Sacred, fantastical, and secular themes are all present within this St. Edward’s Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery showcases figures meant to represent folk tales. These pieces are also designed to evoke a sense of freedom as well as primitive aspects of superstition and make-believe.

Most of these pieces are derived from Mexican culture. While at the exhibit I noticed that these pieces incorporated the essence of Aztec influences ranging from sculptures to paintings. I believe the main idea here is to highlight folk art that captures the interpretations of various religions, events, and common values.

• “Bruno Maag, Creative Director & Chairman.”

http://www.daltonmaag.com/people/Bruno_Maag.html

• “I am trained as a typesetter, in metal, photo and digital, and soon found my   passion in designing type. As the company grew I naturally drifted towards running a business and working with my talented team to produce the world’s best fonts.”

http://www.daltonmaag.com/people/Bruno_Maag.html

• “He is the co-founder and owner of Dalton Maag, possibly the largest independent studio in Europe specializing in custom type design.”

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/201209.html

• “His company recently developed a huge plurilingual font system for Nokia and has presented their bespoke font for the 2016 Rio Olympics.”

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/201209.html

• “My background has always been in typography, starting with a typesetting apprenticeship and followed by a typographic design degree at the Basel School of Design.”

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/201209.html

• “After my work at Monotype, both in the UK and the US, I startedDalton Maag with Liz Dalton, my wife… The company has grown steadily and organically over the last twenty years, and today Dalton Maag employs over forty people, most of us based in London but also in Boston, Brazil, Vienna and most recently in Hong Kong.”

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/201209.html

• “Born in Zurich, 1962, Bruno Maag graduated from Basel School of Design, Switzerland, with a degree in Typographic Design and Visual Communications.”

http://www.identifont.com/show?3WF

• “His studio designed typefaces for clients like British Telecom, BMW, Hewlett Packard, and many others.”

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• “In my whole career in typography, starting with my apprenticeship, I have never used Helvetica. Being a Swiss typographer, it’s always been Univers. Even in my apprenticeship we didn’t have Helvetica in the printshop.”

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/the-helvetica-killer

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/tag/bubble-wrap-history/

1. Two engineers named Al Fielding and Swiss inventor Mar Chavannes invented bubble-wrap in 1957
2. The material was discovered in Hawthorne, New Jersey.
3. Bubble-wrap was originally conceived as wallpaper and then as greenhouse gas insulation material.
4. The two engineers noticed how bubble-wrap could be effectively used as a packaging material for computers.
5. Eventually, the IBM Company started buying bubble-wrap to protect their 1401 variable word length computers, as well as other fragile product they sold and shipped.

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/city_life/01-31-11-the-real-history-of-bubble-wrap-appreciate-the-pop-of-this-glorious-holiday/

1. Bubble-wrap Appreciation day is on January 31^st
2. Located in Bloomington, IN, “Spirit radio 95” created Bubble Wrap Appreciation day in 2001

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059678/How-bubble-wrap-invented-unlikely-stories-brainwaves-granted.html

Exactly how was bubble-wrap invented?

1. Chavannes and Fielding connected two pieces of shower curtains in order to trap layers of air bubbles between them.
2. Sales of bubble-wrap wallpaper and bubble-wrap insulation did not go well at first due to the fact that neither product would sale.
3. Chavannes came up with the idea to use bubble wrap as a cushioning material during a flight.
4. It seemed that clouds were cushioning Chavannes’ plane’s descent.
5. In the end, this is what helped the two engineers come up with modern day bubble-wrap.

The main focus of the painting deals with a Pope on a chair. Facial expressions are solemn with the look of a terrifying shriek. There are two lines of bright gold that go across the painting and bleeding lines run down  the paper.

The entire piece comes off as a disturbing perception of horror that represents the Pope/Church.

The colors and techniques used to evoke a sense of disruption convey themes of corruption in the Catholic church. this is a successful piece because it properly conveys a clear message through effective art technique while embodying intriguing perspectives.