Bulletin Board
OK - we can now buy this tshirt of Photoshop filter superheros! Emboss may
not look tough, but don't get that guy angry.
They are all here, including the speedy Motion Blur, the rough and tough
Mosaic and even the seductive Crystalize.
http://www.chopshopstore.com
- Jonathan Dapra
My husband, Tom, and I enjoyed a short trip to Palau this summer where we toured the islands and visited several historical and ancient sites. One of the highlights was learning about the Palauan tradition of story carving. In ancient days, the Palauans would carve and paint stories on their meeting houses (Bai). Today, they use ironwood slabs to carve storyboards of historic legends. Attached is a PDF with some background info and photos of our Palauan storyboards.
Click (or control Click) the image above to view a PDF of images and description.
- Marsha Devine
Have you seen some of the limited edition books/exhibits put together by Mark Murphy?
http://murphydesign.com/
http://murphydesign1.blogspot.com/
I met Mark in Pasadena, CA along with Sylvia and Mike (Massengale). Murphy workswith artists to create these amazing limited edition art books. It's illustrationmostly, but he has carved out a new breed of collectors. It's a very cool idea.
- Anne Catharine Blake
For an interesting link submission for the newsletter, here is a French photographer who is doing some remarkable work. This is the type of visual stimuli that I try to direct my students to. Get their minds thinking in different directions... I like his concept of "Pervasive Art".
http://www.jr-art.net/
- Gary Deckard
Here is a plein air 'thing' I wrote about my summer.
“Winston Churchill Does Wine Country, or How I Spent my Summer Vacation”
by Beverly Dennis
There is no record that Winston Churchill ever came to the wine country in California. But he was a painter! He made one trip to the west coast on a lecture tour in 1929 and wrote letters describing his time with Randolph Hearst, and Charlie Chaplin, among other celebrities. He took up painting when he was 40 years old after major political setbacks. He was depressed and despondent and found painting to be great therapy. He had never picked up a brush, but once he did, by all accounts, it or the idea of it was never far from him. He continued to paint until his strength failed him in the late 1950’s. In 1958 an American tour of his work was organized by Joyce Hall of Hallmark cards. It was very popular and earned high praise from Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.
He even inspired Eisenhower to take up painting as a hobby. There was another memorable showing at the London Royal Academy following the American tour. His work was and is praised and enjoyed. A great many of his paintings hang in Chartwell, his family home.
- Beverly Dennis
Greetings faculty,
It's time for another round of online Graphic Design Career Presentations throughout the month of October! As organizer of this exciting event within the Graphic Design department, we will be hosting each of these presentations via WebEx for all enrolled Graphic Design students. Please post the following information and PDF agenda within your classrooms and encourage your students to sign-up.
This year we have four enlightening and informative presentations on design and career ideas, including author and design expert Stefan Bucher and nationally recognized Adobe typographer, Thomas Phinney as well as Allison Bucchere, AOL's V.P. and Creative Director. Other presentations include practical information on how to maximize the career resources at AiP featuring our Director of Career Services Tony Corasaniti. Don't miss a single one!
Space for each presentation is limited. Sign up today! Download the PDF, 4.8mb (ClickHere To Download) for more information or go directly to https://edmc.webex.com andsearch for "AiP Graphic Design Career Presentation Series" to readmore about the presentations and to register.
I highly recommend your attendance as each presentation will offer key insight to a variety of career related resources and discussions around being a creative professional.
- Jennifer Price
Hello everyone,
I thought that some of you teaching drawing may be interested in sharing thisvideo with your students. It's about 8 minutes long and an impressive performancewith an unusual drawing material.
Click below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo&feature=fvst
- Sharon Edwards-Russell
Here is Penney DellaValle's thesis presentation that I’d like to see in this next newsletter - Marnie Michels
Penny DellaValle, Thesis, MFA student from Miami University, Merrily Hall is her committee member, and MArnie Michels, Chair)
The presentation enclosed is a visual component to the written thesis "The Modern Graphic Designer's Role: Communicate, Create and Influence Change. My belief is that Graphic Designers can positively impact the environment by implementing eco-responsible policies in regards to design, printing and paper usage within their design practices. We are no longer living in an era where the term "eco-friendly" is synonymous with hippies and birkenstocks. The mindshift is global towards "greener" ways and problem solving. It is at this time that Graphic Designers can be the leaders in eco-responsibility as a standard. No longer are the needs of the client the only requirement.
