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About the Author
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Steven Heller is the cofounder and the cochair of the MFA Designer as
Author program at the School of Visual Arts. He writes the Visuals
column for the New York Times Book Review and the Graphic Content
blog for T-Style; is editor of AIGA Voice; and is a contributor to Design Observer. He is the author, coauthor, and/or editor of more
than 120 books on design and popular culture, including the forthcoming
Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig (Chronicle Books). More information can be found at his homepage.
See all Daily Heller posts here.
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Getting To The Point
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by Steven Heller
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For Dalton Ghetti,
pencils are as precious as marble was to Michelangelo, Bernini and
Rodin. Pencil lead is, in fact, his sculptural material out of which he
carves incredible miniatures, everything from teeny weeny busts of
Elvis to itsy bitsy hammers and saws. Ghetti recently told the London Telegraph:
“At school I would carve a friend’s name into the wood
of a pencil and then give it to them as a present. Later, when I got
into sculpture, I would make these huge pieces from things like wood,
but decided I wanted to challenge myself by trying to make things as
small as possible. I experimented sculpting with different materials,
such as chalk, but one day I had an eureka moment and decided to carve
into the graphite of a pencil”
Sadly, his recent exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art Meticulous Masterpieces: Contemporary Art by Dalton Ghetti, Les Lourigan, and Jennifer Maestre closed on August 29, 2010. But you can read about it here. And more about his process here.
Read more: Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers | Getting to the Point http://imprint.printmag.com/?p=76521&preview=true#ixzz0yEXKsY3o
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