Laraine Armenti

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Evolution

November 7, 2018 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

When I was in high school I elected to take a class in isometric drafting, becoming the teacher’s first female student in 1975. Learning technical drawing could have led to a summer internship in an engineering department at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Instead, despite parental protest, the summer assignment was awarded to a boy in my class because, the teacher said, “Boys will marry and need to provide for their families.”

So my mother, who worked at DEC, helped me get hired into the Temporary Assistants Group (TAG). I spent two summers working secretarial and administrative jobs in accounting, reception, library, and warehouse before being hired by Digital’s Educational Publishing Group as a technical illustrator. There I learned to design and illustrate instructional books, some of them winning technical publishing awards.

A website’s linear structure is often a poor fit for presenting my non-linear work history. I’ve reorganized this site to simplify navigation through various facets of my work. As part of this update, my books are now presented on their own page. Here is a link to the new page of my Books.

ABOVE: Fig 12 & 13, From Eniac to Univac, Digital Press, 1981

From Eniac to Univac, Digital Press, 1981

Filed Under: Books, Tools, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: accounts payable, book, DEC, eniac, TAG, technical illustration, univac, website

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NEWS

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Little Gems: a group exhibition of small artworks by fifteen contemporary artists

May 29 – July 28, 2018

Gladstone
36 1/2 Union Street, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
info [at] gladstonejewelry [dot] com
978-704-9410

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From Life: Studio School Paintings

September 8, 2017 — November 16, 2017

Cambridge Center Studio School
42 Brattle Street, Cambridge MA 02138
617.547.6789

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