Preparing your Illustrator files for animation in After Effects
click here to learn more http://www.jamesmerry.co.uk/home/?p=388
Portfolio Prep Class at Meca starting soon
Click here to view and sign up. If you're thinking of applying to art school I would seriously consider taking a portfolio course.
Where Do Graphic Designers look for work
Top Ten Websites to Find Graphic Design Jobs
1. Coroflot
Corflot hosts over 80,000 graphic design portfolios and currently has over 700 job listings. Jobs are organized into a variety of design related categories. You can even subscribe to their job listing rss feed and get personalized job alerts!
2. Behance
The Behance job board is new, but growing fast so be sure to check their listings before the competition gets even rougher! I’ve seen some hidden gems hiding in their graphic design job board.
3. Authentic Jobs
Authentic jobs lists hot new graphic design jobs every week, both full-time and part-time.
4. AIGA Design Jobs
The AIGA’s reputation speaks for itself and its design jobs section is a great place to find some amazing job opportunities. Many large and well respected companies look for new and or experienced designers here.
5. Krop
Krop is one of the largest and most well known websites to find graphic design jobs. It has been around for a long time and new jobs are listed often by top agencies and design studios.
6. design:related
design:related showcases many great listings, including design management jobs, interactive jobs and many other design jobs requiring varying experience.
7. Freelance Switch
The job board over at freelance switch is another growing job listings website that has a variety of design, development, illustration and flash jobs.
8. Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine a large design related blog, also has a job board with design and development jobs. The listings are organized into full-time and freelance positions for easier navigation.
9. Fresh Web Jobs
Fresh Web Jobs tends to lean more towards web design related jobs, but there are jobs for graphic designers on this site and you don’t want to miss any listings!
10. Simply Hired
Simply Hired is a great site to check because it shows design job listings from many different websites. It also has filter options so you can easily weed out listings that do not appeal to you.
1. Coroflot
Corflot hosts over 80,000 graphic design portfolios and currently has over 700 job listings. Jobs are organized into a variety of design related categories. You can even subscribe to their job listing rss feed and get personalized job alerts!
2. Behance
The Behance job board is new, but growing fast so be sure to check their listings before the competition gets even rougher! I’ve seen some hidden gems hiding in their graphic design job board.
3. Authentic Jobs
Authentic jobs lists hot new graphic design jobs every week, both full-time and part-time.
4. AIGA Design Jobs
The AIGA’s reputation speaks for itself and its design jobs section is a great place to find some amazing job opportunities. Many large and well respected companies look for new and or experienced designers here.
5. Krop
Krop is one of the largest and most well known websites to find graphic design jobs. It has been around for a long time and new jobs are listed often by top agencies and design studios.
6. design:related
design:related showcases many great listings, including design management jobs, interactive jobs and many other design jobs requiring varying experience.
7. Freelance Switch
The job board over at freelance switch is another growing job listings website that has a variety of design, development, illustration and flash jobs.
8. Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine a large design related blog, also has a job board with design and development jobs. The listings are organized into full-time and freelance positions for easier navigation.
9. Fresh Web Jobs
Fresh Web Jobs tends to lean more towards web design related jobs, but there are jobs for graphic designers on this site and you don’t want to miss any listings!
10. Simply Hired
Simply Hired is a great site to check because it shows design job listings from many different websites. It also has filter options so you can easily weed out listings that do not appeal to you.
Preparing your portfolio for art school
Click here to find out what you need to include in your book from a RISD graduate.
6 elements to kinetic typography
Here is link to an article that will help you make smart design choices when story boarding your kinetic typography project.
Here is a link to Travel Tourism posters to get you inspired and pumped for Thursday's design competition. Look at these designs and think about how you can reate similar effects, textures, illustrations, type treatments using Illustrator and pHotoshop. Try it out. Look up video tutorials. Have some ideas floating around in your head. Remember the competition will be a poster design to promote Maine as not only a place to vacation but a place to stay.http://blog.onlineposterprinting.com/design-ideas/40-travel-art-poster-design-examples/
Get Inspired to promote yourself
CHeck out Mike Perry's work. He's a designer, artist and entrepreneur
http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/
http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/
poster design contest for maine student film festival due by end of March
poster size 10inches X 8inches
300 dpi 4 color
Information that needs to be on poster
Call for Entries
Maine Student Film and Video Festival
Deadline for entry June 1st
Grand Prize is a 2,500.00 Scholarship to
Maine Media Workshops
Enter online at www.msfvf.com
Festival will be held in Conjunction with the Maine International Film Festival
at the Waterville Opera House on July 17 at 12:30pm.