That is why I have developed as my artistic portion to the thesis, a non-profit organization of my own creation called Eco-Responsible Designers. I believe that with proper knowledge and education, Graphic Designers will opt to make the best choices. The issue is that the information is not presented in an easy to navigate central location. My solution to this is the creation of Eco-Responsible Designers, which, would be a central standard for delivering this information for the Graphic Design community. I believe this information should be implemented into our schools' curriculum as part of an integrated thinking towards design. In addition to the practical application of these eco-responsible practices, imparting this information within education will produce future Graphic Designers that use sustainable practices as easily as they do the latest Adobe Photoshop program.
I believe that by providing resources and support, we as Graphic Designers can foster a mindset that reveres environmentalism and socialism as a standard practice. Together we can inspire, motivate, persuade, empower and influence a change.
Penney DellaValle, MFA candidate MIUO 2009
Click the image above (or control click) to view the PDF
I have an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney running at the moment. It’s in conjunction with the Japanese artist Zon Ito. There are some pics here: http://louisabufardeci.net/MCA/MCA09.html.
I also have a recipe to add. I know the usefulness of this is debatable, but I can get very obsessive about avoiding purchasing (foods wrapped in excessive amounts of plastic. So I’ve been trying to make my own crackers and other foods which generally come wrapped that way. I’ve found thisgreat recipe for brown rice crackers and thought I’d share it in the newsletter:
It’s originally by Cathe Olson, and was published on the Mothering website(www.mothering.com).
These flaky, delicious crackers are vegan and gluten-free.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups brown rice flour
2/3 cup cooked brown rice
1 tablespoons flax seeds (optional)
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 cup oil (coconut, safflower, olive, etc.)
1/3 to 1/2 cup water
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly oil large baking sheet. In bowl or food processor, mix flour, rice, flax seeds, salt, and oil until combined. Add water a little at a time until dough holds together. Pour onto floured surface and knead a few times to form a ball. Press or roll dough on baking sheet. Score into 1 1/2-inch squares. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until bottoms are golden brown. Cool before removing from pan.
Yield: about 3 dozen
- Louisa Bufardeci
I have a large sculpture in the "Art of Mosaic: 2009" exhibition at the Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA. Here is a link to the exhibition web site. I have attached a photo of the figurative sculpture that I have in this exhibition. It is a full-sized figure, approx. 92" x 48" X 12", ceramic, stained glass, shells, mortar. The piece is titled "Green Glass".
Click on the image above for larger view
http://exhibition.mosaicrocks.com/artists.aspx
- Sally Fine
I have a new web and blog site http://www.ellynism.com/blog. I have some photo commentaries on there and I will be adding more on a reg. basis so you can go back and keep reading articles on photography.
Peace out! - Ellyn Norris
Here is just a fun thing I did for the Marin County Fair 'Cartoon' contest this summer. 
Click on the image above for larger view
- Heidi M. Reischuck
I would like to post my upcoming solo show "Situation Critical" at Marx & Zavattero December 19 in San Francisco. Here is the link to the gallery site: http://www.marxzav.com
Thanks!
- Taravat Talepasand
Thought I would share a little tool I use to help manage global communications.Since many of us and our students live in different time zones, it can be helpfulto have a means of keeping track of what time it is across the nation and aroundthe globe. I now place Qlock tabs on my desktop for all of the cities I wantto keep track of. This works well not only for my basics (New York, Phoenix,etc) but also for any special places a student might be working from - Japan,Germany, etc. [I attached a Jing capture of what this looks like on my desktop.]As with most apps, you can choose to view or hide as desired and can add or deletecities as needed. The Qlock program is FREE and customizable as to city, colors,and details. In a pinch, I can go to the Qlock website and just punch in a timeto get the comparable time in a different location. Really a clever little application!
http://qlock.com/
- Marsha Devine
During the Summer vacation, we hiked the Grand Canyon with our kids in Arizona; worked on our son's Organic Farm in Washington and stayed in a Yurt; hiked Mt Olympic Park and visited artist's Emily Carr's home/museum in British Columbia. Here is a picture from Victoria, British Columbia...I'm pretending to sit in a mural.
Noteworthy/exhibitions/awards
From May-Sept one women show at Family & Children's Society Gallery, "RetrospectiveExhibit" (postcard below)
Was quoted in Communication Arts Magazine June/July, regarding higher education, article Riding the Wave, by Lisa Cyr.
http://www.commarts.com/columns/riding-wave.html
- Anne Catharine Blake
I participated in the 8 Visions Exhibition at the Attleboro Art Museum. I have attached the invitation and some photographs. The first photograph in the PDF file (Click here or control click to view) is of my area in the show. I also received a grant for my participation in the Waltham Art Windows Event. Please let me know if you need more information.
- Clare Asch
Here is a postcard for an exhibition that I will be part of next month. I’m still working on the artwork...
