Elizabeth Resnick Engages Youth Designers around The Power of the Word!
Professor Elizabeth Resnick of Graphic Design at MassART honors us that she continues to participate and lead these incredible workshops each summer for our Youth Designers. She has been a wonderful advocate for Youth Design since its founding and volunteer Educator to our Youth Designers for the past 10 years. We thank her for her time and dedication. Her Thursday workshop this year was entitled, Three Expressive Modes of Visual Language: The practice, the poetic, the persuasive, challenging the Youth Designers to create three small posters analyzing the differences in a word when it’s combined with three different images of their choice to express these three modes:
> Practical - used to communicate information with a single meaning, characteristic of clarity for direct information
> Poetic – used to communicate with experience through the senses (metaphor)
> Persuasive – used to communicate to send a bigger message that argues from a single point of view
Each individual work was the basis for each poster. To headline the project each group of 3-5 students was given a word: culture diversity, consume, or community. Contributing to this year’s workshop was Dan Vlahos. What makes these workshops so unique is that professional designers participate in the education, training and design mentorship throughout the program with our Youth Designers.
After Professor Resnick’s lesson, the students broke off into groups and began to brainstorm the images they would use to convey their word. Upon the completion of the brainstorm, students shifted their workspace downstairs to the computer lab. Working together the students produced their posters.
About:
Professor Resnick served on the Board of Directors of the AIGA Boston chapter (1989–2007) where she has organized numerous graphic design lectures and events. She is currently a member of the AIGA Boston Advisory Board, 2008-present.
Curated Exhibitions Russell Mills: Within/Without (1991) with Teresa Flavin; Dutch Graphic Design: 1918-1945 (1994) with Alston W. Purvis; Makoto Saito: Art of the Poster (1999) with Jan Kubasiewicz; The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005 (2005) with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman, and Graphic Intervention:25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010 (2010) with Javier Cortés.
Publications Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics for John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003) and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication for Prentice-Hall Publications (1984). Elizabeth also writes short critical commentaries and event reviews, and has published interviews with prominent designers and design educators in the following design magazines: EYE (England), AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (USA), Graphics International (England), tipoGrafica (Argentina) and IDEA (Japan).
Awards Type Directors’ Club, Print Magazine Annual, AIGA Fellows Award, AIGA Boston 2007