Art 120 | Digital Foundations 1 | Fall 2008
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January 21, 2010 10:19 AM
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M-10/15/07-Week 06-AGENDA
Lecture/Demonstration Working with Type. How your system handles font resources. Extensis Suitcase. Font Types. Brief Type History. The Basics of selecting and setting type
Demo/In Class Illustrator LetterType Patterns Links davidthedesigner: typography Ace Jet 170 Typographica. A Journal of Typography The FontFeed Drainage Ditch
Due in Class Letterform and Pattern sketches from your sketchbooks. Scan in one of each at 1200 ppi.
Tutorials Download this PDF which lists tutorial resources for you as well as an explanation of the built in features of Adobe Help Viewer. Create Patterns in Photoshop CS3 (video)
M-10/22/07-Week 07 Open Lab starts at 10am for morning class.
Assignment-due today 1. Patterns 10x10 push pinned to wall in Studio J003. 2. Nahid Toontoochi Lecture Poster Assignment Specs.-have multiple sketches and at least one digital version ready.
Read this! Copyright ruling on Fonts 1988 View this grandaddy link site of Luc Devroye! Copyright and trademark in the type world
W-10/25/07-Special Deadline********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Assignment-due today Nahid Tootoonchi Lecture Posters. E-mail to joneskenneth@mac.com by 10pm. (follow instructions on assignment above for size specifications).
Winners announced Thursday by NOON. Winner gets free NYC Bus Ticket for 10/27 trip.
M-10/29/07-Week 08
In Class The poster critique has been moved up to next week. Today will be a lab session to help you with your work. Make sure you have your posters in the formats specified. We’ll have a brief progress critique, talk about the submittals from last Wednesday’s deadline. View the slideshow here. The goal of today’s class is for you to make significant progress editing and defining your work.
Afternoon section will be lead by Kurt and Anabel as I will be at an admnistrative meeting with Notre Dame College.
Links Watch this for some inspiration. Classic Polish Film Posters British Propaganda Posters WWII History of Polish Posters Documentary Poster Link Page Helvetica-Posters 50 yrs.
M-11/05/07-Week 09
8:00-10:45 am
Assignment-due today Final Critique Poster Nahid Tootoonchi Lecture
Download T-Shirt Assignment (2 Parts)
Assignment-due today Sketches McShane’s Lucky Leprechaun Club T-Shirt
M-11/19/07-Week 11
Assignment-due today Final Critique threadless.com & designbyhumans.com independent T-Shirt Designs
M-09/08/08-Week 01
In Class Introductions
Digital Arts Lab Basics
For next week also buy at least one roll of 1/2 to 3/4” invisible tape & a sketchbook as listed on your syllabus as needed for your tape lifting assignment.
Reading
Lab Overview (see link above)
Grading policy (see link above)
Links
M-09/15/08-Week 02
In Class Scanning/Photoshop/Printing DEMOS
Digitizing your analog tape liftings. Basic Scanning & Photoshop stuff. Selecting, Layers, Adjusting, Cut, Copy, Paste, Blending modes, Color Spaces. How to print in the lab.
Reading
Villem Flusser
Assignment
Tape Lifting PART ONE
Analog. Create at least 3 tape liftings in your sketchbook, bring in for a table progress critique.
M-09/22/08-Week 03
In Class CRITIQUE
Arrive ready with 3 finished (analog) and 3 (digital), 6 in total, TAPE LIFTINGS. All of your work must be mounted on black (acid free if possible) foam core. Analog tape liftings must be scanned, enlarged if needed, and printed (using Zeppo) on tabloid (11 x 17) paper. Digital tape liftings must be printed the same.
Links
Assignment
Tape Lifting PART TWO
M-02/18/08-Week 04
In Class Graphic Design | Identity | Logo
We’ll be discussing how designers use the computer to make brands, construct marks that represent business. We’ll take a look at Adobe Illustrator learn about the fundamentals of this program in relationship to graphic design, illustration and imaging.
Assignment Logo Assignment PART 1
3 finished hand drawn Sketches Due for in progress critique. 5 min (max) presentation on your organization’s identity (logo/brand)
W-09/18/08 Kyle Cooper Special Lecture + Presentation Stevenson University, Inscape Theatre, Stevenson Campus
Lecture 6pm-8:30pm You can use this for one of your lecture/exhibition papers. Transportation on your own. This is OPTIONAL but recommended.
