The FRESH portfolio seniors are gearing up for the big finale! Check out Bologna Sandwich’s daily lunch drawing of this term’s seniors as a bingo board! Awesome sauce!
Daily Lunch Drawing #7: FRESH BINGO! WOOT PSUGDers
More Design Resources!
Setting your file for print? Figuring out how to bind a book? Don’t know what a spot color is? Check out Design Resources, a guide for resources for designers interested in print design.
Resource: The Print Handbook
Offset? Digital? Spot? DPI? What does this all mean?
The printing process can be confusing, especially when it’s easier to be removed from print with web options nowadays. Here’s a handy book to guide you through the printing process, and it’s only $8 through For Print Only and it’s sooo worth it! Check it out!
8 Bits of Wisdom on Being a Creator from Neil Gaiman
“The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.”
Need something to do this summer? Consider Design Thinking!
PSU students: There are still some spaces left in my summer Design Thinking course! This one will be really fun. I can promise: reading, writing, walking, picnics, presentations, field trips, and at least one afternoon of sitting by the river.
And lots of learning.
Sign up now! There are only a few spots left. All majors and class levels are welcome, this is not just for design students. Also: what this image doesn’t note is that it’s a ten-week course starting on June 26.
SEE YOU THIS SUMMER.
Contest: Design a Shoebox for Miista x Solestruck!
This is due in two days. Get to workin! :)
About:
Solestruck is proud be partnering with MIISTA to help create a very special and limited edition box for their upcoming Electric Witches collection. We are reaching out to you, our community of talented and shoe obsessed friends, to help take the next packaging for MIISTA to the next level. Of all of the brands we work with, MIISTA goes to extra lengths to develop insane stories, strong branded collections and back-stories that draw the shopper into the entire lifestyle of the brand.
Three winners will be chosen, while all will be rewarded handsomely with MIISTA shoes–the grand prize winner will walk with three pairs of shoes, as well as having their creation manufactured and shipped to stores and clients all over the world. Your work will be out-there for the entire world to see! The grand prize winner will also be featured on both blogs. Team Solestruck will be partnering with the creative minds behind MIISTA to choose the final winners–searching for those who can take all the inspiration and create something insanely next level.
In the below PDF you will find the entire contest rules which combines inspiration, design and story boarding to tell a complete visual story for this very special capsule collection.
Check out all the details here:
http://images2.solestruck.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Blog%20Pics/pdf_package_b.pdf
and http://blog.solestruck.com/?p=13368.
SEND ENTRIES TO CONTESTS@SOLESTRUCK.COM
SIGN UP NOW! Workshop with Ambrose! Design for Social Change
Hey FoGD!
This is an AMAZING opportunity to work with special guests, Adam and Jenna Weiler of Ambrose, an after school program out in Holland, MI that teaches kids about design thinking, collaboration and creative problem solving. Attend this workshop to learn how your design process can directly effect a community. Learn how to dissect brands, and how to create your own campaign for social good to make a change for the better. Woo!
DESIGN FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Using Design and Business for Community Transformation
10:00AM - 3:00PM
First 20 PSU.GD students to sign up on this blog post will get to attend!
Include your:
#number signed up
Name
Email
Workshops are limited to graphic design majors only. Because of the skills needed for this workshop seats are limited to those that have already taken or are already enrolled in 118. Workshops are funded by the art department and are only promoted by FoGD.
Schedule:
10 / The Ambrose Evolution
Success, Setbacks and Lessons learned from 4 years of trenchwork
0.5 / The Uncanny Valley and Category Creators - What makes a social campaign work
An open exploration of models that break the for-profit mold. Their pro’s and con’s.
Krochet Kids
Toms
Falling Whistles
TWLOHA
Invisible Children
11 / RDS - Research, Deconstruct, and Share
The relationship between what we buy and the story we tell about ourselves (Objectified excerpt)
What works / What doesn’t
.75 / Intro to Your Own Back Yard
Examining local needs and potential solutions
12 / Lunch
Nuff Said
13 / Teamwork makes the Dream Work
Friendtorship
Begin Brainstorming
- Marketing collateral to get other’s involved
- Team focused on PSU
- Team focused on high school
0.5 / CRUSH IT!
Work time crushing either individual or team promotions for journals & future projects
15 / Wrap it up & Critique
Supplies:
Sketchbook
Pens/Pencils
Scrap Paper
Ruler
Camera
Any tools you would want to create a campaign (or at least to start one, anyway)
SIGN UP NOW! Field Trip Friday at Roundhouse Agency
Friday, May 18th
Field Trip Friday
Roundhouse Agency
537 SE Ash St. #401 Portland, OR 97214
Noon
First 20 students to sign up below will get to attend!
Include your:
#Number Signed up
Name
Email
About:
Roundhouse is a creative agency.
We work across channels while always growing our digital roots. We believe in evolution of self and craft. Collaboration is mandatory. Ego is forbidden. Our only business plan is to create great work — the kind that stirs pride in our team, garners appreciation from our clients, and earns bragging rights for our moms.
What’s Happening This Week! Max Erdenberger! Roundhouse Agency! Ambrose! Open Enagement!
Whoa how is it WEEK 7 already?! We’ve been having so much fun this term that we haven’t noticed how time just flew by!
Thursday, May 17th
Show & Tell with Max Erdenberger!
@thebetamax
IN REAL LIFE
Noon | Room 160
About:
Max Erdenberger grew up on the tree lined streets of Portland, Oregon. Max studied graphic design and animation in Los Angeles at CalArts before pursuing an early international career in motion design, as an Art Director for Brand New School, Logan and other well represented shops. Returning to Portland, he joined advertising mavericks Wieden + Kennedy as an Art Director where he also started directing videos. Max’s work has been published by The Art Directors Club, Pub Magazine, Print, Boards, CMYK, GOOD magazine, Victionary, Fast Co. Design and Gestalten.
Friday, May 18th
Field Trip Friday
Roundhouse Agency
Noon
First 20 students to sign up later today on the specified blog post will get to attend! More info soon!
Friday, May 18th
Workshop with Ambrose Makery *Special Edition*
Room 160
Time to be determined
First 20 PSU.GD students to sign up later today on the specified blog post will get to attend! More info soon!
Workshops are limited to graphic design majors only. Because of the skills needed for this workshop seats are limited to those that have already taken or are already enrolled in 118. Workshops are funded by the art department and are only promoted by FoGD.
Open Engagement 2012
May 18th-20th
Portland State University
Open Engagement is an international conference that sets out to explore various perspectives on art and social practice and expand the dialogue around socially engaged art making. The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration.
*The Friendtorship program will be hosting a discussion on Sunday, May 20th at 3PM. Be there!
FoGD student Jeffery Frankenhauser is branding all of the parks in Portland for his senior thesis project. Go check out his progress! PDXPARKS.com and follow him on twitter: @pdxparks (via PDX Parks)
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