WELCOME TO PORTFOLIO PREP!

I've broken you into two groups, I would like the first group to bring in all your work for me to review. Then, group 2 will bring their work in next Tuesday.

GROUP 1: THURSDAY AUGUST 30
Tyler, Andie, Jeremy, Jessica, Diane

GROUP 2: TUESDY SEPTEMBER 4
Houston, Stephanie, Megan, Lauren, Kristin, Leah

LIBBY WINS FIRST PLACE + BEST BRANDING, KRISTINA WINS BEST ILLUSTRATION

AIGA Student Portfolio Review Saturday May 12th --- 9 PLNU students attended the review and took home 3 of the 11 total prizes. The tally for all local schools; 4 wins for San Diego State, 4 wins for San Diego City College and 3 for PLNU! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Amazing work, dedication, bravery to show up and compete against the best of the best and to come out on top!
Congratulations!
Libby Spangler
Kristina Micotti
Victoria Baughman
Lindsay Barnes
Cynthia Sherer
Stephanie Shubin
Chloe Pedersen
Kat Vochoska
Daniel Heffernan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sayaqueenbee/sets/72157629715033262/

Libby Wins 1st Place!

Kristina Wins Best Illustration, given to her by master illustrator, Rafael Lopez!

Libby Wins Best Branding!

Chloe's cool table.

Daniel's Letterpressman Table!

Kristina's Table

Kat and Calvin Woo

Victoria with Tyler Blik, Libby with Guuja

AJs GET OUT THE VOTE POSTER

RANDY'S GROOVY BLURB BOOKS!

PORTFOLIO REVIEW EVENT--APRIL 24th

Professional Reviewers--might want to make contact with them at the Y!

Adam Rowe (erowe design)

Laura Coe (Laura Coe Design)

Bobby Buchanan (Buchanan Design)

Tyler Blik (Tyler Blik)

Ron Miriello (Miriello Grafico)

Dave Adey (you know)

Min Choi (Mentus)

Max Escobedo (Maximo Inc.)

Dave Conover (Conover)

Scott Mires (MiresBall)

Jason Moll-(MiresBall)

Peter Horjus (Peter Horjus)

Steve Simpson (Steve Simpson Photo)

Joel Sotelo (Joel Sotelo Design)

Amy Levine (Visual Asylum)

OPTIONAL NEW PROJECT

AIGA GET OUT THE VOTE
AIGA will again mount a campaign to demonstrate the power of design in the public arena by

encouraging designers to contribute to a coordinated get-out-the-vote campaign for national

elections in Fall 2012. This builds on the 2004 and 2008 campaigns that placed more than

100,000 AIGA posters in public places in communities across the nation as well as provides

a resource for any web user to download a pdf version to print and post or share virally. The

objective is to demonstrate the value of design to citizens, public officials and businesses by

providing a clear call to action for an activity that is important to everyone.

The primary conduit for the 2012 campaign is an open online gallery of members’ designs—

nonpartisan calls to action bearing a national AIGA campaign identity— that will be posted on

the website and available for downloading, printing and sharing. Any AIGA member will be

entitled to post a design in the open gallery. This will become the largest gallery of available

designs in support of this critical civic function.

For those members who prefer to submit a video or motion graphics solution, the online gallery

will offer guidelines for this type of submission as well.

All submitted and selected poster and video designs will be made part of AIGA’s permanent

archives, as well as being offered to the archives of the International Foundation on Election

Systems in Washington, D.C. Printed posters will be given to the Library of Congress for its

poster collection.

http://www.aiga.org/get-out-the-vote/

PORTFOLIO DUE DATES

DUE MARCH 16th
A.  Comp of the Portfolio Cover design ----with few words, we should be able to SEE the design intent for your cover
B.  If you've purchased your portfolio book, bring it in
C.  Presentation of all projects in a PDF form, I want to see all the projects, logos in whatever form they are in to date (all of your portfolio projects should be complete)
D.  Rough layout of your entire portfolio book, with placeholder photos for projects
E.  Sample of the photographic style you intend to use
F.  Detailed schedule for the work you have to do to complete all printed out of the next 5 weeks (only 5 weeks left until our REVIEW from March 16th)
    -finishing up any projects, making comps for photo shoots, scheduling photo shoots, getting props together
DUE MARCH 23
1. All of the above if you haven't already presented
2. A Print out of all projects, so that I can mark them up with suggestions/changes

