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“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”
– Noah from The Notebook
I was 21, last year in school, and I would bring my camera downtown and do little walkabouts between classes (and sometimes skipped classes). This was the year I figured out that I wasn't really interested in an academic career.
I was beginning to notice the shapes of things, rather than just the things themselves. An important step. Becoming aware of visual design.
Photographed in Montreal, Quebec (Canada); scanned from the original Kodachrome slide. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1970 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
About to do the last pass on the Pam Golding Intranet IA, thought I'd share the beauty of information laid out in a visual way!
Feeling rather accomplished!
PS: Hope one day we can share the visual design for this intranet, it completely rocks in its simple beauty and is soooo nice to use!
Credits:
Illustration + Original Logo:
mobilityweek.eu
Design:
Pointofdesign
Greek mobility logo
typographic adaptation:
Pointofdesign
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Last old black & white shot for a while. I remember - clearly - the circumstances of this one. I was in a public park with some friends; we had a picnic lunch, and were lying on the grass. Looking up I saw the pattern of tree branches and leaves, and reached for my camera. Simple. It was perhaps the first time I looked past the name of the thing and saw its graphic elements directly - a difficult trick to learn. All visual art consists of textures, lines, shapes, and colours, but when we attach labels to objects in our physical world, we have moved a step away from them. We are no longer seeing directly.
It reminds me of the day my father tried to show me how to draw a cat. I was very young and liked to draw. "No," he said, "that's not the way to draw a cat." And then he "taught" me how. He drew a large circle for the body, a smaller circle on top for the head, added a squiggly line for the tail, and so on with ears, eyes, whiskers, etc. - thus ruining my ability to draw cats. After that, instead of drawing a cat the way I saw and felt it, I was trying to please him (which ultimately didn't work out too well). It wasn't his fault; he had no idea about art.
Circling back to photography, if we look at a scene and think "sunset from the beach", we are far less likely to see beyond the cliché. We will fail to notice the way the red light is reflecting off the wet sand, or any of the sundry details that make the scene unique and different from every other sunset that has ever happened. Dropping the labels may help us see the textures and lines first, and - as a good photography teacher told me a few years later - "Don't worry, the content will be there!" You can always add the label afterward. And never let anyone tell you how to draw a cat or photograph a tree...
Photographed on Kodak Tri-X film (ISO 400) in Niagara Falls, Ontario (Canada); scanned from the original negative. I used a Pentax Spotmatic with Takumar 50mm f/1.4 lens. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1971 James R. Page - all rights reserved.