Space 237's 2nd Artist Trading Card Soiree

Hi GDSG.

Space 237 is hosting their 2nd Artist Trading Card Exchange on Friday, November 14, 2008. The theme is "Rustbelt".

"What is an Artist Trading Card? It is a small, collectible piece of art, 2.5" x 3.5". They are not to be sold but to be exchanged between artists. It can be any medium - paint, ceramics, fabric, metal - anything you can imagine. It should be sturdy, some artists protect theirs in plastic sleeves made for sport trading cards."

Do you think this sounds like fun and would like to work together to generate and develop some design ideas? We could get together Thursday November 6 at 6:30, in the design loft if it is open (I'm not sure,) or we could meet in the back room of the break room.

Bring your materials, paper, craft supplies to work with.

Please place your RSVP and any suggestions in this post.

Thanks.

Locate, Gather, Process, and Use Information

Locate, Gather, Process, and Use Information—this statement is part of the General Education Mission at Davis College. It is also a statement to live by if you desire to be a successful graphic designer.

Graphic design by nature is a problem-solving profession. The better your critical thinking skills, the better your ability to solve problems. As you develop your form-making skills and your technology skills, you need to develop your critical thinking skills by practicing locating, gathering, processing, and using information.

Here are a few ways to help:

1
Use every resource available to understand a particular problem—including books and magazines. (There is information beyond Wikipedia!)

2
Search and re-search before you ask, "How do I do this?" Attempting to find solutions before asking your instructor's help will better prepare you for "real-life" working situations. In professional practice, you will be expected to locate information on your own. This is particularly true with regard to using software.

3
Adhere to the design process. Design is a process!

Traveling Sketchbook Experiment

The concept behind the traveling sketchbook is to fill it with work from different designers. We all have a different style and a different process to achieve that style. The traveling sketchbook will allow a tactile look into each participating designer. It should be an interesting journey.

We have 17 participating members so far. I would love maximum participation and if you’re interested and haven’t yet signed up, let me know. I’ll add you to the list.

Remember:

The pages are yours to design as you wish, but please respect these few simple rules.

1. Each participant gets 4 pages.
2. Please move in a linear fashion through the book—your pages begin where the previous person’s ended.
3. Scattered throughout the book are “community pages”. They will be marked as such. Feel free to make a contribution to these areas.
4. There will be a “comments section” near the back of the book. Leave your thoughts on the project and others contributions here. NO RUDE COMMENTS!
5. You can keep the book for 12 days. Make sure you return it to me by the due date. Others will be waiting.
6. Have Fun!

blockhead

Thanks to all of you who attended the block printing workshop. I would love to hear what you thought of it! Pictures will up at the website soon.

fish out of water

This appeared in the February 27 Letters to the Editor section in the Blade.

Local firms shunned in team logo design

It's unbelievable that the administration of Toledo Arena Sports Inc. totally shunned northwest Ohio's creative design professionals by not giving them the opportunity to create the Toledo Walleye's team logo and identity.

Instead, an out-of-state firm was awarded the contract. It's hard to get hooked on the team when it does not consider local businesses that are worthy enough to create highly successful identities for firms not only locally, but throughout the country and into the all-important global market.

The Walleye management would not have been sacrificing quality to keep the job local. In fact, the result may have been better than what was produced. As a local business owner, this is very frustrating and it's a slap in the face to the creative community.

The new hockey franchise will require a significant amount of local support to make it successful. So I'm wondering why that same sense of commitment is not demonstrated back to this community from the Walleye management.

It's hard to get excited about the new fish in town.

Joe Pinciotti

What do you think about this?

2008 Addy Awards

What a great collection of local design again this year. Madhouse swept the competition with their amazing work. My favorites of the night were the Red Sparrowes poster, the Closet Monkey tags, the Charlie Brown themed Christmas card, and the beautiful invitation with the luggage tags.

The pictures seem to indicate that everyone had a good time.



What did you think of the Addy's? Did you have a favorite piece? Are you inspired to create great designs of your own?

marketing mayhem

An interesting approach to getting the customer's attention. Give this one a moment to load and then sit back and enjoy.

http://producten.hema.nl/

Thanks to Annette (again!) for this gem.