Cooper Union for Graphic Design

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<p>twenty four hundred!!!</p>

<p>-The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design
Professor Kevin Bone, a member of the resident faculty of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture since 1983, was appointed Director of the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design in fall 2009. The CUISD was created in 2008 as resource for education, research and public understanding of the principles and method of sustainability in all design disciplines. Central to the mission of the institute is the development of innovative pedagogies in architecture, art and engineering that will be models for the transformation of learning and practice for a sustainable future. </p>

<p>-From the director’s statement
What future engineers and architects design for our world and how they improve the systems in which we rely have the potential to significantly reduce the negative impacts of our current practices. Not only can we imagine that we might " do less harm;" we are on the threshold of a new generation of thinking in which our buildings, cities and systems actually contribute to healing and improving the environment. Our faculty, administration and students are all committed to evolving programs for engineering, architecture and art and doing so through inspired educational initiatives that explore the nature of what we now call sustainable design.</p>

<p>^hmmm…
school of art as whole looks like sort of afterthought in this^ arch prof’s statement since it is hard doing art and being sustainable, can’t use spray paint, chemical induced glue, any foams or chinese plywood to create true Cooper-ian piece such as; weird light switch turns on and off light bulbs attached to some gummy casted human head that covered with tinsels.
to be sustainable means no metallic titanium cadmium colors, no lacquers, thinners, lead, dust, smoke, frisket sheets.
it won’t do much good using found/ recycled objects if you are only to glue and gunk them together to contaminate it before filing up the landfill.
would product/ consumer goods design be any better? chairs, notepad, ipad, cups, fridge, bathtub, ugg boots, sillybands … mock ups, counter samples, revised samples, safety testings, manufacturing, slave laboring, factory worker protest, suicide, shipping, handling, packaging, insurance, accidents, recalls, law suits
long long way until able to see the savings of any natural resources.
how about virtual art that doesn’t use any raw materials, but of course, need hard/soft ware that get too old before you are done and to be replaced and disposed with highly toxic brain juice in it, let alone must have energy source for its creation and mass circulation.
I could faintly smell what artists of tomorrow better think up, but… don’t know what to do at this point since I gotta earn living from some of the above activities that are only contributing to many of the problems, not the solution.</p>

<p>I was in the shiny new Cooper “green” building looking up the huge white fishbone-sh structure encasing the atrium which made out of some plastic-y material- polyurethane?fiberglass? - very first thought that came to me was
" gawd, it must be awful hard to clean them all up high and utterly useless, Peter wouldn’t have liked that"<br>
In the McSorely’s saloon (post#51) an ancient light fixture with long horizontal bumpy iron rod hangs over the bar. The whole thing is covered with thick charcoal grey dust, i.e. Disney parks’ haunted mansion or Pirates’ ride scenery. It took awhile for me to see that, each bumps are individual wishbones from centuries of turkey eating, Peter Cooper himself could have eaten some - hundred of them tightly packed next to each other forming decorative dust fringe to the rod.
could this be the inspiration of sustainability?
maybe those white things are never to be dusted in next 150 years coming.</p>

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<p>happy twenty five! there is no NYT archive back in these days, this is from about.com.</p>

<p>First U.S. Railway Chartered to Transport Freight and Passengers -
On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first U.S. railway chartered for commercial transport of passengers and freight. There were skeptics who doubted that a steam engine could work along steep, winding grades, but the Tom Thumb, designed by Peter Cooper, put an end to their doubts. Investors hoped a railroad would allow Baltimore, the second largest U.S. city at the time, to successfully compete with New York for western trade.</p>

<p><a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Tom_thumb_peter_coopers_iron_horse_6092027.jpg[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Tom_thumb_peter_coopers_iron_horse_6092027.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Wow, Baltimore must have been big. I went to a railroad museum in Elicott City, outside Baltimore, and they apparently had trains before there were any steam engines. The B & O railroad was pulled by horses or mules. Then the poor animals were rescued by Peter Cooper!</p>

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<p>Thank you G
I thought nobody would come visit anymore!
below is from Wikipedia.
So you must seen the real thing at the museum? Horses won the race sometimes! yet eventually and technically, Peter saved animals.
I started on the book “Moo” pretty good, wandering what is going to happen to the hog we met in the beginning… (see scholastic, a.k.a book club thread)</p>

