David M. Versluis, ©2014
Redemption
3-color Monoprint
12" x 18"
2014 Society of Typographic Arts Letterpress Workshop:
Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Two Rivers, Wisconsin
New work by versluis:
Orchestrating and printing large archaic woodtype letterforms or letter-units by spelling out a word or message. Dividing the word according to syllables suggests a more kinetic effect and message.
Friday, June 20, 2014
the facination of the uplifting authority word / message
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Society of Typographic Arts & Hamilton Wood Type Museum: 2014 Letterpress Workshop
Recently, the Society of Typographic Arts celebrated the Hamilton Wood Type Museum’s 15th Anniversary with a weekend letterpress workshop, May 31—June 1 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
The workshop was lead by Jim Moran, Director of the Museum and Stephanie Carpenter, Assistant Director of the Museum. The above photograph of one of the wood type displays is courtesy of the STA.
David Versluis, one of the participants, is shown inking wood type from the Museum’s collection, on a Showcard Machine Co. proof press. Versluis states, “Working with wood type is not about nostalgia, but about the unique look and feel of the print quality.” The Museum has 12 presses available for workshop groups. Originally, the Showcard press was used primarily for department stores, libraries, and shop owners to print signs and advertisements.
Photograph by Stephanie Carpenter
Reformation
David M. Versluis ©2014
12 in. x 18 in.
This is a 4-color print. After the first color yellow was printed, the subsequent colors in the order of orange, red, blue were printed and overlaid while the ink was still wet, resulting in textured areas. The kinetic effect is achieved by intentionally revealing registration issues.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Dordt College’s Facebook page changed their cover photo, as of May 29
Dordt College’s Facebook page has changed their cover photo, as of May 29. Looking west from Covenant Hall, with new sculpture “Enlaced: A Burning Bush” in the foreground.
It’s nice that Dordt chose to feature the sculpture on their Facebook page. The sculpture, designed by David M. Versluis, was dedicated and celebrated last fall by the campus community in a ceremony with “choice remarks” by Dr. Calvin Seerveld. You may visit Seerveld's comments here.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Three-dimensional design à la Wucius Wong: linear structures
© Kit Drennen, 2014
Dordt College—Three-Dimensional Design Foundations
Linear Structures—top view
Wood
photograph by Kit Drennen
Pictured are examples of Dordt College student work from the Three-Dimensional Design course this semester. Artist / designer Wucius Wong writes about linear structures in his book, Principles of Form and Design: Three-Dimensional Design that: “In any geometric form, there are always more edges than faces. Thus construction with lines is more complicated than constructing with planes. Using the cube again as an example, there are only six faces, but there are twelve edges, and the twelve edges become twelve linear sticks which must be connected in order to construct the linear framework of a cube.” (1)
- Wong, Wucius. Principles of Form and Design. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993. 315. Print.
© Kit Drennen, 2014
Dordt College—Three-Dimensional Design Foundations
Linear Structures—elevation
Wood
photograph by Kit Drennen
© Kit Drennen, 2014
Dordt College—Three-Dimensional Design Foundations
Linear Structures—close-up
Wood
photograph by Kit Drennen
© Wade Vollink, 2014
Dordt College—Three-Dimensional Design Foundations
Linear Structures, Gradation of shape in a layered construction—elevation
Wood
photograph by versluis
© Kimberly DeBoer, 2014
Dordt College—Three-Dimensional Design Foundations
Linear Structures—elevation
Wood
photograph by Kim DeBoer
© Caleb Vugteveen, 2014
Dordt College—Three-Dimensional Design Foundations
Linear Structures—elevation
Wood — elevation
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Thursday, May 29, 2014
Dordt College summer art exhibit features Behrens/Versluis Iowa insects
Dordt College Campus Center Art Gallery (entrance)
Dordt College is hosting a series of 10 large-scale (40" x 60") digital images of the “Iowa Insect Series,” a collection of collaborative work by artists and graphic designers, Roy R. Behrens and David M. Versluis. The exhibit, subtitled, “Attention to Detail,” will be displayed in the gallery until the end of August.
The idea to produce large scale images came from designer Joseph Michael Essex who suggested that the images would have greater impact if presented in a larger format. Essex was in the audience when Versluis presented the project at the Society of Typographic Arts winter retreat in Chicago in 2013.
Dordt College Art Professor Versluis and University of Northern Iowa Graphic Design Professor Behrens combine rich imagery as they juxtapose representational imagery with graphic elements to create a strong visual dynamic, says Larry Bradshaw, art professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. In addition, Jonathan Neal an Associate Professor of Entomology at Purdue University and author of the textbook, Living With Insects writes this about the show, “Behrens has an interest in camouflage and how people perceive broken images. The works can be appreciated both for overall effect, for the multitude of details embedded in the work and the prominent use of insects.”
“The process began in 2012 with David sending me scanned images of insects from his personal collection. One image at a time, we challenged each other to respond to each image, building a digital montage, using Adobe Photoshop,” said Behrens. “We would then pass the image back and forth, responding to each other’s move.”
The image was built with about five or six back and forth turns, until the two mutually decided that the work was finished. Here’s a link to a fuller description of the collaborative process in a piece published in Behrens’s blog, The Poetry of Sight.
This is one of the first times that the collection will be shown all together. Various images from the collection have been exhibited in group shows at the Washington Pavilion Visual Art Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Northwestern College DeWitt Theatre Arts Center in Orange City, Iowa; Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, Minnesota; University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art in Cedar Falls, Iowa; and the 27th McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition at McNeese State University Grand Gallery in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Several pieces have been included in Dordt College’s annual arts issue of Pro Rege.
Gallery East Wall
Gallery West Wall
Exhibition graphics
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Corita Kent: “come alive!”
“come alive!” 1967
Silkscreen
Dimensions: 13" x 23"
photograph by versluis
courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Los Angeles
Corita suggests a parody of brand graphics from the Brillo box and Tide detergent.
The following is from the Corita Art Center:
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come alive! you can make it—The glory of Christ is man fully alive man fully alive is the glory of God the blue cross way is very simple we walk together don’t you need somebody to love jefferson air plane you can make it
Quote by Jefferson Airplane, Pepsi generation ad slogan, Saint Irenaeus
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Corita Kent: “Mary’s Heart”
Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita)
May Mary's Heart Immaculate be Forever Praised (1960)
Silkscreen
Dimensions: 7.75" x 10.5"
photograph by versluis
courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Los Angeles
Luke 1:46-55
Mary’s Song:
My soul glorifies the Lord
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has been mindful
of the humble state of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed,
for the Mighty One has done great things for me—
holy is his name.
His mercy extends to those who fear him,
from generation to generation.
He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;
he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
He has brought down rulers from their thrones
but has lifted up the humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.
He has helped his servant Israel,
remembering to be merciful
to Abraham and his descendants forever,
just as he promised our ancestors.
New International Version (NIV)
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