NYC Art Contest: $20,000 Smackaroos

Thanks Min-Sun for putting this on your blog. I certainly think everyone should enter.
I plan to so why not the rest of you. Check it out. Just do it.
www.babelgum.com/metropolisartprize

Craig Bromley, Photographer Class Visit: 9/30/09

Photographer Craig Bromley will be visiting class on Wednesday September 30th
at 11am as part of the on-going lecture series in Professional Practices in Graphic Design. Please make arrangements to be on time for this amazing photographer who will share his experiences and work ethics with you.

NYC TRIP Update: Lunch with PMcD Design-SOHO STUDIOS

Owner and Designer Patrick McDonough just emailed me and invited us to lunch at his Soho Studio/Loft on Thursday October 29th. Stay tuned for more information.
If you haven't done so yet, check out his work at
www.pmcddesign.com

Alumni Matt Suber: CNN iPhone Apps Release

Congrats to fellow Alumni Matthew Suber who is credited with the new CNN iPhone Apps release. Check it out. http://mashable.com/2009/09/28/cnn-iphone-app/

Week of September 28th & 30th

Just a reminder that this is the week we turn in work to MODA for the "Love Nests" exhibition.

Monday, September 28th at 11am we are having a pre-critique in-class with all the final work due on Wednesday. You can still show your work on Monday in digital form. You must also show your museum card designs on monday. See attachment so you'll know what the reverse side of the cards should look like on these 5" square cards (actual size 5"x10")

Three boards for "Love Nests" due on Wednesday.
You can always do more than the minimum number of boards.
-Type boarded
-Type and Image boarded
-Set of 4 cards boarded along with folded prototype cards in pocket on reverse of boarded image.

Wednesday Craig Bromley, Photographer will be in class to discuss his work in photography and working with designers. Please bring questions to ask him. www.craigbromley.com

NYC TRIP Update: Psyop thumbs up for visit

All those going to NYC in October...here is the latest:

Gretel, Psyop and Anatomy Media is a "go" for a visit.


I'm still waiting on a response from:
HBO, COMEDY CENTRAL, TROLLBACK, PMcD DESIGN, THE N, NAILGUN, MILTON GLASER,PENTAGRAM,
NOISE and a few others. I figure we cast a wide net to those "wish list" places and then decide. Psyop visit is on Friday October 30th.

MODA Deadline: Wednesday September 30th

It's almost here! The first deadline for the MODA "Love Nest" Project.

We'll have a pre-critique on Monday September 28th at 11am.
Please be prepared to show your poster designs (Type and Type and Image) as well as your museum cards (This can be done digitally.)

Printed and mounted versions must be completed on Wednesday September 30th.
Three Boards with a short creative brief attached to the reverse of each board.
The Museum Cards (4) should also be shown in a pocket on the reverse of the printed board to scale (5"x10") along with the required verbage on the backside of the folded card. No envelopes.

Once I turn in your work to MODA I will insist on a follow up critique with them at their facility. Stay Tuned.

We'll begin talking about "Camp MODA" in class on Monday October 5th. Hopefully each of you are already working on these.

Mohawk Paper Show

Mohawk Fine Paper and Mac Papers would like to extend an invitation to you and your graphic design students to view the the Mohawk Show #10. It will be on display the month of October at Mac Papers Design Center. It will also be a wonderful opportunity for us to give a mini paper school, allow students to collect various mill paper samples and connect with the paper reps that call on the design industry. We especially believe it’s an excellent opportunity for the senior graphic design student.

The Mac Papers Design Center is a beautiful state of the art facility and is located only 20 minutes west of downtown Atlanta.

Mac Papers Design Center
460 Riverside Parkway
Lithia Springs, Georgia

Andrea Hill, Mac Paper specification representative is handling all scheduling. You may contact her at Andrea.hill@macpapers.com or 770-948-9959.

The Mohawk Show is an annual event and this year’s chair was Ellen Lupton. She writes:

A blank sheet of paper is an invitation to create. It asks us to sketch, compose, write, draw, and think. For the artist or writer, plunging into the snowy void of an empty page is a leap of faith mixed with terror and anticipation. Endless possibilities are buried in the pale depths and the creamy shallows of a flat, unprinted sheet. What will be found there? What stories will unfurl as paper is inked, cut, folded, and stitched? The work shown in this exhibition resulted from the hard work of hundreds of designers, art directors, photographers, illustrators, copy writers, production managers, clients, and printers who thought hard about how to fill blank sheets of paper with rich, purposeful content.

For ten years, The Mohawk Show has honored work produced on Mohawk paper that is outstanding in design and production. The entries represent a genuine cross-section of today’s design and printing industry. Owing to the quality of the paper and Mohawk’s role as a design leader, the competition draws outstanding entries from across the United States and the world. Judges Alice Chung, William Drenttel, and Jessica Helfand and competition chair Ellen Lupton studied hundreds of pieces, from posters and annual reports to museum catalogs and real estate prospectuses, to choose 5 winners and 20 finalists. The work selected represents the design industry’s highest level of creative thinking and physical production.

