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alex egner maria fabrizio feifei fan bret hansen

carissa henriques meena kahlili eric karnes so hee kwon

hye jin park joshua reese allison schumaker murphy zhang

an enjoyable struggle

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snippets: experiments invisible language andtypography

visual communicationseminarspring, 2009

graphic design departmentvirginia commonwealthuniversity

instructor: rob carter

begin now the process ofscribbling down gemsblurted by your grand-mother, the server in therestaurant, the menu, theoverheard comment of astranger. jot down irresis-tible blurbs from books youare reading, movies you areviewing, the newspaper,the news station. be awareof the flood of visualephemera surrounding youand extract idiomatic andenigmatic phrases that arestrangely mundane andweirdly sublime. by the endof the semester you willhave collected an abundanceof snippets, hundreds infact, a collection of signsreflecting contempo-rary culture.

on a weekly basis, make oneor more typographicexplorations based on yourcollection of snippets,discover new connectionsbetween form and content(syntactics and semantics).challenge your currentmethods and practices;fearlessly seek to breakrules, to walk a thin linebetween success andfailure. develop and expandyour typographic voice.lead the way in expandingthe role and potential oftypographical language.

the internet will provideprimary resources for theseminar. each participantis responsible forresearching, identifying,and sharing discoveredresources that take theform of web sites, on-linearticles, blogs, etc.nothing is too obscure.these findings will serveas our seminar “textbook,”offering contexts anddeparture points fordiscussions and critiques.

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the task of sharing truth becomes discourse

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last semester is a total freakout no matter what

jason dilworththe imagination is a process

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a day is like a thousand years time feels like a tyrant this is todayGridnick Why is bad taste ubiquitous? type specimens

eric karnes what’s he building in there? drawing is everyone's first language5 tech noir Pretty dirty

most people bad nights lead to better days

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truth is just a collection of stories and lies

I'm having a chicken crisis you'll miss what is ahead if you keep looking back I'll see you when I see you

feifei fan do your children knowtheir phone number?

cheating for bikes double moist maria fabriziothe empty promised land Entertainers are phonies! molesting his keyboard 100% evil

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meena kahlili gearshift movie family record like a fluffy ball of yarn...will struggle if he has no corporeal being

what big pants? to experience is to learn

nothing could be smoother kill all flies! they spread diseasepursuit type for men of modern proportions

10 we were their sons. it was our job to love themallison schumaker so hee kwon hye jin park joshua reese

objects in the mirror we want to help you,detroit

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tolerance and curiosity eyes fixed on the horizon eyes fixed on the horizon fuzzy front-endhitting the right note the last stocks standing

did you hear? they dropped the new gotham. . .three weights Scatterplot!

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so fresh and so clean. typographic sin ignored beautiesmile markers seem to call my name and say, "you're safer now”

garbage does not lie the listener can ultimately become is his own composerlooters

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the lord is our god; the lord is one.]and you are loving to everyone you have made

14 the safety of objects

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a great big bipartisan love fest

carissa henriques bret hansen

sugar, alcohol and meats school boys keep it up all night

i loved every lead-laced second of it

the gates of 'yes'

blue ribbon lawyersa thimble - a signifying symbolwe could be like some virginia woolf couple that don't want to be together no moreuh-oh! plutonium!

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if looks could kill, i'd be 6 feet undergroundcookies and musichow are your eyebrows?big dog. little porch

cornflower blue is slummin' it in the 64-pack

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reading A Small Book Meant For A Large Field / richmond, VA / 10° C / 2009_1_23 / 11:23

19 jogging in place!: as in watch what the f#*k! i am doing, I AM JOGGING IN PLACE!i have never actually been to the library

it’s better joshua reese ernest bernhardi churn burn yearn

fated to pretend joshua reese

leak free alex egner

eye connection murphy zhang apple polisherbasin statechin musicdiscovery

every tub should stand on its own bottomforty miles from nowheregee whizhaul in one's horns

it never rains but it poursjune grassknow enough to go in when it rainslizard face

make eyesnothing but troubleone damned thing after anotherpure as gold

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used carseric karnes

why am I wearing red?there is no reason

it is so simple

speaking in tongues this is the place up and about vernal word of wisdom x's and o's

everyone can understand them, perhaps not intellectually, but from experience

hye jin park place is deeply imprintedon the soul

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zion rush the season you've got another guess comingobama

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fitting service available eric karnes where i am from

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peter bain

Roof Ducks Frac Trucks did you hear the mouse dragging the bag of marbles aroundthe house last night?

truth is just a collection of stories and lies obamaeffectmaria fabrizio

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more than 50 plant species have been named for him, andhe was one of the world's leading experts on bromeliads,the plant family to which the pineapple belongs

the dead speaketh to do things like download songs and send text messages fuzzy conundrumdanger is his actual middle name!

murphy zhang exotic bird

allison shumaker arrivederci

random acts of onomatopoeia travel is play hye jin park

to live your life on a tight rope

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you have to exercise rebellion to refuse to take the rules to refuse your own successesto see every day, every year, as a challenge

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mi llamo the cold barfiesgovernment mandated digital transformation

100% pure organic technology

did he realize he was going to die? injured?

every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motionunless an external force is applied to it

carissa henriques alex egnerto break the rules, one must have a clear understanding of the rules they are breaking.this statement has always bothered me, for some unknown reason

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fraktur typefaces will be more frequently requested by customersbe conscious of excessive bubble wrap.hear, oh Israel, the Lord is our God; the Lord is one. [originally as]sent from my iPhonedramaturg: oliver conant

