Our current exhibition, 1:1 drawing design and communication, which opened in the NYSID Gallery last month, examines different ways designers use drawing to communicate form. The title not only references scale notation, but also refers to the transmission of ideas between people. As one of the oldest human activities, drawing is fundamental to human thought process, and at the core of human understanding and communication.
I recently sat down with Jeremy Johnston, Ben DuVall, and Adrienne Rodewaldt of Darling Green, the collaborative studio that curated and designed the exhibition with assistance from curatorial consultant (and NYSID faculty member) Judith Gura, to chat about 1:1. The show packs lots of content into the gallery. Since I needed some direction on how to start the conversation, I asked the team a framing question, one appropriate for an exhibition mounted in a college gallery. If 1:1 were a NYSID course, what would be three learning outcomes? They exchanged glances, paused to consider the question, and then shared these key takeaways.
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Just in time for finals week at NYSID, the Library installed its first display of archival material from the NYSID Archives & Special Collections highlighting the end-of-year tradition of the Annual Student Exhibition. The display features a selection of invitations to these yearly events from the 1950s – 2000s.
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