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Share the road : a community action project
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b3538382~S2
Sign(s)
Title Description - A look at signage along Gravois road from Downtown St. Louis into the suburbs
Something in the sky
Title Description - Without words and with one slow pan, this book of photographs portrays a whole world. Starting inside, with a shot of a young woman absorbed in her reading and the music on her headphones, the view moves outward into the streets,…
Song of the thrush
Title Description - Longtime influential book artist Telfer Stokes was inspired to create this book after a recent visit to India. Really two books in one the first is a selection of colorful, glossy photographic scenes that evoke tourism and…
St. Louis colorscapes
Title Description - St. Louis Colorscapes documents eighty-four consecutive days in two environments – one built and one grown. Their juxtaposition highlights how they differ from each other and how each condition changes independently. The…
St. Louis flood wall
Physical Description - Double accordion-fold binding, 5" x 8" landscape format. Cover is continuous 'S'-fold museum board. All images color laser-printed on matte-finish photo paper, from digitally scanned slide originals and digital…
Stadtplan : dreiundvierzig Typographische Bauprojekte
Title Description - Text in German and English. By removing existing forms and replacing them with new ones, a story is re-created in a series of urban rythms and structures. Letters, words, sentences and black and white elements are the building…
Standard : específico = spécifique = specific
Title Description - Muntadas writes, "Cities are defined by their architecture, urbanism, monuments, activites, signs- all references to identity and characteristic historical landmarks. Yet, in a way, signs become increasingly generalized and…
Stay with me
Title Description - An examination of the simultaneous growth and decay of downtown St. Louis. Two perspectives are investigated; first, the shape of the skyline as it expands over the decades and second, the mapping of the land, which indicates a…