A library of readings

Meaning Layer

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The house serial. Each number is one work given the full apparatus — read, listened to, annotated, and printed from one source.

Readings

10

Scripture

The Holy Bible

Douay-Rheims, 1899

The Douay-Rheims American Edition of 1899 — Challoner’s revision of the translation made at Reims and Douai from the Latin Vulgate, and the English Catholic Bible that was in print before the King James. Seventy-three books in the order the Vulgate puts them, under the names the translation itself uses, including the seven the Protestant canon sets apart. Every verse is a block, and every citation is an address.

73 books 35,811 verses

The books

The classroom

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ART 220

Digital Illustration

Charleston Southern University Fall 2026 28 sessions

This course is about illustration as a means of communicating ideas. Concepts and sketches come first, on paper. The computer, industry standard software on the lab machines, is the tool that finishes the piece, not the place the idea starts. The term covers three toolsets in order: vector, raster, and motion. Four projects put them to work: a set of editorial spots, a drawn illustration finished digitally, a packaging illustration, and an animated loop. Class time splits between taught workshops and worked studio time, and every project ends in a critique. Every project is marked on the same four things: participation and process, concept, formal resolution, and craft.

ART 418

The Business of Design

Charleston Southern University Fall 2026 28 sessions

AI is changing how design gets made, and the profession is still working out what the medium is. This course takes both halves seriously. You learn design practice and process the way the discipline has always taught it: research, iteration, critique, craft. And you learn to make work with AI the way working studios use it now, on real production, with your name on the output. You carry one project across the whole semester. It starts the way a startup starts: with a real product or technology that has no market yet. You research who could want it, choose a target, pitch your creative strategy to the room, and set the brand's directions by the end of September. Then you build the brand, write it down as rules a machine can follow, and use it to make the product's case: a brand book, a product-market fit plan, and a landing page for signup. Along the way we read the people who built the discipline and look at how the best teams and brands are working right now. The field is being redrawn while you are entering it, and you should have a hand in it.

From the readings

Where, then, does style help? In this, with style the end is attained without side issues, without raising undesirable inflammations. With style you attain your end and nothing but your end. With style the effect of your activity is calculable, and foresight is the last gift of gods to men. With style your power is increased, for your mind is not distracted with irrelevancies, and you are more likely to attain your object. Now style is the exclusive privilege of the expert. Whoever heard of the style of an amateur painter, of the style of an amateur poet? Style is always the product of specialist study, the peculiar contribution of specialism to culture.

Alfred North Whitehead The Aims of Education p.34 Read the passage

The plates

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The pictures

32

And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.

Genesis 22:10 32 hands, 1492–1754

All 32, under the passage →

The catalog

33

The works the project is built on, and the seed of the shop. Each record names the edition worth owning and where to get it — a book is only listed where the library already engages with it.

From the readings

In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call “inert ideas”—that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

Alfred North Whitehead The Aims of Education p.2 Read the passage
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