In Class Tue Feb 12th

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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Here is our first example of digital print media as subversive street art.

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In Class Wed Dec 12th

The Final is today from 12 noon till 3pm.


i will be in around 11:30am

it is time to celebrate the end of a great semester!

In Class Wed Dec 5th

SUMMA Thing

Lets talk about freelance and dealing with clients
- a pencil and paper
- how to bill and what to charge
- where to find work
- portfolio

ask questions!

Workin' on your Books

In Class Wed Nov 28th

A moment with Sam Karp:
- Newspaper Photographer, Magazine Creative Director, Communication Specialist, Photography Teacher, Marketing/Advertising Consultant

ask him questions, he's been around!

Check out Sams Blog

Check out Sams Flickr



Work on you books and the Triptic

In Class Mon Nov 26th

Lets Talk Copyright © (option-G) on the MAC
- What is it?
- Who Owns it?
- Levels of Protection

examples:
2 Live Crew & Roy Orbison, "Pretty Woman"
U2 & Negative Land, "U2 font and logo"

copyright © info



Make your Books!

In Class Mon Nov 19th

Makin a Hard cover for the book

bring your glued folded books to class!

In Class Mon Nov 14th

The chumby is here!

We will be makin' books today! or at least the test book

cut, glue, fold

In Class Mon Nov 12th

Finishing up the books and getting ready for the first printing.

-- You should be finalizing your book pages today

-- You should start printing the 1st copy today.

-- Lets talk about printing and papers and such.

we want to get all the pages for the first printing done and ready for thursday.

...ALSO check out the new links about personal publishing

In Class Wed Nov 7th

Chumby is on the way.



Work on your books

Print out a test copy

In Class Mon Nov 5th

Work on your books today

you should be printing out some of your pages today!

In Class on Halloween

First check out some creepy links
* new links on the side of the blog

then work on your terrifying book
(you should be well into laying it out at this gory point)

i will be checking out your spooky progress

In Class Mon Oct 29th

See some examples!

Work on your books today

i want to see your Photoshop book template PSD's and a page or two of your book

In Class Wed Oct 24th

Work on your books.

you should be setting up your Photoshop Template today and have a good amount of your images collected.

In Class Mon Oct 22nd

We will be discussing your books individually.

You should have alot of your material collected by now and should be getting close to the layout phase.

Work on your book in class.

In Class Wed Oct 17th

Check out Project 1 and Discuss

Talk about the book project.
- your ideas (now after a week of thought)
- sizes & formats

Creating a template in Photoshop
- 8.5" X 11" paper size (either horz or vert)
- non printable area
- guides
- creating cut lines
- folders in layers

In Class Wed Oct 10th

Project 2 is Due!
- We will print out the "screen shot" images in class.
- I will collect the 2 "screen shot" images as JPGs
- I want to see your 'Archive' and 1 pattern

Discussion about book project (project 3)
- Group or individual
- Book size
- Subject matter
* see examples

Design Contest

Due Nov 2nd
send all entries to the attention of:
The 2007 Holiday Card Contest
Office of MArketing & Communications
Shineman Chapel House

need more info contact:
Francis Borrego '92
borregof@hartwick.edu

In Class Mon Oct 8th

Layout and design in Photoshop
- Rulers
- Preferences Changing between inches and pixels
- Guides & Grids
- Single Pixel Selection H & V
- Using the Square Selection Tool as a layout guide
- Templates and Photoshop
--- CD Template
--- Our Book Template
----- Look at the Language of the Template
- Printers and Design
--- Non printable area on Laser/Inkjet printers
--- Leading edge on Laser Printers
- Asking your Printer (the person) Questions
----- What Resolution?
----- CMYK or RGB?
----- Printable Area?
----- Color Space (colorsync)

In Class Mon Oct 1st

Photoshop Text and Transform
--- Text Tool
--- Transform tools
--- Filters
--- Using the Vector tools
--- Photoshop masks