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Ursus Wehrli Tidies Up Art

Almost immediately into his lecture, The Art of Clean Up, it becomes very clear that Ursus Wehrli has an obsession … with tidying up. And I don’t mean the run-of-the-mill tidying up that you might frantically do to your living room before guests show up. I mean tidying up in a unique, calculated way performed by Ursus Wehrli, that includes complete scrutinization, deconstruction and reorganization.

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Contrast Sessions: Kali Nikitas and Friends

Kali Nikitas, Chair of the Communication Arts department at Otis College of Art and Design, introduced the session as the “highlight of the conference.” She has invited nine friends to speak on what occurs in and outside of school. The speakers represented current faculty, students, and alumni from California College of Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Otis College. This session was a quick, energetic lighting-round presentation from three art schools, three presenters each, five minutes each. I enjoyed seeing the different ways of presenting.

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Oscillation: Jens Gehlhaar

Jens started Type design as a teenager. One of his early designs was from early 90s. He finds curves are harder in type design than segments. Every year he comes up with newly developed type designs. Jensans of 1997 gets rid of idiosyncrasies of Serifs. In 2012, he designed Alfasans that developed from it. He is still toying with how to terminate the ends. He enjoys the back-slanted in Italics. He likes the 7 point challenge: that the type should look good even at 7 points.

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The Look of Sound by Nick Shinn

Old Records! Branding and marketing of new technology. Nick begins by sharing some of his favorite older records and shares how he began his selection. The theme of Contrast for TYPO SF piqued him, and he looked into the contrast of design in old and new designs. To him, “Emergent media creates a vacuum of possibilities.”

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Thank You, America! by Jan Wilker

Originally from South Germany from a little town with the world’s highest church, he watched the movie Coming to America there 25 years ago that intrigued him. Only difference is, the version he watched was in German in funny voices. Hakim displayed pride in handling garbage. It wasn’t “handling garbage” to him, but “handling American garbage”.

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This One Goes to Eleven by Jessi Arrington

Jessi is looking as stunning as she is excited and enthusiastic for her talk! She has embraced her enthusiasm. She owns a design studio, Workshop, with her husband. We begin today by watching a video about an amplifier that takes you from 10 to 11. She shares that Orbicular Oculi is a muscle that involuntarily contracts when you have enthusiasm. And she has her enthusiasm level at 11. She has a colorful personality and uses rainbow colors in everything she is and does. We watch another fun video of her participating in a rainbow parade!

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