Congratulations Michelle!

Michelle Congratulations on this wonderful design and international recognition!



1800 Tequila Essential Artists Limited Edition:

1800 Essential Artists has commissioned the fine works of 8 hot urban artists throughout the country to design keepsake bottles. The renderings are magnificent that are colorful and really standout. Only 1800 of each bottle has been made in the collection, so they truly are "limited edition." While many tequila shots might make you want to cry, this one goes down smooth and is loved by many. Have a shot with salt and lime, or mix it up for your favorite margarita.

The London Poster Project

As part of this year’s London Design Festival, Domenic Lippa worked with the Festival’s Chairman, Sir John Sorrell, in curating the London Poster Project, a poster exhibition by 20 of the leading UK graphic designers and typographers including Tom Hingston, Frith Kerr, Alan Kitching, Fuel, Jonathan Ellery and Pentagram’s own Angus Hyland. Lippa commissioned the designers to produce a poster in red and black only that celebrates London as the creative capital of the world. Each silkscreened A1 poster was produced in limited edition of 100, 50 of which are available through the website Blanka. All 20 posters can be seen in the exhibition, which opened Saturday, 19 September and remains on view through 27th September at the Sackler Centre at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
courtesy
http://pentagram.com/en/new/2009/09/pentagram-celebrates-london-at.php#more

NYC Trip: Contact

FYI: I have emailed and written the following design companies to visit while in NYC.
Now we wait to see what happens. I will add to the list of request this week with your assistance.

Would like to possible have dinner on Thursday evening October 29th with gsu alumni designers who are currently working in nyc. Also will invite other folks who want to meet you who work in the industry.

photo courtesy: Milton Glaser Studio
www.miltonglaser.com

1. Psyop
2. PMCD Design (Patrick McDonough)
3. Gretel Design (Greg Hahn)
4. Trollback + Company
5. Pentagram Design
6. Milton Glaser Design
7. The N Network (MTV Studios) (David Chustz)
8. Noise Marketing/Advertising (Dan Dickinson Art Director/GSU alumni)
9. Oxygen Network (Carrie Hawks/Designer/GSUalumni)

Irony from Pentagram

This design seems to marry what many of you have been doing in class recently...drawing detailed images of the brain and other drawing hearts.
Who would have thought to put overlay them on one another? Pentagram did.
(courtesy Pentagram.com)



The report's theme is 'Head and Heart' and the cover illustration joins a brain and a heart.

Justus Oehler and his team at Pentagram Berlin have designed the Triennial Report for the DRK Kliniken (Hospital Group of the German Red Cross) in Berlin. This is the second time Pentagram has designed the report for the group, which is a non-profit network of five hospitals in the city that provide specialized, high-quality care.

While reports of this kind for organizations in the health market are usually “dry” and factual, the DRK report offers something new with the unusual theme of “Kopf und Herz,” or “Head and Heart.” This juxtaposition of Facts and Figures vs. Feelings and Emotions has been used to enliven the report with sections titled “Innovation & Tradition,” “Old & Young,” “Giving & Taking,” “Man & Machine,” etc.

The designers decided on a visual system that would echo this dichotomy. The cover illustration is a human brain superimposed with a spot-varnished and embossed red heart. Each of the 15 chapters that make up the core of the 50-page report have been arranged as single spreads, with text on the left, and illustrations, created by Pentagram, on the right, all printed in red, grey and black.

The Geography of Design: Paula Scheer

New York, New York.
This should inspire those of you going to NYC in October and make those of you who can't go to NYC want to go even more. Wish everyone was going to celebrate yourselves as designers and artists.

(BTW: Paula Scheer was a visiting artist at GSU years ago.

Temptation

Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.

MOCA Artist Talks

Spring Semester 2010 Schedule

Preliminary Schedule for Seniors and Juniors.


Seniors:
Seniors meet on MTWT but finished up by 1:50p on Mondays and Wednesdays and no classes on Fridays as previously scheduled.
GrD 4960 Portfolio TR 11a-1:50p/Anderson 460
GrD 4550 Special Applications TR 5:30-8:20/Alford 468
GrD 4600 Senior Workshop MW 11a-1:50p/Taylor 460


Juniors:
Looks like Juniors will be in class back-to-back on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 11am and running through 8:20p.
All 3 graphic design classes are scheduled this day for you.
GrD 4150 Collateral Design TR 11a-1:50p/Throop 468
GrD 4400 Film/TV TR 2:30-5:20p/Anderson 460
GrD 4250 Pop Culture TR 5:30-8:20p/Ellis 211
GrD 4300 Internship TR 8a-10:50p/Anderson/468 (*Time is listed although class does not officially meet; It is possible this class will meet several times throughout the semester however.)

If you're sold on using LOVE typography in your poster then...

courtesy: flickr.com/photos/skessler/2095477701/


courtesty: www.delveintodesign.co.uk/


courtesty: msp296.photobucket.com

If you're sold on using hearts in your poster then...

courtesy:
flickr.com/photos/dandelionseeds/3714502368


Hey, this show does open Valentines Week, so why not use the familiar iconic candy hearts with all the names of the photographers on each heart?

