Keith Godard (31 May 1938 - 4 May 2020) was a British born graphic artist [1] [2] and designer who practiced in New York City. [3] [4] He was the principal artist at StudioWorks. [5]
Godard was born in London during World War II. His father was a heraldic engraver. In 1951, his father took him to the Festival of Britain which exposed him to 50's modern design by the work of FHK Henrion, Abram Games, James Gardiner and the architecture of the 'Dome of Discovery' and the 'Skylon'. He studied and graduated from the London College of Printing and Graphic Art in 1962 and continued his studies on a full scholarship from the London County Council for a MFA majoring in graphic design at Yale University, School of Art and Architecture in 1967.
His first employment was with George Him, a Polish designer and illustrator. He then worked for Town Magazine where he was responsible for typographic layouts. He briefly worked for The Weekend Telegraph Magazine from 1964-1965 before going to Graduate School at Yale University. After graduation Godard worked at Fortune Magazine for six months.
Godard, with Craig Hodgetts, Bob Mangurian and Lester Walker, formed Works design Group in 1968. [6] [7] Their first design was the Creative Playthings store. Godard designed the graphics component.
From 1975 to 1985 he worked with new partners, Hans van Dijk and Stephanie Tevonian. During that tenure he designed in collaboration with Edwin Schlossberg the Macomber Farm out door exhibit, The Brooklyn Bridge Centennial Exhibition, The US Custom House Pavilion, 'In the Picture' for the Jewish Museum, aspects of The P.T. Barnum Museum exhibits, Manhattan Children's Museum installation 'Children's Art from Armenia', and four traveling exhibits for United Nations Agencies.
In 1986 Godard established StudioWorks where he is the principal designer, specializing in exhibition design, way finding and public art. He designed and built, 'Steel, Stone and Backbone, Building NYC Subways 1900-1925' for the Brooklyn Transit Museum, and signage systems for the Lincoln Center and banners for the Lincoln Center and signage for Cornell University Performing Arts Center for architect Sir James Stirling. 'Memories of Twenty Third Street, a mosaic mural for the MTA, Arts for Transit installed in Subway Station on the R line in 2003. [8] [9] [10]
From 2000 until 2009 he designed a series of die-cut architecture lecture posters for the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. In 2015 he is designing scannable graphics for apps in print and mural forms.
Vito Acconci was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His foundational performance and video art was characterized by "existential unease," exhibitionism, discomfort, transgression and provocation, as well as wit and audacity, and often involved crossing boundaries such as public–private, consensual–nonconsensual, and real world–art world. His work is considered to have influenced artists including Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, Bruce Nauman, and Tracey Emin, among others. Acconci was initially interested in radical poetry, but by the late 1960s, he began creating Situationist-influenced performances in the street or for small audiences that explored the body and public space. Two of his most famous pieces were Following Piece (1969), in which he selected random passersby on New York City streets and followed them for as long as he was able, and Seedbed (1972), in which he claimed that he masturbated while under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery, as visitors walked above and heard him speaking.
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