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.