- Toni-Lee Sangastiano
A couple of things for the newsletter:
Marketing yourself in a Recession
http://www.behancemag.com/Tip-Five-Ways-To-Market-Yourself-During-A-Recession/5806
How to tweak your home office to be productive
http://freelanceswitch.com/http://freelanceswitch.com/freelancing-essentials/how-to-tweak-your-home-office-to-be-productive-full-time/
- Lori Trujillo-Cole
Here are a couple images for the newsletter.
Img 281 is a 6'X6' Oil Painting on canvas.
Finalfun#14 is a digital design.
- Catherine McLeod
News about Lisa L. Cyr
Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art will feature my work. Severalof my pieces can also be found in Spectrum 15.
http://www.facebook.com/photo
In the July issue of The Artist's Magazine, a 4-page spread features an excerpt from my new book Art Revolution. Theartistsmagazine-digital.com/theartistsmagazine
I was interviewed by The Artists Network News via satellite. Here is a link to the interview on YouTube: lisalcyr.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/interview-on-the-artists-network-news
Here are just some of the reviews circulating online and in the pubs about my book Art Revolution: lisalcyr.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/art-revolution-reviews/
Art Revolution (North Light Books) was featured at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 23-26, 2009. Impact Books, a sister imprint of NorthLight, displayed and sold the book at the convention. Flyers on the book weregiven away at the booth and the freebie table. Special thanks to both David Mackand Dave McKean who signed copies of the book at their booths!
- Lisa L. Cyr
Blog: www.lisalcyr.wordpress.com
Fan Page: www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-L-Cyr/93726883271
Linked-in: www.linkedin.com/pub/lisa-l-cyr/6/965/4b6
Twitter: www.twitter.com/LisaLCyr
Lisa Adams - public art and museum exhibitions.
1. Lisa Adams, Fire Station No. 64, Watts, Los Angeles, California PublicArt Project:
In 2002, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs awarded LisaAdams a public art project at Fire Station 64 in the Watts area of Los Angeles.The project has recently been completed and the following images depict variousaspects of the project.
The artist photographed the Watts Towers which were built by Simon Rodia overa period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954 and the images selected and used in thisproject were details of the unique and varied materials used in construction,such as shells, broken dinnerware and bottles, tiles, etc. The large photographicfiles were printed on a proprietary product of interfilm, laminated between twosheets of glass and set in the window mullions in various locations within thefire station.
http://www.irreverentart.com/2009/07/lisa-adams-public-art-project-completed.html
2. Lisa Adams Riverside Art Museum Exhibition: (see imagesof work, below) Thisexhibition is the culmination of the exploration and interpretation of
the biblical and mythical “garden of Eden” through the use of
non-traditional materials, installation and contemporary use of color. This
commentary on our changing landscape (both symbolically and physically)
visually explores the future of genetically altered plants and produce and
their affects on evolution. Edenistic Divergence includes paintings by Lisa
Adams and site specific installations by Kimber Berry, Hollis Cooper and
Rebecca Niederlander. - Andi Campognone-Couwenberg, curator
Click on the image above for larger view
3. Recent Interviews online with Lisa Adams:
https://www.examiner.com/x-3879-Salt-Lake-City-Fine-Arts-Examiner~y2009m6d5-ASSASSINATION-Lisa-Adams-Artist-Represented-by-Lawrence-Asher-Gallery-Michael-Rosenthal-Gallery
http://mariosartworld.blogspot.com/2009/06/facebook-interview-with-lisa-adams.html
http://lisapressman.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-are-your-influences-lisa-adams.html
- Lisa Adams
I have some new work that I am developing here are some examples in attachment. These are made with a scanner. I teach G130 Painting.
Click on the image above for larger view
- Mark Wyatt
Humor
If David was a modern day man...
From mozey.files.wordpress.com
EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 50
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side With a 5-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.
Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.
After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato bags.
Then try 50-lb potato bags and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute.
(I'm at this level)
After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
Teaching
Here is a little pep talk I wrote for my Life Drawing students.
Walt Disney's philosophy was Dream, Believe, Dare, Do.
Let's adapt his philosophy for Life Drawing.
Dream of your future job and yourself being a creative professional every day.
Believe that every assignment takes you closer to your goal.
Dare to try new things using new techniques, tools, and original ideas
applied to drawing from life.
Do make lots of quick sketches and hone your skills for the longer projects.
Three things to do right now!
Look at the Urban Sketchers blog http://www.urbansketchers.com often
to be inspired by sketchers all over the world.
Find a life drawing group and network with the people you meet there.
I recently found a local life drawing group founded by professional
animators featuring all short and dramatic poses.
Go to the art supply store, talk to artists who work there, bring home
a new art supply based on your conversation and use it.
