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It's not really appropriate to add to my ongoing list of millinery design and production text reviews, because it's an art book, but i have to mention The Hat Book by Rodney Smith, because i thought, "Some of my readership would LOVE this!"
This book is a tribute collage of photography and selected quotes about hats. I checked it out of the library mistakenly, swooping through the stacks in a hurry & thinking it was a different book of similar title/size/shape that i intended to use for my class. Instead, it was a fun serendipitous discovery, full of quotes I just have to transcribe on the subject of hats and millinery. Here are some selections:
It's sort of a coffee-table book, full of a variety of images from stylized posed shots of hat-wearing subjects to artfully-framed shots of hatmaking machinery and its operators. I gather that non-library copies come with a bookmark made from millinery grosgrain, too. I think i would want it to be a bit more breathtaking in its photography, were it something i were to purchase for myself (the Philip Treacy book is way more striking in its photographic content, for example), but it's something that i would consider a thoughtful and cool gift from a friend, if that makes sense.
for those considering graduate school...
I also wanted to repost some links to previous posts which might be helpful for those considering graduate school, either beginning to get together info and applications for admission in fall 2009, or those who have less strictly-calendared plans and are investigating graduate programs in a more general sense. I'm reminded to do this every so often, so longerterm readers will be familiar with these links; i figure it's time to reiterate them again as we've already been getting some initial emails from people who intend to apply for our program next year.
If you are someone in the very beginning stages of thinking about graduate programs in costume fields and are wondering things like, "What's the difference between a design focus and a production focus?" then i recommend you check out my post, MFA Programs, Design vs. Production. It should help you start asking yourself the right questions about which focus is right for you and how to find schools to which you wish to apply.
My field is Costume Production, so a lot of my posts are slanted in that direction, such as this post on how to prepare for applying to Costume Production graduate programs. It's aimed at folks who are still in undergrad (though the info is also potentially helpful to those who've been working for some time after finishing a bachelors and now considering grad school as a next step, and also might be useful for those still in high school).
"Getting into an MFA program" may sound like the same thing, but this post instead concerns the application process itself--recommendations, interviewing, etc.
"Portfolios!" is a post about...well, if it's not clear what the subject is from the title, maybe graduate school isn't for you after all. *grin* But seriously, it's about the nuts and bolts of assembling your portfolio--what to put in it, how much stuff to include, what sort of medium (digital vs. hardcopy), and so forth.
And lastly, "Presenting Your Portfolio" covers the actual presentation--how do you talk about what's in there to an interviewer or group of colleagues or similar. I offer tips on what to talk about (and what not to talk about), how to pace yourself and take questions, and so forth.
For a post of fluff and links, this sure turned out to be relatively lengthy. I'll write about something new and in-depth soon, i promise. :)
This book is a tribute collage of photography and selected quotes about hats. I checked it out of the library mistakenly, swooping through the stacks in a hurry & thinking it was a different book of similar title/size/shape that i intended to use for my class. Instead, it was a fun serendipitous discovery, full of quotes I just have to transcribe on the subject of hats and millinery. Here are some selections:
Milliners never seem to have any difficulty discovering geometrical shapes wholly unknown to mathematicians.
Evan Esar
Hats divide generally into three categories: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
Katherine Whitehorn
The crucial ambiguity of the image lies in the hat.
Marguerite Duras
One cannot be neutral in the presence of a hat. It sends a message. ...Hats create amazing possibilities.
Patricia Underwood
A hat remembers the steam, and keeps hidden in its crown the secret of its strange journey during which it was transfigured from a large armful of raw wool to the distinctive shape that rests upon a head, sending a message from its wearer.
Viola Salzedo-Gramm
It's sort of a coffee-table book, full of a variety of images from stylized posed shots of hat-wearing subjects to artfully-framed shots of hatmaking machinery and its operators. I gather that non-library copies come with a bookmark made from millinery grosgrain, too. I think i would want it to be a bit more breathtaking in its photography, were it something i were to purchase for myself (the Philip Treacy book is way more striking in its photographic content, for example), but it's something that i would consider a thoughtful and cool gift from a friend, if that makes sense.
for those considering graduate school...
I also wanted to repost some links to previous posts which might be helpful for those considering graduate school, either beginning to get together info and applications for admission in fall 2009, or those who have less strictly-calendared plans and are investigating graduate programs in a more general sense. I'm reminded to do this every so often, so longerterm readers will be familiar with these links; i figure it's time to reiterate them again as we've already been getting some initial emails from people who intend to apply for our program next year.
If you are someone in the very beginning stages of thinking about graduate programs in costume fields and are wondering things like, "What's the difference between a design focus and a production focus?" then i recommend you check out my post, MFA Programs, Design vs. Production. It should help you start asking yourself the right questions about which focus is right for you and how to find schools to which you wish to apply.
My field is Costume Production, so a lot of my posts are slanted in that direction, such as this post on how to prepare for applying to Costume Production graduate programs. It's aimed at folks who are still in undergrad (though the info is also potentially helpful to those who've been working for some time after finishing a bachelors and now considering grad school as a next step, and also might be useful for those still in high school).
"Getting into an MFA program" may sound like the same thing, but this post instead concerns the application process itself--recommendations, interviewing, etc.
"Portfolios!" is a post about...well, if it's not clear what the subject is from the title, maybe graduate school isn't for you after all. *grin* But seriously, it's about the nuts and bolts of assembling your portfolio--what to put in it, how much stuff to include, what sort of medium (digital vs. hardcopy), and so forth.
And lastly, "Presenting Your Portfolio" covers the actual presentation--how do you talk about what's in there to an interviewer or group of colleagues or similar. I offer tips on what to talk about (and what not to talk about), how to pace yourself and take questions, and so forth.
For a post of fluff and links, this sure turned out to be relatively lengthy. I'll write about something new and in-depth soon, i promise. :)
