summer when So-and-So was our nurse. My own son, Reuel, for instance, used to be convinced that Mussolini had been thrown off a bus in North Truro, on Cape Cod, during the war. This memory goes back to one morning in 1943 when, as a young child, he was waiting with his father and me beside the road in Wellfleet to put a departing guest on the bus to Hyannis. The bus came through, and the bus driver leaned down to shout the latest piece of news: "They've thrown Mussolini out." Today, Reuel knows that Mussolini was never ejected from a Massachusetts bus, and he also knows how he got that impression.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Theatre Poster | Amanda Wallace
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| Theatre poster © Amanda Wallace (2010) |
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Ludwig Börne, The Art of Becoming An Original Writer in Three Days (said to be one of the factors that influenced Sigmund Freud in his adoption of free association)—
Take a few sheets of paper and for three days on end write down, without fabrication or hypocrisy, everything that comes into your head. Write down what you think of yourself, of your wife, of the Turkish War, of Goethe…and when three days have passed you will be quite out of your senses with astonishment at the new and unheard of thoughts you have had. This is the art of becoming an original writer in three days.
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George Ellis (the twelve months of the year)—
Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,
Showery, Flowery, Bowery,
Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,
Breezy, Sneezy, Freezy.
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Alan Bennett (Beyond the Fringe)—
We started out trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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Sunday, February 2, 2014
Digital Illustration | John Vorwald
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| Story illustration © John Vorwald |
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Melvin Fishman—
The holes in your Swiss cheese are somebody else's Swiss cheese [cf. figure-ground].
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Norah Phillips—
On the subject of confused people, I liked the store detective who said he'd seen a lot of people so confused that they'd stolen things, but never one so confused that they'd paid twice.
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D.H. Lawrence (The Later DHL)—
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.
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Woody Allen (Without Feathers)—
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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Herbert Berbohm Tree (BT)—
The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
Self-Portrait Parody | Evan Seuren
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| Self-portrait parody © Evan Seuren |
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Guy Browning (The Guardian 1999)—
A shoal of a million fish might not be able to write Romeo and Juliet but they can change direction as one in the blink of an eye. Using language a human team leader can give an order to a team of six and have it interpreted in six completely different ways.
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Tony Benn (The Independent 1997)—
We should put spin-doctors in spin clinics, where they can meet other spin patients and be treated by spin consultants. The rest of us can get on with the proper democratic process.
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Stuart Davis (1940)—
An artist who has travelled on a steam train, driven an automobile, or flown in an airplane doesn't feel the same way about form and space as one who has not.
Fillm Poster | Kenny Meisner
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| Film poster © Kenny Meisner |
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Charles Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby)—
"What's the water in French, sir?" "L'eau," replied Nicholas. "Ah!" said Mr. Lillyvick, shaking his head mournfully, "I thought as much. Lo, eh? I don't think anything of that language—nothing at all."
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Billy Wilder (Avanti)—
I don't object to foreigners speaking a foreign language: I just wish they'd all speak the same foreign language.
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G.K. Chesterton—
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Promotional Poster | Kellie Heath
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| Promotional poster © Kellie Heath (2013) |
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Mae West (I'm No Angel)—
When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better.
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Anthony Powell (Hearing Secret Harmonies)—
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
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Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay (Yes, Prime Minister) [cf. Donald Rumsfeld]—
So that means you need to know things even when you don't need to know them. You need to know them not because you need to know them but because you need to know whether or not you need to know. And if you don't need to know you still need to know so that you know that there was no need to know.
Synergistic Postage | Morgan Moe
Above (and below) Proposal for a synergistic postage stamp (2012) designed by Morgan Moe, in an undergraduate graphic design course at the University of Northern Iowa.
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French poet Gérard de Nerval, when asked about his habit of taking his pet lobster (named Thibault) for a walk in the royal gardens—
Why is a lobster any more ridiculous than a dog…or any other creature one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters: they are peaceful and solemn, they know the secrets of the sea, they do not bark, and they do not eat into the essential privacy of ones soul the way dogs do…Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he was not mad.
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Frank Muir (You Can't Have Your Kayak and Heat It)—
Dogs, like horses, are quadrupeds. That is to say, they have four rupeds, one at each corner, on which they walk.
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J.B. Morton (By the Way)—
Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht is carrying out research work with a view to crossing salmon with mosquitoes. He says it will mean a bite every time for fishermen.
