Look at Visual Examples of Social Cause Design and discuss
Work on Thumbnails for Project 1
Complete Blog Posts for next week: Visual Research (at least 1 posting per week); Reading Responses (when given a reading, you are required to post a response on your blog)
Next Project Process Due Date: Feb. 1/2 for Thumbnails (worth 25 points)
Here are some links to more co-existence posters:
http://www.posterfestival-ljubljana.si/posters_coexistence.php
Others:
Powerful Image
Steven Heller is a professor of design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Heller has written and edited hundreds of books about design that are, in my opinion, some of the best resources for design out there. In conjunction with Print Magazine, Heller began a daily email newsletter called The Daily Heller, that anyone interested can subscribe too. Heller's newsletter helps the best of us keep up with contemporary issues in design and art.
Here are a few examples of recent newsletters:
1. Reading Response on color reading. See last reading post for link.
2. Post on Visual Research for Project 1. See last online inspiration post.
The first reading for next week is taken from:
Color Design Workbook, copyright 2006, Rockport Publishers
You will be getting a refresher on Color Theory from Chap. 1 and information about color context from Chap. 2.
Please respond to this reading on your blog for next week.
Go to Design 21 contest website to get the specifics about this project.
Your schedule for the project:
Jan. 21-26: Brainstorming words and images (thumbnails of type/symbols/image)
Jan. 28-Feb. 8: Develop 4 different poster ideas
Feb. 16-23: Refine 2/Complete Roughs
Feb. 25- Mar. 3: Complete Final
Mar. 9: Competition Deadline
Due Dates/Point Totals: (process work can either be posted on your blog or brought in on paper)
Jan. 28./Feb. 1 : Thumbnails Due (worth 25 points)
Feb. 15/16: 4 Poster Ideas Due (worth 25 points)
Feb. 22/23: Refine/Complete 2 Roughs (worth 50 points)
Mar. 1/2: Final Due (worth 100 points)
= 200 points total
Here are websites that show examples of social cause/change posters and of designers doing interesting social good work:
First Things First 2000 Design Manifesto
Museum on the Seam: International Coexistence Project
AIGAs Society and Environment Page: Check out the various social cause campaigns
Design for Social Good: Agency doing only social cause type of work
Big Think Studios: another agency doing "good" work
Project M: A yearly project that GD students participate in with well-known designers doing "good" things
Bruce Mau Design: Massive Change
Please poke around in these sites and find something that inspires you. Post a response for next week.
Welcome to first day of Graphic Design I. I am looking forward to a fun semester. I hope you're ready to learn and create some amazing stuff. I hope you're also ready to work hard in order to create that amazing stuff, because it's not just about natural ability, it's about understanding visual culture and having the discipline to play as hard as the ones that succeed.
Attached here is a pdf of your syl_gd1_10.pdf. Let's go over it.
We will have assigned readings for the Graphic Design 1 this semester. Readings and exercises will be taken from the following books:
Decoding Design: Understanding Symbols and Using Symbols in Graphic Design; Maggie McNab
Creativity for Graphic Designers; Mark Oldach
Color Design Workbook; Terry Lee Stone
Problem Solved: A Primer in Design and Communication; Michael Johnson
Your first reading for the course, with a response on your blog due the second day of class is: problem_solved_ch2.pdf
The first day of class we will:
• Learn about what to expect in the course
• Develop your blogs and write two entries; first, post something you find that inspires you (preferably an example of design); second, write an entry about what you want to learn most or need to learn most about graphic design
• Get assigned reading
Day Two
• Discuss your findings and entry into blog
• Discuss designing for social causes; look at examples
• Discuss reading
• Get first assignment
