I recently came across this photographer, as it happens, just after an exhibition of his China photogarphs at Tufts University closed (January 15 – April 01). The photographs, which are online at edwardburtynsky.com, evoke feelings of disgust and attraction, beauty … Continue reading →

I am revisiting a recent post on Chuck Close’s handmade paper prints to elaborate on the process of pochoir. Pochoir, the French word for stencil, is a printmaking method in which one or more carefully cut stencils are used to … Continue reading →

Macromedia Flash is a vector engine, meaning that it’s visual objects consist of vector outlines and vector fills. So what’s a vector? A vector is a mathematical equation that defines the location of a line over a Cartesian coordinate system. … Continue reading →