<p>Tom Thumb was designed by Peter Cooper as a 4-wheel locomotive with a vertical boiler and vertically mounted cylinders that drove the wheels on one of the axles. The “design” was characterized by a host of improvisations. The boiler tubes were made from rifle barrelsand a blower was mounted in the stack, driven by a belt to the powered axle.Cooper’s interest in the railroad was by way of substantial real estate investment in what is now the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore; success for the railroad was expected to increase the value of his holdings.
Construction was carried out in the machine shop of George W. Johnson, where then 18 year old James Millholland was apprenticed.[Millholland would later become a prominent locomotive designer in his own right.</p>

<p>Testing was performed on the company’s track between Baltimore and Ellicott Mills (now Ellicott City, Maryland). Two tracks had been constructed, and the driver of a passing horse-drawn car bearing passengers challenged the locomotive to a race. The challenge accepted, the Tom Thumb was easily able to pull away from the horse until the belt slipped off the blower pulley and/or a popoff valve was broken or was active. Without the blower, the boiler did not draw adequately and the locomotive lost power, allowing the horse to pass and win the race. Nonetheless, it was realized that the locomotive offered superior performance, because the technical difficulty with the Tom Thumb was recognized. Later races all showed the locomotive defeating the horse-drawn car by substantial distances, and horse victories were extremely rare, if there were any at all.</p>

<p>The Tom Thumb was not intended for revenue service, and was not preserved, though Cooper and others associated with the railroad’s early days left descriptions which enabled the general dimensions and appearance to be worked out. In 1892, a wooden model was constructed by Major Pangborn (who also had models made of many other early locomotives), and when a replica was constructed in 1926 for the “Fair of the Iron Horse”, the builders followed Pangborn’s model. The replica therefore differed considerably from the original, being somewhat larger and heavier, and considerably taller (note that the dimensions given above are those of the replica). Also, instead of the blower in the stack, a much larger blower was mounted on the platform to provide a forced draft, and the support frame of the cylinder and guides was considerably different. The replica remains at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum.</p>

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<p>twenty six!!
last bit from the arch newsletter, now I can recycle it.</p>

<ul>
<li>Assistant Professor Adjunct Joan Waltemath exhibited her work at South New Hampshire University. The Philocetes Center for Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination in New York, Centre for Contemporary Art in Grenoble, France, 2010 Gallery in Brooklyn, and at the Brattleboro Museum&Art center in Vermont.
She was a Visiting Artist at the Cleveland Art Institute, Ohio, a panelist for artcritical.com at the National Academy of Design, and was in residency at Gastatelier, Insel Hombroich, Germany.
Waltermath is the Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail, where she also published several articles. Her catalogue essays include, “Alan Uglow’s Kinesis” in Alan Uglow, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany, 2010.</li>
</ul>

<p>^this is the same lady showing ample breast with nice crevice here.
<a href=“http://www.mica.edu/News/Joan_Waltemath_Named_Director_of_Hoffberger_School_of_Painting_.html[/url]”>http://www.mica.edu/News/Joan_Waltemath_Named_Director_of_Hoffberger_School_of_Painting_.html&lt;/a&gt;
the Cooper newsletter has no published date on it, obviously the MICA announcement came after it was done made.
she has no class listed in the past school year, means if you teach once, you are a Cooper prof, let alone assistant or adjunct?
what I hear from friend in the biz is, your bio gotta be utterly luminous, cherry picked best-est part of what you have ever done - i.e. all you have to say is " taught at Cooper Union" no need telling when how long what in which status.
from now on, suppose she will be most remembered as the queen of painting @MICA MFA.
or
is Cooper one of those place that hate to brag where people go from their own backyard, otherwise it have to keep praising new appointees heading off to other for-profit art school crosstown which, does not necessary make Cooper look good.</p>

<p>why I-heart-NY guy won’t be siting in the chair (but on virtual trustee chair) to greet new students instead of effigy of Peter Cooper? - he gave school logo to his old HS - I bet he donated the design since almost all public schools are broke, it must be hard to afford his hourly rate - but not to the new Cooper?
New Cooper logo was designed by some other old alm who, you guessed it, is now SVA design bigshot.
why Tony Bennett built brand-new school instead of helping dumpy HS he went as a kid? (off topic, see “Art major?” thread)</p>

