www.everyoneforevernow.com

When I thought of the blog assignment "A Day in the Life" I had seen this video and thought perhaps each of you could produce a piece as beautiful. I think each of you could given the opportunity and the time. Each of you have a unique story to tell.
There are a thousand stories inside each of us and, given the opportunity, we could all
tell our stories to a larger audience. Next semester in Film and Television, you will have that chance to do so. Plan ahead. Think about your story now. Imagine your music and the story you want to tell about your time on this earth.

www.everynone.com

Fantastic storytelling by www.everynone.com
The first video "Words" is slickly shot,produced and edited and is both inspirational and thought provoking. The second video "Words" has been re-edited using only video images found on YouTube. Same story, different videos..still powerful.

Happy Halloween

Blog Assignment: Day in the Life Deadline Moved 11/17

The "Day in the Life" project deadline for your blogs has been extended until Sunday 17th.You can also document your day (or parts therein) with still images if you want. These can be staged or spontaneous taken. In the end, this project should allow you to be creative with regards to how you live your design life.

This project is once again a way of giving your "design self" more affirmation.
It can be a single incident or a compilation of events throughout the day.


Week Ten:
Day in the Life
Armed with still camera or video camera or even a tape recorder, I want you to document a day in your life that is centered around being creative (every day should be, right?) You can document your personal experiences during that day as it relates to whom you are and what you aspire to be. Length and content is up to you. Presentation to class.

"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou

Wine/Olive Oil Deadline CHANGED to Thursday Nov. 10th

I've decided that we should move the date back a week because of the logistics in the production that became evident today when going through some of your work for the Wine/Olive Oil re-designs. No fault of your own, just felt these deserved more time to insure the integrity of your ideas and final product.

I apologize for not getting to everyone today but will use Thursday to meet with anyone I haven't met with already or to follow up with some of
you who need a second meeting. We'll be working in class on Thursday.

Those ordering from Color Comps will not have to do so now as quickly unless you are secure in your designs. Don't be in a hurry. Think it through. Remember who your audience is and stay true to your concepts. Think within your budgetary needs.
Throwing money at something doesn't make it great. Remember that.

This project allows each of you to not only create beautiful work but to learn new ways in producing them. Your re-designed logo is the heart of the work so make sure it's clear and fresh and gorgeous....everything will fall into place if you get
that correct.

www.my.barackobama.com/page/s/artworks-submission

Obama for America is seeking poster submissions from artists across the country illustrating why we support President Obama's plan to create jobs now, and why we'll re-elect him to continue fighting for jobs for the next four years.

Your poster can address the broader themes of the President's plan or pinpoint a specific aspect, from supporting small businesses to rebuilding roads and bridges for the 21st century. For more on the desired specs, read the creative brief.

We'll pick the 12 best submissions received by November 4th, 2011, then put the finalists to a vote. Three winners will receive a framed print of their poster signed by President Obama and a limited edition of their poster will be sold in the
campaign store.


ART WORKS: A Poster Contest to Support American Jobs

Call for Submissions:
The Obama campaign is seeking poster submissions from artists and designers across the country to convey why we support President Obama's plan to create jobs now, and why we'll re-elect him to continue fighting for jobs for the next four years. You can make your poster about that broad theme, or focus on a specific aspect: why we've got to rebuild and modernize our roads and bridges, help veterans find work once they've returned home from service, support the small businesses that are the engine of our economy, make sure teachers can stay in their classrooms, and so on.

The posters should include the words from one of the suggested slogans below or visually interpret the concepts they represent.

The campaign will choose 12 finalists once the submission period closes on November 4, 2011, then put the finalists to a vote.

Finalists will be chosen based on the following criteria:

* Adherence to stated theme: Why you support President Obama's plan to create jobs now and his re-election campaign to continue fighting for jobs for the next four years.
* Appropriateness of tone: Conveying determination and strength
* Creativity and aesthetics
* Quality of workmanship

Three winners will get a framed print of their poster signed by President Obama and a limited edition of their poster will be sold in the campaign store with proceeds benefiting the campaign.

* Deadline: November 4, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Submissions after November 4, 2011 will not be eligible.
* Poster designs should be 16” x 20”.
* Posters may be graphic, typographic, illustrated, collaged, or include photography taken by the designer.
* Posters must include the following URL: www.barackobama.com/jobsplan
* Posters can be produced by litho, digital, or silk-screen print.
* Posters must be viable for reproduction by digital printing.
* You hereby represent and warrant that all equipment, materials, and facilities used to produce your poster are owned by you and were not provided by a corporation, labor union, foreign national, or federal contractor. Any disposable materials purchased specifically to produce the poster will be treated as in-kind contributions to Obama for America.
* Each person may submit no more than five submissions.
* All submissions will become property of Obama for America.
* When you've finished your design, please upload a PDF or JPEG of finished poster for the site on barackobama.com/artworks. (At least 380px x 480px, please.) Upload size cannot exceed 10 MB. Please also include the title of your poster, your name as you'd like it to appear, and a short paragraph about your poster.

