Graphics

Thursday, 10 January 2013

Church Graphics
The 24 Hour Church of Elvis is an exhibit at a museum and gallery called "Where's The Art?" in Portland, Oregon, USA, run by artist Stephanie "Stevie" G. Pierce.

The original location (1109 SW Washington, 45.521752°N 122.682825°W), which operated from 1985–1986, had a single coin-operated fortune-telling machine accessible from the street, elaborate window displays, and art available for purchase inside.

At the second location (219 SW Ankeny, 1987–1994, 45.522548°N 122.672416°W), the entire store front was itself a work of art, and included several custom-built coin-operated automated art exhibits that moved and made sounds in response to pressing buttons, and would dispense (or not) various trinkets, pamphlets, fortunes, etc. for prices ranging from 25 cents to a dollar. Every prize was accompanied by a one-inch "original work of art" by Ms. Pierce. Some machines were run by Commodore 64 computers, and included crude graphics and speech synthesis. These machines were always accessible, hence the first part of the name. Other items by the artist were available inside the store when it was open. Also inside, one would often find the street performer called "Elvis" who would play a few songs on a cardboard guitar, in his sequined jumpsuit and thick, dark-rimmed glasses. This performer is still a regular fixture at Portland Saturday Market.

The third location (720 SW Ankeny, 1994–2002, 45.522593°N 122.678061°W) was devoted primarily towards 1970s popular culture memorabilia. It was on the second floor and lacked any of the coin-operated machines of the older locations, although several cut-out holes in the first floor of the building hinted that they were intended to be installed at this location, but never were. The museum offered legal weddings for $25 and "cheap, not legal" weddings for $5. The fake weddings could be same sex. Despite the name, The third incarnation of the 24 Hour Church was not open 24 hours, as indicated by a sign on the door which read "24 Hour Church of Elvis: Usually open Noon to 5, 8 - 11 a lot. Call (503) 226-3671 for reassurance". Although this location is now occupied by an architecture firm, the last remnant of the 24 Hour Church of Elvis is still visible in their entrance.

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Vector Graphics
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics. Vector, in this context, implies more than a straight line.

Vector graphics are based on vectors (also called paths, or strokes) which lead through locations called control points. Each of these points has a definite position on the x and y axes of the work plan. Each point, as well, is a variety of database, including the location of the point in the work space and the direction of the vector (which is what defines the direction of the track). Each track can be assigned a color, a shape, a thickness and also a fill. This does not affect the size of the files in a substantial way because all information resides in the structure; it describes how to draw the vector.

Computer displays are made up from grids of small rectangular cells called pixels; the term comes from "picture elements". The picture is built up from these cells. The smaller and closer the cells are together, the better the quality (resolution) of the image, but a larger file is required to store the increased pixel count. However, modern storage devices and working memory have gigabyte, even terabyte capacities, so there is less need for particularly compact forms of data.

Vector Graphics

Graphic Letters
                The sound recording copyright symbol, represented by the graphic symbol ℗ (a circled capital letter P), is the copyright symbol used to provide notice of copyright in a sound recording (phonogram) embodied in a phonorecord (LPs, audiotapes, cassettes, compact discs, etc.).[1] The use of the symbol originated in United States copyright law[2] and is specified internationally in the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms.[3]

The P stands for phonogram,[4][5] the legal term used in most English-speaking countries to refer to works known in U.S. copyright law as "sound recordings".[6]

A sound recording has a separate copyright that is distinct from that of the underlying work (usually a musical work, expressible in musical notation and written lyrics), if any. The sound recording copyright notice is a copyright for just the sound itself, and will not apply to any other rendition or version, even if performed by the same artist(s).

In the U.S., the sound recording copyright notice, which may only be affixed to a phonorecord, consists of three elements:

    the ℗ symbol;
    the year of first publication of the sound recording; and
    an identification of the owner of the copyright, either by name, abbreviation or other designation by which it is generally known. The identification can be omitted if the owner is the sound recording's producer, and the producer is identified on associated packaging.[2]

The symbol in Unicode is U+2117 ℗ sound recording copyright (HTML: ℗), with the alternative names "published" and "phonorecord sign".[7] It closely resembles U+24C5 Ⓟ circled latin capital letter p (HTML: Ⓟ) and U+24DF ⓟ circled latin small letter

Alan Peckolick (born 1940 in Bronx, NY) is an American graphic designer, artist, and photographer.

