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Teams comprised of four Graphic Design 1 students set out to investigate and document mile long stretches of the Duluth Landscape. Teams selected their own locations and designated roles for the project > project manager, typographer, photographer and illustrator. Each team will create a final work that communicates an experience of place. Materials and techniques may be experimental, but the work must be at least 12 feet in one direction. The collaborative work should demonstrate the principles of unity and surprise.

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If you plan to attend Portfolio 1on1 next weekend
I found out how the studio tours work...

Each student will get assigned to a group and that group will go to 3 design firms. Some groups will be walking tours and some will ride a bus and walk back to Solera. They should dress for the weather and plan on walking. It is not far but it wouldn't be to much fun in heels or something like that :)

You'll have to look for parking in one of the ramps near Solera.

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THIS EVENT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDENTS
Please register ASAP and attend if you can!

Portfolio One-on-One
Friday, April 11, 2008 / Sat April 12, 2008
Solera
900 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403

http://www.minnesota.aiga.org/events/2008/04/17388137

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. Since
1993, AIGA MInnesota's annual Portfolio One on One event has brought
design students together with experienced designers to share
conversations, experience and ideas, all to help you develop further.
Come see, listen, discuss, network and test your key with the design
community at Portfolio One on One.

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Graphic Design 1 students, please post a short paragraph that includes:
1. description of your THAT WAS THEN > THIS IS NOW design history topic
2. description of imagery you have found in contemporary culture that is an echo of your historical topic.

THAT WAS THEN > THIS IS NOW
Create a poster that showcases your design history topic and juxtaposes examples of historical images with an example of this graphic style found present in visual culture today.

Poster size: 20 inches x 32 inches / horizontal

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View Posters by Art Chantry>>
http://www.gigposters.com/designer/3275_Art_Chantry.html

Art Chantry interview>
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/001306.html

blog entry about an Art Chantry poster workshop in Portugal
Images generated at the workshop / Posters for Death of a Salesman>>
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/003440.html

Minneapolis', Aesthetic Apparatus was founded around 1999 in Madison, Wisconsin by Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski as a fun side project from their "real" jobs. Over the years their limited edition, screen printed concert posters have secretly snuck into the hearts and minds of a small, rather silent group of socially awkward music and design nerds. (from their bio)
http://www.aestheticapparatus.com/portfolio.php?subsection=posters&page=0

Rene Wanner's Poster page
http://www.posterpage.ch/

Freedom on the Fence
a new documentary bout the history of Polish posters
and their significance to the social, political and cultural life of Poland.
http://oregonstate.edu/freedomonthefence/
http://oregonstate.edu/freedomonthefence/abios.html

http://www.mrposter.com/
vintage and contemporary posters

Mixing Messages essay by Ellen Lupton
from the exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
about Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/archive/mixingmessages/essay/start.htm

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