Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Digital Daguerrotype with Hipstamatic’s D-Type Plate
Hipstamatic‘s D-Type Plate is a daguerrotype-inspired black and white plate film that when combined with the distortion of the Salvador 84 Lens lends a unique texture and patina to photos: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson (@jenniferh2designs) I am in love with this particular photo that I’ve titled “Flowering and…
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Fonts Finds in NYC
I kept my eye out for interesting fonts on a recent trip to NYC. I found the tried and true: The NYC Metro signage was created in the 1960s and while Helvetica was not originally the official typeface according to the book Helvetica and the New York City Subway System, it became so. Gary Hustwit‘s…
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Scanner as Camera at Winged Tapestries
Winged Tapestries; Moths at Large at the American Museum of Natural History is fantastic! Jim des Rivières repurposed a scanner as a camera to create large format prints of moths showing how gorgeous and intricate these creations are. When viewed this large the amazing design details in each wing pop: Kind of makes you want…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination
She dropped and fluttered from the leaves of a book: The back says the postcard is from a musical called “Hello Beautiful” by Walter Donaldson from 1931, the artwork by Frederick Manning. Looks like a fantastic excuse for a study: I’m not alone in this experience. Bookstore owner Michael Popek created Forgotten Bookmarks of what…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
Driving 70 mph down the highway, I never examined it closely. On a sleepy Sunday morning I decided to jog by instead with my iPhone set to Hipstamatic, GSquad, C Type-Plate: View this post on Instagram Even at this distance, the font didn’t pop out at me, didn’t look special. I wondered, “Why THAT font for NASA?”…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Love
For this WP photo challenge on love I’m going to turn to a bit of persistent pop culture. Out on a jog yesterday, I noticed this VW Beetle colored in graffiti, a form of hand lettering and artwork. This rolling form of artwork is often called an “art car”. The VW Beetle is an icon…
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Ode to a Sketchbook: Excerpts
Building a visual library takes time and practice. This week I finished a sketchbook of experiments, dual coding listening, and active learning. Through the process, I am realizing that I notice what I notice, and that’s not everything that’s passing through my ears or in front of my eyes. Flipping through the work/play of the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
Unique is not always one. A Cabinet of Curiosities was a collection in Renaissance Europe of objects that had yet to be fitted into a category. Without more than one object of the same type there wasn’t a group but together they were a category. More recently, Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders: Pronged Ants, Horned…
