Sources • Pipes, Alan. Lucille Tenazas.Production for Graphic Designers. Forth Edition. 2005. The Overlook Press. New York, New York. • Eye Magazine. Issue 17, page 67-68. <http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=49&fid=389> • Biographpy of Lucille Tenazas. Taken from Tenazas Design.com. November 5, 2007. <http://www.tenazasdesign. com>
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Lucille Tenazas is an award winning Graphic Designer. Based from her studios in the United States, Lucille has become world known for her unique style of abstract form and Language barrier subjectivity.
Lucille has won many awards, including the National Design Award in Communications Design by Smithson Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in 2002. In addition to being a designer, she has served as the A.I.G.A President from 1996-1998, and sits as an associate professor of the MFA program at California College of the Arts (CCA).
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Poster for California College of Arts and Craft graduate program 1999. Lucille Tenazas. 1999.
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Lucille Tenazas was born in 1953, raised in the Philippines. Due to the heavy presence of the United States military, she learned much of the western culture. Since she studied in Philippines, her focus was more on fine arts. Later she went to California to do her after graduate studies.
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First she applied, and was rejected on her first try from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She then applied to California College of Arts and Crafts to build a stringer portfolio. Here she learned more of her gesture and expressive styles that she applied to later when accepted to Cranbrook. Many of her professors and instructors had noted her style after graduation for having an elegant formal resolution and abstract shape, not like her “type ‘n’ stripe” style of her fellow classmates.
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Lucille has been a Graphic Designer and owner and founder of the Tenazas Design Firm. She has worked 20 years in San Francisco, 1 year Rome, currently in NY/NJ. Tenazas mentions her style is often depicted of the Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, with many allusions of geometric pattern, bright color, and formal resolution of the design elements. This style roots from her studies in America after her Philippiansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; studies.
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The Body. Lucille Tenazas
Many of her clients are and include: • San Francisco International Airport • San Francisco Museum of Museum of National Art • Stanford Univertiy Museum of Art • University of Cali – Berkley • National Endowment of the Arts • Chronicle Books • Metro Furniture • Champion Paper Corporation • San Francisco Jewish Film Festival • San Francisco Symphony
and Todd Foreman. 1994
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Moto Announcement, 1994. Tenazas Design (San Francisco, California). 1994.
“I’m not anti-technology. It’s more a question of what I have an affinity for. I do what I feel most comfortable doing”.
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Many critics have stated that Lucille’s approach is conflicting with her commercial message. She responds to them stating that her design is to fulfill the needs of her clients as well as her creative ambitions. With her creative input and style, she is able to set her designs further apart from more traditional commercial design. Tenazas believes it is possible to solve the client’s communication, while also addressing her own language.
“When I first came to the United States, my interest in English was in the form of verbal communication. My interest in the layers of language has evolved over the past 6 years”.
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Witness: Endangered Species of North America. Lucille Tenazas and Todd Foreman. 1994
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1992 Adopt-a-Book Poster. Tenazas Design (San Francisco, California)
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Lucille Tenazaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style has been noted to deal often with the subject design of language and communication. She attributes this to her struggle of learning English as a second language. Lucille uses a pragmatic and poetic practice so that she may envelop a use of fluid and flexible approaches to design that is more human. Many critics have stated that Lucilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach is conflicting with her commercial message. She responds to them stating that her design is to fulfill the needs of her clients as well as her creative ambitions. With her creative input and style, she is able to set her designs further apart from more traditional commercial design. Tenazas believes it is possible to solve the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communication, while also addressing her own language.
Still Rooms & Excavations. Tenazas Design (San Francisco, California). 1997.
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“Rationality and Creativity. You can have both in the work. Design is the only field in which science and art are merged”.
Adopt-a-Book Bookplate Series. Tenazas Design (San Francisco, California). 1992
When asked about why, she simply states that working by hand feels most comfortable and enables her to have more creative control of her work. Lucille Tenazas work thus reflects an achievement of an effective symbiosis of rationality and creativity. Tenazas herself states:
“You can have both in the work. Design is the only field in which science and art are merged.”
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