Posters and Tickets

Student art is exciting and inspiring. With any luck, and good mentoring, they can grow up to become really great artists. More by accident than design, I'm grouping a student art exhibit with a Lunch and Learn series featuring those who are making a living with their art.

 



During my recent research trip, I thumbed through about 30 years of American Artist magazine. I had to thumb through them, because some brainiac decided that even with stacks and stacks of periodicals going back 100+ years out on the floor, the best place for the Reader's Guide to Periodic Literature was in storage. Knowing where they were placed when I was in college, I looked at the area today, and there's plenty of room. Apparently libraries aren't for independent scholars anymore.

Anyway, about every five years or so, American Artist ran an article on the need for better postage stamp design. As a one-time stamp collector, I glanced through them, but foolishly didn't make the time to get copies. I'll correct that next time. The tickets below are probably the closest I'll get to postage stamp design, and even though they're larger that even the biggest postage stamp, one needs to be mindful of the scale.