February 5, 2015
Book launch for Princeton Placesat Princeton Public Library
Advanced graphic design students at the Lewis Center for the Arts created books inspired by local Princeton sites
Caption:The individual books interpretinglocal Princeton sites created by Princeton University students in a fall advanced graphic design course taught by Princeton Arts Fellow Danielle Aubert.
Credit: Danielle Aubert
What: Book launch for Princeton Places, a collective book interpretinglocal Princeton sites along with individual books on specific sites. Students will present and discuss how their research on these sites was organized using graphic design toolsto create the books
Who:Created by Lewis Center for the Arts’ students in a recent advanced graphic design course at Princeton Universitytaught by Princeton Arts Fellow Danielle Aubert
When:February 11 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon St.
Free and open to the public
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Visual Arts will present a book launch for Princeton Places, a publicationinterpretingseveral local Princeton sites, created by students in a Princeton University graphic design course. The event, which will also highlight individual book projects by the students, will be held on Wednesday, February 11 at 6:00 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library. The event is free and open to the public.
Undergraduate students in the fall 2014 course, “Advanced Graphic Design,“ taught by Princeton Arts Fellow Danielle Aubert, were assigned to select a site in the Princeton region to research. The idea of basing projects on local New Jersey sites was inspired by the 350th anniversary of the naming of the state. Using graphic design tools and principlesto organize and present the research— photographs, interviews and quotes, maps, diagrams, and archival material — the students each created a printed and bound book on their chosen site. Material excerpted from each of the students’ projects was then curated in a collectively designed book, entitled Princeton Places.
The titles and locations the students chose for their individual books include:
- Towpath Thoughtson the Delaware and Raritan Canal towpath by Hannah Miller
- Palmer Square: Commerce & Communityon the historical development of the site by Felicia Ng
- On the [Princeton] Runaboutthe Princeton Running Company store by Neeta Patel
- y(m/w)ca princeton on the local Y by Matt Rogers
- The Princeton Airport by Noah Shartle
- Palmer, another work witha different historical look at Palmer Square, by Andrew Sondern
- Soonja’son the local Asian restaurant Soonja’s Cuisine by Simon Wu
- Shanghai Bun: On the Local and Globalabout the Chinese restaurant in Princeton Junction by Angela Zhou
Aubert is one of two 2013-15 Princeton Arts Fellows, emerging artists selected through a highly competitive process to be in residence at Princeton to teach, create their own work, and engage with the local community. Aubert is a graphic artist who has worked with her design group, Placement, on projects similar to Princeton Places,including sites in the Rockaways (NYC) and onThanks for the View, Mr. Mies(2012), a publication on Detroit’s Mies van der Roheresidential district. She is the author of 16 Months' Worth of Drawings in Microsoft Excel (2006). In 2008, Aubert began designing the quarterly journal Criticism, which in 2012 was selected to be a part of the 25th Brno Biennial of Graphic Design in the Czech Republic. In 2009, she and Lana Cavar co-founded the International Typographical Union. Together they have made a series of projects that explore paper distribution and after-market paper and presented work in various venues including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Motto in Berlin.
The launch event will offer presentations on each of the students’ projects and the collective book. Copiesfrom a limited edition printing of Princeton Placeswill be available for perusal and purchase.
To learn more about this event, the Program in Visual Arts, and the more than 100 public events presented each year by the Lewis Center visit arts.princeton.edu.
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