Peckolick is known for the typographic forms he created. His fascination for the graphic letter form underpins much of his work as he draws much of his inspiration from historic signage and lettering. His projects have included logo design and corporate identity for Revlon and New York University (typographic logo). He has designed annual reports for AT&T, General Motors, Bell South and Pfizer. Internationally he has worked for Society General (France), Grupo Industrial Alfa (Mexico), Mercedes-Benz (Germany), Sony (Japan).

Upon graduating from Pratt Institute in 1964, Peckolick went to work as an assistant to designer Herb Lubalin. In 1968 he opened his own design office. In 1972 he joined Lubalin, Smith & Carnase; several years later the company was reorganized and renamed Lubalin Peckolick Associates.

Peckolick's work has earned him over 500 design awards worldwide, including honorary membership in the art director's club of Bergen, Norway. His work has been featured in design journals and books. From 1985, Peckolick has been included in every edition of "Who's Who in America" and since 1990 in every edition of "Who's Who in Graphic Design". In 2008, he was chosen as one of ten designers to be included in China's first survey of international graphic design. His poster work is in the permanent collection of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. Apart from lecturing on graphic design in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Helsinki, Tokyo, London and Bergen, he regularly lectures at Parsons The New School for Design.

In 2002, Peckolick was invited to donate his archive to New York University's Fales Collection, housed in the Bobst Library. He was the subject of a career retrospective show at the university's Tracey/Barry Gallery in Autumn 2005, titled "A Life in Type: The Graphic Design Work of Alan Peckolick".[1]

Peckolick has been painting professionally since 1998. He is represented in London (Cosa Gallery), New York (Atlantic Gallery), and in Key West, FL (Lucky Street Gallery). His paintings are in numerous private collections in the US and Europe.

Past board affiliations include the Glaucoma Foundation and Save the Whales (Boston, MA). Peckolick is on the advisory board of Medasset, Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles. He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale,[2] the Type Directors Club of New York, and the Vintage Car Club of America. He is an honorary member of the Art Directors Club of Bergen, Norway.

Peckolick is married to Jessica Weber.

Graphic Letters

Cool Graphics
COOL is a graphics program for Microsoft Windows, released by Ulead Systems. It can be used for the creation of animated titles and graphics for presentations, videos, or web sites

Ulead COOL utilizes an intuitive user interface that enables the user to create animations with considerable less difficulty than in other animation programs such as Blender; however, in turn Ulead COOL lacks some of the more elaborate and complex features of more professional animation programs. The latest version, Ulead COOL Production Studio expands on earlier versions of Ulead COOL with additional features, tools, and visual effects that are "specifically designed for video production".

In Ulead COOL , users may import their own graphics files or use pre-built shapes to create objects. Users may apply custom or preset styles and effects to objects as well as adjust the lighting. Ulead COOL provides various parameters for the manipulation of the three-dimensional objects. The user may directly enter numerical values for the parameters of the selected object, or they may be altered using the tools. Ulead COOL utilizes key-frame animation techniques in which the key-frames are used to define the attributes of an object at a given time. This allows for the user to make quick adjustments. Ulead COOL allows for animations to be exported in various popular formats such as AVI, GIF, or Flash

Cool Graphics

Free Graphics Image
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The smiley face in the top left corner is a bitmap image. When enlarged, individual pixels appear as squares. Zooming in further, they can be analyzed, with their colors constructed by adding the values for red, green and blue.

In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a dot matrix data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium. Raster images are stored in image files with varying formats

A bitmap corresponds bit-for-bit with an image displayed on a screen, generally in the same format used for storage in the display's video memory, or maybe as a device-independent bitmap. A bitmap is technically characterized by the width and height of the image in pixels and by the number of bits per pixel (a color depth, which determines the number of colors it can represent).

The printing and prepress industries know raster graphics as contones (from "continuous tones"). The opposite to contones is "line work", usually implemented as vector graphics in digital systems.

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