354 west 45th street, NYCeither way we are definitely (if not extremely) interested!developing contemporary craft-based industries around bamboo

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from these data, binary fonts for the end-user are compiledas the last step in the font production process

as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold fontthe rules of typography are not that groundedignorance maybe bliss, but intentional avoidance is blisserfrom type radio

to live life on the edge

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the frailties of the equipment

subtle power of stereotypes

don't mourn quite yet for books

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structure must be specific maria fabrizio josh reese

like za riddle hyejin park

transit advocates held a mock funeralwarmer climate also is causing expansion of the oceanmiley gives up her porschelong derided as a game that rarely lives up to its hypeterrible towelsif not, we may wait until fallchruchmarketingsucksdotcomgrand urban rulesde quoi suis-je responsable en tant que graphiste ?of what am I responsible as a graphic designer?hockey-loving overlords

clusterfuck the value of life has changed

1. experiment 3. scientific comparison

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my soiled teenage confirmed for American and European release everything must rightgirlfriend its course

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who doesn’t like a good ambigram?

meena kahlili it provides an official channel through which the person can be approachedgarbage does not lie so fresh & so clean meena kahlili

imagination is a process 35 allison shumacher in 9 of 20maria fabrizio

36 the plant family to whichthe pineapple belongs

peter bainmore than 50 plant species have been named for him, and he was one of the world's leading experts on bromeliads,

jason dilworth ignorance is bliss

i can't wait to shop for panties that have more square footage than a pool cover!37

capturing falling letterforms on three sheets of canson paper / richmond, VA / -3° C / 2009_2_05 / 19:42

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jason dilworth rushes season at belle isleavoiding any sort of acknowledgment is blisser

after splash, nerves, and comedyi think i may need a bathroom break? is this possible?

a mirror with a memoryequidistant lines that never meet

midnight cowboyinauguration mugs

spiritual path to sobrietythe myth of rampant teenage promiscuity

no longer listed as "single"

rushes season at belle isle / richmond, VA / 5° C / 2009_1_25 / 15:25four hundred univers characters + fan + 1 sheet of canson paper / richmond, VA /-3° C / 2009_2_5 / 22:56

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i have vague left-wing sympathiesif you can dream, you can do it

nsa fun (no strings attached fun) joshua reese

"place" is deeply imprinted on the soul

still waters run deep

for me, a travel is play key to success

a strange abstract space becomes a meaning-filled, concrete place

success is not final, failure is not final: it is the courage to continue that counts 40the best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart

new yorkjoshua reese

i braved designer scorn

a great big bipartisan love fest

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no man is an island

go cry on someone else's shoulder

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in 1984, i was hospitalized for approaching perfection

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this is your signal

we guarantee the quality of this product

almost cut my hair

better late than never

a traditional watch shows a 'landscape', it tells a story;a digital watch only shows a particular moment

addictthe worst prison would be a closed heart

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success is not the key to happiness

if you love what you are doing, you will be successful

what a giti am the ride

dust my broomyou can't call it cheating, because she reminds me of you

there are only two things in life, but i forget what they aremidnight cowboy

tiny mouse architects jason dilworth

coming at me like torpedoes maria fabrizio

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cu of poster series for the mouse architects / richmond, VA /-8° C / 2009_2_5 / 20:54

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the year of the oxa rugged paradise

moral de- and reconstructionmoney for nothing

mirror, mirror, on the wall, they speak in a different waywho is the fairest of them all?

ernest bernhardi a soul blackened

hyejin park we are tormented by noiseof various kinds

maria fabrizio

collard greens, but damn if they aren't good for you put your junk in your trunk! feifei fan

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based on the votes of children

stars barely, but still orion bret hansen

53 words i can't take backwings so deniedthe fragile, eggshell mind

into this world we're thrownmark of the beastthe tone has changed

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a drop of cream, a good scream, a new yeari'm out of gasfree, but without a home

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meena kahlilitragic beauty anemic typography a cool, jeweled moon gangling neural nooks

not only have we spoken in same pace but also in same language56 strange stones make the neighbor jealous-really really jealous

christine...not coffey anyone who can mix slaughter and screwdrivers is a genius-The Boston Heraldernest bernhardi

post-modern modernismcctv says sorry for the fireworks 57

murphy zhangthings which are very, are every thing neither coming or going

design won’t save the world

peter bain

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the life/death loop/circle thingthe fire didn't scream "symbolism"advancing in spacecolloquiums at floyd

simply sophomoricwait, we're studying what's been donewe're moving backwards towards the middle agesthe parachute scene

falling on a beautiful daybleeding balls at baslethick words resonating to the edge of earsafrican drumbeat scores

type blocks and strings of sequencea layer of musicpicking the perfect scene to experiencethe interior minister of formthe topography of experienceeconomic tsunamielephant upstairsblagojevichsample salenew york is like being born againhairy candycigarette tax

all night I lay on my pillow and pray for my boss to stop me in the hallway, lay my head on his shoulder and say,“son, I've been hearing good things”

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what's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?

lead to better days maria fabrizio if you sold me an egg, i could give you a chicken60 great people know great people

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i'm sorry I ever filledthe sugar bowl with salt

you tear yourself apart

alex egnerthe value of living has changed i didn't vote for the S.O.B.

can’t walk under it let’s climb up it

savignon fierce, freaking out we were shooting at a mountain of dirt

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