AIGA Design Workshop With Shogo Ota - this Thursday

In addition to the Inspiring Design Futures Symposium that is taking place this week, the AIGA Student Chapter on campus has planned a design workshop session with CAA alum, Shogo Ota, on Thursday, March 21, 3-5pm in AAS Rm 104.

To check out some of Shogo's design work check out his company Tireman Studio.

CAA Computer Studio Print Lab Information

CAA Computer Studio Print Lab Information

Week 10 Day 1 - Monday, March 18 Homework

1. Print out poster by end of this week for group critiques scheduled for next Monday, March 25. Be sure to check project specifications on blog or dropbox to meet minimum project requirements.

2. Instead of meeting in our usual classroom space on Wednesday (March 20), we will meet at the Inspiring Design Futures symposium morning sessions.

 8:30am - Welcoming event in the Student Union Building (SUB Ballroom)

You will also be required to attend the Career Building 9:00-10:15am session in the SUB Ballroom.

Be sure to get a passport name badge and get stamped for attending this morning session. Bring stamped passport to class next week, as this will count for Wednesday class attendance.

 

Week 9 Day 1 - Monday, March 4 - Homework

1. Continue to work on design of earth day poster. Acquire or photograph appropriate imagery to use in  poster. Be sure overall visual theme supports on of four approved environmental issues (Recycling e-waste, stop oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, planting trees to support The Canopy Project, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”). Midpoint designs due for group critique in three weeks, Monday, March 25.

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