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And more inspiration from the new issue of How

http://howdesign.com/article/youngcreatives/

Here is the gallery of images created by Summer 2009 Digital Studio students in response to the Utopia UMD project...
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jrock2/utopia

note: no one wanted to picture their fantasy campus in winter!

Learn how to fake unbelievable fantasy images...

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureid=1750

http://luxa.org/tutorial_photo_compositing_and_enhancing.php

YouTube tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJm-MB0UGjw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XssGTE9X6l0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZRl8UNizY&feature=related

Here's a great way to bring editable 3d models into photoshop for product mockups and other digital compositing:

Photoshop® CS3 Extended Plug-in for Google 3D Warehouse is a free plug-in that enables you to search and download 3D models from Google 3D Warehouse? directly from Adobe® Photoshop CS3 Extended.

the plug in will give you this new 3D toolbar in photoshop for rotating and altering 3d models. After you open a 3D model you can change the model's position, camera view, lighting, or render mode, create a cross-section view, or play animation contained in the 3D file. To create these changes, you use the Photoshop 3D tools.

http://max.designwalker.com/graphicdesign/20-photoshop-drawing-with-tablet-tutorials/

There are tons of great tutorials and tips about how to transfer digital images onto various surfaces...

see my links below, and add your own to the comments...

Golden Paints
http://www.goldenpaints.com/
Digital Media
http://www.goldenpaints.com/mixmoremedia/index.php
Just Paint news
http://www.goldenpaints.com/justpaint/index.php
Digital Monoprint Transfers
http://lynbishop.com/blog/category/art/alternative-process/

Simple image transfer using transparency film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyHCQo36u4c&feature=related

more info + YouTube demos...

Digital Studio 2 students begin work on their main projects for summer session. Please post a short description of the project or series that you plan to work on this month. Include links to other projects or artist portfolios that relate to your body of work.

Digital Studio students were asked...
What if you could redesign UMD into your vision of a utopian campus.

Here's what they would do:

Choose an artist from the text, Digital Art by Christiane Paul. (see sign up sheet in class)

Please post your research about the artist to my blog. You will present the links to the class + talk about your artist on your Wednesday class slot. more info below...

Here's what students are noticing...

Artists Wanted

Artists Wanted is a collaborative project between several New York City artists and creative organizations working to build new lasting opportunities for emerging talent. We have experienced first hand the difficulties in breaking into the professional art world and it is our mission to make this process more welcoming, dynamic and open-ended.

RIP: A remix Manifesto | Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to this website, helping to create the world's first open source documentary.

Extra Credit Op for all my students

For Extra Credit...

Visit Sarah Nitschke's video installation show
or the Emerging Photographer's show this spring at the DAI

Duluth Art Institute
in The Depot
506 West Michigan Street
Duluth, Minnesota 55802

http://www.duluthartinstitute.org/html/contact_depot.html

A+D Annual Student Exhibition Opening Reception
Saturday April 18, 6~8 pm
Tweed Museum of Art
University of Minnesota Duluth

Don't miss the one big event hosted by Art + Design each year
Come enjoy the free food and see who wins prizes!
6:30 pm: A+D Annual Student Exhibition Awards

Your portfolio is the key to your future. It opens doors. It allows others to see how you
take an idea and unlock its potential.

Portfolio 1 on 1 2009
April 24, 2009 - April 25, 2009

http://www.minnesota.aiga.org/events/2009/04/27950729
All design students should try to attend this opportunity!

Since 1993, AIGA Minnesota?s annual Portfolio 1 on 1 event provides advice, insight and industry information to design students from around the upper Midwest.

Over the course of two days (April 24-25, 2009) students will interact with professional designers during studio tours, portfolio review, a panel discussion, and professional workshops.