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French poet Gérard de Nerval, when asked about his habit of taking his pet lobster (named Thibault) for a walk in the royal gardens—
Why is a lobster any more ridiculous than a dog…or any other creature one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters: they are peaceful and solemn, they know the secrets of the sea, they do not bark, and they do not eat into the essential privacy of ones soul the way dogs do…Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he was not mad.
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| Postage stamp © Morgan Moe (2012) |
Frank Muir (You Can't Have Your Kayak and Heat It)—
Dogs, like horses, are quadrupeds. That is to say, they have four rupeds, one at each corner, on which they walk.
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J.B. Morton (By the Way)—
Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht is carrying out research work with a view to crossing salmon with mosquitoes. He says it will mean a bite every time for fishermen.
Theatre Poster | Sarah Schultz
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| Theatre poster by Sarah Schultz © 2011 |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan—
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
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James Thurber (cartoon caption)—
You wait here and I'll bring the etchings down.
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Charles Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby)—
My pa requests me to write to you. The doctors considering it doubtful whether he will ever recover the use of his legs which prevents his holding a pen.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
George Carlin on Diminished Choices
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| Calendar page © Dana Potter (2013) |
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George Carlin, in an interview in David Jay Brown, Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 191—
We're given many choices to distract us from the fact that our real choices have been diminished in number. Two political parties. Maybe three or four large banks now. Credit card companies, just a couple, a handful. Newspapers, reduced. Ownership of media, reduced, down to five or six companies now. Big stock brokerage firms, reduced in number. In all of these important things we have less choice. Then we're distracted with these frivolous choices: 21 flavors of ice cream, 35 flavors of popcorn. You see specialty shops with 35 flavors of popcorn, like chocolate walnut popcorn. These are absurd distractions from what we are doing to ourselves…
Blind Leading the Blonde
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| Calendar page (2013) ©Rob Bauer |
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Dr. Peter H. Gott, "Health Q&A" in The Fresno Bee (Fresno CA), 4 May 2000, p. E-6—
After my father's bypass surgery, he felt so dreadful that he insisted his doctor stop most of his medication. Thereafter, he felt fine. While such a drastic action is not everyone's cup of tea, you would have to know my father to appreciate how relentlessly stubborn he was. He claimed to have "accurately misunderstood" his doctors, didn't want them to put [all] his "aches in one basket," was fearful of "dying for nothing," and wished as an adult to be "the blind leading the blonde."
Robert Craft in Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994), p. 344—
[The poet W.H. Auden] says that in the train club car on his way to lecture at Yale, some students sent him a note: "We can't stand it a minute longer: are you Carl Sandburg?" He wrote back: "You have spoiled mother's day."
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Dan Gable Graphics | UNI Poster Exhibit
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Graphic Design | Dan Gable Poster Project
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| Poster by Austin Von Ehwegen |
Friday, November 22, 2013
Dan Gable Poster | Chelsea Reicks
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Chelsea Reicks (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Mackenzie Kane
Dan Gable Poster | Riley Place
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Riley Place (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Kelsey Frerichs
Dan Gable Poster | Duke Dohrn
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Duke Dohrn (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Maicol Josephs
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Maicol Josephs (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Josie Wolter
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Josie Wolter (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Abby Bachman
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Abby Bachman (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Emily Morrison
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Emily Morrison (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Alexander Rogers
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Alexander Rogers (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Kate Green
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Kate Green (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Robert Bauer
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Robert Bauer (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Paul Ochoa
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Paul Ochoa (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Jacob Earp
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Jacob Earp (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Kaitlyn Cuvelier
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Kaitlyn Cuvelier (©2013).
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Dan Gable Poster | Jordyn Victoria
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Jordyn Victoria (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Courtney Tovar
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Courtney Tovar (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Travis Tjelmeland
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Travis Tjelmeland (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Laura Thomsen
Dan Gable Poster | Kathryn Ryherd
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Kathryn Ryherd (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Morgan Sanders
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Morgan Sanders (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Trey Bush
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Trey Bush (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Rhiannon Rasmussen
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Rhiannon Rasmussen (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Lisa Remetch
Dan Gable Poster | Andy Snitker
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Andy Snitker (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Dana Potter
Dan Gable Poster | Bethany Chatterton
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Bethany Chatterton (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Aaron Von Fossen
Dan Gable Poster | Rachael Bair
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Rachael Bair (©2013).
Dan Gable Poster | Austin Montelius
Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Austin Montelius (©2013).
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