<p>would high end art education as career be some sort of big political show and tell, or am I missing something important?
anyone with more info, thought, wisdom, secret, please add 2 cents and up.</p>

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<p>^^^English lesson
the word “crevice” should have been " cleavage" grrr R and L and “ice” and “age” wait, put them together would be “iceage”, no wonder it’s cold…
now it won’t rhyme with " nice" anymore,
say, large cleavage? it does not sound as good, ^ she is really pretty and all.
what I don’t get is both words -crevice and cleavage - are basically same thing, no? separating two parts sort of meaning? redbug?</p>

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<p>Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.
The Museum was founded in 1897 by Amy, Eleanor, and Sarah Hewitt—granddaughters of industrialist Peter Cooper—as part of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. A branch of the Smithsonian since 1967, Cooper-Hewitt is housed in the landmark Andrew Carnegie Mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The campus also includes two historic townhouses renovated with state-of-the-art conservation technology and a unique terrace and garden. Cooper-Hewitt’s collections include more than 250,000 design objects and a world-class design library. Its exhibitions, in-depth educational programs, and on-site, degree-granting master’s program explore the process of design, both historic and contemporary. As part of its mission, Cooper-Hewitt annually sponsors the National Design Awards, a prestigious program which honors innovation and excellence in American design. Together, these resources and programs reinforce Cooper-Hewitt’s position as the preeminent museum and educational authority for the study of design in the United States.</p>

<p>twenty seven hundred views!
what originally brought me to NYC was Alexander Calder retrospective at Cooper-Hewitt. If I did not see the article about the show while making bears and dogs in Tokyo, I might not be here writing this. fate or curse, we shall see.
“Cooper” is, of course, from Peter. Who is the “Hewitt”?
Abram S. Hewitt was a super brained Columbia student who tutored Peter’s average brained son, Edward (they’d become best friends after shipwrecked together while traveling) then married to Edward’s sister; Peter’s only daughter, Sarah.
Imagine, a young girl meeting her brother’s best buddy who came for tea or dinner or something, went a courtin’ or however they did in Victorian style - no problem! Daddy wanted this to happen!! Awww…
It was said, Hewitt is the one really established Cooper Union, for he was the educated “smart” which Peter himself lacked in skills to plan daily going of education capital.
His son Edward was the middleman “fun” guy that made trio operation go smoothly, while of course, Hewitt must have loved his wife to have six kids together.
Their three daughters are the founder of the museum. The Girl Power is rooted from how Cooper’s artschool had started out. Drawing, making, decorating things are one of few areas: others being nursing or teaching little ones- women could excel and earn some $ themselves at that time. the school were to train such girls and the museum was the resource within the school and to educate rowdy public who had no idea what it means for anything to be pretty and nice.</p>

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<p>Yes, you’re right, words have similar meaning. </p>

<p>Crevice:<br>
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French crevace, from crever to break, from Latin crepare to crack
Date: 14th century</p>

<p>: a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure</p>

<p>Cleavage:
Function: noun
Date: 1816</p>

<p>1 a : the quality of a crystallized substance or rock of splitting along definite planes; also : the occurrence of such splitting b : a fragment (as of a diamond) obtained by splitting
2 : the action of cleaving : the state of being cleft
3 : the series of synchronized mitotic cell divisions of a fertilized egg that results in the formation of the blastomeres and changes the single-celled zygote into a multicellular embryo; also : one of these cell divisions
4 : the splitting of a molecule into simpler molecules
5 : the depression between a woman’s breasts especially when made visible by a low-cut neckline</p>

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<p>Good one Redbug. I remember all the giggles in 9th grade Earth Science when we were told that mica had “perfect cleavage”. We all learned the proper definition of the word, at least before the test!</p>

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<p>This is great !! “mica”, as in mineral and stuff (!?) and “MICA” 's new MFA painting chair’s cleavage!!
It doesn’t help me from confusing farther but I will never forget the word “cleavage” now on. thanks.
So, before 1816, what did people call cleavage? who made up the word? just amazing come to think of it.</p>

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<p>They called it, “having an excellent bosom”. To which you would blush, prettily.</p>

