Website

You can choose any media that we have covered in this course, as well as a variety of media.  All final products will be incorporated into your website.  You will have at least 3 pages: Home, About and Gallery pages.  You can include additional pages for videos and/or sound.

Along with the portfolio of work and website, you will write an artist statement about the project describing your interest in the location and your response to it.  This will be the About page of your website.


All files to be displayed on your site must be saved in your "root" folder, in the "images" sub-folder.  All Illustrator and Photoshop files must be "saved for web and devices" as .jpg.  All videos should be saved as "Quicktime Conversion" as H.264, and all audio files as .aiff.

Response to Place

For your final project, you will choose one location that you really like.  It should be someplace off your beaten path and outside of the MICA community.  Spend some time there observing all you can including the changing light, smells, sounds, and textures.  Make notes in your journal about what attracted you to this place, what its function is/was, what you experience there, etc.  Consider its relationship to the surrounding area also.

This is a studio project with a web component, and is your longest and most in depth project of the semester.  You will have over 4 weeks to work on both the studio projects and the website, so will need to have your ideas mapped out clearly and you need to be sure to have things to work on in class each week.  Be sure that you choose a location you can visit more than once, and one that will give you inspiration for a thorough response.

For next week, choose your location, spend some time there, make notes of your ideas and begin making work.  A typed proposal (hard copy) is due next week.  Bring the work that you have begun to make to class.

Stop Motion and Video

                                            William Kentridge


For this week, you will photograph or scan some sort of stop motion project, whether your sources are live humans, drawings, cut paper or 3D objects. Bring at least 150 .jpegs to class this week and we will animate in class.  Remember that if you want your background to be still to allow the viewer to focus on the action of the subject, check out a tripod from AV Services.


You should also have your completed videos that we began last week.


For Friday's class, you should have your Re-construction (Illustrator) drawing as well.

Illustrated Drawings and Video

For next week, you should bring in one or more files of video to edit in class.  


You should also bring in your completed illustrated self-portrait made basically using the pen tool.  

Illustrator Assignments

                                                                                                   From Helvetica

Due at the beginning of class next week:

4 Type Drawings

     1 representational using keyboard only

     1 representational using keyboard and mouse or tablet

     1 non-representational using keyboard only

     1 non-representational using keyboard and mouse or tablet

     All should be black and white only


     Choice of fonts:
          Courier
          Gill Sans
          Trajan Pro
          Century Gothic

Begin the Re-construction Project:

Choose your source image.  You can use either fine art images or scenes from current events.  Re-constructing these as illustrations, you will change the meaning of each original through your personal reinterpretation.    Bring your source image to class next week.

Write a blog response to Helvetica.

Warning Label

Make 5 warning labels for the next class, each with a different warning or message.
The tools you should use are:
     Line Segment (and nested tools)
     Rectangle Tool (and nested tools)
     Type Tool

Collage Assignment

You will need a total of 4 completed collages.  Those can be all of one theme, or 2 diptychs.  You can work in a photorealistic manner or a photomontage manner.  You can incorporate scanned images (of anything), digital photographs that you shot or images from the Internet.  If you decided to work with images from the net, remember resolution!!!  They will be at 72ppi and will be a small portion of your collage.  Consider those to be smaller elements within a larger scene, so use a photo or scanned scene for your background image.


Final images should be 300ppi at approximately 8x10.
One of the 4 will be printed, the other 3 projected for crit.

Be sure to check out Nils Orth's collaged faces!!!