Portfolio Reviews this week on Monday and Tuesday!
Be there on time with your portfolio printed and ready to present.
12/8/10
12/5/10
In Class Mon Dec 6th
Cutting Stencils!
Do you have questions about making your portfolio?
Did you sign up for a time slot to crit your portfolio? (sign up sheet is on my office door in the lobby)
11/30/10
In Class Wed Dec 1st
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Create and print your 2 stencils for next monday Dec 6th (print a couple extras of each)
We will cut them out on Monday after the crit
11/28/10
In class Mon Nov 28th
Project 6 Due Today!
*You need your 12 hi-rez patterns saved as both a JPG and a PSD
*You need your 12 hi-rez patterns saved as both a JPG and a PSD
Project 7
Create and cut out 2 useable Stencils.
Due Wed Dec 8th
11/21/10
In class mon Nov 22nd
Project 5 is Due today!
You need:
- Your box ready
- 3 Product shots printed and as Jpegs
- Jpeg of your final layout
You need:
- Your box ready
- 3 Product shots printed and as Jpegs
- Jpeg of your final layout
Work on Project
11/17/10
In class wed Nov 17th
Patterns
William Morris Wiki
How to make a Pattern in Photoshop
1. Find an image
2. crop as you wish
3. Double the hight of the canvas. Center your image at the bottom of the canvas.
4. Cut and Paste your image onto a new layer
5. Edit-->Transform-->Rotate-->Flip on the horizontal your new layer
6. Move your new layer to the top of the image
7. Flatten the Image
Ding!! Your Pattern is done.
* try doubling the size of the width and repeating the process to extend your pattern.
Try to make some patterns in class.
*You need to create 12 hi-rez patterns for the assignment!
* Due Monday Nov 29th
11/14/10
In class Mon Nov 15th
Review the layout of your package as a Jpeg.
(hand them in to Joe at the beginning of class)
Whats Next!
- Print your image! (choose a paper that has simular qualities to your package traditionally)
- Wrap your box. be as accurate as possible.
- Take 3 Product shots of your package.
Due Next Monday!
Present Project 5
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11/8/10
11/3/10
10/31/10
In class mon Nov 1st
Project 4 Due!
Project 5 Assigned!
Project 4 Due!
Examples for Project 5
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Project 5 Assigned!
Project 4 Due!
Examples for Project 5
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Logo Manipulation in Photoshop
- The 'Cloning stamp'
- Look for the basic elements that make up a letter
- Zoom In and use Layers
- Don't forget to Save often
Box Design Lets Break one Open!
- What would be the easiest way to create an accurate template for our Box?
10/26/10
In class wed Oct 27th
Barbara Kruger: Crossing the line between Design and Art
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© Copyright
U2 vs Negative Land
Roy Orbison vs 2 Live Crew
10/19/10
In class Wed Oct 20th
Project 2 Artist Trading Cards Due today!
* You need all your cards cut and ready by the beginning of class!
Project 3 For Sale Sign Due Today!
* You need your 20 photocopies
Crit Project 2 & Project 3
* You need all your cards cut and ready by the beginning of class!
Project 3 For Sale Sign Due Today!
* You need your 20 photocopies
Crit Project 2 & Project 3
Assign Project 4
* Get a number
10/17/10
In class Mon Oct 18th
Project 2 Artist Trading Cards Due today!
Project 3 For Sale Sign Due Today!
* You need your image saved as a tiff on your thumbdrive!
In Class
Cut Project 2
Print Project 3
Crit Project 2 & Project 3
Project 3 For Sale Sign Due Today!
* You need your image saved as a tiff on your thumbdrive!
In Class
Cut Project 2
Print Project 3
Crit Project 2 & Project 3
10/11/10
In class Wed Oct 13th
Project 2 Artist Trading Cards Due Monday Oct 18th
Project 3 For Sale Sign Due Today!
Project 3 For Sale Sign Due Today!
