FINAL MONDAY, DEC. 12

FOR FINAL
Please have your materials printed out and in class. Anything that can be digitally projected aka project / jpegs files please have on the main instructor computer before class.

JOB FOLDER
Left Side
1. Research
2. Visual Brief
3. Pitch

Right Side
1. Thumbnails
2. Roughs
3. Finals

*Also need to have your book quote in place in the library to get full credit for the piece.

FOR FINAL PORTFOLIO FILES
1. Font / Handwriting
2. Font Poster
3. Letter / 5 ways - images
4. Type Portrait
5. Movie Poster
6. Book Quote
8. Accordion Book Poem
9. Book cover
10. JUFF
11. zine
12. Magazine design
13. Plates - images of them individually
14. Christmas Poster
15. Restaurant design

NOTE: Your magazine designs are done and outside my office anytime you would like to pick them up.

Wednesday, Dec. 7

Please don't forget to bring your items to class:

JUFF Party
MSG - chips
Kayli - drinks
Hannah - drinks
Jess - fudge
Ms. Posey - cookies
Ricky - Pigs n blanket
Anna - ChexMix
CeCe - Cupcakes
Chloe - Fruit

Please bring a rough of the restaurant material to look over. Get to work on job folders by Wednesday should have the following items in there:

JOB FOLDER
Left Side
1. Research
2. Photos of Original Site
3. Visual Briefs
4. Design Pitch

Right Side
1. Thumbnails
2. Roughs

See ya then!

Monday, Dec. 5

Great job on the magazine critiques guys! I didn't get to say that in class. Thanks for letting that family sit in.

Enjoy the weekend. Start on the prelim stuff on the job folder, research, photos, info gathering, visual briefs, thumbnails. We will hit restaurant design hard next week! See ya then!

Friday, Dec. 2

Please have your magazine uploaded to issuu so you can see it during critique and use the job folder copy to pass around the classroom. Please dress for critique.

JOB FOLDER
LEFT SIDE
1. Research
2. Visual Briefs
3. Pitch

RIGHT SIDE
1. Thumbnails
2. Roughs
-3 covers and 3 interior versions
3. Final

The final must be saddle stitched. Must have a front and back. Be divisible by 4 - 8 or 12 pages total document. Must have a logotype. Must have issue / date and barcode. Must have headline treatments, body copy, bylines, photos. Look out for widows and orphans in the type. Use and experiment with the grid.

CHRISTMAS PARTY
If you need a ride sign up on the board in class and sign up for your dish. Don't forget your dirty Santa gift. See ya then!

Wednesday, Nov. 30

Please have your magazine rough and cover finalized in it's final form to look over on Wednesday. Please select a line from a christmas song to illustrate in class on Wednesday. Don't forget to sign up for a dish to pass for the party and start working on your santa gift:)

Monday, Nov. 28

Please have three versions of your front cover design along with printed out spread roughs of your interior design. We will not have long with this after break so please use your time wisely to refine. Look for options of treating the grid and photograph differently. Think out of the box. Critique will most likely be Friday the week we get back if we don't have any major hiccups.

Don't forget to start in the job folder for the final. Research, Visual briefs, thumbnails. Get photos that you will be able to photoshop your signage into (decent resolution). Select your restaurant and get original material to start working on. We will hit this hard in the remaining weeks we have back.

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING! DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS PARTY ON DEC. 1ST THE WEEK WE GET BACK!

Friday, Nov. 18

Please have three rough drafts of your magazine interior printed off for your job folder on Friday. Don't forget to start looking for a client for your restaurant design package. Take pictures and start doing research and visual brief so that you can dive into the assignment when we get back.

Don't forget to sign up for department Thanksgiving tomorrow night at 5 pm in A72!

Wednesday, Nov. 15

Please start the process of thumbnailing your cover design. YOUR JUFF EDITS MUST BE TO KAYLI BY ONE PM TOMORROW! Your grade will get docked if you are late. Please have them air dropped to her computer so we can assemble the book for the class to have edits done by Wednesday. We will take the beginning part of class to finish up edits on the document for Wednesday. We will work on the master file rather than on your individual computers so make sure the book is saved on your computer Kayli. See ya then!

