Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

For his the­sis project, Robert Finkel chose to pro­duce an exhi­bi­tion based on the his­tory of the arrow, enti­tled Up, Down, Left, Right. Here’s a brief descrip­tion in his own words:

The image of the arrow is nearly every­where we look. It sug­gests and con­trols the move­ment of infor­ma­tion, peo­ple, and machines. However, the use of the arrow as a sym­bol is believed to be less than four hun­dred years old. Up, Down, Left, Right explores the ubiq­uity, influ­ence, and vari­ety of arrows within our visual cul­ture. The exhibit con­sists of four main sec­tions: a printed book­let titled, Up, Down, Left, Right: A Brief History, a col­lec­tion of eighty pho­tographs and thirty silkscreen prints of arrows found through­out the region, a dis­play of vis­i­tor con­tributed arrow arti­facts, and a com­par­a­tive anatomy of the three main parts of arrow: the tail, the shaft, and the head.

You can find more back­ground infor­ma­tion as well as more images of the exhi­bi­tion and the pieces that com­pose it on Robert’s site.