M-02/25/08-Week 05
In Class
We’ll look at Illustrator up close. How to use the interface and what the tools do. Basic drawing with shapes tool and then more complex work with the pen tool, working with paths, pathfinding, selection and ways to import, save and trace.
Links
THE BALTIMORE FAIR FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTS AND NEW EDITIONS AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
PLUS you can use this event for your lecture/gallery review papers due at the end of the semester.
2/28 Chris Burden, Performance artist extraordinnaire, gives a FREE talk at the BMA. Don’t miss this one ! 7pm.
3/1 & 3/2 The Print Fair at the Baltimore Museum of Art is FREE to students w/ID, 11AM-5PM. See the schedule of programming here
3/1 The Next Generation of Prints The Future of Printmaking, applications of new media by artists Ryan Ives adn Val Lucas, 1pm, BMA, FREE
M-03/03/08-Week 06
In Class More work with Illustrator and demonstrations of the tools and processes inside the program.
DUE for this class: TEN different logo sketches TRACED in Illustrator. These logos should be competitor brands to your chosen commercial logo. Print them out, have them on the wall prior to start of class. You can choose size.
Reading
Links
Assignment Logo Assignment PART 3
M-03/10/08-Week 07
In Class Final Critique Logo Assignment
More Illustrator
Making type patterns in Illustrator.
Reading
Links
Assignment Logo Assignment PART 4
M-12/08/08-Week 14
In Class
End of Year Evaluations (mandatory)
On your own in lab..
Exhibition/Gallery/Lecture Papers DUE
M-12/15/08- Week 15
FINAL PORTFOLIOS sharing sessions.
Bring your portfolio and a dish of food to share.
Drinks provided by the house.
CD portfolios are not returned. Make a copy for yourself.
Happy Holidays
Sign up for Art 208 Digital Foundations 2 and Photo 131 Digital Imaging 1
See me if you have questions about your Spring Semester Schedule.
M-03/24/08-Week 08
In Class Fonts | How Designers Use Them
We’ll look at how the art of typography figures in to design. How to use Suitcase, work with fonts on the Mac and spedify and use them in Illustrator and Photoshop. You will learn how to create outlines, work with paths and the pathfinder tools.
Reading
Links
Assignment Type Patterns Assignment Due
Reworked Type Pattern files must be submitted as JPEG files and emailed to me at joneskenneth@mac.com by Friday 3/28. JPEG files must be 150ppi at least 1600 pixels h + w.
Links
Assignment Make 3 separate 10 x 10” type pattern squares and push pin them to the display wall outside the labs in the hallway. Each pattern must be created in Black + White and full RGB color.
M-04/07/08-Week 10
In Class
Page Layout with Quark and InDesign
Reading
Links
Assignment Artist’s Book. Gather your stuff, make sure it is digitized. See the handout here.
M-04/14/08-Week 11
In Class
Artist’s Book Assignment In Class Work
Reading
Links
Assignment Artist’s Book Proposals including blank dummy due.
M-04/21/08-Week 12
In Class
Final Critique Artist’s Book.
Reading
Links
Assignment Gathering stuff for your final portfolio. Make sure you have all your assignments digitized for screen (72ppi)
M-04/28/08-Week 13
In Class
Final Portfolio Workshop. Puttiing your work together in CD form.
End of Year Evaluations (mandatory)
Reading
Links
Assignment
Gallery/Lecture Review Papers Due.
Assignment Logo Assignment PART 2
Do these tutorials prior to today:
1, Key Illustrator Concepts 25 min
2. Creating Illustrator Documents 13 min
3. Illustrator Interface 35 min
Illustrator CS3 Essential Training - lynda.com Online Training Library®
We didn’t get to Illustrator, this week, but will next week. Student presentations took the whole class.
You can see Kyle Cooper's Demo Reel Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf2yk1x-Fis
& his company, Imaginary Forces website here:
M-09/29/08-Week 04
In Class Ad Subversions
Come to class with a bunch of advertisements from magazines, newspapers, etc. that you want to subvert. In your sketchbooks, work out ways to subvert and spoof these ads
Post-UP Ads
Post [3] ads in your directory on the student server. JPEG. NO larger than 2000 pixels either direction. 72ppi. >5MB
Links
See the assignment PDF for them.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-06-05/film/reality-czech-in-aisle-nine/
R-09/25/08 Marcia Lausen: Election Design Reform
Remember the hanging chad ? See how designers can make reform to simple documents and make a difference.
