Final Critique Week

Well it's Dead week ladies and gentlemen and I'm hoping not to die from the stress. 

Tuesday I have a critique for textiles, my final project. The theme is the future. So I'm depicting my future. I Shibori'd a pale yellow piece of fabric to a blue so that the bottom gradually fades form yellow to blue, and then left some circle resists. Then I silkscreened a city scape of Times sqaure that was stylized and over layed it with another silkscreen of various blurbs about graphic design where the billboards are. I then ironed and sticjed the edges to look neat. I stiched starts in the small circlular resists. Then stitched "Your Ad Her..." around a large circle to look liek the rings of a planet. To show where and how we advertise is always expanding. Unfinished to look like it's being built. It's in red thread to mathc the red silkscreen. I'm currently stiching people around the city. 

The book is still in the work for my graphic design class. The book binding is today. The paper for the book is in the mail along with some velvet fabric for the cover. The Final Crit is on Wednesday followed, but the book itself isn't due until next week. 

I wish I could show you guys some pictures of what I'm working on but my mom has my camera...She decided she couldn't use hers since my screen is bigger adn she can't see it on hers. They went to Costa Rica. I wish I would of had it this last weekend for Little 500. But life goes on. 

Great Success!

Well as you may or may not know I am going to study abroad this summer in Venice which is the main motivation for this blog. But to get to this point wasn't easy. I first heard about the trip last semester (though according to my peers we were told about it firs semester the year prior, but apparently I wasn't listening). The clincher for me was studying with graphic design students and teachers from Italy! Now isn't that just a cool opportunity for an aspiring graphic designer? I thought so. I applied, blah blah blah... Then came the clincher asking for money from the parentals. Studying abroad ain't cheap so in today's economy with everyone at risk of loosing their jobs you just have to be careful. My parent's weren't to keen on it so I talked to the overseas study lady and she said to finish the application and then see how it pans out because I could still be awarded financial aide. I was mainly pulling for the Fine Arts scholarship everyone that applies is up for, I didn't get it. But in an interesting turn of events I got a job that pays for my rooming next year which almost costs as much as the trip itself! So my dad complied as long as I continue applying for financial aide and worked and good old Panera Bread, alot!

So here lies the fruits of my spoils, $1000 dollar International Experience Grant! Huzzah!

Just thought I'd share my joy.

Type Specimen book

So my current in Graphic Design is a Type Specimen book of one of my personal favorite typefaces Garamond. I'm doing Adobe Garamond to be specific (includign Adobe Garamond expert). I am rather excited about the project.

When I first started investigating this typeface I was stuck with unlimited was to present it because it's very commonly used, especially in books! You may recognize it in the America editions of Harry Potter or Some of Dr. Suess's books. 

I eventually ended up on an excursions to two Indiana Universities fabulous rescoures: Fine Arts Library, and the Lilly Library. I went through ideas of the typeface being a ressurection of a Claude Garamond's design during the French rennisance so I thought, "maybe a book about rennaisance faire? aka modern rennaisance." But that seems too blase to me, and didn't particularly excite me. Anthony White, who is incharge of the Fine Arts Library (I don't know his full title), said a subtle pun. I giggled because well I am way too amused at puns and though puns would be fun. But a book of puns would be annoying to most so it eventually evolved to comedy types. So I began sketching. 

So far my layout it that of a series of spread. the top of the page a stage where the type literally becomes the players in my various types of comedy. In the "house" of my spread is the information text sett into four colomns for each page. The left page for Information about the typeface. The right side about the comedy type. The wonder of this system is that the margins and gutters act as aisles in my make shift theatre book. I'm pretty proud of it. 

So far I'm trying to parallel the type information against the comedy info. For example, on the parody spread I woudl also talk about versions of garamond that loose the essence and beauty of the orginal typeface, but call themselves garamond. Additionaly the font will act, such as the italic will be Melodramic, reciting cliche phrases such as "Oh woe is me!" There won't be any imagery and the coloring will probably be minimal. The information will be ordered chronologically to present itself logicaly according to the history of the type.

My biggest obsitcle right now is what my title should be. Current leaders: Comedic Types, or Typecasting. 

Any ideas my friends?

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Fist Blog

This blog is part of my quest to depart from the demon that is facebook and embrace regular blogging and micro blogging. This will also cronicle my coming ventures in Venice, Italy. Mostly it's to share what I have learned in life and show my process to those who care to know. So expect loks of sketches and pictures of my work. 

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