* You need you image saved as a tiff on your thumbdrive
Email Address for Sale signs:
at4sale@gmail.com
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at4sale@gmail.com
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Flickr
the Home PAge
- uploading to Flickr
-- jpegs only! resize your images for 1600 pixels on the longest side (free account)
Your Photostream
Viewing an image
Owner Settings
- This is where you set the rules for how your image can be used by the public
- © means all rights are reserved
- ©© Creative commons Licenses offer more possibilities
Tags
- useful descriptive information
Actions
- Send to a group
- multiple image sizes
Sharing
- URL
- Get HTML code
Organize and Create
- Batch Processing
Sets
Collections
More about type
Do's and Don't of Type
10/10/10
In class Mon Oct 11th
TYPE
A graphic character created out of metal traditionally used in various printing process.
* Designing with Type is called Typography
* Different styles of type are called typrfaces, on the computer they are called fonts.
* Font size is measured in points
Fonts come in different flavors
- Serif & San-Serif Typefaces
- Bold & Italic
- Display Type & Text Type
~ Text in Flash is Vector so it is scaleable and can be manipulated.
* Text Tool
- Modify --> Break Apart (then do it a second time to make transformable text)
*Images
- Import
--- JPG, for Photo Quality and small file size(use 'Save for Web' in Photoshop)
--- GIF, to keep the edge and color of solid graphics (use 'Save for Web' in Photoshop)
--- PNG-24, Photo Quality & Transparency (use 'Save for Web' in Photoshop)
* it goes into the 'Library' look for it under Windows --> Library
- Trace Bitmap
- Optimize
work on project
10/5/10
Digital Lab Hours
Lab Schedule
mon
9-10am Carly (1)
11:30-1:45 Danielle (2.25)
1:50-5pm CLASS
5-6:30pm Danielle (1.5)
6:30-8pm Brianna (1.5)
tue
9-12pm CLASS
12-2pm Carly (2)
5-8 Jackie (3)
wed
11:30-1:45pm Danielle (2.25)
1:50-5pm CLASS
5-6:30pm Danielle (1.5)
8:30-9:30pm Carly (1)
thur
9-12pm CLASS
12-1:25 Brianna (1.5)
1:15-4:30pm Jackie (3.25)
fri
12:15-2pm Jackie (1.75)
2-4pm Brianna (2)
sat
Closed
sun
6-9pm Brianna (3)
mon
9-10am Carly (1)
11:30-1:45 Danielle (2.25)
1:50-5pm CLASS
5-6:30pm Danielle (1.5)
6:30-8pm Brianna (1.5)
tue
9-12pm CLASS
12-2pm Carly (2)
5-8 Jackie (3)
wed
11:30-1:45pm Danielle (2.25)
1:50-5pm CLASS
5-6:30pm Danielle (1.5)
8:30-9:30pm Carly (1)
thur
9-12pm CLASS
12-1:25 Brianna (1.5)
1:15-4:30pm Jackie (3.25)
fri
12:15-2pm Jackie (1.75)
2-4pm Brianna (2)
sat
Closed
sun
6-9pm Brianna (3)
In class wed Oct 6th
Project 2 Due!
How Goes the Flickr
Go to the Flickr group here and request to join the Art216 group
Design in Flash MX
It's Vector!
* Vector is a set of mathamatical calculations displayed as storkes (lines) and fills
*it is simular to Microsoft paint
* it's re-sizable unlike bitmap images (Photoshop)
Whats there:
- Tools
- The Stage
- The Time Line
- Windows
--> Modify --> Document, To change the document size
lets play. Try it out and ask questions.
work on Project
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10/3/10
In Class Mon Oct 4th
Photoshop Layout
- the ATC template
- other templates
-- CD
-- Business Card
-- Skateboard
- designing for the space
Work on Project
9/28/10
9/26/10
In class Mon Sept 27th
Project 1 Due
Project 2 Assigned!
What Are ATC's?
