Notes & Assignments 2/26/09

hi all, welcome back.

your assignment this week is to begin our music festival project. you have all been assigned team members. the groups are:

ashlee & elena
vicen & alexandra
nora & gelsey
april & joo yeun
joanna j., soo min & trissa
joanna b. & chris

this week each group will find some time to meet and prepare a single concept document for their music festival. it must consist of the following, in this order:

- [1 page] festival name

- [1 page] festival concept, description, line-up, venue, length/dates, size

- [4 pages] four different logotypes, one on each page, with 2-3 typefaces that complement the logotype (at least one of the typefaces should be a text, not display, face)

- [1 page] sample color palette, 3-10 colors

- [5-10 pages] visual references, which can include found photos, illustrations, visual motifs, type treatments, etc.

- [1-3 pages] examples of song lyrics from your chosen artists that could be used to define the emotion of your festival

the document should be prepared and printed on 8.5" x 11" paper.

Type Periodic Table

do the right thing spreads

2 Dates and favorite spread for do the right thing

Here are all my posterrs and 2 pages of the book

Jay-Z , Brooklyn (Go Hard)

letters - alive and well - in the music industry.

Is this garamond or what?

Because we're all just big nerds....

check this out! my friend pointed  it out to me. It's fantastic!

P.S 

Hope you all are having a lovely spring break, see you soon!! :D

cool artist

hey guys check out this guy who does some cool things with type!

keepitcomplicated.com

Notes & Assignments 3/14/09

your homework for this coming week:

take a vacation.

for the following week:

continue the vacation.

also: please post your two best date posters. if they are not up here by next class you will fail. just kidding. but i will be sad. also, please post your favorite spreads from the spike lee book.

March 12: Dialogue Booklet

I won't be in class today, I'm not feeling too well. I did the project, I have photographs of the booklet and will link to where you can view the PDF directly.

Photos of the finished booklet—
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lethyl/sets/72157615143525326/

Link to the PDF—
http://kristopherlouie.com/transfer/dtrtDialogue.pdf

I'm sorry I couldn't see everyone's works. If you upload them to the blog, or bring them into next class I'd gladly give my criticism and praise.


Kristopher

Big Magazine

This magazine is pretty cool, I discovered it thanks to the AIGA exhibit, so thank you for taking us. Anyway check it out its based here in NY of course and I like it.

Notes & Assignments 2/5/09

your assignment this week is simply to revise your do the right thing book. please make sure that the book is completed BEFORE class, and that it is bound and trimmed properly. this is the final week of the assignment.

also, read pp. 62-85 in thinking with type.

hasta la proxima.

2 Dates

My Dates

Dates

April Kim.

Vicen's 2 Dates