#sheila de bretteville

[thesorceresstemple]

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

#photography #collage #witchy art #divine #witchy aesthetic #sorceress #priestess #goddess

[bamsuriyasenee-grad604]

SDL Week2

20 Creatives

10 Creative (International)

#1 Studio fm milano (Milan-based graphic design)

#2 TRIANGLE-STUDIO (graphic designer studio in South Korea)

#3 JISU CHOI (illustrator in South Korea)

#4 Timothy Goodman (a designer, illustrator, and art director running his own studio in New York City)

#5 Stefan Sagmeister (Austrian graphic designer)

#6 Sheila Levrant De Bretteville (American graphic designer)

#7 Jessica Walsh (an American designer, art director, illustrator and educator)

#8  Jonathan Barnbrook (a British graphic designer, film maker and typographer)

#9 Paula Scher (American graphic designer, painter and art educator in design)

#10 David Carson (America graphic designer)

[design-research-annakernahan]

research continued

1993 Reputations: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

Diversity and inclusiveness are our only hope. It is not possible to plaster everything over with clean elegance. Dirty architecture, fuzzy theory and dirty design must also be out there.’

But it is important to me that this programme be person-centred. The students are encouraged to put and find themselves in their work; my agenda is to let the differences between my students be visible in everything they do. In most projects – not just in thesis work – it’s the students’ job to figure out what they want to say. Emphasising the students’ desire to communicate, and focusing on what needs to be said and to whom they want to say it – that’s what I mean by person-centredness. While they may have existed before, it is even stronger now.

https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-sheila-levrant-de-bretteville

this teacher felt “seen and not heard” by her peers in her schooling department as a design teacher when attempting to express her viewpoint. i think this is a rleevant article because it shows the world of a struggling woman designer who is fighting for her rights and the rights of her students against gender bias and stereotyping

[lucybresearch2]

Cheeky quote from this article I enjoyed: https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-sheila-levrant-de-bretteville 

[graphicfearlesswomen]

Today I’m glad to share with you an amazing interview with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville by Ellen Lupton. Diversity and inclusiveness are the main topics of this open eyes article you can read here. 

#sheila levrant de bretteville #interview #reputations #eye magazine #diversity #inclusiveness #gender equality #racism #feminism #graphic design #gfw #graphic fearless women

[calartsdesignschoolarchive]

Memorandum to Jack Clark

Subject: Faculty Files

Author: Sheila de Bretteville

Location: CalArts Archive

Item Dimensions: Letter

Original Format: NA

Creation Date: December 10, 1970

Location: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

#Sheila de Bretteville #Memorandum

[workbywomxn]

Design by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

#women artists #Sheila Levrant de Bretteville #design #women designers

[contemporaryartdaily]

"Fabriques de contre-savoirs" at FRAC Lorraine

#Alex Martinis Roe and Eva Weinmayr #Exhibitions #FRAC Lorraine #France #ground (Marlie Mul & Harry Burke) #Group Show #Institution #Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda #John Latham #Metz #Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

[jarrettfuller]

Madeleine Morley, on AIGA's Eye on Design blog, goes behind the scenes at Yale's graduate graphic design department. Run by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville since 1990, Yale has become an experimental testbed for emerging design trends and perhaps the epitome of what we now know as critical design:

As the department director since 1990 and the School of Art’s first tenured woman, Levrant de Bretteville’s contribution to design pedagogy cannot be celebrated enough: her teaching, not just at Yale but during her time at CalArts, Otis, and when co-founding the radical Women’s Building in L.A., has shaped design education. With her strong emphasis on feminism, equality, personal experience, and challenging the status quo, Levrant de Bretteville pushes design teaching away from stringent Modernist tendencies and towards a place that consistently promotes inclusivity, experimentation, and difference.

In some ways, she’s set up a department that’s like its own micro-utopian commune built around her pedagogical beliefs. There’s a downstairs space that acts as an eccentric town hall (two yellow swings hang down in the middle from thick steel chains), and nearby are bustling areas of production—the Riso room and a collection of old presses. “Students don’t have to use this stuff though,” says Levrant de Bretteville with a dismissive gesture towards a woodblock printer. As a champion of mass production, she’d rather students use Risograph than these old relics, favoring faster, cheaper methods over what many consider elitist and precious.

I'm fascinated by the output and type of students Yale attracts — they've clearly influenced the design profession and design thinking perhaps more than any other institution. I've interviewed several Yale folks — Rob Giampietro, Michael Rock, Jessica Helfand, and David Reinfurt — so I've seen some of behind the curtain, but this profile really gets to the heart of the school's interest in experimentation.

