TEXAS QUARTER DESIGNER ARTICLE 上市 Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 52, December 7, 2003, Article 22
TEXAS QUARTER DESIGNER ARTICLE
The Dallas/Ft. Worth Star-Telegram published an article
about the designer of next year's Texas state quarter."[Daniel] Miller's winning design, announced by Gov. Rick
Perry's office Nov. 17, features a five-pointed Lone Star
superimposed on an outline of the state. A rope design will
border the coin.""Miller rejected a longhorn and an armadillo after deciding
that no single critter could represent the entire state. He finally
put about 100 hours into the design before rushing to the post
office on the day of the deadline for the competition.""... Miller isn't worried about how many Texas quarters are
made. The honor is enough for Miller, who is an art director
for Practitioners Publishing Co. in Fort Worth. Much of his
work involves creating materials for CPAs."You can imagine how exciting that is," he said."
To read the full article, see:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/states/texas/arlington/7402594.htm
[Now we know why many of the state quarter designs are
so shallow. They are designed by laypeople and graphic artists
who work in two dimensions and may have little understanding
or appreciation of the sculptural arts. The third dimension of
relief never comes into play. The paltry $1,000 stipend the
mint is offering to "artists" seems likely to attract more writers
of accounting manuals than true artists. Medallic artist Alex
Shagin is quoted in an article on coinage redesign in the January
2004 issue of COINage magazine as follows: "The fact that the
mint won't credit the artists who designed the coins, as opposed
to the engraver who simply takes someone else's design and
sculpts it, indicates to me it does not care about art." ("The
New Counterrevolution: Coinage Redesign Champions Are
Concerned About the Future" by Jon Blackwell) -Editor]- 2003-12-07
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