WEEK OF 3/26 (Tues/Thurs- afternoon)
SIGN UP FOR AN INDIVIDUAL 15-MINUTE ONE-ON-ONE APPOINTMENT WITH ME TO GO THROUGH ALL YOUR WORK, PORTFOLIO, PROPOSED SCHEDULE ETC.
(you will need to be prepared, organized and ready to go)

Tues 3:30-3:45, 3:45-4:00, 4:00-4:15, 4:15-4:30, 4:30-5(Chloe), 5-5:15, 5:15-5:30, 5:30-5:45

Thurs 3:30-3:45(AJ), 3:45-4:00, 4:00-4:15, 4:15-4:30, 4:30-5, 4:45-5(Katie), 5-5:15(Lindsay), 5:15-5:30(Kristina), 5:30-5:45

SPRING BREAK----NO BREAK

THIS IS A CRITICAL TIME-----YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO TAKE A BREAK

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO a. send me stuff for review, b. call/email and come by my office during the break.

A.  Comp of the Portfolio Cover design ----with few words, we should be able to SEE the design intent for your cover
B.  If you've purchased your portfolio book, bring it in
C.  Presentation of all projects in a PDF form, I want to see all the projects, logos in whatever form they are in to date (all of your portfolio projects should be complete)
D.  Rough layout of your entire portfolio book, with placeholder photos for projects
E.  Sample of the photographic style you intend to use
F.  Detailed schedule for the work you have to do to complete all printed out of the next 5 weeks (only 5 weeks left until our REVIEW from March 16th)
     -finishing up any projects, making comps for photo shoots, scheduling photo shoots, getting props together



In the back of the portfolio be sure to include a page of credits, where you acknowledge the following:
-any sources for illustration or photography that are not your own
-your instructors
-any friends or companies that assisted you, printers, Inscriptu
-paper use, typography used, printing techniques used

LIBBY & VICTORIA INTERNSHIP?

Very serious business building props for a photo shoot.

PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY

Need to start thinking about how and what you are going to photography for your book! I'm including here a few samples of style options.

on white seamless

in a context

on black

ART 469 ADVANCED GRAPHIC DESIGN

PART I: ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY | Weeks 1-6

This section expands on previously learned principles and incorporates more advanced
issues such as organization, hierarchy, layout and grid systems. Students will begin to
investigate ways to communicate content and meaning of text. The work is geared toward
inclusion in the final portfolio.

Project | Typographic Book | Weeks 1-3
Taking a traditional children’s story, re-designing the book using strong, experimental typography and original illustration or photography.

BOOK SPECIFICATIONS
-12 pages + covers
-full color
-built in InDesign

1. COURSE OVERVIEW
2. Phase I: Research & Selection  (DUE 1/17)
-Option A: Choose a story from this website:
http://bygosh.com/kidsstories.htm
-Option B: Write your own story
-Choose a size from BLURB.com
(7”x7”, 8”x10”, 13”x11”, 12”x12”)

3. Phase II: Concept  (DUE 1/19)
-Cover Concepts and One Typical Spread Design
-Rough layout of rest of the book (copy placed, maybe not designed yet)

4. Phase III: Design (DUE 1/24)
-Tight Layout of all pages for refinement

5. Phase IV: Refinement (DUE 1/26)
-Refined Layout of Cover and all pages for presentation

KRISTINA'S ROUGH TYPICAL SPREAD!    WONDERFUL.

Unite Identity

Congratulations Victoria, the students from the other schools voted on all the great logos submitted by many of you and have chosen Victoria's to be used on all the collateral materials. The schedule is really tight.

Please work on poster designs which include the following info:
AIGA logo (box)
Unite logo
Date, time, location of event
PLNU address, name of building
Speaker: Margo Chase

PORTFOLIO REVIEW ART 469

SPRING 2012 ART 469 --- FRIDAY’s 8am-9:30am
Killer schedule to keep. We will use the class time to review the work done outside the class. You need to plan your life around the requirements for this and the Advanced Course, all building to AMAZING PORTFOLIO'S!

