MATERIALS
Assignment 5: Travel Poster Series
DUE FOR 11.21.12
Make refined drafts of two of your thumbnails for each of your three posters. Your refined drafts should be 8" x 6", trimmed, and they should include color. For now, typography is optional. You will be bringing a total of 6 color drafts to class on Wednesday.
Given the damage done by the hurricane, take it easy. If possible, finish your posters. Otherwise there's no homework. Let's see where we are on Wednesday.
Send me an email if you have any issues. Have a good weekend and stay safe.
MATERIALS
Assignment 4: Making a List
DUE FOR 10.26.12
Great job on the icon project! Bring in any revisions; if you forgot to include a title, bring in with title.
Also bring list of 20 instructions for your poster.
MATERIALS
Assignment 3: Icon Project
DUE FOR 10.23.12
Final of icon project on 11x17 or 18x24 paper. Include title and think critically about layout and placement.
READINGS
Roland Barthes. Excerpts from Camera Lucida. 1980.
pages 67-71
DUE FOR 10.10.12
All reading from Camera Lucida. Keep in mind the terms punctum and studium. What is the punctum of your photo? What, as Barthes writes, "bruises you, is poignant to you"?
Bring in your 18 x 24" poster with your diagram and paragraph on it. Your design should intentional, not arbitrary.
MATERIALS
Assignment II, Part 2: Facebook: Empathy
READINGS
Roland Barthes. Excerpts from Camera Lucida. 1980.
pages 23-29
pages 51-55
DUE FOR 10.05.12
Reading. Part 2 of assignment. Bring in your two diagrams on 8.5 x 11" sheets of paper. Bring in your two paragraphs printed and double-spaced.
MATERIALS
Assignment II: Facebook: Text, Conscious Subtext, Unconscious Subtext
DUE FOR 10.03.12
Part I of assignment. Bring in your four diagrams on 8.5x11" sheets of paper.
READINGS
Jessica Helfand Can Graphic Design Make You Cry?
DUE FOR 09.28.12
Final comps of those who didn't present Wednesday. Think about upcoming Facebook project.
READINGS
Intro to Art Nouveau
The End of Art Nouveau:
Behrens and AEG p. 101-104
from Graphic Design: A New History
IMAGES
Examples of Art Nouveau
1891 Toulouse-Lautrec Poster for the Moulin Rouge
1896 Steinlen Tournee du Chat Noire
1898 Klimt Poster for the Vienna Secession
1898 Mucha Ad for Job cigarette papers
1899 Van de Velde Ad for Tropon egg product
1890s Rich GE logo
1901 Moser illustration for Ver Sacrum
1907 Behrens Ad for lightbulb
DUE FOR 09.26.12
Readings + Images + final project: final four 5x5" compositions affixed to 9x27" illustration board.
READINGS
Linda Barry excerpt from What It Is, 2008.
Heller & Pomeroy Priester Match Poster pg. 397-399 from Design Literacy.
IMAGES
Examples of Lucian Bernhard's work
Priester Matches
Manoli Cigarettes
Osram Lightbulbs
+ What is the effect of isolating an object in a composition? Can you think of advertisements today that use the same methods?
VIDEOS
Imaginary Forces video about Paul Rand.
+ Paul Rand was one of the most successful designers of the last 75 years. What does he say about content versus form? What does his say about originality? Do you agree?
DUE FOR 09.19.12
Reading + bring final photos, found text and textures to class.
READINGS
Franz Kafka The Cares of a Family Man, 1919.
+ What is Odradek's personality? Why can it speak? Are there objects like Odradek in your life?
VIDEOS
PES Western Spaghetti
+ What makes this video so viscerally satisfying?
DUE FOR 09.14.12
Reading, bring photos of objects, 18 x 24 inch illustration board with boxes drawn on. Everything should be perfectly measured and drawn cleanly. Pay attention to craft. Use a ruler!
MATERIALS
Assignment 1: Object Project
READINGS
Roland Barthes Toys from Mythologies, 1957
Nicholson Baker excerpt from The Mezzanine, 1988.
+ How do the authors engage with the materiality of each object?
VIDEOS
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Marcel The Shell
+ What's the relationship between each object's personality and its physical characteristics? Is it always obvious?
DUE FOR 09.12.12
Bring objects, character study and digital camera to class.
MATERIALS
Syllabus + first exercise
READINGS
Richard Hollis Excerpt from Graphic Design: A Concise History
Vilem Flusser About the Word Design
DUE FOR 09.07.12
stay tuned
Designers to keep in mind for your presentations + a link to an example of each designer's work.
Saul Bass
Herbert Bayer
Irma Boom
Muriel Cooper
Milton Glaser
Tibor Kalman
Chip Kidd
El Lissitsky
Herb Lubalin
Alvin Lustig
Herbert Matter
Josef Muller-Brockmann
Cipe Pineles
Paul Rand
Paula Scher
Jan Tschichold
Massimo Vignelli
Chris Ware
Wolfgang Weingart
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