type poster

From NOW until Monday please think of your poster as a poster, what is the essence of the speech? who is speaking, what is the date (and how can you show that), how can you express the speech into a POSTER. Stop thinking about how the poster is going to become motion. Choose 1, 2 or 3 words or a phrase and start there. Include the speech on the poster but it can be small or edited down to the essence 50 to 100 words. Start striping your poster to a clear idea. Do as many as you can for Monday. EXPLORE.

Right now they are not looking like a poster and they are looking similar. PLEASE consider: space, sCaLE, contrast.. Don't hold back BUT don't do things just becuase they are "cool", always have a reason and it has to go back to the meaning, emotion, feeling... of the speech.

Try for a poster that gives the viewer information in layers, when they are 20 feet away they should see be able to read something, at 10 feet something else, and 1 foot away to be able to read the rest.

I will be around part of the weekend if you want me to take a look. The examples below are just examples not all super great but hopefully they will get you thinking. Try not to be overly influenced by them.

comments

NICE JOB class on the comments about the bookcovers! I read them all and makes me proud that you all seem to like commenting. Those of you who haven't uploaded them yet -- get to it.

This weeks journal

Don't forget to get this weeks journal entry {What is animated typography?} done before Monday's class. So far Cat has done an excellent job. If you want to add youtube to your blog, scroll down.

for your viewing pleasure

postponed a week

since there is only one printer working this weekend, please don't try this weekend. let the jr's get their project done. print next week and have it done by Monday March 2. IF you are already done, your project IS already printed bring it to class with you on monday.

Just a heads up

I'm sitting in the print lab at A&D right now and only one of the three Epson printers is working.  There is another class printing, other than our type class this weekend, so things could get crazy. 

Hopefully the situation will improve, but no guarantees.

the art of the title

for all you title lovers this is for you: they show storyboards and have links to watch. and you can download them all through itunes (which i have done and will put on the server for you)

That's helpful.

I'm not sure how long they've been doing this (at least since 2000 judging by their archives) but AIGA often includes the typeface when listing credits for their selections for 365: Year in Design. It's a nice way to see a typeface or combination of typefaces in action.

adding playlist to your blog

1) you need a youtube account
2) find a video that you like
3) click on the playlist button below the video
4) create a playlist (you call add lots of videos to one playlist
5) go up to your account -> playlist, and go to a playlist
6) when you see all your videos in that playlist click on play all
7) in the upper right there is "embed" copy that text next to "embed"
8) go you your blog entry and past into text field.
test, waalaa

if you need more there are youtube videos showing you how to...

saul bass

the father of it all

se7en started a new generation of

kyle cooper

Trollback

A few points from the video...

-Don't deal with just motion, it's more than that. It's storytelling.
-Don't stay content, go further...when you learn a song on a guitar you always want to learn more, other songs. do the same...
-Design is a language used to express things. You can do so many things with it, Strive to get emotions out, you can make stuff and no need for what its saying however it works well if you do have an underlying message.
-To change someones views...discussions, pressure, pleas, and negative statements never work. Emotional messages work way better.
-During storytelling, be inspired, tell stories, and leave things out.
-Inspiration is everywhere

I really liked Trollback's views and his ideas. Not to mention that he was a DJ at one point :)

All of the clips on his website are awesome, it makes me want to do all of those effects...

journal and more

weekly journal...After you completed each task, summarize it: information about the author and what did they say..., reflect upon it, what questions would you ask the author? what questions do you have about what they said... and answer any additional questions listed for that week.

Your blog/journal should ALSO show your engagement to typography and graphic design. Besides the task you should be inspired by stuff around you and that stuff you find on the web. "Found stuff" means found examples of typography/design in the environment, signage, magazines, books, posters, “good” type, “bad” type, "ugly/beautiful" interesting fonts, handmade fonts, letterforms, packaging... Carry a camera and take photographs of type/design in your environment as well as find examples that you can copy, scan and upload into the blog.

Mailboxes are full

KU mailboxes are easily filled you need to trash your large attachments and then retrash. The best thing to do is get a gmail account. When your pdfs are too large to email. You have a couple of choices...
1) re-export it as the SMALLEST FILE
2) you can open your pdf and export all the pages as jpgs. Then email them in stages or if they are a jpg or png you can post them to the blog.
That is the unfortunate thing about Blogger it doesn't accept pdf files

50 Must Have Brushes

A few of you have to really curve yourself away from too much photoshop stuff but here it is anyway. Smashing Mag's 50 Must Have Brushes

Two West Lecture

Tuesday, February 10, at 7 pm in Dole 2092. There is always free pizza and water.

The KU Ad Club has invited Senior Interactive Strategist Justin Powell from Two West in Kansas City to our next meeting to guest speak. Since he comes from the creative/graphic design side of the advertising world, we would like to make sure your students know about it. He will discuss how he start in his career and what students can do to land their first job in the creative field. T

Bruce Mau

"it is not about the world of design, but the design of the world"

Bruce Mau was born on October 25, 1959 and is the founder of Institute without Boundaries.
Joined the Fifty Fingers design group in 1980.
Established his own studio: Bruce Mau Design.
Design Director of Zone Books and creative director of I.D. magazine.
Has won numerous awards.
He published a set of goals in 1998 called: Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.

Out of the 43 goals I chose this following one to follow through...

Avoid software.The problem with software is that everyone has it.

Why? It's true, everyone has software. Photoshop, Illustrator, etc... what makes things unique sometimes is creating it with your own hands. I know I tend to rely too much on the computer sometimes and I would like to do more things on paper. I do like to but I can never get down and do it. So forget software, I'm relying more on hand made things.

Journal Entry #2

Bruce Mau says, "Don't be cool."

Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

Besides just being a plain-old great quote, I believe Bruce Mau's simple but effective mantra holds a much deeper meaning that directly applies to our book cover project. When broken down, the word cool hardly holds much weight in the world of design. Cool can mean popular at this moment in time, trendy, initially appealing, or even to not stand out - none of which point to a lasting, effective, and deep method of design. If our focus on concepts and process have taught us anything, it should be that your first idea might be cool, but your last idea and product should be effective.

Resume Prep

Many of you are will be looking for an internship in the spring or at least wondering what goes on a resume and how do i show my work? The ProtoType meeting on Wed will briefly go over some tips. On the VISCOM server you will find a folder call Prototype. In it are pdf examples of portfolios. Grab them and keep them for reference. Also in your reference "folder" here are some links to many articles giving you very helpful tips. So if you can't make it to the meeting you at least have the info. Also you can always check out the Protfolio class website.

resume + cover letters
aiga.org: resume-common-mistakes
aiga.org: resume-writing
common resume blunders
cover letters get you hired
7-Killer cover lettter mistakes
top 10 cover letter tips
many more articles on how mags site

interview help
six ways to bomb an interview
presenting your portfolio
three steps to a successful job interview
many more articles on how mags site

thank you notes
the power of a simple thank you
write a winning thank you note