Monday, Nov. 14

Please translate your article into text for InDesign use. Start your job folder. Have research (demographics & history or media kit), visual brief of what aesthetic you want to move to. Have one visual brief for cover and one for the spreads. Thumbnails started of cover and spreads.

Friday, Nov. 11

Please go and spend some time in the magazine section of the bookstore. Spend some time leafing through magazines that you are attracted to. Good design aesthetic. Take photos of the spreads that you like. Find a magazine about a topic that you are interested in but the aesthetic of the magazine is poor. Ex. Tea Time / horrible design but you love tea:) / start to ask yourself could I expand the target market by changing the voice of this magazine. Take photos of where the magazine is located in the rack and what is by it. You will use these as reference to know how to design it in comparison to it's competition. Purchase the ugly magazine. You will be copying out one of the main feature stories to redesign the layout and the front cover of the magazine.

See you Friday!

Wednesday, Nov. 9

Please have a copy of your bound zine that we did in class to look over. Make sure someone prints off a copy for me (for keeping and showing to future generations of zine makers:). Make your own zine. Remember needs to be divisible by four. That includes your covers. Go in sections of 8 or 12. Can do more if you get into it. Must have an issue number, date and title. Rest is up to you. Play with type and play with getting your hands dirty. We will dive more into our next assignment coming up on Wednesday.

Monday, Nov. 7

Please bring stuff to cut up in class on Monday. Old magazines, old junk, scissors, sharpies, glue. We are going to have a zine party:)! Thanks for your work on the JUFF and the campaign for RIFA this week. Both clients happy with the work which makes for a happy professor! Have a great weekend!

Friday, Nov. 4

Please have your assigned journal article laid out on Kayli's grid for Friday. Please finish up your signage and send me a pdf of the files asap. Would like to send these out for approval tomorrow if possible. We will work on getting RIFA finished, JUFF looked over and packaged as a book as well as starting to prep for our next project of magazine design. See ya then! Thanks for your work on the plate project. Lots of fun and looks great. Already having a lot of comments. Got to put the "artist statement" up asap.

Friday, October 28

Please have the following for critique. Please come before class. Critique will start at the top of the class...so you need to have your files on the computer ready to show before class.

JOB FOLDER
Left Side
1. Research
2. Visual Briefs (3)
3. Pitch

Right Side
1. Thumbnails
2. Roughs
a. interior page (2)
b. cover images (3)
c. website (4 pages)
3. Finals
a. website print (4 pages)
b. saddle stitched booklet / cover and interior pages
c. issuu / website interactive on instructor computer to present
d. original file on instructor computer to check over styles sheet of document

CLIENT FOLDER
Left Side
1. Pitch - get it proof read by someone that not familiar with your job or your work. English majors - grammar matters / make sure that you are not getting discounted for job based on grammar.

Right Side
1. Website print out
2. Saddle stitched booklet

Be sure to dress for critique! See ya then!

Wednesday, October 26

Please have three versions of your cover printed out for your job folder. Start finalizing your type of your journal article. Fit to your grid. Set up styles - will get docked points if do no have the following styles addressed: Title, Byline, Body Copy, Drop cap (if design calls for it), Footnote, Page numbers, Block Quote

Please complete as much as possible on your website design for Wednesday. Work day in class. Use wisely - show as much of the work as possible before critique. Will have much better result if you do. Will have a client folder and a folder for the professor for this project.

Here are some helps on footnotes and page numbers - (sorry about the projector bulb today)
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/footnotes.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/layout-design-9.html

REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSIGNMENT
1. Job Folder
2. Website (interactive pdf with four pages. http://www.uu.edu/journals/juff/ - information on site retranslated)
3. issuu.com (version of the your final cover and your text so that can flip through while showing client in presentation)
4. Saddle stitched copies of the final (2 versions - one for client and one for professor)
5. InDesign file to professor - so can see styles created.

Monday, October 24

Please have your 2 roughs of the layout printed in your job folder. Have visual briefs, research and your layouts. We will hot the website and cover designs hard on Monday. See ya then.

Friday, October 23

For Friday, please have your quote completed in hand type quote about reading or words for the library (you can use one of the three ways of working - final must printed on the computer). Have this completed on 11x17 and ready to view in class. 

