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"The Ice Cream" Signage Poster---It's to the Right

My hommage to Edvard Munch, the favorite artist of so many people. And is there anything more horrifying than knowing that your ice cream is melting at such a fast pace that you can't keep up without giving yourself brainfreeze (aka the dreaded ice cream headache)?

Here is a list of paintings by Edvard Munch that I found on Wikipedia. They are in alphabetical order:

Also, I found this snippet specifically about "The Scream:"

Painted in 1893, The Scream is Munch's most famous work and one of the most recognizable paintings in all art. It has been widely interpreted as representing the universal anxiety of modern man. Painted with broad bands of garish color and highly simplified forms, and employing a high viewpoint, the agonized figure is reduced to a garbed skull in the throes of an emotional crisis. With this painting, Munch met his stated goal of "the study of the soul, that is to say the study of my own self". Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: "I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature." He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, "for several years I was almost mad? You know my picture, 'The Scream?' I was stretched to the limit?nature was screaming in my blood? After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again.] In summing up the painting's impact author Martha Tedeschi has stated:" Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most paintings?regardless of their art historical importance, beauty, or monetary value?have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to almost every viewer. These few works have successfully made the transition from the elite realm of the museum visitor to the enormous venue of popular culture."

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Honestly, I couldn't care less if the 100 Rising Stars were in an alley somewhere, overdosing on heroin. As long as that doesn't show through in the design and the artwork. You've got a job to do, so do it!
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The page layout aspect of graphic design deals with the arrangement of elements (content) on a page, such as image placement, and text layout and style. Beginning from early illuminated pages in hand-copied books of the Middle Ages and proceeding down to intricate modern magazine and catalogue layouts, structured page design has long been a consideration in printed material. With print media, elements usually consist of type (text), images (pictures), and occasionally place-holder graphics for elements that are not printed with ink such as die/laser cutting, foil stamping or blind embossing.

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With modern media content retrieval and output technology, there is much overlap between visual communications (front-end) and information technology (back-end). Large print publications (thick books, especially instructional in nature) and electronic pages (web pages) require meta data for automatic indexing, automatic reformatting, database publishing, dynamic page display and end-user interactivity. Much of the meta data (meta tags) must be hand coded or specified during the page layout process. This divides the task of page layout between artists and engineers, or tasks the artist/engineer to do both.

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This is my favorite of the two, even though the colors are more subdued.

The faux-leather pattern in this one is a lot more pleasing to the eye.

The pattern above, while also leather, has a more ambigous look to it.

You are hard pressed to figure out exactly WHAT that background is.

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