I previously linked to this great profile of de Breeteville from the Walker Art Center last year — definitely worth rereading.

#Sheila de Bretteville #yale #graphic design #pedagogy #education #design education #designer

[walkerartcenter]

Recently published on The Gradient: Insights 2018 Design Lecture Series Redefine your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting four leading designers from around the country: interdisciplinary studio PLAYLAB, INC.; legendary feminist designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville; Nike’s chief marketing officer Greg Hoffman; and experimental print/digital publishing guru Paul Soulellis. Insights lectures take place on Tuesdays in March in the Walker Cinema. Ticket information here. Live streaming information here.

#InsightsDesign #Insights Design Lecture Series #Walker Art Center #The Gradient #Playlab Inc #Sheila Levrant de Bretteville #Greg Hoffman #Paul Soulellis

[womenofgraphicdesign]

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (Hamden, Connecticut)

Selected work, via “Riposte magazine meets graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville”

“For most of her career, de Bretteville has fought for that vision of equality with and through her design. She sees graphic design and public art projects — which she considers a “kind of permanent, open-ended graphic design” — as a conduit for voices that have been suppressed, and a form of participatory democracy. Her large-scale public projects are meant to engage and represent the community in which they are embedded.” (source)

#Sheila Levrant de Bretteville #women of graphic design #graphic design #typography #editorial design #poster design #graphic design educator #design pioneer #female designer #female graphic designer #American designer

[madtomedgar]

Some Links to Feminist Art and Artists

Feeling more nice and helpful this morning, so here are some links to feminist art and artists who don’t utilize uterine imagery:

Yayoi Kusama: http://radicalart.info/things/covered/kusama.html (from the institute for radical art in amsterdam)

Mary Beth Edelson: https://www.moma.org/artists/34727?=undefined&page=&direction=#works

Hannah Wilke: http://hannahwilke.com/id24.html (some extremely abstracted vulvar imagery)

Ana Mendieta: https://www.wikiart.org/en/ana-mendieta (some vulvar imagery, but not much and it is mostly pulling from ancient and paleolithic statues)

Lynda Benglis: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6935.html

Barbara Kruger: https://www.wikiart.org/en/barbara-kruger

Bracha L Ettinger: https://www.wikiart.org/en/bracha-l-ettinger

Prema Murthy: http://premamurthy.com/

Victoria Vesna: http://victoriavesna.com/

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: http://sheilastudio.us/

Suzanne Lacy: https://www.suzannelacy.com/ (some body horror/gore in some of hers)

List of feminist artists here (nonexhaustive): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feminist_artists (i haven’t gone through these to screen for use of vulvar/uterine imagery, but I suspect it’s a pretty minor theme)

This was just from me going through the wikipedia article for “feminist art” and googling the names of the artists included. I suspect a lot of the assumption that feminist art = cutesy drawings of reproductive organs comes from people not thinking of other types of imagery as feminist, and from the pop cultural equation of feminist art with gross and facile reproductive imagery and period imagery. Not all the artists listed here are to my taste, but it was really interesting getting to look through their stuff, and I highly recommend people do their own research on this and add their favorite artists to this post

#i will own that i do not have any trans women artists listed #and that my methodology here was mad lazy #mostly that is because the pfizer booster is giving me hell #and i cn't even take ibuprofen #i know there are trans women artists making feminist art #i just haven't found/listed them here #so please if you know any off the top of your head add them

[mtaartsdesign]

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Image: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, "At the Start...At Long Last" (2009) at the Inwood-207th Street Station (A) station in Manhattan.

[winnet]

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. Pink, 1973.

“The American Institute of Graphic Arts invite 100 designers to make a 30″ square poster about a color. I chose pink a as the signifier of a gender and divided up the the field into pink square. Most of the squares were given out to females of various ages asking each one to suggest what that color meant. And I left blank pink squares to imply other meanings and ideas exist as well. The panels were exhibited at the Whitney Museum and I asked a friend who was going to be in NYC to tell me what he saw at the exhibition and he told me a group of people assembled and remained there reading all about pink.”

#sheila levrant de bretteville #pink #color color color #words #girls

[rbgrisd]

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

[calartsdesignschoolarchive]

Soroptimist Achievement Award

Subject: Faculty Files

Author: Mildred L. Lillie

Location: CalArts Archive

Item Dimensions: 

Original Format: NA

Creation Date: September 8, 1970

Location: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

#Sheila de Bretteville #Paul Maguire #Mildred L. Lillie #soroptimist club