nov 10 class /  by tyler galloway

in class

  • critique over mix-n-match 3. denise gonzales crisp here as guest critic!
  • 10:00am – DGC lecture in irving 102
  • 12:30 – ashley heyburn mini-workshop and discussion around SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) and goal setting in relation to degree project ideas, then discussion about having a fulfilling creative career. 
  • continue critique as needed
  • typography in indesign demo/discussion

 

new work for next class

  • get busy on your final project!
  • bring your printed question list to class at 8am.

nov 3 class /  by tyler galloway

morning session

project 7 critique. same routine as project 6, so visit that post right here. we will focus even more heavily on your own questions about your work as a way to practice asking questions, particularly those about what graphic design/typography/branding/printing processes/participatory design/editorial design/motion graphics/sustainable design can do. please give some thought to your questions before critique.

assign and discuss new project. 

afternoon session

seft hunter talk at 12:30. seft is the executive director at communities creating opportunities, a non-profit whose mission is "organizing diverse communities and people of faith to realize their power, develop strong leaders, unite partners, and advance solutions to our connected challenges." seft has a lot of community connections and can help uncover local community-based issues that may be aided by graphic design, if you are inclined toward those things in your work.

reading group. please make sure you are keeping up with the reading. you should be to page 140 by now. i've found lots of valuable reminders in this text and hope you have too. 

typography lecture over character and paragraph styles and other stuff as desired.

 

project six crit format /  by tyler galloway

please prepare before class because your responses will comprise your presentation grade for this project. each student will have: 

2 minutes to contextualize/set up your project – tell us only what we can't see, like intended audience, rationale for major design choices, etc.

8 minutes to answer this question, starting with you, followed by peers: what types of questions does this work raise for you that may push it forward in some way?

manifestos /  by tyler galloway

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check out "social design notes" post on manifestos for a huge and historically-based dose of idealism, truisms, and belief systems that might inform your next phase of pre-exhibit work, either in book or poster form. some of the links are dead but check out "first things first" [and the 2000 update] and "dieter rams' ten rules for good design" and any others that tickle your fancy. 

while you're there, "social design notes" is a pretty awesome advocacy/activist blog. read some stuff. 

oct 6 class /  by tyler galloway

"anti" project crit – using structure and requirements from previous post

reading group!

exhibition discussion: what is the goal? what criteria do we use for organizing – how loose or tight?

discussion of booklet questions

work time + mid-term meetings

"anti" project crit format /  by tyler galloway

i realize that having the morning to finalize things, then a noon crit, is a bit odd in terms of how to time things just right, so we will hold our final crit time of noon o'clock a bit loosely. i do not, however want to go as late as 2pm b/c we won't get done in time. 

10 minutes per student: two minutes to present, eight minutes for feedback from peers and DGC.

presentation should address [project learning outcome 1] how you experimented visually and pushed your comfort zone in terms of audience, content, media choice, and formal approach. be very specific in how you address these issues. 

don't forget to consult the project brief for final deliverables and make sure they're ready to go before our designated time. 

reading group!!! /  by tyler galloway

let's get on this book! "making ideas happen" will be made to happen in the following way:

for sept 29 – introduction

for oct 6 – pp 21-48

for oct 13 – pp 49-69

for oct 20 – pp 70-90

for oct 27 – pp 91-120

for nov 3 – pp 120 -140

for nov 10 – pp 140-161

for nov 17 – pp 165-189

for nov 24 [thanksgiving] – pp 190-208

for dec 1 – pp 209-220

design slam // reflection booklet /  by tyler galloway

in one hour, produce a new version of your reflection booklet that uses the prompts below as [not rules, not requirements but] sources of inspiration. including production time, that gives you about 2 minutes per spread.

handwriting – your normal hand, your bad hand, someone else's hand, unexpected tools, etc

analog or mechanical typesetting tools or methods

new content relationships [shifting content among pages]

dimensional or object-based typography

photographed or projected type

new compositional strategies – radical scale shift, symmetry/asymmetry, any method to generate randomness, hierarchy/anti-hierarchy, new subdivisions of the page. 

project 2 + 3 crit /  by tyler galloway

write about the poster

what kinds of visual or written evidence are provided in the poster that tell you about your classmate? 

how clear is that evidence?

"reading" from a purely visual perspective, what do the formal elements of the poster tell you about your classmate?

in what ways does the text contribute to the visual understanding? how creative is the approach to written content? 

what information, if any, is missing from the poster that your classmate should have included? 

write about the book

in the reflection booklet, what does the typographic composition tell you about your classmate [apart from word meanings]?