To infinity and beyond...

Beachside impressionist painting with multiple vanishing points. By S. Sam Park.

Realer than real

In this newspaper photo taken after the 2004 Tsunami in Asia (top), a boat stranded on a house seems to defy gravity. Disney's Typhoon Lagoon in Florida (bottom) also features a stranded boat. But having to appeal to our intuitve sense of what is plausible, the boat balances at the top of a butte precariously—but more believably.

Mysterious tag

I believe I bought this mysterious tag in the early 80's with the intent of using it in an art piece. Having forgotten where it came from, what I was going to use it for, and exactly what it is, it is now truly a mysterious tag.

West Coast Kleenex box

When I was in Japan (I can't remember whether it was the late 80's or 90's) I found this illustration on a kleenex box. I like it as an example of an outsider's point of view. Here, the entire West Coast is visualized as a Southern California skateboarder's paradise. Berkeley and San Francisco are engulfed by LA County, and Oregon and Washington are nowhere to be seen.

Do you see the two faces or the vase?

Thanks to Ward for this Star Trek card from 1979.

In the shadow of the V-2

World War II's V-2 rocket still cast its spell on rocket ship design of the late sixties—at least for this eight year old. By the seventies, Star Wars will have permanently eradicated the V-2's pervasive influence.

Key to modern posters

The key to modern poster composition as described in Modern Lettering for Pen and Brush, a Speedball lettering book from 1938.

Quick, swerve! There's a cow in the tracks!

With the inclusion of a steering wheel, playability trumps accuracy in the design of this playground train.

Hawaii private high school Communists unite!

Underground political newsletter from Hawaii private high school, 1974.

Function fits form

In 1997 Art Center's website asked you to change the browser font, window size and links preferences to view its site properly.

Somewhere...

This was originally an interface test that evolved into thoughts on modernism which eventually got incorporated into a course. Don't forget to point and click. A distant ancestor of this site.
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