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Occasional Papers just released the first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1984–2011), which comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history. The book documents the development of the relatively young field of graphic design history from 1983 to today, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, political and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning.
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The Congress for the New Urbanism recently created a short-film that explores the history of Claiborne Avenue, its present condition, and re-imagines a different future for the corridor. A possible highway-to-boulevard conversion that will reconnect the Tremé/Lafitte and Tulane/Gravier neighborhoods, bring people and businesses back to the street, increase opportunities for community investment and economic development, and promote healthier living conditions.
Produced with support from the Greater New Orleans Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
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Not to bring up old stuff- but Thomas Neff is a photographer and professor of art at Louisiana State University. Hell and High Water stemmed from his personal experiences and relationships with nearly 200 people in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf South.
above: image of Antoinette K-Doe returning to the famed Mother-in-Law Lounge after Katrina, 2005.
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In 1964, LIFE photographer Michael Rougier and correspondent Robert Morse spent time documenting one Japanese generation’s age of revolt, and came away with an astonishingly intimate, frequently unsettling portrait of teenagers hurtling willfully toward oblivion. See the whole series on LIFE.
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In this age of emails, texts, and instant messages, receiving a letter has become a rare treat. Once an integral part of social life, the use of engraved stationery has become a lost art.
In The Complete Engraver, New Orleans author Nancy Sharon Collins [ blog ] brings this venerable craft to life-from the history and etiquette of engraved social stationery in America to its revival and promise of new visual possibilities.
Preorder on Amazon and also receive 2 complete engraver-inspired typeface sets.
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The prolific photographer Garry Winogrand, who died in 1984 at 56 in Mexico, left behind thousands of unseen pictures. Among them are these photographs, discovered last year in his archive at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. Only one from the convention is known to have been published: the picture of Kennedy above, accepting the nomination and asking the party for ‘‘your help and your hand and your voice.’’
See more images from this archive in the New York Times.
