April 2009
9 posts
Project URL's
btw, please don’t forget to send me your project urls
thank you!
c
Party postponed
hello,
in case you get this: party has been moved…have to catch a flight to the east coast
will let you know
c
Congratulations!
hello all,
As said before, it was an honour for me to share this time with you and get a glimpse of your minds and the infinite capacity you have as individuals to affect your lives and that of your surroundings through your work and dedication.
You inspired me, and that to me is invaluable; we all grow, regradles of hierarchical positions ( I am more of an anarchist when it comes to...
Final presentation: open class
hello all, So here are the specifications for the final presentation next week: - bring in your models - catalogue & process book (both bound) -posters -invites -web: we’ll have a projector to display these & any motion pieces you have for the web: your site should include the following: 1) LOGO (import from ai as jpeg, or gif) 2) INTRO TEXT (artist statement / project description)...
Links from charles
here are two links he forwarded to me, good to know.
http://www.philobiblon.com/ http://www.printplanet.com
will post specifics for your final presentation shortly,
good work yesterday, congrats!
c
Check this out →
Read "HOMO GENERATOR: Militant Media & Postmodern... →
week 13: bookbinding tutorial
hello all,
its getting sunny out there & we are reaching our final weeks. It is important you stay tuned and complete your work to best of your ability, you can all achieve that. Last class we did not discuss environmental graphics OR your setup choice for the web component (indexhibit). please make sure you have solutions for these as they are requirements.
Our photographer’s name is...
March 2009
18 posts
friday week 12
hello all,
hope you had a good weekend.
i want to reiterate that it is NOT OK to show up to class late,you guys are pushing it. You need to be there on time, ready to present at 2pm, no exceptions.
Next friday we have our photoshoot, do not make my photographer wait, time is limited and she’s doing this pro-bono so let’s respect each other’s times please.
Bring your artwork,...
M&A Lecture tomorrow
hello all,
Pleased to say jenna & oliver from M&A (and infrantaural) will join us tomorrow in class for a presentation of their work. 6pm. I love what they do, sharp, brilliant and experimental.
check out their site, you might know who they are:
http://emanate.org/
see u then!
c
Models & env.graphics
hello all,
we are having all models shot by a photographer next week (friday, april 3rd). please bring your updated models to class THIS friday for a final review before the shoot. include env.graphics, if you are unsure about scale, placement, storyline then comp up—to scale—on paper before say, you laser cut. I do want the narrative idea down though.
you are using language in space, so pay...
elena manfredini lecture @ sci-arc tomorrow, 7pm
http://www.sciarc.edu/portal/work/index.html
her work is amazing!
don’t forget about mediascapes on saturday
for next friday: w11
hello all,
I think of all you are on the right track on your books, some good work yesterday, now take the feedback and push hard. this is a very important piece so make sure you’re diligently poetic —if that’s an expression—when executing. I want to see a full dummy, cohesive content breakdown that tells a story. its all about telling a story: textually & visually.
specifically...
ooops, they changed the order #2 was the one below
Univers Revolved: A Three-Dimensional Alphabet by Ji Lee (Hardcover - April 1, 2004) - Illustrated
plus weingart & miller
dimensional typography & weingart →
check out items 1, 2 & 15
enjoy!
c
friday march 20th
hello all,
hope monday was good to you.
for friday I want to see a full dummy of your catalog, will all prospective content in place and sequence (text & images). By dummy I mean a folded “comp” of your book in actual format, trimmed to scale. this facilitates sequence & pagination review and allows for the flow, rhythm & composition of the book to present itself. Please...
designboom →
goodies….
Side Note: Identity, Experimentation & Process
When coming up with your logos, experiment with unusual media & processes. See how the “medium is the message” or wait “the massage” as Marshall McLuhan would have it.
c
kinetica art fair →
not that much into art fairs (they owe me money) but this one seems interesting
For Friday March 13th
hello all, hope you had a great weekend Below are the assignments for next friday, we will skip “week 9” on the official syllabus and get going onto week 10, with some variations specified here: Text / Language Content: - Bring in your artist statement (and incorporate it into your layout) - Bring in your text (this derives from the research & self-generated text you have explored...
