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Category Archives: People
I have gone to the dogs
I had the opportunity to photograph dog racing this weekend. I have never seen this activity before, so it was intriguing to me. The event was a gathering of several members of a dog racing group called CCASH – The … Continue reading
Completing my transition to mirrorless cameras
I take thousands of photos: birds, kayaking adventures, landscapes, panoramas, travel photos, and classical music. Lots of classical music. For 13 years I have been the staff photographer for Festival Mozaic, an international music festival held here in San Luis … Continue reading
Posted in Art, People, Photography
Tagged Alice Dade, Ani Aznavoorian, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cuesta College, Festival Mozaic, Jessica Chang, Scott Yoo
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Musings on pinhole photography
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that last week I returned from the 2023 Burning Man festival in northern Nevada. It was a terrific event, full of excitement and artistic energy – until it rained. Then it became … Continue reading
Printing on the Landa Nanopress
Part II [Part I] In the fall, my Master’s degree students and I worked on a project to write and publish a book about street art and street artists in Munich. We chose to photograph the work of these artists … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Art, Color Management, Imposition and Pagination, Panoramic Photography, People, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes
Tagged Blueprint AG, Brian Lawler, Hochschule München, LandaLanda Nanopress, Munich street art, Ralf Spitzer, The Blognosticator
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German & EU Pharmaceutical Safety using Blindenschrift
I walked into the local Apotheke this afternoon to buy a couple of over-the-counter medicines. Both were easy to find. I paid at the cashier’s counter and turned down an offer for a bag to carry the two small packages. … Continue reading
Posted in Language and grammar, People, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology
Tagged Blindenschrift, Braille labeling for the visually-impaired, Braille package lettering, Braille printing on pharmaceuticals, Brian Lawler, EU pharmaceutical packaging, German pharmaceutical packaging, The Blognosticator
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The advertising poster is enjoying a multilingual limelight
(Das Werbeplakat in mehreren Sprachen) I’m doing a casual study of what I call translingual advertisements here in Germany. Germans are famous for being multilingual. They begin studying a second language in elementary school, and many students graduate from college speaking at … Continue reading
Late to the party for Shepard Fairey
It gets late early here in Munich in winter, and sometimes I find myself being ready for bed only to discover that it’s 8:15. So, I have taken to watching documentaries on Hulu (and elsewhere) or refining that day’s effort … Continue reading
It was a dark and stormy night…
Two of my students and I were searching for Daniel, one of the important people in a community of artists in Munich. I say he is “one of the important people,” but I cannot tell you his title, nor how … Continue reading
A tale of Burning Man dust and light
I pulled my bike up to the rack at Center Camp, poking its front wheel into the wooden slats that would hold it there. On the other side of the rack was a man taking his bike out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Art, Panoramic Photography, People, Photography
Tagged Black Rock City, Burning Man, camera cleaning, Playa
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Cal Poly’s TAGA students win the Kipphan Cup at TAGA 2019
The Cal Poly TAGA team has won the prestigious Helmut Kipphan Cup at this year’s conference of the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts. The Kipphan Cup is awarded to the university team whose technical journal is judged to be … Continue reading
Posted in People, Printing and Printing Processes
Tagged Aileen Vasquez, Ana Gonzalez, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Cal Poly GrC, Cal Poly TAGA, California Polytechnic State University, Erica Taylor, Graphic Communication, Hannah Nguyen, Kayleigh MacDonald; Jessica Rose, Lauren Helms, Nicole Cullop, TAGA
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