Towson University 6:30pm Kaplan Center for the Arts. You can use this for one of your lecture/exhibition papers. Transportation on your own.
This is OPTIONAL but recommended.
M-10/06/08-Week 05
In Class Workshop
Come with digital mock ups in Illustrator/Photoshop of your spoofs/subversions. Weʼll show these digitally, so have them accessible as screen based images as well as print. Weʼll be printing out in class.
Propaganda
Start making your propaganda pieces for distribution.
Reading
Links
Assignment
Reading
Links
Assignment
M-10/20/08-Week 07
In Class
Reading
Links
Assignment
Special Screening Opportunity (Oak Knoll Book Fest)
HELVETICA {the movie}
October 2nd @ Trabant Theatre University of Delaware
7pm FREE {this can count as one of your papers}
10-6 thru 10-13 Distribute Propaganda Pieces
Distribute your propaganda pieces. Document this distribution. Before you distribute,
make sure I clear what youʼve made. Send to me via email. joneskenneth@me.com . Make sure images are 72ppi and appropriately sized (>5mb)
CANCELLED
M-10/27/08-Week 08
In Class
ILLUSTRATOR
Working with Adobe Illustrator.on the Bookcover project.
Reading
Links
Assignment
Bring In
3 Books for making new bookcovers.
6 digital bookcovers you find in your research this week to share in class.
Download the Bookcover Assignment Here
M-11/03/08-Week 09
In Class
More ILLUSTRATOR AND BOOKCOVERS
Working with Adobe Illustrator.on the Bookcover project.
Make sure to have progress prints in Illustrator of your bookcover designs. Refer to the Assigment PDF for particulars. Afternoon Class: Bring your books back in for sharing session.
Reading
Links
Assignment
Bookcover
In Class Demos
Working with Illustrator and Type, creating Type Patterns and logo identity cards. Using Suitcase X1 to manage and specify fonts.
M-11/10/08-Week 10
In Class
FINAL BOOKCOVER CRITIQUE
Have ready to view prior to beginning of class.
Reading
Links
Assignment
Creating a Personal Identity-Logos/Marks
Who Are You ?
What Do You Represent ?
What Can You Become ?
Make 20 Graphic Marks in B+W only (no grayscale) no photographs, no representational illustrations beyond graphic marks. Email them to kjones@harford.edu by
Friday 11/14 as jpegs. They can all be on one sheet.
10 as “who you are” 10 as “you in a career position”.
M-11/17/08-Week 11
In Class ILLUSTRATOR
Working with your personal identity logos.
QUARK
Introduction to Quark Xpress
Reading
Assignment
W-11/26/ through Sunday 11/30
LABS CLOSED THANKSGIVING BREAK
M-11/24/08-Week 12
In Class PORTFOLIO Workshop 1
Using Keynote/Quark/Acrobat
View Identity Quark 8-page books
Talk about imposition, and double side printing.
Reading
Links
Assignment
Identity Quark Book
Make an 8 page book using Quark.
8- 8” x 8” pages.
Convert 6 sketches to vectors using AI.
Use these 6 logos and text you write to describe them in your book.
Be creative in your layout using interesting combinations of text/image.
Print and trim 8 page booklet for class next week.
M-12/01/08-Week 13
In Class PORTFOLIO Workshop 2
Using Quark/Acrobat
Using the lightscribe
Making Booklets
Exporting PDF files from Quark and reworking them in Acrobat
Reading
Links
Assignment
Gather materials for Final Portfolio
Bring in a CD/DVD package you like from your own collection. Pay attention to the design of the entire package. Present it.
Class Cancelled
Bookcover Assignment moved up one week
See Below
F- 10/25-08 Email Preliminary Sketches of Bookcover design project to me kjones@harford.edu
SIGN UP FOR SPRING 2009 CLASSES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SET UP A MEETING.
R- 10/30-08 Illustrator Pattern Project. Staple and deliver to my office. Joppa J123. Due by Noon. Make sure to write your name on the package.