And
Mid-Term reviews are usually rather stilted but this student's
comparison of life drawing to making a sandwich must be shared!
Mid-Term review from Michael B:
I think that I’ve improved ...my artistic skill, specifically my
shading and outlining techniques. Due to the fact that drawing
figures, muscles and bones, requires a great deal of realism I think
that I really focused on trying to capture shadow and shading of these
different anatomy parts. During the last three weeks I think I’ve
really established a system of this kind of shading, which consists of
layering charcoal vine over pastel color over the pencil outline. This
kind of layering and I think captures a feeling of bone, blood and
flesh which helps to realize anatomy. Comparing the colored pieces to
a lot of the black-and-white sketches that I do before I begin on the
actual, final piece, I see that this is definitely true. A lot of the
depth and detail is lost in a black-and-white figure.
Apart from shading I think I personally have grown as an artist. I
think that I have moved from looking at something as an object to
looking at something as a coalescing of many different pieces. This
kind of thinking allows you to look at an object and see its parts,
and in seeing its parts it’s easier to draw and easier to imagine
differently and from different angles. In a very crude example, is
like understanding how to make a sandwich, what the bread looks like
apart from the sandwich, what the meat looks like and what the cheese
looks like, instead of trying to draw the sandwich altogether. Knowing
the different pieces, what they look like how they work helps you to
understand the whole.
Teaching reply:
Award for most delicious review!
Michael, I love your example comparing drawing to making a sandwich -
YES. I'd love to use that in future classes.
No one is afraid to make a sandwich. It doesn't have the reputation
for needing special skills. You are so right to observe that drawing
really is putting the parts together just like a sandwich. Instead of
a knife to spread butter or mayo we use sticks of charcoal and
blending stomp to spread values. Then we can pile on lines, color,
texture, etc. to make each drawing delicious and unique.
Thank you!
- Honoria Starbuck
Problem Letter Templates PDF by Bob Koons (Former FT Faculty)
49 letter templates This is a GREAT resource and covers situations from plagiarism to flaming. Approx 1.75 MB PDF download
Here are 2 teaching tips for the Summer departmentnewsletter. These have proven to be true time-savers for my work as an instructor!
The Power of Google Reader
http://www.google.com/reader
I love finding and sharing great web site resources with my design students, including current articles, visual diagrams, video tutorials, and humorous writings. Google Reader is an *awesome* tool for quickly finding relevant links. It's like having your own design-based search engine with the convenience of keyword search. Browse the web and find sites of interest. Subscribe to their RSS feeds using Google Reader. Create folders to group together feeds by topic, such as 'photoshop' or 'web design'. Browse the feeds or search for particular terms, and mark any good links with stars in Google Reader to keep these handy.
The Power of Delicious Bookmarks
http://delicious.com
As I compile lists of web site links to share with students, I quickly discovered the need to find a quick & easy way to do this. At first, I created a new page in the online classroom named "Web Site Resources" and added bookmarks manually to this page. This began to take too much time out of my work week. Delicious bookmarks was the tool I needed! You can add bookmarks with custom tags, such as 'imd121' for the class name or 'wireframes' for topics. Now the really cool part ... you can add quick lines of Javascript code to any HTML page to show all bookmarks for specific tags (see sample code below). This allows you to setup the Javascript code one time and add bookmarks to Delicious at free will, with no need to maintain bookmark lists.
Sample JS code to show 10 bookmarks for specific tag - <script type="text/javascript" src="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js/username/tagname?title=&count=10&bullet=%E2%80%A2&sort=date <http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js/username/tagname?title=&count=10&bullet=%E2%80%A2&sort=date> ">
- Erica Banks Reed
I'd like to share the following interview with Milton Glaser with my students. If you've already seen it, it's worth viewing again. I never get tired of seeing it. After you click on the link, go to short films in the left hand navigation and select Adobe Documentary. I find Mr. Glaser's insights into Graphic Design, teaching and life inspiring.
http://miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/mg_index.html
The following link will bring you to more short films focusing on other well-knowndesigners.
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/index.php?/film/view/artist_series/
- Deborah DiNicola
- Joe Podlesnik
Here is a piece on the adult learner and andragogy I wrote for my
website...
http://www.jnevins.com/andragogy.htm
- Jerry Nevins
Photoblogs
Here are a couple of shots from the Pittsburgh trip, Empress Riverboat excursion. Courtesy of Effi Karakaidos.
Click the image above for larger view
Soak City, San Diego CA. - Jeff Prentice
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This newsletter is produced by Jeff Prentice and Marnie Michels for faculty in the department of Graphic Design and Foundations, Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division. It is not an official EDMC document or publication - it is for general communication between faculty. Any questions on content, or interest in submissions contact jeff prentice or marnie michels