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<p>Love the MICA analogy. Now I’ll always think cleavage when I see MICA.</p>

<p>Another term is: </p>

<p>D</p>

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<p>hello twenty eight!!
first it was glue, then jello but what made Cooper big money was the iron business. Peter started iron mill in the NYC which moved to NJ to expand. I am sure his smarty son in law helped to create super duper iron beams of that time to pave railroad and to build Cooper Union school building itself.
this is from Wikipedia.</p>

<p>-In 1845, Peter Cooper moved his machinery to Trenton, New Jersey, where he built the largest rolling-mill in the United States for producing railroad iron. Abram Hewitt joined Edward Cooper in running the Trenton Iron Company, where, in 1854, they produced the first structural wrought iron beams.</p>

<p>Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content, in comparison to steel, and has fibrous inclusions, known as slag. This is what gives it a “grain” resembling wood, which is visible when it is etched or bent to the point of failure. Wrought iron is tough, malleable, ductile and easily welded. Historically, it was known as “commercially pure iron”, however it no longer qualifies because current standards for commercially pure iron require a carbon content of less than 0.008 wt%.
Before the development of effective methods of steelmaking and the availability of large quantities of steel, wrought iron was the most common form of malleable iron. A modest amount of wrought iron was used as a raw material for manufacturing of steel, which was mainly to produce swords, cutlery and other blades. Demand for wrought iron reached its peak in the 1860s with the adaptation of ironclad warships and railways, but then declined as mild steel became more available.</p>

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<p>hello twenty nine hundred views</p>

<p>I was in the filmforum lobby killing time for the new documentary about Basquiat. There were pile of new issues of Village Voice. I don’t read it much these days but why not, the cover photo was a giant eye, the story " An Eye for Art"
“A cooper union student lost an eye protesting in Israel - but none of her vision”
Would be senior Cooper art girl whose family is Holocaust surviver, father (doctor) migrated from Israel to MD, was studying abroad summer artschool in Israel, gotten involved in peace demonstration, hit by IDF tear gas canister in the face, lost her left eye.
She is back in states getting new perspective as an one-eyed artist.<br>
It was sort of wrong thing to read before seeing the movie about an artist died at 27 during hight of his fame and youth. Those twinkling eyes, smile, limbs, hands that hold brushes and oil sticks, hairdos, knit cap, thrift shop Wesleyan jersey to paint spattered Armani suits.<br>
He was our idol in artschool days. Now I’ve outlived too long, I feel like I wish I were his parent, aunt, grandma, I mean, I don’t know, someone who could have nurtured him? listened to him? assured him that he is loved and being cared no matter what - What?
Would Basquiat had become that rockstar without his heritage? what if it was bit too early or too late - 60s, 70s, 90s, how about now - Now, would this one eyed girl be on the cover story of the Voice if it wasn’t “now”? if she was not the next door to the Voice - Cooper art student, or was not a daughter of Israeli intellectual, what if her injury was caused by Palestine?<br>
I don’t think it is OK to copy published Voice article word to word, you can read it here.
<a href=“http://www.villagevoice.com/[/url]”>http://www.villagevoice.com/&lt;/a&gt;
Here is her blog
<a href=“http://thirstypixels.blogspot.com/[/url]”>http://thirstypixels.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;
the movie was nice, beautifully done. too bad the show only runs two weeks.
The Voice comes out every week with new cover stories. Soon her story is old and forgotten, but I will not forget Basquiat, I will remember the girl as well.</p>

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<p>B&D, great story about the girl who lost the eye. D had juvenile cataracts and has one eye that doesn’t work as it should. She’s afraid of losing vision in that eye, altho the specialists tell her not to worry. May need corneal transplant down the road or there’s a new procedure called D-sik (or something similar) This should give her something positive to think about - life goes on and sometimes its better.</p>

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<p>for those who got no time for the entire article, in there were ref of Rembrandt, Chuck Close, Garp character in John Irving’s novel as “vision challenged yet successful artist”
thou, it is my fear as well, losing sight or fingers would end my bears dogs making life. Can’t worry about it but I could feel the chill. It is bad enuff that I can’t thread the needle without grandma glasses.</p>

