Week 8 Day 2 - Wednesday, Feb 27 - Homework

1. Choose your specific research topic (Recycling e-waste, stop oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, planting trees to support The Canopy Project, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”) to use in your Project 3: Earth Day Poster. Create 5 different and distinct layout sketches that considers the type of imagery, typography and path layout you hope to explore in your initial design.

PechaKucha Students Speak Edition @ Pritchard Thursday, Feb 28, 8:20pm

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List of vol. 4 Presenters:

Kathleen Burns: What, when, where, how, who? Public Art and Community

Hayman Wong:  To Live in a Cage

Bryce Blankenship: My Shortened Importance of Philosophy

Ellen Williams: Deep Sea: Shipwrecked

Miguel Elgueda: Living Communities:  Bringing live back into Communities

Sway Harner [:Moment of Thought:]

Tarin Leach: Art in Toms

Katelyn Dillon: The Underground:Recreating the Illicit

Avery Worrell: Enlisting in the Fun Brigade

Project 3: Earth Day Poster

Description:

Design and submit a poster for the Lewis Clark Recyclers’ 8th Annual Earth Day Celebration, incorporating digital imagery and typography in a meaningful way to communicate the theme of reducing carbon emissions or supporting environmental sustainability. Your conceptual theme must focus on one of the following Earth Day campaigns (Recycling e-waste, stop oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, planting trees to support The Canopy Project, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”).

Objective:

+ To apply digital imaging techniques to communicate a message of reducing carbon emissions or supporting sustainability

+ To reinforce design principles that support visual choices in creative problem solving solutions

+ To explore the visual relationship created between the use of image and type

Specifications:

Size: 24" x 36" white paper, at least 150 dpi (resolution)

Media: 

+ Must use photographs in some form. Create a composite, photomontage, collage. 

+ You are allowed to use a varietyof different mediums in your final poster (drawing, illustrations, symbols, textures)

+ Final output must be a digital file that can be printed. 

+ Required text to include: “Celebrate Earth Day April 22, 2013”**

Technical:

+ Use Photoshop to prep, adjust and manipulate images

+ Use Illustrator or InDesign for layout of Poster design

+ All imagery used in your poster design should respect copyright laws

Timeline + Deadlines:

Conceptual Brainstorming:  Choose campaign theme, and sketch out 5 different/distinct layout ideas due Monday, March 4, 8:30am.

Midpoint Group Crit: Present digital file (PDF) and rough print of poster in assigned group critique on Monday, March 25, 8:30am.

Final Critique: Printed design and all process work (brainstorm mind map, sketches, initial design, midpoint design and final design as PDFs on USB stick) due Wednesday, April 3, 8:30am.

Grading criteria (project 3 accounts for 10% of course grade)

Communication & Aesthetics—50%

Innovation—25%

Technical Skill—25%

Informational Resources
Lewis Clark Recyclers Inc
Earth Day Network
Save Yasuni National Park
The Canopy Project
Recycling E-Waste
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 

Week 8 Day 1 -Monday, Feb 25- Homework

1. Next project will be an Earth Day Poster. Using visual imagery in conjunction with provided text copy, you will be spending the next 4 weeks creating a Earth Day Poster for the Annual Earth Day celebration, Monday, April 22, 2013, sponsored by Lewis Clark Recyclers. Poster theme should focus on the either the promotion, education and/or celebration efforts to increase awareness and appreciation of the earth's natural environment.

Begin researching and brainstorming concepts for Project: Earth Day Poster.

Create a mind map and paragraph proposal for possible concepts to explore (environmental issues (local, national, global context), efforts to preserve earth's resources, etc) in this poster and how you will incorporate visual imagery in someway. Mind maps must be submitted for review next class, Wednesday, Feb 27, 8:30am.

Resources to check out
Earth Day Network
Lewis Clark Recyclers


2. Pecha Kucha Night Moscow will be hosting an event this Thursday, Feb 28 at the Pritchard Gallery. doors open at 8:00pm, presentations start a 8:20pm

Check out PKN Moscow's website for more details

Call for Submissions Pecha Kucha Night Moscow

The Prichard Art Gallery will be hosting PechaKucha Night Moscow vol. 4. Thursday, February 28th.  Proposal submissions for presenters (either solo, pairs, or groups) are now being excepted at uicaaexperience@gmail.com.  Proposals are still being accepted.  For more information on this call, please visit UI Art + Design PechaKucha Night's informational page

*PechaKucha Night – devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture

Week 6 Day 2 (Wed, Feb 13) - Homework

Description:

Select an artist/designer from the approved list, below. You must conduct research

regarding the artist/designer, his/her background, training, and body of work that has

influenced and impacted the way imagery is used in Art & Design.

You should document various accomplishments and achievements related to your

artist/designer’s chosen field and how it relates to photography. Please also select one

significant project completed by the artist/designer to further examine in a detailed case

study. The case study should analyze the chosen project from beginning to end (research,

process, development, completion). Research should be assembled into a final presentation

created in InDesign (template to be provided) and be saved as a PDF.

Upload research files to Research Submission Folder on the dropbox by 8:30am Wednesday, Feb 20.

1. Bibliography for informational resources (PDF file) --see word doc template
2. Digital presentation (PDF file) --see InDesign template, all images should be cited appropriately

Final presentations are scheduled for Wednesday, February 20th, 2013. Oral presentations

should be roughly 10 minutes in duration.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source of research and should not be used. You will be asked to

cite all sources, so be sure to keep track of all publishing details related to books, articles,

journals used in your research.