S C H E D U L E

WEEK 1-7
-Projects 7-10, balance of logos
-Portfolio Building --- working on content to go into the portfolio

WEEK 7
-Introduction to the book
-Portfolio Theme
-Portfolio Grid Rough Content Layout

WEEK 8
-Portfolio Grid Refined Content Layout

WEEK 9-10
-Photography of products
-Rough Layout of entire book

WEEK 11-13
-Tight layouts of the entire book


WEEKS 14-15
-Printing/Fabrication Process

ADVANCED GRAPHIC DESIGN ART 490

SPRING ART 490 TUES/THURS 6:30-8:30


PART I: ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY | Weeks 1-6
This section expands on previously learned principles and incorporates more advanced
issues such as organization, hierarchy, layout and grid systems. Students will begin to
investigate ways to communicate content and meaning of text. The work is geared toward
inclusion in the final portfolio.

Project | Typographic Book | Weeks 1-3
Taking a traditional children’s story, re-designing the book using strong, experimental typography and original illustration or photography.

Project | Publication Layout| Weeks 4-6
Redesigning an existing publication, or generating a new publication, using strong, experimental typography and original illustration or photography.


PART II: INFORMATION DESIGN  | Weeks 7-11 
This section students will develop design strategies for the visual presentation of complex  information. Students will investigate the design, editing and analysis of graphic representations of data. The course will explore ways to enhance the clarity, density, and dimensionality of information display. The work is geared toward inclusion in the final portfolio.

Possible Projects | CSR Report or Annual Report
Research, write, assemble data as content for a CSR Report or a Corporate Annual Report. Concept, design, and refine the final publication for inclusion in the portfolio. 48-60 page document including information graphics, charts, graphs in addition to copy, illustration/photography.

PART III: THE BUSINESS OF DESIGN | Weeks 12-16
This section of the course is intended to prepare students for the profession from a practical, business perspective. We will touch on the following; professional relationships, designer, illustrator, project manager, client, art director, advertising agency, design firm, in-house. In addtion to; legal rights and issues, copyright, work-for-hire, freelancing, spec work, sales tax. Esstential business practices; use of fonts, software, illustration, photography, billing, tracking, record keeping, salaries, trade customs, contract, forms, proposals

LOGOS TO RE-DO

Regents Bank, Goodrich, Verizon, Leap Wireless, Qualcomm, Stratagene, Micron, Genesis HealthCare, King Chavez Charter School, Life Technologies, Callaway Golf, San Diego Port District, Maxwell Technologies, ResMed, Sharp Healthcare, PetCo, San Diego Opera, Comic Con, Albert Einstein Academies, Coleman Tech Charter School, Museum School

FINAL PRESENTATION

FINAL:
Our final will be on WED DEC 14th 5-8
-5 MINUTE presentation of all six projects
-a submission of a PDF file of all work completed during the semester (6 projects and 6 logos)
Including:
-creative briefs for all
-presentation quality files for each, organized and presented

AIGA AT HOMECOMING

AIGA PLNU group had a booth at the ANNUAL Homecoming Extravaganza to highlight/benefit  campus clubs! 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aiga_plnu/

DESIGN FOR GOOD

What can designers do to change the world? A lot. In this video, hear from leaders in the AIGA community about the importance of design in solving society’s trickiest and most pressing problems, see examples of  how individuals, chapters and companies are already making a difference, and learn more about the ways in which you, and designers everywhere, can get involved in Design for Good—a movement to ignite, accelerate and amplify design-driven social change.


http://www.aiga.org/video-design-for-good/

Silkscreen Workshops at Visual Asylum

amyl@visualasylum.com

Time Sheet

Due the beginning of every class on Mondays, time sheet filled out recording your time spent on all activities related to this course. Check your email for the PDF form, also placed on the HAPPY server.

-track Lynda.com tutorials completed
-meeting with your portfolio group
-AIGA meetings

For each project
-track concepting time
-computer/design time
-crafting/fabrication time