1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, FINAL

Assignment 1 (due Monday, Oct 7th):
LA/Berlin poster
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Assignment 2 (due Monday, Oct 14th):
a. Design personal logo, splash for your homepage and a print version.

Design your personal logo. It can be your name or your invented 'company name'. Create the opening page of your future web site with this logo and a printed version. Drafts due on Monday for critique, submit version 1 on Wednesday. We will be working on your personal style and image throughout the quarter and this will be an assignment that we will keep coming back to.

b. Design Poster for Xin Wei Sha Lectures

About the lecture:
Where: EDA-104 North Kinrooss
When: Monday, October 14th, 6pm
Sha was a member of the first generation of developers for the Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers and deaded a team of programmers who produced the first physics simulations and microworlds for the graphical personal computer. After obtaining an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in 2001 at Stanford on differential geometric performance and the technologies of writing (in Mathematics, Computer Science, and History & Philosophy of Science) Sha joined the faculty of the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he teaches presently. (more)

Technical Information:
You should submit a printed version of your poster and a web version (.gif or .jpg, 72 dpi, proportional to 800 x 600 pixels). Upload the web version to the server.

c. Optional assignemnt: portfolio flyer.

Although not required, the Hammer is a very prestigious museum and would be a good addition to a portfolio. It may even catch the attention of the musuem director or curator. The event is on Thursday, October 15th. (more)

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Assignment 3:
a. Design interface for your homepage. (due on Wednesday, October 23)

b. Design poster (legal size) for ISEA Conference. (due on Monday, October 21)

The goal of this poster is to advertise the Department of Design | Media Arts to the participants of the ISEA Conference and possible future international students. It's is not going to be hang on the wall, but rather turned in to participants.

About the event:
Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and development of the electronic arts. ISEA's membership and collaborators consist of a wide range of individuals and institutions involved in the creative, theoretical and technological aspects of the electronic arts. The 11th International Symposium on Electronic Art will be held for the first time ever in Asia, in Nagoya, Japan, organized by MEDIASELECT in collaboration with ISEA.

Technical Information:
You should submit a printed version of your poster on Monday, October 21st.
- Legal size.
- Required information: how to contact the Department of Design | Media Arts, faculty members, types of activities developed by students (installations, web projects), facilities + images, your name.
Upload a web version to the server (.gif or .jpg, 72 dpi, proportional to 800 x 600 pixels). Upload the web version to the server.

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Assignment 4:
Design and prepare for print your two color business card and letterhead.
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Assignment 5:
Design poster announcement for (you should choose at least one of these events):

LA Freewaves | Michael Century | Berlin Media Group

About the event:
When: November 21-24
Sat. Nov. 23, 11 am-10pm and Sun. Nov. 24, 11am-5pm
Modify--Speculative Technology Selected by Cathy Davies. Modify presents works that speculates about near future technology. On the surface, these works present humor, fantasy or corporate slickness, but lead the viewer to dark questions about the goals and results of these technological speculations. Video works by: Hillary Mushkin, Shane Hope, ModGen, Steven Matheson, Steve Wong, RAchel Mayeri, Rian Brown, and Leslie Thornton; as well as two other video programs will be shown continuously at UCLA Hammer Museum.

Thur-Sun., Nov. 21-24, 11am-5pm, Sat., Nov. 23, 7-11pm
Digital works of Modigy--Speculative Technology by: Michelle Glaser, Clover Leary, Machine Corporation, Tran T Kim-trang and Karl Mihail. and NAVIGATE also selected by Cathy Davies will be shown @ UCLA EDA Space.

The works present the users with strategic, experimental choices in interface design, from passive to aggressive, from humorous to poetic, and from inscrutable to intuitive. Works by: Sarah Rosenbaun, Ken Marchionno, Michelle Glaser, Andrew Bucksbarg, German Bobe, Jeanne Finley adn Lynne Sachs, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung and Anonymous.

Reception Nov. 23, 7-11pm
with Gen Mod Cafe, an altered cafe serving genetically modified food. (For more information see http://www.Freewaves.org)

Technical Information:
You should submit a printed version of your poster and a web version (.gif or .jpg, 72 dpi, proportional to 800 x 600 pixels). Upload the web version to the server.

 

About the event:
When: Tuesday, November 19th
Title: "Animating Life: the construction of the creative user of
computer animation".

MICHAEL CENTURY is Chair of the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which he joined in August, 2002. Long associated with The Banff Centre for the Arts, Century founded the Centre's Media Arts Division in 1988. In this position, he was the instigator of the Art and Virtual Environments project (1991-1994). From 1993-1996, Century was a program manager at the Canadian Centre for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), a federal research laboratory located in Montreal, with responsibility for new media arts funding. From 1996-98, he served as policy advisor to the federal department of Canadian Heritage. Since September 1997, he has been the principal of Next Century Consultants, focusing on new media and cultural policy for various public and university sector clients. For the Rockefeller Foundation, he researched and wrote a report in 1999 entitled Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture. He was educated in humanities, piano performance, and musicology at the University of Toronto (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A.) and the University of Iowa (M.A). He has recently completed a historical study of the transition from analogue to digital techniques in animation as a doctoral dissertation in science and technology policy studies at the University of Sussex.

About the event:
Title: "Inspirations I of 2 (designers and architects from berlin meet their l.a. counterparts)


When and Where:
Thursday, November 14th, 4-6pm @ EDA
Presenters: Werner Aisslinger-Studio Aisslinger (Berlin), Christopher Burns Abcarius + Burns Architecture Design (Berlin), Lars Krückeberg-Graft (L.A.), David Mocarski and Arkkit Forms Design (L.A.)

Friday, November 15, 2002 7-9pm @ Art Center College of Design Ahmanson Auditorium (Art Center College of Design, Ahmanson Auditorium 1700, Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103 - for info go to www.artcenter.edu under "contents")
Presenters: Harald Schindele-Hoyer & Schindele (Berlin), Tim Edler realities:united (Berlin), Page Beerman-Designworks/USA (L.A.), Annie Chu-Chu+Gooding Architects (L.A.)

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Assignment 6:
Final version of the business card.

Deadline: Nov. 14th (Thursday) - until midnight
Colors: two spot colors (black and red - pantone solid 185 C)
Format: EPS
Size: 2 X 3.5
* Create a folder inside "assignment 6" with your last name and make sure you include fonts, images and the EPS file.
* Also upload a jpg of your card outside the folder to the class website.
More information here.


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Assignment 7:
Second version of printed portfolio (physical container).
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Assignment 8:
HTML version of your website.
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Assignment 9:
First version of your final portfolio.
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FINAL portfolio due: December
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