SATURDAY, DEC.13 @ STATION TAVERN AND BURGERS
12pm-4pm
thank you!
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
FACEBOOK EVENT LINK
FACEBOOK EVENT LINK
If you can all join this event and please send to friends, family, etc.
thank you!
thank you!
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Thursday, October 16, 2014
LINOCUT...
Here are some nice and well detailed linocuts...please start exploring on your own so you can see what you can do with your drawings, paintings, photos, and graphic designs. Imagery needs to be hi contrast Black and White, and Greys can be hatched, etc...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
THE BLVD MARKET GRAND OPENING: Friday 6:00pm - 10:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/318805944969367/?source=1
The BLVD Market, kicking off in October, on the 3rd Friday of the month, is bound to become San Diego’s premier, outdoor food market. At the corner of Utah and El Cajon Boulevard, The Boulevard Center, and newly restored strip mall has become a major contributor to the Boulevard’s revitalization. Within the space, new tenants including Bluxom Salon and Heart & Trotter, a locally sourced, hormone-free butcher shop, have quickly become positive members of this reemerging business district, which is growing from its center at #30ECB.
With a common interest in locally sourced, sustainable products, local business owners expressed a shared vision of developing a monthly market to showcase to San Diego’s highly regarded, up and coming chefs, and draw more and more people to El Cajon Boulevard’s happening center. Each month, the parking lot will be transformed into a lively, serene outdoor market place.
The BLVD Market, kicking off in October, on the 3rd Friday of the month, is bound to become San Diego’s premier, outdoor food market. At the corner of Utah and El Cajon Boulevard, The Boulevard Center, and newly restored strip mall has become a major contributor to the Boulevard’s revitalization. Within the space, new tenants including Bluxom Salon and Heart & Trotter, a locally sourced, hormone-free butcher shop, have quickly become positive members of this reemerging business district, which is growing from its center at #30ECB.
With a common interest in locally sourced, sustainable products, local business owners expressed a shared vision of developing a monthly market to showcase to San Diego’s highly regarded, up and coming chefs, and draw more and more people to El Cajon Boulevard’s happening center. Each month, the parking lot will be transformed into a lively, serene outdoor market place.
SOME ART LINKS
here are some links to sites n magazines that do contemporary art. check em out, get ideas, do your thang!
http://www.juxtapoz.com/
http://www.booooooom.com/
http://hifructose.com/
http://www.juxtapoz.com/
http://www.booooooom.com/
http://hifructose.com/
Friday, October 3, 2014
DUE MONDAY: 3+DESIGNS/DP UPDATE
You will have a minimum of 3 complete typographical characters/patterns/concepts completed by Friday. If you have more, that is excellent and encouraged.
Some things to remember:
Your designs should take up as much of the whole page as possible (8.5"x11").
You should have heavy areas of silhouette and black as these will read and print better.
Line weights should be consistent throughout each work.
Please consider a public audience in your work.
What else did we discuss during critique?
TO TURN IN, YOU WILL SEND 1 EMAIL WITH THE FOLLOWING:
A:
Save each of your original designs as .AI files as you have been doing all along. We can edit and fine tune these!
Then, SAVE A COPY as a PDF of each work. (pictured below)
This way I can print them off easily for next round of critique.
Your files should be named like this:
LASTNAME.1.pdf, LASTNAME.2.pdf, LASTNAME.3.pdf, etc.
for example: KRAUSE.1.PDF, and so on for all your sweet work.
You can ATTACH them (preferred) or send them as a google doc only.
I will not open or accept files submitted any other way, in any other format, etc...
B:
Take a screen shot of all your work, and post all of these to your DP.
Paste a link into the the body of the email that contains your PDFs you attached.
Again, you will send me 1 email that has both a link to your DP, and the PDF files.
SUBJECT LINE OF EMAIL ONLY (I WILL NOT OPEN ANYTHING ELSE)
3+DESIGNS/DP UPDATE
Send to: jkrause@hightechhigh.org
Some things to remember:
Your designs should take up as much of the whole page as possible (8.5"x11").
You should have heavy areas of silhouette and black as these will read and print better.
Line weights should be consistent throughout each work.
Please consider a public audience in your work.
What else did we discuss during critique?
