The Altered Book

Art for Non-Majors

First Assignment: The Altered Book

Drawing 101, St. Cloud State

≈ Fall 2018

Discussions about the process of drawing and the progress of the first few weeks. 

Midterm Spring 2018
Examples of student work. Here most everyone is getting acquainted with charcoal. We're using compressed and vine charcoal—and observing the objects in the classroom. 

 Still life observations in the classroom 

I introduced the work of Georgio Morandi, Matisse, and Picasso. I set up simple compositions so students can observe the objects and use their viewfinder to find balanced compositions. 

Students talking about progress and critiquing work at midterm. 

Hand Writing:
During a meeting with an accomplished printmaking student at SCSU,
I found this little gem in his notebook. Thanks Vaughn.

2016   Minnesota Center for the Book Arts

This work is from an evening workshop called First Fridays 

summer 2015

Hand-Lettering Workshop at

             Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Working with ink and color schemes.

We started with the alphabet and understanding the structure of letters.

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BY HAND  

Fall 2013 • Below are a few photos from my 300 level design class. Students learn about hand-lettering and tracing of type. The questions are: What happens when we take time to trace letters? Can work that is done off the computer be considered Graphic Design? The book format helps students investigate papers and materials while working with sequence. 

Above: Work by Jolissa Raznick

Johanna

Mark Roussin

Above: Work by Amy Dittman

Spring 2013
322 Intermediate Graphic Design  Professor Julie Baugnet

Students investigate typography. The challenge is to study each character and to create the typetracing each character. This method gives students a chance to discover the anatomy of type and to see the difference between mechanical print outs and the work done using various mediums.

Above: Work by Mengying Wang

 

Above: Work By Quiwen Li

Manuscript Inspirations in Course 322

Typography with Julie Baugnet   Fall 2012

After a trip to view the illuminated manuscripts at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Libray students worked on their typography skills and created hand-bound books. They viewed the original pages of the St. John's Bible created by the renowned Wales calligrapher Donald Jackson. As inspiration and to understand the process of creating this new work of 7 volumes, students watched the BBC Video entitled The Illuminator. Below are the student books by Marshall Brewer, Jeanie Dinsmore, Kolina Stepanenkova, Joanna Green, and Ali Feneis.