Before you leave today:
I will need a piece of paper with your group members and your topic on it.
Homework for Wednesday:
1. Begin research into your topic. Start with your textbook. Look at the work of particular designers as you decide which one you would like to focus on. Look at nuances and outcroppings of your movement in search of your interests, your hook into the information.
2. Look at your group-mates' postings of their projects. On Wednesday you will discuss their information designs with them. Point out what is interesting and successful, also point out problems. Each student must have a positive comment as well as a suggestion for improvement for each of their group members. The discussion will then move into ways the students can collaborate on their current topic.
Wednesday:
We will work as a group to research. We will first meet in the classroom for roll and then go to the library for research into our topics. Each student must come away with a minimum of one book related somehow to their topic. Students will then work together in their group to hone their topic and come up with a general plan of action to carry them into the second half of the semester.
Monday, October 17, 2011
FINAL PROJECTS
We will be working in groups of three or four students for our final project. Four students is the maximum number of students in a group; three students is the minimum. The students will choose their own groups, but each group must include a minimum of one graphic design major.
Students will come up with a more specific topic after detailed research into a particular design movement. The project will start with research and data gathering.
Finals will again be information designs around a chosen topic, but this time there will be three designs based on the same general topic. Each design will foreground a separate aspect of the main topic. The main topics will be chosen from the list in the blog post below.
The final will include a timeline with names and dates, a map, also with names and dates, and a third design, the structure of which is to be determined by the students.
Of the three designs, one design must concern the movement or main topic. One design must concern the work of a specific artist from the movement. The specific content of the third design is to be determined by the students in the group.
Included somewhere in the project, somewhere among the three designs, should be both social and artistic influences on the movement.
Again this project is in lieu of a research paper, but the project should include the same amount of research and information that would go into a final project paper on your topic.
We will reserve time at the end of each class from now until hell freezes over to work on these projects. A more specific timeline will be forthcoming. These projects must be printed and posted by Monday, December 5th. One of the three posters must be printed by midnight, November 30th. The second poster must be printed by Friday, December 2nd.
These projects must be posted to your blogs as well as to the wall. Each student must post all three of the designs from the group to their blog.
Students will come up with a more specific topic after detailed research into a particular design movement. The project will start with research and data gathering.
Finals will again be information designs around a chosen topic, but this time there will be three designs based on the same general topic. Each design will foreground a separate aspect of the main topic. The main topics will be chosen from the list in the blog post below.
The final will include a timeline with names and dates, a map, also with names and dates, and a third design, the structure of which is to be determined by the students.
Of the three designs, one design must concern the movement or main topic. One design must concern the work of a specific artist from the movement. The specific content of the third design is to be determined by the students in the group.
Included somewhere in the project, somewhere among the three designs, should be both social and artistic influences on the movement.
Again this project is in lieu of a research paper, but the project should include the same amount of research and information that would go into a final project paper on your topic.
We will reserve time at the end of each class from now until hell freezes over to work on these projects. A more specific timeline will be forthcoming. These projects must be printed and posted by Monday, December 5th. One of the three posters must be printed by midnight, November 30th. The second poster must be printed by Friday, December 2nd.
These projects must be posted to your blogs as well as to the wall. Each student must post all three of the designs from the group to their blog.
POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR FINAL PROJECTS
Egyptian Hieroglyphs / early Egyptian Visual Identification
Illuminated Manuscripts
Arts and Crafts
The Glasgow School
Wiener Werkstätte
World War I propaganda / World War II propaganda
Futurism
Dada
De Stijl
Russian Revolution/Bolshevik Poster/Suprematism and Constructivism
Bauhaus
American Pulp Magazines in the 1920's
American Magazines in the 1940's and after (Fortune, Vogue, Harper's)
Swiss International Typographic Style
The New York School (Rand, Lustig, Bass)
graphic evolution of corporate identity
evolution of the comic strip
Underground Comics
Gig Posters
Graffiti (american, east and west coast developments)
Graffiti (international)
Video Games
Illuminated Manuscripts
Arts and Crafts
The Glasgow School
Wiener Werkstätte
World War I propaganda / World War II propaganda
Futurism
Dada
De Stijl
Russian Revolution/Bolshevik Poster/Suprematism and Constructivism
Bauhaus
American Pulp Magazines in the 1920's
American Magazines in the 1940's and after (Fortune, Vogue, Harper's)
Swiss International Typographic Style
The New York School (Rand, Lustig, Bass)
graphic evolution of corporate identity
evolution of the comic strip
Underground Comics
Gig Posters
Graffiti (american, east and west coast developments)
Graffiti (international)
Video Games
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