TO TURN IN, YOU WILL SEND 1 EMAIL WITH THE FOLLOWING:
A:
Save each of your original designs as .AI files as you have been doing all along. We can edit and fine tune these!
Then, SAVE A COPY as a PDF of each work. (pictured below)
This way I can print them off easily for next round of critique.
Your files should be named like this:
LASTNAME.1.pdf, LASTNAME.2.pdf, LASTNAME.3.pdf, etc.
for example: KRAUSE.1.PDF, and so on for all your sweet work.
You can ATTACH them (preferred) or send them as a google doc only.
I will not open or accept files submitted any other way, in any other format, etc...
B:
Take a screen shot of all your work, and post all of these to your DP.
Paste a link into the the body of the email that contains your PDFs you attached.
Again, you will send me 1 email that has both a link to your DP, and the PDF files.
SUBJECT LINE OF EMAIL ONLY (I WILL NOT OPEN ANYTHING ELSE)
3+DESIGNS/DP UPDATE
Send to: jkrause@hightechhigh.org
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
CALL FOR ARTISTS - EL CAJON BLVD PAVEMENT MURAL
$500 dollars for winning design!
SITE FOR MURAL
Art on the BLVD
This is in the shopping center that last years' benches and planter boxes live, and just down the street from where our next bench and planter boxes will live.
Below is the design brief:
Under consideration, a line got chopped off. I believe it should read:
"The Mural design should incorporate no more than 6 different paint colors."
HERE IS THE PDF DESIGN BRIEF
SITE FOR MURAL
Art on the BLVD
This is in the shopping center that last years' benches and planter boxes live, and just down the street from where our next bench and planter boxes will live.
Below is the design brief:
Under consideration, a line got chopped off. I believe it should read:
"The Mural design should incorporate no more than 6 different paint colors."
HERE IS THE PDF DESIGN BRIEF
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
MINIMAL DESIGN
There are a lot of different movements and style of graphic design. I am a fan of minimal design, (here, too) and below are a few examples you may want to look at to inform your practice, or to research further. This grew out of Swiss and Mid-Century era design practices:
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
TYPE CHARACTER DESIGN : DRAFT 1
I encourage you to create figurative, abstract, representational, non-representational...whatever strikes you as interesting. you are just playing and tinkering, learning the ins-n'-outs of the program.
Due Friday. beginning of class (so we can do a survey/critique):
3 characters, patterns, designs using the ABCs, 123's and punctation in Illustrator.
Use only 1 font, and keep all the letters and shapes in scale. To make shapes/letter smaller n larger, hold down the SHIFRT key to do so.
Start playing with the Pathfinder, Align, Selection/Direct Selection (the arrows) tools for your creations.
You will print up your 3 designs (1 design per sheet of paper. Your design should take up the entire 8.5x11 page)
below are a few selections from last year's student work:
3 characters, patterns, designs using the ABCs, 123's and punctation in Illustrator.
Use only 1 font, and keep all the letters and shapes in scale. To make shapes/letter smaller n larger, hold down the SHIFRT key to do so.
Start playing with the Pathfinder, Align, Selection/Direct Selection (the arrows) tools for your creations.
You will print up your 3 designs (1 design per sheet of paper. Your design should take up the entire 8.5x11 page)
below are a few selections from last year's student work:
LEONARD BASKIN
Leonard Baskin makes minimal but expressive works in a variety of media.
What are some similarities and differences of his work (especially the line quality) and Barry McGee/Margaret Kilgallen?
What are some similarities and differences of his work (especially the line quality) and Barry McGee/Margaret Kilgallen?
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
DUE FRIDAY, 3:30 pm: BENCH DESIGN & TYPE CHARACTER TUTORIALS
#1: BENCH DESIGN 1 (AS A GROUP)
Your group must have AT LEAST 1 fully formed mockup/detailed drawing of a bench design. More than 1 is strongly encouraged.
Your benches must include solar panel, usb plugs, planter boxes/vegetation in the design.
Other stuff to consider from class notes/discussion:
Comfort
To Turn in: scan the drawings on copy machine. touch up your scans in Photoshop, etc., if needed.
Email to me the following:
SUBJECT LINE: BENCH DESIGN 1
In the body of the email, please include the names of all group members, and attach your drawings/renderings. I only need 1 email per group.
