In class Mon April 1st

Visual Art in Public Spaces 

Banksey

Shepard Fairey

Commercialism vs Advertising

You should have a digital file of your unusual for sale poster "mostly" ready for review. The class will have 1 hour to work before handing the file in.

1st review of project 4


taking a look at Project 5 

In class Wed Mar 20th

Critique Project 3 pt2


-tell me your ideas for project 4

Work on Project 4

In class Mon Mar 18th

The creation of reality:

Question, Who was the first president of the United States?



Awesome "text" based public art piece. 



More on Copyright ©

How does it work for you?
- Immediate protection of "content" you create for up to 75 years after your death.

Is it easy to protect your copyrighted work?
- NO, Why?

What can you do.
- Time stamp it up online. Blogs work well.
- Register your crated works with the copyright office online.
- Get a copyright lawyer to take care of your content.



Critique Project 3

Work on Project 4

In class wed Mar 13

© Copyright

U2 vs Negative Land

Roy Orbison vs 2 Live Crew

Creative Commons ©©

Where can I get legal content to use thats Free!
ccMixter
Archive.org

Fair Use
US Gov
Wiki

Lets Talk Paper

The thickness of paper is talked about in terms of "weight." This is figured out comes by calculating the weight of a stack of 500 sheets of some type of paper.

Common Paper weights

Paper Weights and Paper Types
Paper comes in many types & surfaces:
- Matt
- Glossy
- Water Color (hot press & cold press)
- Photo
- Colored 


Check out what iprintfromhome.com has to offer



Project 4 assigned

Work on Project 3

In class Mon Mar 11th

Class will start at 2pm today!

What is Propaganda?


Propaganda Print from WWII

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So how do you think this fits into the concept of Propaganda?

Pet Cat Lost!

Lets talk Color

- What do colors mean?

- How do colors work in the computer?

- RGB vs CMYK

- Colorsync

--- Assigning a colorsync profile

Color in Photoshop

* the Histogram

- Levels

- Adjustment Layers

- Colorsync

Joining the Flickr Group

Work on Project 

Project 3 Due Monday March 18th

In class Wed Mar 6th

Barbara Kruger: Crossing the line between Design and Art

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Pattern examples from past classes 

Steps in the Graphic Design Process:

• Analyze the audience.
• Determine the purpose of your message.
• Decide where and how your message will appear (whether it will be a printed publication, presentation, or web site).
• Establish goals.
• Organize text and graphics.
• Choose an appropriate format and layout.
• Select appropriate typefaces, type sizes, type styles, and spacing.
• Add and manipulate graphics.
• Organize text and graphics.
• Proofread
• Refine and fine-tune.

Layout in Photoshop

- Preferences

- Guides, Rulers & Grids

- Unprintable boarder

- templates

- single page, multipage, 3d (box)

Critique Project 2


Project 3 Due Mon March 18th

In class Mon Mar 4th

Project 2 Due At the beginning of class.

Project 3 Assigned



Patterns

William Morris 1834 -1896,  English Textile Designer

William Morris wallpaper

Colourlovers.com

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

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!