Dan Gable Poster | Aaron Von Fossen

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of four posters designed by undergraduate designer Aaron Von Fossen (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Mackenzie Kane

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Mackenzie Kane (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Duke Dohrn

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Duke Dohrn (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Bethany Chatterton

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Bethany Chatterton (©2013).

Graphic Design | Dan Gable Poster Project

Poster by Austin Von Ehwegen

Above In the fall semester of 2013, graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa designed more than one hundred posters to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. These were produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), and are currently on exhibit at the museum. Shown here is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Austin Von Ehwegen (©2013). Other student posters can be viewed online here and here.

Dan Gable Poster | Alexander Rogers

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Alexander Rogers (©2013).

UNI Graphic Designer | Top 15 in Nation

Student Showcase, March-April 2015 issue of CA Magazine

Above Page 93 of the current issue (March-April 2015) of the California-based graphic design newsstand magazine, Communication Arts (CA) Magazine. It highlights the work of UNI graphic design student Aaron Van Fossen, who has been selected (in the words of the magazine's editors) as one of "the fifteen most promising design, photography and illustration students in visual communications programs from all across the country." Originally from Bettendorf IA, Aaron is pursuing a BA in Graphic Design in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, and will graduate in May 2015.

As shown by the examples reproduced above, some of the projects undertaken in the Department of Art's graphic design program are pro bono (free of charge), completed for the purpose of enriching the quality of community life. Among the featured works above are a poster for the UNI Department of Art's Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition; a poster promoting an annual event titled "An Afternoon with Frank Lloyd Wright" at Cedar Rock State Park, in Quasqueton IA; and a commemorative poster about Iowa-born Olympic wrestler Dan Gable, for an exhibition at the National Wrestling Museum Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum, in Waterloo IA.

More of Aaron Van Fossen's recent work is featured online here.

See also: Roy R. Behrens, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and Mason City: Architectural Heart of the Prairie (2016).   

Dan Gable Poster | Mackenzie Pape

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Mackenzie Pape (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Lisa Remetch

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Lisa Remetch (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Kate Green

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Kate Green (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Abby Bachman

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Abby Bachman (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Maicol Josephs

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Maicol Josephs (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Robert Bauer

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Robert Bauer (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Josie Wolter

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Josie Wolter (©2013).

Dan Gable Poster | Riley Place

Above One of more than one hundred posters designed by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate designer Riley Place (©2013).

Mad Dog Poster | Emily Thompson

Wrestling poster © Emily Thompson (2014)

Above One of sixty "Mad Dog" Vachon posters designed In the spring of 2014 by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate student Emily Thompson (©2014).

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Edward Marsh, A Number of People: A Book of Reminiscences. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1939, p. 138—

The only drawback to her [Lady Wenlock's] companionship was her extreme deafness, which caused her to carry about a peculiar silver ear-trumpet [a horn-like hearing aid], looking like an entrée dish, or anything rather than what it was…At a luncheon in Florence she suddenly presented it to her neighbor, an Italian Duke, who gallantly filled it with green peas from a dish which a footman was handing to him at the same moment; and at one of her balls in London she left it on the piano, where it was mistaken for an ashtray, so that when the Prince of Wales took her in to supper and addressed an opening remark to her, she immediately covered him all over with cigarette ends.

Mad Dog Poster | Sara Peters

Wrestling poster © Sara Peters (2014)

Above One of sixty-plus "Mad Dog" Vachon posters designed In the spring of 2014 by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate student Sara Peters (©2014).

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B.F. Skinner, Particulars of My Life. New York: New York University Press, 1984, p. 44—

She [his mother] had one ability about which there was no doubt: she could find four-leaf clovers. If she saw a patch of clover on someone's lawn, she would bend down and almost immediately come up with a stem with four leaves.  She would frequently find two or three while the rest of us searched in vain. Her satisfaction was intense, and she never overlooked an opportunity to demonstrate her skill.

Mad Dog Poster | Alexa Weilein

Wrestling poster © Alexa Weilein (2014)

Above One of sixty-plus "Mad Dog" Vachon posters designed In the spring of 2014 by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of three posters designed by undergraduate student Alexa Weilein (©2014).

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Allan Sly, "Excerpts from Taped Reminiscences of Black Mountain" in Mervin Lane, ed., Black Mountain College: Sprouted Seeds: An Anthology of Personal Accounts. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990, p. 66—

[Bauhaus artist Josef] Albers was amongst those who came [to a Black Mountain College picnic in 1935]. When it came to toasting the hot dogs over the open fire, most speared their dogs with unbent coat hangers, but Albers preferred to bend his coat hanger into a letter S—laying his hot dog on top of it, which he then held over the fire. We pointed out to him the advantage of spearing it with the prong. But he said, "I like very much the S-form." His dog fell off into the fire.

Mad Dog Poster | Ekaterina Korzh

Wrestling poster © Katie Korzh (2014)

Above One of sixty "Mad Dog" Vachon posters designed In the spring of 2014 by graphic design students in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, to promote the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo IA. Produced as a community project in a beginning graphic design course (as taught by Roy R. Behrens), this is one of two posters designed by design student Ekaterina (Katie) Korzh (©2014).

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Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth. New York: Harper and Row, 1965—

"B-but, Mr. Jimson, I w-want to be an artist."

"Of course you do," I said, "everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox. Go home and go to bed and take some hot lemonade and put on three blankets and sweat it out."

"But Mr. Jimson, there must be artists."

"Yes, and lunatics and lepers, but why go and live in an asylum before you're sent for? If you find life a bit dull at home," I said, "and want to amuse yourself, put a stick of dynamite in the kitchen fire, or shoot a policeman. Volunteer for a test pilot, or dive off Tower Bridge with five bob's worth of roman candles in each pocket. You'd get twice the fun at about one-tenth the risk."