Brian Lawler portrait 2011

Brian P. Lawler

College Professor, Graphic Arts Consultant, Typographer, Photographer and Photojournalist


You can read my blogs several days each week at

The Blognosticator

My graphic arts industry blog is now hosted on my own server.


Please read my feature articles and columns at

 

Cityscape image

Read about my photo mural project for the San Luis Obispo Children's Museum


A pressing engagement


Cal Poly’s GrC Technician Bob Pinkin sits atop the newly-installed Heidelberg CD74 press 1-5-07


Watch the time-lapse video of the installation of Cal Poly’s new
Heidelberg Speedmaster CD74 printing press.

The new press was provided to the Graphic Communication Department by

for use in Cal Poly's four-year degree program in Graphic Communication.

The press is now installed in the Graphic Communication Department at the University


The pipes, the pipes are callin’


This is the Charles B. Fisk pipe organ installed in the Performing Arts Center
on the Cal Poly campus. With 2,767 pipes, it is a breathtaking instrument
and a
true work of art. To provide a sense of scale, I am standing next to the console of the organ.
Photo by Bert Forbes

Over 30 feet tall, the organ is now complete. It is being used for performances by the San Luis Obispo Symphony,
Festival Mozaic, and the San Luis Obispo Vocal Arts Ensemble.

Cal Poly’s Music program also hosts concerts performed by various artists on the beautiful organ.

Click here to see a time-lapse movie of the construction of the organ.


My time-lapse camera was standing in Row C, Seat 17 in the orchestra section.
It took one frame every 2 minutes and 18 seconds for the 45 days of assembly of the instrument.
The result is that one minute in the video represents about five days of work on the organ.

Duration: 9:14


Please visit my gallery of still and news photos...



My book, The Official Adobe Print Publishing Guide is still available.
You can get a copy at CreativePro.com, Amazon.com, or Peachpit Press.

It has been published in French and Turkish in addition to the original English edition.



Click here for more information and to see photos of the Global Flyer
round-the-world flight of Steve Fossett.

...or learn about my

with my project partner Jim Sugar
on Burt Rutan, the famous aircraft designer.

or... read the story on Apple Computer's web site about our video project:


Visit my Essay Index to download my GRAPHIC ARTS ESSAYS
and CALIBRATION TOOLS

 


View my gallery of

...and learn how to make panoramic photos
by reading my essays on panoramic photography.


OR...

View and order the new

(This is a poster set of a group of balloonists at the gathering
of the Whiskey-Hill, Atherton, Menlo Oaks Ballooning and Sporting Society) and interactive QuickTime VR images of the same event.


 OR...
Visit the award winning San Luis ObispoVocal Arts Ensemble


for information about our concerts, tours...
or to order the Ensemble's newest audio CD: In Concert



OR...
Visit links to my friends' pages on the World Wide Web



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in greater numbers than Caucasian men. It is the second most common cause of death among American men,
behind heart disease. Prostate cancer is indiscriminate; it strikes men from all walks of life. There is no immunity and no vaccination.
There is no known cause, but there are numerous treatments.

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December, 2003, and underwent laparascopic surgery in March, 2004.
That operation was a total success, and since then I have been cancer-free.

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Men: Get a check-up!
If you're over 40, you should have an annual blood test. See your doctor soon! Don't delay!
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For more information on prostate cancer, visit the American Cancer Society web site.

 





Brian P. Lawler
Graphic Arts Consultant
1329 Peach Street
San Luis Obispo, California 93401
Telephone: (805) 544-8814

email: brian@thelawlers.com

 




All of these pages were made, rather badly, with Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver software on Macintosh computers.

 

Updated on Thursday, August 11, 2011

*Portrait of Brian Lawler by Ashala Lawler