Week 15: final crits rd 1

final crit times!

April 27
1. Emma Maatman
2. Ashley Jackimowicz
3. Joshua Jack
4. Hannah Erhardt
5. Yao Li
6. Steven Johnson
7. Maria Rigden
8. Paige Vickers
9. Krissy Diggs

Everyone come to class.
We will have a review or the hard copy book
Crits begin
Students not getting a crit do "Join the Illustration rEvolution"

May4
1. Kim Gim
2. Tania Talbot
3. Bryant Molloy
4. Colleen Wilson
5. Angela Ahn
6. Andrea Rossi
7. Lara Kaminoff
8. Molly Ezzell
9. Nick

Everyone come to class
we will have a review of the real book.
PIZZA

<3 nick

Week 14: April 20

Please keep up with your sketchbook alphabets and if you didn't turn in one for the 13th please turn in 2 next week.

Also, take the time to rework anything in your portfolio you want to make better. Next week we will work as a team to finalize the book. April 27 is when we're having our final crit.

and go to this!

Week 13: April 13

Al files as 300 dpi tifs @ 8x10

Groups:

Cover/inside layout & handletters statement
Kim Gim
Nick Iluzada
Steven Johnson

Sketchbook Alphabets & Calesthenics: Letter, Word, Text
Ashley Jackimowicz
Lara Kaminoff
Bryant Molloy
Colleen Wilson

Construct/Deconstruct & Coffee Label
Angela Ahn
Krissy Diggs
Molly Ezzell
Joshua Jack

Nature's Alphabet & Nature's Alphabet Design project
Yao Li
Maria Rigden
Emma Maatman

Test Patterns: Origin letters, Square pattern, Wallpaper
Andrea Rossi
Tania Talbot
Paige Vickers
Hannah Erhardt

Chapter Sections: number of pages w/o introductory spread.

Calisthenics: 6

Construction/deconstruction: 6

Patter: 10

Nature: 12

Coffee Label: 8

Sketchbook: 18

Make sure you give Nick a list of people whose work is in your chapter asap!. Email each person for whom you don't have a high-res file asap!

Hardcopy page layouts to Kim, Nick, and Steve asap via IL office. Drop in the black tray in outer office (hopefully it will have a post-it note on it).

all high res files are due next week in class though try to get them to us sooner.

Week 9 - Project 08: Handletters Book pages, Project 09: Handletters Book statement

o8: Work in class to scan your best sketchbook pages and projects. Files labeled title_FirstNameInitial_lastName.tiff. Burn them to a CD. Compose or crop your images to 8x10 vertical pages and add a 1/8" bleed if image goes to the edge. (your images can float on white space as long as the page is 8x10)

Size: Our book will be 8x10" paperback in color using blurb.com
Medium: Color or b/w art as CMYK .tff files at 300dpi. Don not enlarge small files up they will look pixilated. Place your .tiff files in the .tiff folder inside a folder with your name on it.
Essential Qualities: All of your work up to this point and your weekly sketchbook alphabets.
Final: All files due Ap 20 in folder and as one pdf file

09: Create a one page statement that expresses your thoughts about handlettering using handlettering. Your can write from the perspective of what you've learned, people that influence you, or your thoughts on specific assignments.

HOMEWORK: Make adjustments and finish everything that you haven't done yet! remember we'll be breaking up into groups to start working on the book next week!

and here is this weeks videos!

Week 9- Project 7: Wallpaper

Use your best piece from the Test Pattern project, develop it more and pattern it out.

Let us see your pattern at work.

Size: 22x35"
Medium: Color or B&W as appropriate, digital output. Make the presentation look good by trimming out the poster.
Essential Qualities: A working repeat. A pattern that is evocative [dynamic, ethereal, delicate, bold, etc]

See this site to create a repeat.

See this site for inspiration.

Final: due April 6.
Homework: Finals for P07 and bring in sketchbook and external drive.

remember to also bring in the original letterform used to make your pattern and the 5 patterns from last week, as well as the digital file you used to print.

Week 8: Project 6

Use elements/details of previous assignments/sketches, recombining/overlapping/editing into 5 interesting patters on 6x6 squares.

use tracing paper and/or digital manipulation. Use color with meaning.

Work-in-class this week to develop lots of ideas. Bring in your 5 best ideas next week on 6x6" squares.

Patterning workshop in class next week

Size: 6x6"
Medium: Color of B&W as appropiate. Make the presentation look good by trimming out squares to size.
Essential Qualities: Visual interest. Creative use of your raw material.
Finals: due March 30

Week 7: Project 5 cont.

MIDTERM CRITS:

For your midterms critiques next week, please bring in all your work to date in chronological order! Don't forget your sketchbooks with all your weekly alphabets.

Also, bring a piece of lineart (preferably a letterform) for the illustrator demo next week.

Furthermore, bring your final coffee labels in ASAP so we can photograph them.

ps: thanks for bringing in awesome work for the nature alphabets/posters/books/other things

and here are the videos from this week!