put your portfolio online

those of you getting your resume, coverletter and pdf's ready for internships should put your stuff online. krop.com is very easy and looks great and it is free for 10 images. that is all you need. i did a test using your bookcovers. if you want to spend a few minutes on it in class we can on wed. bring your electronic files.

take a look or here is a seniors

type id

everyone likes a good shoot em up game

Upcoming Events...

Bruce Mau: April 08, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Massive Change: The Future of Design and Life on Earth. Don't miss out on this mega name at the Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Patrick Coyne: April 09: Celebrating 50 Years of Communication Arts. Patrick Coyne will discuss the history and philosophy of the magazine, how CA's competitions work and how creatives are chosen for profiles in the magazine. He will also present a selection of award-winning design and advertising projects produced on limited budgets and discuss the future of creativity in the post-information age. AIGA event in Kansas City. A great opportunity to network. We can take a van or 2 to this event if so if you want to go... let me know.

Studio Tour April 10 {Reactor + MK12

Studio Tour April 17 {Hallmark Cards. All Day Tour: be there at 8:40, bring cash for lunch, tour end around 1pm. Space is limited, sign up. (date has changed from the 24th)

Lecture: Thursday April 24: Sam Shelton
"It's All About the PR"
JRP 150 (Design History room), 6:30 p.m.

It's all about the PR. When it comes to finding a job, no matter where you are in the arc of your career, it all comes down to having good PR. PR, in this case, is professional relationships. After all, the classic PR, or public relations is really about relationship building. It's not just about what you send out, but about how you present the whole package: your work, your creative process, your inspiration, and your personality. Be ready—you're beginning a process that continues throughout your entire career.

1. When working with sound, be sure to match up your keyframes with your Audio waveform, not with what you hear. It will enable you to visualize what the sound is doing and where sound actually starts versus when you think it starts.
2. Try and discover all of the quirky little things after effects has to offer, be they different effects or shortcuts on your keyboard. 
3. Use the pre-compose feature. It helps keep your main composition organized and will save time in the long run.
4. Always think of your composition as a 3D world, where you can go back, forth, turn around, look up, down, etc. It will be easier to use cameras/null objets when you think in a 3D state of mind. 

Start with a concept.

Realize that AfterEffects is not a solution, it's a tool
that will help you execute your all-ready-developed idea.

1) Learn how to work with a null object. Parenting your camera to a null object will make camera movements exponentially easier.

2) Figure out all the idiosyncrasies of masks. My project would be nothing without them. Especially pay attention to :

a. Whether the mask is set to "Add" or "Subtract"
b. Changing mask position with nodes - Shift+Click on one of the anchor points on a mask. This allows you to alter the mask shape as you move keyframe to keyframe, creating the illusion of something growing or receding.
c. Working with mask feathering is tricky but can add a great illusion of depth if used correctly.

Watch the tutorial videos and have ideas of what you want to do before you start so you're not clueless and just clicking around aimlessly. It saves you time, so none is wasted!

Don't be afraid to get into your video and start editing. Unlike flash, you do not have to start over with every edit, you can simply move your layers around.

add your sound first.  it is much easier to time things and make them line up with the words being spoken if you go ahead and put it in first.

Type on the outside

Type En Espanol!

This spring break I went down to Cd. Juarez to visit my family and during my time in the city with my cousins I took pictures of additional found type.

I found it interesting how the majority of the type was hand painted while most of the type I see here in the U.S. is printed. Hmm...

Take a Look!
(Btw...these shots were taken in a moving vehicle so excuse the blurriness in some.)

So when do we get to learn something like this?

just kidding, but I figured I'd post this to show some cool things that they did with timing. Plus the music is nice :)



Edit: Oh, and this!

periodic table of typefaces

The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world. This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today. here is the full story

learning aftereffects

the other type 2 class is going to do aftereffects as their next project. if you could give them 1 or 2 tips how to learn aftereffects, how to set up a file, how to do ___. what would that be?

font id

to begin we must know the classifications of fonts, anatomy, and who designed the font. make sure for your 2 fonts you are "in charge of" that you tell us some distinguishing characteristics of the font.

some resources:
Jonathan Hoefler's Type Styles 101 (typophile.com)
Twenty Text Typefaces: Textism.com (Dean Allen)
Type Classification (RedSun.com)
Type Classification by Ellen Lupton (Thinking With Type)

sounds

To find sounds, besides what is on the server you can google free sounds or try these.
a1freesoundeffects.com/
simplythebest.net/sounds/
freesound.org
partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml
soundsnap.com/
http://www.soundsnap.com/

ProtoTYPE meeting: Wed at 6pm

Guest Speaker: VisCom Alumni: Dan Padavic and Tad Carpender of vahallastudios.com. See their work, hear how they got where they are and join us for the raffle of some of their great posters.

AGENDA: Studio Tour, March 27: Design Ranch and Rush Wade. CONFERENCES: dallas and aiga conference. UPCOMING SPEAKERS: April 8, Bruce Mau at the KU Union and April 9, Patrick Coyne in Kansas City. Check the prototype website for full list of upcoming events and information.

The AIGA Design Conference is in Memphis,

October 8–11, 2009, it is a great event and if you volunteer then you can get in for FREE if you volunteer. Information is attached. (normally would cost you $350 just to get in the door) * you do have to be a student member so if you are not currently one but are interested please see me.

There are 70 volunteer opportunities available for “Make/Think: AIGA Design Conference” in Memphis, Tennessee. Student groups get first dibs! If you are at all interested volunteer NOW.

information about the conference: http://designconference.aiga.org

Hallmark Internship: info

Hallmark has great internships for the summer they are open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. They get more than 400 applicants but out of that 400. It is a long shot for you all but you are welcomed to try and so DO IT. We did have sophomore last year get one. IT is free to apply, need a cover letter, resume, no printouts, just electronic.

here is the application