- Page Set-up
- size
- texture
- texture
9/21/10
In class Wed Sept 22nd
Advanced Photoshop
Layout in Photoshop
- Guides, Rulers
- Unprintable Boarders
- Printing from Photoshop
Color in Photoshop
* the Histogram
- Levels
- Adjustment Layers
- Colorsync
Layout in Photoshop
- Guides, Rulers
- Unprintable Boarders
- Printing from Photoshop
Work on Project
9/19/10
In class mon Sept 20th
Quick History of Graphic Design
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Graphic Design is the merger of Symbols, Images and Language.
Symbols represent ideas and concepts.
Images represent Reality or Anti-Reality.
Language is written as text. Text is made up of letters. Letters are symbols.
Photoshop Adv.
* Actions
* Automate
How To Scan
1 - set up the scanner options
2 - select an area to scan
3 - hit preview
4 - hit scan
5 - save the scan as a PSD
work on Project
9/14/10
In class wed Sept 15th
Thumbdrive Test!!!
Designer of the day! (see below)
Lets review the things you think are broken?
Photoshop basics
- Opening a File
* DPI
- Image size - used to change the amount of pixels in the image
- Canvas size - used to add extra pixels to the image
- Save:
* File Types
--- Photoshop .PSD file is your working file (keep this forever)
--- JPEG file is a 'Flattened' and Compressed file
Printing dpi resolutions
180 dpi - for images with no text only. lowest possible printing resolution.
240 dpi - good for images and fonts 11 points or bigger
300 dpi - great for images and fonts 8 points or bigger
360 dpi - great for images and fonts 6 points or bigger
400-600 dpi - super hi-resolution as good as an image can look
Downloadable PDF about DPI
Using the Scanner
- access the scanners software in Photoshop under "import"
- make sure your in professional mode
- resolution (dpi) changes the speed at which the scanner will scan
- look at the other scanner options
- try doing everthing you were told not to do with a scanner (like move stuff while scanning)
- all scanners have a distance above the glass which is in focus and then drops off quickly
How To Scan
1 - set up the scanner options
2 - select an area to scan
3 - hit preview
4 - hit scan
5 - save the scan as a PSD
* Semester Long Project Starts
* Project 1 assigned
Kyle T. Webster
9/12/10
In class Mon Sept 13
Design = the balance between Content and Aesthetic
Things to consider when creating, manipulating or viewing an image/design:
Aesthetic Quality – how beautiful or sublime an image’s elements and
composition are
Composition – the flow and readability of an image
Image Content – the individual visual elements that make up the image
Image Context – an images context is understood by looking at the visual elements
that make up the images content and considering the Historical and Cultural understanding those elements represent in the society and across generations.
Consider the context of the technology in comparison to the image's qualities
- The first photographs created were shot on glass plates with a slow film speed that produced Black and White images. As time progressed so did the technology to capture images. This has led to a link between image technology and time in our visual cultural understanding. In photo theory photography is linked with the ideas of memory and time, the capturing of a moment to retain a visual perspective of time. This happens not only from the capturing of the image on film but also through the use of aesthetic related to each generation of technology.
An example:
A Black & White or -images from the inexperienced past,
Sepia toned Photograph lived life with color images, images of
Grand and Great Grandparents
(cultural generation 18-35)
-images from the remembered past, saw the transition of the snap shot from BxW to Color, images of Grand parents and parent’s childhood photos
(cultural generation 36-55)
-Images from the experienced past, remembers photographs as special objects, images of immediate family and friends from the past, most dead
(cultural generation 56-90)
Fleming / Odo Performance
Waters of Immortality & other works
- What do you think?
- What part effected you most?
- How did it make you feel?
- What do you think their intention was?
If design is about solving problems, then how do we know if something is broken?
Ideology of 'Broken' [video]
*Assignment - come to class on Wed with a list of 5 things that you think are "broken"
* Flash drive test on Wed!
8/24/10
First Day
Hello and Welcome to the Digital Art & Design 2, Digital Print Media. You are currently looking at the blog for the class. This blog will contain all the information you need for this class including up-to-date information on what will be happening in class, project specifics, examples and the syllabus..
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* This class has a $100 Lab fee ($25 a credit) & you will need a 2 GB thumbdrive.
Here is our first example of digital print media as subversive street art.
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