Suggested slogans

* Fighting for jobs
* Get America back to work
* Rebuilding America
* Made in the USA
* More jobs for veterans
* Hire America's veterans
* Support small businesses
* Every child deserves a great school
* More jobs for teachers
* Put teachers back in the classroom where they belong
* Tax cuts for the middle class
* Support the middle class
* Ask millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share
* We believe in the American dream
* Out-build, out-educate, out-innovate

How to prepare work for Rub downs from Color Comps

www.colorcompsinc.com

www.colorcompsinc.com/pages/prices.html (Price list for students)

Read through what she is asking you to do which is basically create a pdf of the size you want (the one above is 5 x7) and I've filled it with as much as I could think of to use in my wine label. Put duplicates and other things you might need. I would not go below 9pt type. It's tricky if you do. Black images on a white background. This is called a film positive. What she will do is invert what you send to her into a film negative so she can pull the screen (much like silkscreen process) and that is where your black becomes the PMS color and will eventually be the rubdown. Allow some room around your images/type and all...don't cram too many on one page too tightly. leave some breathing room.

Remember that everything that is on White (see above) will be transparent and everything that is black (see above) will be the color you select from the PMS chart.
When you send Linda Carter your pdf make sure you label the pdf with your name, the size of the sheet (5 x7, 8x10, etc.) and then the PMS color:
example: Anderson, 5x7 PMS 2222

If you want additional PMS colors of the same images as above then just let her know that you want PMS 2222 and PMS 3333. Please read the specs regarding the cost adjustments for additional colors or the same colors.

If you have questions, just call her and let her know you are at GSU.
She is absolutely terrific. Payment can be cash,check (I believe) but she encourages PayPal.

If you have any questions let me know.

Really? Comic Sans for a Funeral Receipt? Really?

How the Advertising Community Says "Goodbye" to Steve Jobs

Courtesy Advertising Age

You can decide for yourself which is the absolute worst.

The Price of Young Success: The Steve Jobs/Apple Design

KEVIN DREW, On Thursday October 13, 2011, 8:00 am EDT
New York Times

HONG KONG — Few personal journeys can shed as much light on the age we live in as the one traveled by Jonathan Mak in the past week.

Mr. Mak, a university student in Hong Kong, went from being an unknown, aspiring graphic designer to an Internet sensation after an image he produced spread rapidly across digital platforms following the death of Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder of Apple.

Mr. Mak’s design of a silhouetted profile of Mr. Jobs in the Apple company logo was shared across the Web and reported by news media. The actor Ashton Kutcher posted the design on his Twitter account.

And then, nearly as fast, Mr. Mak found himself being vilified.

With a speed fitting for the technological age that Mr. Jobs helped usher in, Mr. Mak became the subject of derisive Internet postings and negative news media reports. His design, it turned out, closely matched one produced earlier this year by Chris Thornley, a British graphic artist.

“It’s been a very overwhelming experience,” Mr. Mak, 19, said by telephone between classes at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. “I still attend classes and lessons as usual. But as far as following my assignments, it’s been difficult.”

Mr. Mak said he had developed his design in late August — a white Apple logo on a black background, with a black silhouette of Mr. Jobs indented in the apple — as a tribute to Mr. Jobs after he stepped down as chief executive of Apple.

Mr. Mak said he had searched across the Internet both for inspiration and to ensure he was not copying another design. He said his searches had not uncovered Mr. Thornley’s design.

He then posted the tweaked Apple logo on his blog . Mr. Mak also asked the public to alert him if they spotted similarities between his work and others.

The design lay quietly on his blog for weeks until Mr. Jobs’s death on Oct. 5.

“Overnight, my Web site went from getting 80 responses to tens of thousands,” he said. “At first I was very happy.”

But by the weekend, Mr. Mak said, people began informing him how similar his design was to Mr. Thornley’s, which featured a black Apple logo on a white background, with a white silhouette of Mr. Jobs at a slightly different angle.

Mr. Mak said he had received notification Sunday night from Mr. Thornley’s wife, Julia, about the similarities of the two designs.

In the world of graphic design, similarities between images are quite common, said Juliette Cezzar, director of the communication design program at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. But Mr. Mak’s case shows how easy it has become to unearth similar images or outright copies.

“If we were living in a different age, it would take weeks, maybe months to discover copies,” Ms. Cezzar said. “Now it can take 24 hours. That is a good thing.”

In a statement released to the news media, Mr. Thornley said he had followed the controversy while receiving treatment for a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He said he had first developed his design in May “because I wanted to celebrate the fact that someone who had cancer was still working, still driving forward and still thinking positively about the future.”

Mr. Thornley, a 40-year-old living in Darwen, England, acknowledged the dangers the digital age presented to creativity.

“The Internet can be a double-edged sword,” he said. “You need to use the Internet in order to promote yourself, but in order to do this you are making yourself vulnerable to these situations.”

Mr. Thornley said he hoped to speak with Mr. Mak soon about the two designs.

“J. Mak has been as honest as he can about the situation, I think,” he said. “It is important to have the debate about this, and J. Mak has to be credited for opening up the debate and not hiding from it.”

Such an environment “is really stressful for designers,” said Ms. Cezzar. “You don’t want to be called out in front of the world and called a copier.”

For his part, Mr. Mak said the past week had provided a lesson he could apply as a graphic designer.

“It really taught me to be very careful about what I say and do,” Mr. Mak said. “With all the negative publicity I received in Hong Kong, it taught me to be very careful. At the same time, I need to stay true to my sense of aesthetics.”

Take a look: The one below is Thornley design (the original design)
http://artattacksonline.com/2011/06/chris-thornley-aka-raid-71/


Below is Jonathan Mak's logo that is in question:

www.designtaxi.com

Brooklyn-based photographer Henry Hargreaves laid strips of bacon to create an alphabet series.‘Bacon Alphabet’ features uppercase calligraphic A to Z letters made out of bacon.
http://designtaxi.com/news/350693/Typography-Made-of-Bacon/