{"id":1317,"date":"2016-01-19T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:53:17","slug":"hand-painted-welcome-to-shu-libraries-sign-added-to-walsh-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2016\/01\/hand-painted-welcome-to-shu-libraries-sign-added-to-walsh-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand-painted &#8216;Welcome to SHU Libraries&#8217; Sign Added to Walsh Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zc9JMpiJaZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the last three and a half years, the library&#8217;s appearance and functionality have steadily been revised to provide among other things, a clearer sense of place. One recent change in this vein was the addition of a hand-painted sign above the circulation desk.\u00a0 The new sign gives a robust welcome to students and other patrons of the library. It was painted by a young artist and hand sign-painter named Jon Bocksel.\u00a0 Jon learned the arcane trade of hand sign-painting over several years as an apprentice to experts in hand-lettering from the time preceding digitally-produced signs.\u00a0 In planning for a commission, he absorbs a large amount of visual information before embarking on the design process.\u00a0 For the Seton Hall sign, he spent a morning on campus conferring with University Archivist Alan Delozier and took back many images to his studio. Alan had gathered yearbooks, insignia, and the Seton family&#8217;s as well as the University&#8217;s crest as a corpus of visual context for Jon on Seton Hall.\u00a0 Alan also showed Jon two fascinating and little-known murals of SHU sports teams, located in the University Sports Center and painted in the 1940&#8217;s by a recognized fresco painter of Italian cathedrals, and immigrant to New Jersey, Gonippo Raggi (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.or\/wiki\/Gonippo_Raggi).<\/p>\n<p>Jon&#8217;s final sign references the history of SHU publications as well as sports uniforms which, according to him, are often rich carriers of institutional self-expression in the form of typeface choices.\u00a0 All in all, his sign sets off the entrance space to the library in an emphatic way that provides directness and warmth. Welcome to SHU Libraries!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2016\/01\/Jon-Bocksel-Still-2-final-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Bocksel Still 2-final\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2016\/01\/Jon-Bocksel-Still-2-final-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2016\/01\/Jon-Bocksel-Still-2-final-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2016\/01\/Jon-Bocksel-Still-2-final-1024x645.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of the last three and a half years, the library&#8217;s appearance and functionality have steadily been revised to provide among other things, a clearer sense of place. One recent change in this vein was the addition of a hand-painted sign above the circulation desk.\u00a0 The new sign gives a robust welcome to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2016\/01\/hand-painted-welcome-to-shu-libraries-sign-added-to-walsh-library\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hand-painted &#8216;Welcome to SHU Libraries&#8217; Sign Added to Walsh Library&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}