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Lunchtime Videos

thawstudio — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:43:19 +0000

For your viewing pleasure

Video #1: Ellen Lupton speaks to SVA MFA students, part 1

Video #2: Ellen Lupton speaks to SVA MFA students, part 2

Video #3: Jakob Trollback talks about Moments

Welcome to Design III-B

thawstudio — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:13:17 +0000

Find the course syllabus here.

To get us going and generate ideas, take a look at these three ways of making work.

Small idea + big exploration
On visual exploration : E Roon Kang Bookshelf Video
Show, don’t tell
On metaphor : Lindsay Nordell Memory Video
Repetition tells a story
On repetition : Bierut 100 Days Workshop
and even more on 100 Days

“Graphic Design Now in Production”

thawstudio — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:29:45 +0000

Read about this important exhibition of graphic design over the past decade. The show, currently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, travels to New York City’s Governor’s Island this summer.

Design II

thawstudio — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:51:27 +0000

Please put in my Drop Box by Wednesday 12.14 at 9am:
Work Samples PDF
Resume
Any revised work from earlier in the semester

Find your returned work in your folder outside the Visual Arts office on Thursday Dec 15.

Thanks,
Jackie

End-of-semester Notes

thawstudio — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:02:37 +0000

Here’s an overview of fine details in typesetting. Address those that apply to your Event Book, and keep this list on hand for future projects.
TypesettingChecklist

Only the mono-a and tab_color_hp printers do duplex, or double-sided printing.

Create the Work Samples PDF using InDesign. Make a new doc, 8.5×11, without Facing Pages. You can Find/Place images of your work: PDFs of flat artwork, or JPGs, or a combination. Print the pages in color for the final class.

Design IIA, Section 1

thawstudio — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:44:16 +0000

Due on Tuesday November 29
30 pages designed and printed as spreads, at 100%, in b+w; comp up in book form
Thumbnails printed as spreads, on 11×17 and 5×5, in color

Due on Tuesday December 6
All pages designed and printed as spreads, at 100%, in b+w
Thumbnails printed as spreads, on 11×17 and 5×5, in color

Due on Tuesday December 13
Finished book;
Work Samples PDF, résumé and business card;
any revised work from earlier in the semester

Design IIA, Section 2

thawstudio — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:42:34 +0000

Due on Thursday December 1
All pages designed and printed as spreads, at 100%, in b+w
Thumbnails printed as spreads, on 11×17 and 5×5, in color

Due on Thursday December 8
Finished book;
Work Samples PDF, résumé and business card;
any revised work from earlier in the semester

Typography article

thawstudio — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:18:40 +0000

Please read this analysis of the past couple of decades in type.

Due Week of Nov 7

thawstudio — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:47:16 +0000

IDENTITY PROJECT
Refined / finalized logo in black-and-white
Identity elements (logo, name of organization, colors etc) applied to:
Stationary: letterhead, envelope, business card
Web site home page
Three (3) other items of your choice

EVENT BOOK
Choose an event for the subject of your book. The dictionary defines an event as “something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence”. This can be a public or private event, contemporary or historical.

You will need three (3) sources or bodies of material for the book. At least one of these must be TEXT and at least one must be IMAGE. Examples:
Groups of photographs taken by you
Groups of photographs scanned from a book
Groups of photographs found online
A short story
A news report
A magazine article
A long list
A play or other dialogue

Bring the three bodies of material to our next class.

Occupy Design

thawstudio — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:55:57 +0000

Occupy Design is an outgrowth from Occupy Wall Street; touches on our concerns with information design as well as symbol design — not to mention other concerns.