Tomorrow: visiting lecturer
hello all, my friend Rafael Macho will drop by tomorrow & sit in class with us, he’s a Swiss national with a heavy accent & a great motion graphics designer who will be teaching in “america” as he puts it soon. He’ll be absorbing how we do things here and do a presentation of his work around 6pm.
let’s welcome him
see you soon
c
Inspiration: my friend Sarah Small
i love her work,
check out her latest:
http://www.sarahsmall.com/upcoming/
and, today is the sound& science symposium at ucla (posted earlier) try to make it if you can, i’m excited to see it
c
week 8: Deliverables
Hello all, Congratulations on the work you’ve done so far! I was impressed by what some of you achieved and I am certain you will all end up with intelligent, resonant & beautiful pieces. Last week was a benchmark, you were graded on what you presented for your midterm; however, we will continue to refine the model until it is stellar. We are now on the second half of the course and...
Presentation Pics: Enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0a68a9b3892211f84c17ca8801618ef733e4c5ae167791d45be6ba49b5870170 http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0a68a9b3892211f84c17ca8801618ef7cbffe8625952f4b1b8eada0a1ae8665a http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0a68a9b3892211f84c17ca8801618ef787c6c049a79eea11b8eada0a1ae8665a
February 2009
19 posts
Tomorrow's presentation
hello all,
Looking forward to your work tomorrow, I want to enter your space vicariously. Please bring your cameras—or a camera— so we can document the work.
Thank you
c
ok, I guess I'm inspired: more Lyotard / this...
You know—technology wasn’t invented by us humans. Rather the other way around. As anthropologists and biologists admit, even the simplest life forms, infusoria (tiny algae synthesized by light at the edges of tidepools a few million years ago) are already technical devices. Ant material system is technological if it filters information useful to its survival, if it memorizes and processes...
Beckett: for inspiration
A friend of mine sent me this, he prefaced it by saying: “It is necessary to sin abundantly in life to encounter Beckett in his work” I guess that makes me a sinner
NEITHER to and fro in shadow from inner to outer shadow from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself by way of neither as between two lit refuges whose doors once neared gently close, once away turned from gently part...
Mark your calendars!
Hello, I would like to invite you to the upcoming Sound + Science Symposium at UCLA (see our website for complete details). Please feel free to forward this to all interested parties and I look forward to seeing you there! Tyler Adams UCLA Art|Sci Center http://artsci.ucla.edu/sound/ SOUND + SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM UCLA CNSI Auditorium March 5 + 6 2009 10am-9pm http://artsci.ucla.edu/sound/...
From "Libidinal Economy" by Lyotard...see posts...
The Great Ephemeral Skin Opening the Libidinal Surface Open the so-called body and spread out all its surfaces: not only the skin with each of its folds, wrinkles, scars, with its great velvety planes, and contiguous to that, the scalp and its mane of hair, the tender pubic fur, nipples, nails, hard transparent skin under the heel, the light frills of the eyelids, set with lashes—but open and...
Please make sure you see W6 notes after these pics
we will shoot everyone for the blog next week, so do your hair! and I’ll need to borrow someone’s camera
thxs
c
W6: assignments & notes
hello all,
Hope you had a great weekend, below are some notes & specifications for what’s due next friday:
- By now your narrative should be defined, that is, your overarching concept for story, sequence and execution of artworks within their spatial context.
-It is important things don’t remain on a purely conceptual level, so I want you to make your pieces experiential and...
Goodies | Tumblr →
United Visual Artists had a lecture tonight at UCLA / DMA (design & media Arts). They are good, check them out.
on my mind now
I mentioned the situationist international last week (to Justin & Jorge), check this article out, especially etymology and definitions & core arguments / key ideas in situationist theory. (which makes me think of performance architecture: the liminal event so to speak)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International
Baudrillard was also a situationist & contemporary french...
type foundries & inspiration
for you to peruse: type foundries
http://www.ourtype.be/ http://www.fontshop.com/?domain=BE http://www.typotheque.com/site/index.php http://www.t26.com/ http://www.veer.com http://www.philsfonts.com/ http://www.typecuts.com/ (very nice stuff)
inspiration:
Brno Design Biennial http://www.moravska-galerie.cz/en/biennial/23rd-international-biennial-of-graphic-design-brno-2008/
Visual...
Welcome!
Hi all,
This is our class blog slash space in the netherlands of the virtual. Let’s use it to share ideas, inspiration, comments, feedback and questions. I will use this space to post specifics on what is due per week, so please keep track as it has proven to be very useful.
For next week: Exhibition Design Execution
- narrative content & sequence should be well established and...