MODA "Love Nest" is...

It's a show about photography and personal collections.
Photography incorporates cameras which in turn might be the person's prized possession.


Courtesy of:
www.ndroo.com/blog/?p=98

What if?

This comes from Junior Designer Melanie Bostwick's blog. It's from another resource which goes unidentified but it makes a visual impact which could lend itself, it's concept, to the MODA project "Love Nest" if you are thinking about using a heart image in your design. What about your type and image carved into a tree and then photographed? Or perhaps spray painted onto a surface and photographed? What if you took a group of cameras that range from old to new and photograph them for the design since the is how is about photography. Seems like an obvious direction to me.
An Exhibition of photography and personal momentos.

Below are photographs from Jack Pierson, Robert Mapplethorpe,Starn Twins,and John Dugdale that evoke a certain romance or love without showing a Heart. Think about photography.
Think about process. Think about doing something out of the ordinary.
Think about this exhibition as ART and then design around that.

Below: Look at what the Gap did with the color RED and the image of some celebrity wearing a Gap Tshirt. It's sexy, smart and designed beautifully.


Below: Jack Pierson did an incredible collage or images that related to his subject matter for his exhibition. Color/Texture and thought evoking.


Below: Mapplethorpe creates beauty from male sculpture photographed in profile. The photography is the momento of possession.


Below: John Dugdale imagery which evokes beauty, caring,love and symbol.

Two Weeks to Deadline for MODA: Love Nest

Everyone should be working diligently and creatively on design ideas for both poster concepts (Type only and Type and Image) for MODA. Also don't forget you are committed to designing images for a set of 4 cards as well. You can always do more than what is expected.

The month of September is already half over and you should be prepared to show everything you have regarding "Love Nest" on Monday, September 13th in class. These can be shown in class in digital version according to scale.

These are due at this month to present to MODA.
Some of you have yet to begin any work for this class on your blogs.
I'm seeing a lot of work for Drive-Invasion only.

MODA show and tell on monday at 11am.

Internship Info on MODA: Follow up

Not exactly a Graphic Design Internship, but you could always make it into a position where you use your design skills along with marketing. It sounds like they want someone who is willing to take charge on many levels. Even the Executive Director, Brenda Galina thought someone from your class would be terrific. As you already know
Graphic Design and Marketing are related on so many levels that this position could be very interesting. A good mix of design, marketing and advertising it sounds like.

MODA Internship
MARKETING:
The intern in Marketing will work closely with the Museum's Executive Director, Director of Operations, and Public Relations Consultant in the coordination and execution of various marketing efforts and events to increase awareness of the Museum to the public and specific design communities. The efforts include but are not limited to maintaining MODA's social networks outlets, designing and distributing e- blasts to our mailing lists, and keeping all Museum information and exhibitions listings up- to- date.

For information on these internships, please send a resume and cover letter
stating your interest and relevant experience to Raja Schaar, Director of
Operations at rschaar@museumofdesign.org. Also, Please let her know you are one of the graphic designers who is currently working with MODA on their project and a student of mine.

NYC Studios: Possible Places to Visit Part 2

Animal Planet
Discovery Network
www.discovery.com

Attik Design,Inc.
www.attik.com

Beehive
www.behive.tv

Blister
www.blisternyc.com

Bob's Your Uncle
www.bobsyouruncle.tv

Brainstorm, Inc.
www.brainstormincorporated.com

The Brand Gallery
www.thebrandgallery.com

Bravo
www.bravo.tv

Charlex
www.charlex.com

CNN
Time Warner Bldg
NYC Studios

Comedy Central
www.comedycentral.com

Gretel
www.gretel.com

HBO Studios
www.hbo.com

Imaginary Forces
www.imaginaryforces.com

Logo
www.vh1.com

MTV Networks
www.mtv.com

The N
www.the-n.com

Nickolodeon
www.nick.com

Oxygen
www.oxygen.com

Orange Design
www.lisaorange.com

PMcD Design
www.pmcdesign.com

Psyop,Inc
www.psyop.tv

SciFi
www.scifi.com

Spike TV
www.spiketv.com

Trollback,Inc.
www.trollback.com

Doug Grimmett: Primal Screen Visit

Pleased to announce that Doug Grimmett will be visiting the class this Wednesday September 9th at 11am. He is he first visitor in a long series of professionals who will visit the class to discuss the professional practices of graphic design. Please come with questions about your profession. It's not often you have an audience with someone like Doug who is taking time out from his own work to share his thoughts and wisdom with you about graphic design. Be on time!

Past MODA poster designs: Thanks Chia

Here are some of the previous designs from MODA for their exhibitions courtesy of
Chia. Our always "photo-reliable" designer. Try to re-invent what has already been done and up the design concepts more. Again, One Poster design that is total type driven and another that is both image and type. Not to forget the set of cards which will also follow the exhibitions for "Love Nest."