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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)
Branding Workshop This Friday with Study Partner!
Friday, April 6th
9AM-4:30PM
Room 160, Art Annex
First 20 students to sign up here on the tomorrow at noon will get to attend! Don’t miss out on another amazing workshop!
Workshop is 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.
About Study Partner:
We’re Study Partner, a teaching alliance and idea lab co-founded in 2007 by Jen Thomas and Shawn Petersen. We believe that design is for everyone and that design education can play a critical role to benefit individuals and the communities they live in.
@sdypart
http://teach.sdypart.com/
Workshop Overview:
It’s simple - let’s make a brand identity for yourself in a day.
Really? Yes! Designing for yourself is one of the most difficult projects you will face as a designer. Let’s do it in a day.
During this workshop you will explore how establishing a brand identity can help you make a compelling self-promotional piece. Through a set of exercises you will research and discover how to define and present yourself as a designer, and investigate symbol, type, image, message, and voice. The goal is to develop a self promotional piece to help kickstart your design adventures.
Materials:
Any and all digital documentation or files for design work completed to date.
Pencils, sketch paper
Schedule:
9:00-9:30
Brand identity presentation. Introduction of assignment.
9:30-10:00
Exercise: researching your brand identity.
10:30-11:30
Exercise: Defining tone of voice, typography, graphic language.
11:30-12:30
Lunch
12:30-3:00
Working in class, taking concepts to final.
3:00-3:15
Print out finals of promotional piece for crit.
3:15-4:30
Final Crit.
FoGD General Meeting! Thursday at 1PM
Thursday, April 5th
FoGD General Meeting
Room 160, 1PM (right after Jolby’s Show & Tell)
ALL STUDENTS & FACULTY WELCOME!
Advisory Board - Mandatory Attendance
Hope you all had a great break! We’ve been hard at work planning for this term’s events, workshops and would like to meet with you all this Thursday!
We have a lot of amazing things happening this term but we need your help to pull them off! Stop by to hear what’s happening this term and how you can get involved!
Things we’ll cover at this meeting:
- FoGD is going to Dallas to present the National Student Show!
- Be Honest! Participation, what to expect, what we need help with.
- Sophomore Portfolio Review
- FoGD officer elections are coming up!
See you all on Thursday! Team work makes the dream work!
We’re THRILLED to announce the spring term schedule for Friends of Graphic Design! This term includes lots of fun Show & Tells, workshops and Field Trip Fridays with amazing people such as Jolby, Study Partner, Keegan and Meegan, Little Friends of Printmaking and SO MUCH MORE!
BIG thank you to FoGD alumni Martie Flores for designing this awesome poster!
SIGN UP NOW! Field Trip Friday at Sandstrom Partners!
Field Trip Friday at Sandstrom Partners
808 SW Third Avenue, No. 610
Portland, Oregon 97204
Noon - 1PM
First 20 PSU GD students to sign up below will get to attend!
Leave your number signed up, name, and email.
About:
Sandstrom Partners is a strategic brand design firm specializing in the creation and revitalization of thought-leading brands. We create thought-leading brands for companies that need to:
- Appeal to a new audience.
- Change an existing category paradigm or convention.
- Capitalize on emerging trends.
In our experience, being a thought leader is the most efficient way to establish brand equity. It does not cost more to design or produce, but it has a multiplying effect on sales, awareness, and brand value.
Although our approach changes from brand to brand, it always involves telling a compelling story and then making sure that story is conveyed in every piece of communication: from the name to the packaging to the point of sale to the web to the advertising. To accomplish this, we create brand identity systems, package design, strategy, research, environments, websites, and party hats.
Show & Tell Videos - Eight Hour Day & Gemma Correll!
Even though we didn’t have a Show & Tell today, you can still get your weekly fix on our Vimeo channel!
Gemma Correll - Show & Tell from Friends of Graphic Design on Vimeo.
About Gemma:
I’m a freelance Illustrator and comic-making person.
I currently live in Norwich, UK with my trusty sidekick-Pugs , Mr Norman Pickles and Bella.
Eight Hour Day - Show & Tell from Friends of Graphic Design on Vimeo.
About Eight Hour Day:
A Couple That Loves to Create
Eight Hour Day is a design boutique, and we love what we do. It’s who we are. As a husband and wife team working side by side, we aspire for the designed life(style): a place where work, life and inspiration are all equal and integrated organically.
Special thanks to advisory board member Jeff Frankenhauser for putting these videos together!
Check out our display case in the Smith Memorial Student Union!
If you didn’t know about us then, you’ll definitely know about us now - all 30,000 of you PSU kids.
Guys! Mikey’s Mark Making workshop he held here at PSU got featured on the HOW Magazine blog! Check it out! http://bit.ly/howfogd
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