Objectives:

• Discuss the creative process of an artist/designer

• Explain the impact and influence that image has on Art & Design

• Display oral and written communication skills

• Prepare a formal, oral and visual presentation

Grading Criteria:

+ Completion of all points in the study

+ Organization of Materials Presented

+ Depth of Research

+ Quality and Design of Oral/Visual Presentation

Artists/Designers:

Ansel Adams – Victoria Lock
Richard Avedon – Ellen Williams
Robert Brownjohn – Ben Ferry
Kyle Cooper– Kurt Abo
April Greiman – Christian Sanchez
David Hockney – Kate Murdoch
Yutaka Inagawa – Jack Hsu
Balthazar Korab – Justin Quinn
Herbert Matter – Filip Fichtel
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy – Michael Rosgen
Pentagram (Paula Scher) – Lindzey Grasmick
Man Ray – Omni Francetich
Grete Stern – Leon Humpherys
Ezra Stoller – Ale Lozano
Jeff Wall – Tarin Leach
Danny Yount – Jordan Amoth

Creative Musings Week 6

"Out Of Place” Photomontage by Robert Rickhoff 

Image manipulations by German artist, Robert Rickhoff, that question that logical relationships between ordinary and mundane objects. See more recent work on Robert Rickhoff's blog.

{via enpundit.com}

Segments from PBS ART 21

How do artists respond to a world in flux? In what ways do artists act as agents of change, and what kinds of aesthetic choices do they make to express it? This episode features artists who bear witness, through their work, to transformation—cultural, material, and aesthetic—and actively engage communities as collaborators and subjects

  El Anatsui in ART21: "Change"

Watch Change on PBS. See more from ART:21.

Catherine Opie in ART21:"Change"

Watch Change on PBS. See more from ART:21.

Cindy Sherman in ART21:"Transformation"

Watch Transformation on PBS. See more from ART:21. “I didn’t want to make what looked like art,” Cindy Sherman says about her earliest works, explaining that “film has always kind of been more influential to me than the art world.” The segment surveys thirty years of untitled works in which the artist photographs herself in various scenes and guises, grouped into informally-named series such as fairy tales, centerfolds, history portraits, Hollywood/Hampton types, and clowns. Sherman used a digital camera and green screen for her most recent series of society portraits, modifying each image’s “background with the same kind of license that a painter would take.” Sorting through test shots at the computer, Sherman leads the viewer through her iterative process. The segment later follows her to a thrift store where, upon finding several “wacky pants” she wonders if this shopping trip “might be inspiring a whole new series.”

Photomontage: "Change" Exercise

Week 6 (Monday/Wednesday, Feb 11+ 13)
You must use Photoshop, and the Photomerge tool to composite your photomontage.

Experiment with at least 3 different photomerge blend settings (reposition, collage, perspective, spherical, cylindrical) as well as appropriate adjustment layers to improve contrast and tone. Save each exploration three separate PSD files.

Incorporate other imagery into your composite that may further support your narrative of "change". Be sure to use appropriate techniques to create a seamless implementation.

Be sure your visual scene supports at least one central charasteristic of an effective montage 1) create a single composition, giving the illusion that the elements belonged together originally, or 2) to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding meaning to the overall composition.

Convert your best photomontage exploration into a TIFF file (save in Photomontage Ex folder on the dropbox) for class review next class (Wednesday, Feb 13).

New books in library: Image, Art & Design

Check out some of the newly acquired books in the UI Library listed in the link below. Many of them feature a variety of artist and designers included in the class research presentation project.

https://uidaho.worldcat.org/profiles/khenrich/lists/3087348. 

including books on:
Herbert Matter
Will Burtin
Pentagram
Hannah Hoch
Kenneth Snelson
Gregory Crewdson
Jeff Wall
Balthazar Korab
April Greiman
Ezra Stoller
Julius Shulman

Photomontage: "Change" Exercise

Week 5 (Wednesday Feb 6)
Create a photomontage that explores the concept of "change".  Pick an indoor or outdoor scene that deals with "change" in some visual and/or conceptual way.

Using a digital camera, find at least 3 interesting scenes that signify the theme of "change. It is recommended you take at least 30 digital images per scene. You will be using Photoshop to composite together multiple images into a single composition in your final photomontage.

Use Photoshop this weekend to put together at least one of your chosen scenes (save as a PSD file). Bring your digital photos and one assembled scene (PSD) to next class, Monday, Feb 11, for review.

Recommendations when photographing your scene:
1) Stay in one spot when photographing (focus on a single viewpoint)
2) Take lots of overlapping shots, to help reduce the amount of gaps in the final composite. Images should overlap by approximately 40%.
3) Use manual settings on your digital camera when possible (focal length, exposure, white balance, etc)

Week 6 (Monday/Wednesday, Feb 11+ 13)
You must use Photoshop, and the Photomerge tool to composite your photomontage.

Experiment with at least 3 different photomerge blend settings (reposition, collage, perspective, spherical, cylindrical) as well as appropriate adjustment layers to improve contrast and tone.

Save each exploration three separate PSD files. Convert your three photomontage explorations (that explores 3 different photomerge blending settings) into TIFF files for review next class (Wednesday, Feb 13).



Photomerge Tips
Photomerge is a technique in Photoshop used combine several photographs into one continous image

To Access the Photomerge Tool
In Photoshop: File > Automate > Photomerge
In Bridge: Select specific images you want to use, Tools>Photoshop>Photomerge

Photomerge Settings

Week 5 Day 1 (Monday, Feb 4) - Homework

1. Work on Research Project. Final presentations for research project due in two weeks (Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013, 8:30am). Be sure to cite all resources (image and information in provided word doc and InDesign templates.

  2. Coordinate with your group (assigned in class today) for at least one member to bring in a digital camera to next class session (point and shoot or DSLR). Will be covering panoramas and photo merge concepts.