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<p>It took numerous trips to the eye dr and 4 specialists before they figured out the problem. D had been complaining about “denseness” in her eye and halos. Also contrast differences. With no lenses, her prescription causes a lot of distortion, but we perservered until we got an answer. Told her she was in good stead with Claude Monet and other aphakic artists.</p>

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<p>whoa three thousand! good to be on the top o’ pile. number rises real quick.</p>

<p>Here is an catch-y ad now seen on every “in” magazine around town.
Seems trying bit too hard if it is mere for-profit adobe 101 school…what’s up?</p>

<p>“Learn Graphic Design Fast.”
3 month full - time or 1 year part - time
World class education needn’t take forever. It should be well planned, continually adapted to the times and presented by passionate professionals. That’s what happens at Shillington School and we have the record to prove it. Our students are taught by outstanding designers and are getting top design jobs. Starting with no prior experience they graduate with a professional portfolio and an in-depth, practical knowledge of design theory and the Adobe Creative Suite.
Enroll now for September 2010
<a href=“http://www.Shillingtonschool.com%5B/url%5D”>www.Shillingtonschool.com</a>
New York London Manchester sydney Melbourne Brisbane ( where? oooh, Queensland, Australia)
the school is on the corner of 42nd street on Madison 6th floor of some building, huh… hi rent hi traffic hi hope to take over the city or what? was that the same place NYU MFA game design was trying to dig before? hummmm???
as in common for these kind of schools’ site, won’t tell you clear and easily how much it will cost for what.
will do spy, to be continued.</p>

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<p>thirty one hundread views!</p>

<p>Vassar est. 1861 by Matthew Vassar, beer money
Cornell est. 1867 by Ezra Cornell, telegraph money
Carnegie Institute est. 1901 by Andrew Carnegie, steel money</p>

<p>It was said that Peter Cooper inspired them to do the same; give away extra money you can’t take to the grave, build school and help kids.
now, everyone going these schools, let’s all thank Peter the leader.</p>

<p>Philanthropy : what have changed now?

  1. you live longer die harder. advanced medicine including sex drugs and patching up and switching body parts make you feel like could defeat aging, even dying.
  2. you could spend much more money for things which weren’t even existed or possible back then - No million dollar paintings to collect, no face lift, hair planting, private jets, international/ third countries oil digs or weaponry trades, trip to the south pole or moon.
  3. imported/exported religion for good or bad. moral and value that came and gone with it.
    It gotten all confusing what “do good for others” really mean. i.e. having five wives, die and kill for your belief, welfare reform, abortion right… now, everyone got things to say about everything, rich or poor, educated or not. No single right answer.
  4. changed face of those “dirt poor”, there no longer in US, like, worked at mills since four year old - kind of poor these old philanthropist lived as kids, at least on the surface.
    and those who are poor either culturally or monetary now really can’t / won’t go to these colleges, can’t get in, don’t know how and what to study because no one cared enough to show them how. while their counterparts have gotten helicopter parents, CC forums, SAT prep, private counselor or hired essay writer to help getting 'em into Cornell ( but missed HYPS, dung)
    not that ivies and selective colleges in the history anytime were anyway more open to general public nor were cheap: Scarlett O’Hara’s sweetheart went Harvard, so did Edie Sedgwick’s crazy brothers. </p>

<p>Bill Gates, Derek Jeter, Tony Bennett, Oprah, Questbridge, thank you all, you guys are great, doing what you can, thou I feel it will never again be those amazing philanthrophing gilded times, when everything was in the making, one could start out as zero and become so very rich by working hard and being creative, with so much room for improvement of / by / for the people all wanting the same thing: basic, free, livable, better life.</p>

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<p>Thirteen two hundred and counting!</p>

<p>Edward Cooper, Peter’s only son was a mayor of NY 1879 - 1880, prez of Cooper Union 1898-
not much happened but he tried.
It is kind of sad the satire that Peter spanking Edward is the most known image of this guy.</p>

<p><a href=“http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mlPoGU4VqSk/SdyitjZ8THI/AAAAAAAAFoQ/8L3ar31eMO4/s400/Untitled.jpg[/url]”>http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mlPoGU4VqSk/SdyitjZ8THI/AAAAAAAAFoQ/8L3ar31eMO4/s400/Untitled.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;