Painting Faculty candidate presentation by Nishiki Tayui

There will be another Painting Faculty candidate presentation by Nishiki Tayui, scheduled for today Monday, April 1 in the TLC 47 at 10:30am.

Earth Day Poster Competition

ANNUAL EARTH DAY POSTER DESIGN COMPETITION

About: Lewis Clark Recyclers hosts an annual poster contest to celebrate the observance of Earth Day. The winning posters will be featured on LCRI’s website and used to promote the annual Earth Day celebration in Lewiston, ID.

Prizes: There will be two $200 Grand Prizes awarded: One for People’s Choice and one for Judge’s Choice. The judges choice second place will receive $25.

The prize-winning artwork will be featured on the web-site and in other print and digital media. Runner-ups and other submissions may have the opportunity to be paid for use of their designs for marketing materials.

Judging Criteria:

• Overall visual impact 
• Skill level 
• Creativity 
• Originality 
• Polish 
• Effectiveness

Deadline: Submissions due April 8th

Please submit your poster design on a CD labeled with your name, email, phone number and title of the piece to Rachel Fujita in A&A room 100.

Submissions must be either pdf or psd les formatted as 24” by 36” at 300 dpi.

For more information or to submit art-work, please contact contest coordinator Robin Lopez at lopezr7@gmail.com 208.596.0605 

 

Week 11 Day 2 - Thursday, March 28 - Homework

1. Continue working on Design Layout for final project. Keep in mind final review of layout for each unique section with all intended content (image and text) due as PDF on Tuesday, April 9, 8:30am. 

Week 11 Day 1 - Tuesday, March 26 - Homework

1. Begin working on Design Layout for final project. Keep in mind final review of layout for each unique section due as PDF on Tuesday, April 9, 8:30am.

2. Post links to Javascript demo files onto personal class website

Javascript Resources

W3Schools Javascript Resource
JQuery - JavaScript Library
W3Schools JQuery Resource

JQuery UI (User Interface) Resource
Best Way to Learn JavaScript (great article from nettuts)
Code Academy --great learning tool when practicing new coding, has interactive learning tools for JavaScript

Week 10 Day 2 - Thursday, March 21 - Homework

1. Continue to work on research (text and image gathering) for Project 2. Moodboard is due for review next class as a PDF. Must consider following key features in mood board...

• Visual theme (via inspirational images)
• Color scheme (what colors will you use, between 2-5 colors)
• Textures (subtle backgrounds, visuals used to enhance depth/contrast)
• Type styles (font family, primary font vs secondary)

The visual language used in your moodboard should pre-empt your layout design ideas for project 2. Be sure to consider legibility, usability,  and visual hierarchy throughout the design process.

2. We will begin Javascript/JQuery demos next Tuesday

3. If you are on campus today, I recommend you attend the presentation of Melissa Wilkinson today in the TLC 47 at 5pm. Melissa is one of the candidates interviewing for the new Painting Faculty Position in the CAA.

There will be another Painting Faculty candidate presentation by Mark Bradley Shoup, scheduled for Monday, March 25 in the TLC 47 at 10:30am. 

AIGA Design Workshop With Shogo Ota - this Thursday

In addition to the Inspiring Design Futures Symposium that is taking place this week, the AIGA Student Chapter on campus has planned a design workshop session with CAA alum, Shogo Ota, on Thursday, March 21, 3-5pm in AAS Rm 104.

To check out some of Shogo's design work check out his company Tireman Studio.

Week 10 Day 1 - Tuesday, March 19 - Homework

1. Project 2 Concept Phase: Project Proposal, Wireframes, Flowchart due next class, Thursday March 21, 8:30am.

2. Be sure attend various Sessions of the Inspiring Design Future Symposium this Wednesday, March 20 in the Student Union Building.

Timeline/Information Graphic Examples

Project 2: Interactive Timeline Project

Description:

Working in groups of two, research, design and develop an interactive timeline project documenting the history and evolution of one of the following topics: Moving Image, Telecommunications, or Computers. Overall project should serve as an engaging, informational resource that introduces a concise history of media and technology developments throughout time.

Objectives:

+ Apply information and interface design fundamentals and principles to aide in creative problem solving

+ Collaborate effectively with group members throught conceptual, design and development phases

+ Use industry standard web authoring tools

Specifications:

+ Design layout should meet usability standards and current web design/development best practices

+ All artwork must respect copyright laws. Be sure to use MLA image citation for photographs covered under fair use policies

+ All web pages are to be generated with Dreamweaver and/or a text editing application.

+ Scripting languages to be used: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

+ If using other programmer’s code, please cite author and source.

+ Project should be compliant in desktop, laptop and mobile devices and browser compliant in Safari, IE and Firefox

Deadlines:

Concept Phase: Project Proposal, Wireframes, Flowchart due Thursday March 21, 8:30am

Design Concept Phase: PDF of Moodboard due Tuesday, March 26, 8:30am

Layout Design Phase: PDF of final design specs due Tuesday, April 9, 8:30am

Usability Testing: Week 16, Conduct usability surveys to target audience during April 28-May 4

Grading criteria (20% course grade):

Design Aesthetics —40% of project 2

Technical Skill—30% of project 2

Usability—20% of project 2

Process (Flowchart, Wireframe, Sketches, Mood Board, Usability Testing)—10% of project 2

Topic Research Research Starting points
Moving image (cinema, television, animation, documentaries/news reporting, video, zoetrope, Eadweard Muybridge, Georges Méliès, video art)

Telecommunications (telegraph, telephone, radio, image telegraphy, phototelegraphy, telefax, mobile technology, multimedia)

Computers (abacus, digital vs analog, electric telegraph, charles babbage, Memex, Bell Labs, ARPANET, Tim Berners Lee, Internet, World Wide Web)