Monday, November 14, 2011
Your Final Blog Post:
Your final post will be images of your final information designs. If you participated in the creation of the design, post it to your blog. If you helped with more than one image, post them to your blog.
Your Final Exam Blog Post (due 12/1/11):
For each of the following design movements, post three designs from any designers considered influential to the style:
Arts and Crafts
Art Nouveau
Sachplakat
Art Deco
De Stijl
Constructivism
Bauhaus
International Style
Psychedelic Poster Art
Postmodernism
Gig Poster
Include the artist, the date, and the title. The three designs for each movement do not need to come from the same artist. You may not re-post images from your earlier postings.
Arts and Crafts
Art Nouveau
Sachplakat
Art Deco
De Stijl
Constructivism
Bauhaus
International Style
Psychedelic Poster Art
Postmodernism
Gig Poster
Include the artist, the date, and the title. The three designs for each movement do not need to come from the same artist. You may not re-post images from your earlier postings.
Your Final Two "Textbook-Based" Blog Posts (due 12/1/11):
Art Deco - read pp. 170 - 181, and read pp. 256 - 269
Choose three artists/art directors/graphic designers discussed in your text.
For each artist find 3 images of their work to post to your blogs. This is a total of 9 images, three per artist. Include the artist, the date and the title. Explain how the artist's work exemplifies American Art Deco OR discuss the artist's style in detail. minimum 200 words per artist
International Style - read pp. 298 - 329
Choose three artists/art directors/graphic designers discussed in your text.
For each artist find 3 images of their work to post to your blogs. This is a total of 9 images, three per artist. Include the artist, the date and the title. Explain how the artist's work exemplifies the International Style OR discuss the artist's style in detail. minimum 200 words per artist
Choose three artists/art directors/graphic designers discussed in your text.
For each artist find 3 images of their work to post to your blogs. This is a total of 9 images, three per artist. Include the artist, the date and the title. Explain how the artist's work exemplifies American Art Deco OR discuss the artist's style in detail. minimum 200 words per artist
International Style - read pp. 298 - 329
Choose three artists/art directors/graphic designers discussed in your text.
For each artist find 3 images of their work to post to your blogs. This is a total of 9 images, three per artist. Include the artist, the date and the title. Explain how the artist's work exemplifies the International Style OR discuss the artist's style in detail. minimum 200 words per artist
Monday, November 7, 2011
BLOG POSTS to now:
- The EAMES and their influence on your information design projects
- Research for Final Project
- Summary of progress for Final Project
- list of group, subject and title for Final Project
- MIDTERM PROJECT
- Helvetica Designer
- Beautiful Loser
- Yellow Submarine
- image relationships - Functional Object
- image relationships - Camouflage
- Mr. BING documentary notes, Nouveau - Gestalt
- Art Nouveau Designers x 3
- Art Nouveau, A production Designer's perspective (film vs. documentary)
- 1960's: Psychedelic Posters and Push Pin Studio
- notes on Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight possible influences on your design
- Research for Final Project
- Summary of progress for Final Project
- list of group, subject and title for Final Project
- MIDTERM PROJECT
- Helvetica Designer
- Beautiful Loser
- Yellow Submarine
- image relationships - Functional Object
- image relationships - Camouflage
- Mr. BING documentary notes, Nouveau - Gestalt
- Art Nouveau Designers x 3
- Art Nouveau, A production Designer's perspective (film vs. documentary)
- 1960's: Psychedelic Posters and Push Pin Studio
- notes on Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight possible influences on your design
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Our formal class meeting has been cancelled for today, 11/2/11, due to advising and registration issues. Please take advantage of the time to meet as a group and move forward on your projects. Synopses and rough sketches (very rough is OK) in paper OR digital format are due next Monday, 11/7/11. Your synopsis should be one-half page long. (many of you have this on your blogs already, so progress and research updates will suffice) Also on Monday, during the 2nd half of class, you will begin meeting as groups with me. Please be prepared to discuss your topics, plans, and progress. OK, I will see you Monday. As always, email your questions, or bring them to group meetings on Monday. Remember, blogs this week concern the Eames, and influences on your own information design.
Monday, October 17, 2011
TODAY: Monday, October 17th, 2011
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.
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.
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.
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