Looking at Women’s Fashion from the 1940s to the 1950s. 

Laura Loveday, designer unknown.  Utility Fashions, 1942. In the early 1940s women’s fashion was greatly impacted due to World War II as France had been overtaken by the Germans in 1940. Due to the German occupation, France had no influence on the worlds fashion industry. As a result, women’s fashion took ...
April 11, 2024
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Paula Scher – From Pentagram to Paintings

Paula Scher, born in 1948, is a talented artist and designer. She went to Tyler School of Art and left with a BA in illustration. Her career started after she graduated and worked at Random House in the children’s book division. After working there a couple of years she ...
April 10, 2024
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Nick Munafo – Propaganda in the Modern Era

Today's new age of social media and the way that we rapidly share information has created a pandora’s box for mass misinformation and hysteria. Even as you the reader had navigated the internet and found this essay there were probably exposed to multiple messages that displayed on your screen ...
March 31, 2022
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Unyimeabasi Udoh – Medium-Agnostic in Image & Text

There is clear evidence that Unyimeabasi Udoh understands the interrelation of image + text + language and the implications that ensue. From a seemingly simplistic use of appropriation in typographic selection to needlework that draws upon intimate scale and tactile experience, Udoh's communications are fluid, free, open ended, and, ...
November 30, 2021
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Emily Torres – Musing on Beauty Product Branding

The beauty industry is not the same that it was 50 years ago. Makeup companies change their demographics, marketing, and branding to fit current events, trends, and economy. Fenty beauty and CoverGirl are a prime example of this. CoverGirl is an American cosmetic brand that started in 1960. The ...
November 21, 2021
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Cipe Pineles – Defining Glamour via Graphic Design

At a time when publication design industry was dominated by men, Cipe Pineles had come onto the scene and given her influence as the first female art director of Conde Nast publications like Vogue, Seventeen, Vanity Fair and Glamour to name a few. She is also credited as the ...
March 26, 2021
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Milton Glaser – Design & Sound in the 20th century

Milton Glaser was born on June 26, 1929, Bronx, New York, and was an American graphic designer, illustrator, and cofounder of the revolutionary Pushpin Studio. Glaser attended the High School of Music and Art and the Cooper Union art school in New York and, the Academy of Fine Arts ...
March 19, 2021
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2019 Art & Design Senior Thesis Exhibition

University of St. Francis Announces Senior Thesis Exhibition and Reception. Joliet, IL, April 26, 2019 — The University of St. Francis (USF) will be hosting the 2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition reception on Friday, April 26, 2019, 6-8pm at USF Art Gallery located at 25 E. Van Buren, Joliet.  Leah Morrow, 2019 Art & Design ...
May 2, 2019
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2018 Art & Design Senior Thesis Exhibit

2018 Art & Design Senior Thesis Video & Exhibition USF Art Gallery 25 East Van Buren Joliet, IL 60432 Opening reception: Friday, April 27, 2018, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Exhibiting Artists and Designers: Abdul Abohmoud: presenting a series of graphic works focusing on historical sites in Saudi Arabia Gloria Allen: created a series of ...
April 24, 2018
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