Please print off research and visual brief inspiration for the JUFF. One visual brief for the cover, one for the interior type and one for the website. Please think of the design as Journal of the Union Faculty Forum (no one uses JUFF abbreviation really) besides us and the editorial team. 

Here are a few examples of past covers to get your juices going. Look to other sources than just academic journals because you find them pretty dull and dry. We will hit this hard on Friday. 

Wednesday, October 19

Please have your accordion book ready to look over in class on Friday. Translate your favorite poem on the panels in hand type. Think about the interpretation words of the text.

Monday, October 10

Hi guys,

I'm so sorry. No class tomorrow. My boys are not feeling well after the retreat. A stomach flu has ripped through their day care taking out teachers and students left and right. Thank you so much for all of your help with them after the retreat. I could not have done toddler and baby duty without your wonderful help. You guys are wonderful! Make sure that you are keeping healthy yourselves. Need to be in tip top shape for fall break. Those of you that will be not present on Wednesday and had planned on critiquing on Monday if you could please drop by your book before you head out on break. You can present after we get back that Monday. We will still have critique on Wednesday. We will cover book binding for an entire fun day when we get back from Fall break so make sure to bring your bone folders then.

Thanks again! So grateful for y'all. Be safe those of you that are heading out and the rest of you see ya on Wednesday.

Friday, October 7

Please use Friday as a work day. No class meeting time due to art retreat. For Monday, please come with two additional roughs working through "opposite style". Those that are presenting come ready to present in class. Don't forget to bring a bone folder and exact knife to class on Monday.

Wednesday, October 5

Please have two roughs printed off and in your job folder for Wednesday in class. Please be focused on the voice of the type. Don't forget to take a book jacket off book presenting to use it as a template. Design in the 3D. This is not a flat object. Be thinking about all sides in your roughs.

Please come to class at 12:20 for the AIGA meeting. Feel free to bring your lunch.

Wednesday, October 3

Please reprint your I Am Type posters. We will hang these out in the hallway during class on Monday. Start 5 pages of research on your book, visual brief of inspiration and have your thumbnails with only typography ready in your job folder for Monday. Be ready to hit the ground running on the job.

Friday, Sept. 30

Due on Friday. 11x17. Across 8 posters in design systems. Must be designed in the type system / one system for each poster. Have fun and think about the text and how you are using type to express the quote. Limit yourself to one type family - play with size, scale, weight, italics instead of tons of different type. FW Goudy needs to be at the end of the quote. Worth 100 points for the set.

I am type! Of my earliest ancestry neither history nor relics remain. The wedge-shaped symbols impressed in plastic clay by Babylonian builders in the dim past, foreshadowed me; from them, on through the hieroglyph of the ancient Egyptians, down to the beautiful manuscript letters of the medieval scribes, I was in the making. With the golden vision of the ingenious Gutenberg, who first applied the principle of casting me in metal, the profound art of printing with movable types was born to countless thousands. I bring into the light of day the precious stores of knowledge and wisdom long hidden in the grave of ignorance.
I coin for you the enchanting tale, the philosopher's moralizing, and the poet's phantasies; I enable you to exchange the irksome hours that come, at times, to everyone, for sweet and happy hours with books-golden urns filled with all the manna of the past. In books I present to you a portion of the eternal mind caught in its progress through the world, stamped in an instant, and preserved for eternity. Through me, Socrates and Plato, Chaucer and the Bards, become your faithful friends whoever surround and minister to you. I am the leaden army that conquers the world. Cold, rigid, and implacable I may be, yet the first impress of my face brought the divine world. I am type!

Wednesday, Sept. 28

Please bring your reworked movie quotes. Think about type, voice and packet. How do these fit the voice and the look of the movie? Please reconsider large elements of type for your typographers portrait. Reprint if necessary. Quick critique in class and moving on to next assignment.

Monday, Sept. 26, 2016

We will pick up our normal use of the blog on this date. Hope you all have a great time with Mr. Nadaskay. He was my professor back in the day and hope you enjoy learning from a master:) I'll see you back in class on the 26th of Sept. Until then think of me with my little Tschichold at home learning our letters just like you guys will be doing in class. See ya then!