Below : an excellent example from Desiree:
#2: TYPE CHARACTER TUTORIALS (EACH CLASS MEMBER WILL DO THESE)
Please complete the TYPE FACE CAST OF CHARACTERS: 2 self directed tutorials
Your characters should be done in BLACK only, not blue or red.
When you are done, please take a screen shot of each piece you did.
Please make sure your artwork takes up the entire screen.
To Turn in:
SUBJECT LINE: TYPE CHARACTER TUTORIALS
Attach the 2 screen shots of the pieces you made from the 2 tutorials.
Your group must have AT LEAST 1 fully formed mockup/detailed drawing of a bench design. More than 1 is strongly encouraged.
Your benches must include solar panel, usb plugs, planter boxes/vegetation in the design.
Other stuff to consider from class notes/discussion:
Comfort
Aesthetics
Materials
Sustainability
Quality & Quantity of Supplies
Varnish and Finishings
Withstanding the elements (No fade, warping)
Weight, Size, Height
Space
Multi use (Wifi access, Cup holders, ect)
What is cut by hand, laser cutter, ect
Cost
To Turn in: scan the drawings on copy machine. touch up your scans in Photoshop, etc., if needed.
Email to me the following:
SUBJECT LINE: BENCH DESIGN 1
In the body of the email, please include the names of all group members, and attach your drawings/renderings. I only need 1 email per group.
Below : an excellent example from Desiree:
#2: TYPE CHARACTER TUTORIALS (EACH CLASS MEMBER WILL DO THESE)
Please complete the TYPE FACE CAST OF CHARACTERS: 2 self directed tutorials
Your characters should be done in BLACK only, not blue or red.
When you are done, please take a screen shot of each piece you did.
Please make sure your artwork takes up the entire screen.
To Turn in:
SUBJECT LINE: TYPE CHARACTER TUTORIALS
Attach the 2 screen shots of the pieces you made from the 2 tutorials.
TYPE FACE CAST OF CHARACTERS: 2 self directed tutorials
PATHFINDER EXPLAINED #2
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-pathfinder-panel/
http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/pathfinder-explained
These comprehensive guides to the PATHFINDER tool in Adobe Illustrator are essential to not only our project, but ultimately the most important tool in logo design and contemporary graphic design.
PATHFINDER: EXPLAINED!
PATHFINDER EXPLAINED LINK
The above link should greatly help you with the essential Pathfinder tool in Adobe Illustrator, as touched on in your character making tutorial. This is how modern logos are made, is industry standard, and is used by freelance designers to big ad agencies alike. These techniques can be applied to shapes, fonts, etc.
Below is an excerpt from the Subtract and Expand modalities.
Furthermore, here is a link to PATHFINDER on YOUTUBE
The above link should greatly help you with the essential Pathfinder tool in Adobe Illustrator, as touched on in your character making tutorial. This is how modern logos are made, is industry standard, and is used by freelance designers to big ad agencies alike. These techniques can be applied to shapes, fonts, etc.
Below is an excerpt from the Subtract and Expand modalities.
Furthermore, here is a link to PATHFINDER on YOUTUBE
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
SOLAR DESIGN/RESOURCES #1
10 incredible solar-powered furniture designs
SOLAR POWER STATIONS INTERIOR LED LIGHTING FURNITURE
Marjan van Aubel’s Solar-Powered Current Table Uses Photosynthesis – Sustainable Design Innovation
How to Build a Solar Panel
Build a Solar-Powered, Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot
How to Use Solar Energy to Power Your Wireless Network
Solar-Powered Internet in Lascahobas, Haiti!
this is a site that sells solar panels to fit exact specification
SOLAR POWER STATIONS INTERIOR LED LIGHTING FURNITURE
Marjan van Aubel’s Solar-Powered Current Table Uses Photosynthesis – Sustainable Design Innovation
How to Build a Solar Panel
Build a Solar-Powered, Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot
How to Use Solar Energy to Power Your Wireless Network
Solar-Powered Internet in Lascahobas, Haiti!
this is a site that sells solar panels to fit exact specification
this is a guy who build his own solar panels and gives instructions on how to do it
this is a link to another DIY solar panel
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