Talking Graphics - Softcover

Jane Davis Doggett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979466407 ISBN 13: 9780979466403

Publisher: Exartis Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Talking Graphics is a book for lovers of both art and literature. Jane Davis Doggett expresses philosophically profound messages in color and geometric designs. The book includes a selection of Roman proverbs and passages from the Bible. Designs are composed in dynamic spatial relationships, virtually comprising a new visual language unique in its concept. This is the book's first printing: 182 pages in full color.

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About the Author

Jane Davis Doggett grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She received the BFA degree in 1952, with a Special Commendation from Newcomb College, the coordinate women s college of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1956, she received the MFA degree with top honors from the Yale School of Art and Architecture where she pioneered the field of architectural and environmental graphic design. She has had an outstanding career in creating thematic graphic identity and wayfinding systems for mass public complexes, including 40 international airport projects more than any other designer in the world. Examples include: Tampa, Baltimore-Washington, Miami, Newark, Cleveland-Hopkins and George Bush-Houston. Other projects of note: Madison Square Garden, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Niagara Falls International Convention Center, and Jones Hall for the Performing Arts in Houston. Most recently she has created the Graphics Systems Guidelines and developed several projects for the expansion of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. 20 million airport passengers a year are guided by her wayfinding signage and graphics. Her designs have earned distinguished honors: American Institute of Architects National Award of Merit, Progressive Architecture Design Award, American Iron and Steel Institute s Design in Steel Citation, and two Design Awards co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is serving her fourth elected term as Commissioner of the prestigious Town of Jupiter Island, Florida. She is a charter member and co-founder of the Town Arts Committee. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Nature Conservancy at Blowing Rocks, Jupiter Island, and on the Executive Committee of the Jupiter Island Garden Club, Zone VIII, Garden Club of America. In 2007, she received the Outstanding Alumna Award from Newcomb College. Her most recent creative venture is the publication of Talking Graphics, a book for lovers of both art and literature. She expresses philosophically profound messages in color and geometric designs. The book includes a selection of Roman proverbs and passages from the Bible. This is the first book of a planned series of proverbs and quotations from various cultures such as African, American, Chinese, Japanese and Mexican. Her designs composed in dynamic spatial relationships, virtually comprise a new visual language unique in its concept. Jock Reynolds, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, has made this comment: Jane Doggett is one of the great artists to have trained at Yale during its modernist heyday. Her vivid way-finding graphics have for decades guided many of us deftly through myriad airports and civic spaces throughout the world. Now Jane s first artist book, Talking Graphics, offers us the opportunity to hold many of her beautiful graphic images intimately in our own hands, cradling them in our vision along with time-tested words and thoughts that this creative dynamo holds dear. She and this book are a treasure!

Edition details

• Publisher: Exartis Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0979466407
• ISBN 13: 9780979466403
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 163