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Aaron Horkey is a phenomenal illustrator and poster artist who grew up in rural Minnesota. His hand-drawn, obsessively detailed typography never ceases to amaze me. When we interviewed Aaron for issue one, he offered helpful advice about avoiding mistakes.
Don’t try a half cab flip right out the gate just because your high school crush happens to be watching - you will roll your ankle and end up in a shameful heap.
2 comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in art, featured, poster, profile on 18 August 2008.
I went to Drexel University before I transferred to Arizona State. I was only there for a little less than two years, but I still remember a few of my teachers: A somewhat crazy, but awesome teacher named Mircea Popescu, who had a thick Romanian (I think?) accent, and who reminds me of the professor in The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd. Jack Cliggett, part of the reason I left, because he threatened to fail me for who knows what reason anymore. I ended up passing, but had already made up my mind to leave. A teacher for my color theory class, who during a final review hated my project so much, he would reference it when critiquing the other students “Well, at least its not as bad as his.”
I remember, too, the head of the department, Sandy Stewart, who I had for a branding development class. She reminds me of Paula Scher and was infinitely nice, but scary intimidating too. Whenever I work on a logo, I hear her say something along the lines of “It must work in black and white before it can work at all.” in the back of my head. I remember her letting me go forward with some crazy logo involving a fly wearing glasses, and I remember when I was so flustered during a presentation that I started pronouncing silent letters (I said sub-tull instead of subtle, and felt like an ass) she laughed it off and calmed me down.
And John Langdon, who was just a really decent person, politically active, long-haired, kind teacher who invented really trippy typographic illusions called ambigrams. I enjoyed his classes a lot, and was sad to not get more opportunities to learn with him when I transferred.
It wasn’t until a couple years later, when I’d already left, that I came across his ambigrams in Angels & Demons by Dan Brown.
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5 comments. Posted by md in art, interwebs, typography, writing on 3 August 2008.
David Horvitz wants to do stuff for you
Have you ever wanted someone to sit in silence and think about you for one minute? Have you considered how much your life would improve if someone would just mail you a rock from the Hudson River in Upstate New York? Has anyone thought kindly enough of you to consider mailing you a photograph of the sky for every day in 2008?
If you are willing to entertain answers to any of these questions, it may be well-worth Read more. →
4 comments. Posted by tanner in art, conceptual on 23 July 2008.
