Joe Senior, Author at Dark Square

GOOD ILLUSTRATION MATTERS

Posted by Joe Senior | Aug 1, 2018 | Graphic Design, Illustration, Web Design |

Illustration is probably one of the oldest forms of communication. Conceptually speaking, it’s prior to alphabets and text, and it was never replaced.

Library Music: The Design Reference You Didn’t Know You Relied On

Posted by Joe Senior | Jul 30, 2018 | Fine Art, Graphic Design, History, Illustration |

“Library record designs have become a shorthand for psychedelic art,” says Mark Iosifescu, an editor at Brooklyn-based publisher Anthology Books.

Early Modern Memes: The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print

Posted by Joe Senior | Jul 27, 2018 | History, Illustration, Print |

Expensive and laborious to produce, a single woodcut could be recycled to illustrate scores of different ballads, each new home imbuing the same image with often wildly diverse meanings.