For more information contact:
Timothy Ouillette
Advanced Communications and Multimedia
207.743.7756 ext 5215
300 dpi 4 color
Information that needs to be on poster
Call for Entries
Maine Student Film and Video Festival
Deadline for entry June 1st
Grand Prize is a 2,500.00 Scholarship to
Maine Media Workshops
Enter online at www.msfvf.com
Festival will be held in Conjunction with the Maine International Film Festival
at the Waterville Opera House on July 17 at 12:30pm.
For more information contact:
Timothy Ouillette
Advanced Communications and Multimedia
207.743.7756 ext 5215
Call For Entries! 2010 Congressional Art Competition Guidelines
Deadline for entries: March 19, 2010
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Congressman Michael Michaud and the Maine Arts Commission invite you to participate in this year’s Congressional Art Competition. The selected students will have the opportunity to have their work displayed in the Cannon Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol for the entire year, beginning in June. In addition, winners will be eligible for a scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design. We are looking for examples of high quality, high school two-dimensional art.
First place, second and third runner up
1. Must be a high school student: grades 9-12
2. Work must be two-dimensional
3. Work must be no larger than 30in. by 30 in. to the outside dimensions of the frame
4. Work must be no more than 4 inches in depth
5. Each entry must be original in concept, design, and execution and not violate any U.S. copyright laws.
6. acceptable categories:
Paintings (oil, acrylics, watercolor, etc); Drawings (pastels, colored pencil, pencil, charcoal, ink, markers); Collage (must be two-dimensional); Prints (lithographs, silkscreen, block prints; Mixed media (use of more than two mediums); Computer generated art; Photography.
Deadline for entries: March 19, 2010
To be considered for review, work must be submitted in digital format. Actual artwork will not be accepted for review. For further information, please contact the Maine Arts Commission, 207/287-2790 or Willa Kammerer at mepoetryoutloud@2gmail.com
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Congressman Michael Michaud and the Maine Arts Commission invite you to participate in this year’s Congressional Art Competition. The selected students will have the opportunity to have their work displayed in the Cannon Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol for the entire year, beginning in June. In addition, winners will be eligible for a scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design. We are looking for examples of high quality, high school two-dimensional art.
First place, second and third runner up
1. Must be a high school student: grades 9-12
2. Work must be two-dimensional
3. Work must be no larger than 30in. by 30 in. to the outside dimensions of the frame
4. Work must be no more than 4 inches in depth
5. Each entry must be original in concept, design, and execution and not violate any U.S. copyright laws.
6. acceptable categories:
Paintings (oil, acrylics, watercolor, etc); Drawings (pastels, colored pencil, pencil, charcoal, ink, markers); Collage (must be two-dimensional); Prints (lithographs, silkscreen, block prints; Mixed media (use of more than two mediums); Computer generated art; Photography.
Deadline for entries: March 19, 2010
To be considered for review, work must be submitted in digital format. Actual artwork will not be accepted for review. For further information, please contact the Maine Arts Commission, 207/287-2790 or Willa Kammerer at mepoetryoutloud@2gmail.com
Art Is Everywhere poster design TEST
Please click on link under Competition on the right side of this blog called "Art Is everywhere design poster". Once you are at the site, you must download brochure, rules, logo, tips on how to compress files, calendar etc. They are all underlined in red.
Before proceeding with creating your design please read all rules. If you feel like reading more than proceed to look at the rest of the documents. But you must read rules first.
You will have the entire day to complete your design, format it, write your copy, get your transcript, stuffit and send it to me. We will not revisit this project again. You must complete all phases of project today. Make sure to come in Wednesday with accompanying release form signed by your parents. This is part of your test and will be counted against you if you don't have it Wednesday morning.
THIS IS A TEST Your grade will be based on 1. What you design today, 2. Your understanding/comprehension of rules, 3.how proactive you are in getting all parts done correctly and following rules as listed. 4. Your understanding of compression and different formats 5. Your written accompanying statement. 6. turning everything in to me today. 7. having all elements ready to send to AI (including release form, on wednesday)
YOu should be able to access your highschool transcript through infinite campus and generate a pdf of it. THis file along with your design, statement in word, and release form will all go into one folder which you will then compress using Stuffit. Read the rules carefully. I would like for you to compress the folder today and send it to me without the release form (as you will need your parents to sign this first) but with everything else in it. It's part of your grade. If you don't know how to compress read the rules (there is a link in there to find out how). If you don't have stuffit on your computer, download it. It's free. Be proactive and solve the problem.
If for whatever reason you find it difficult to send me something, you must send me an email asap and explain why. Before you email me make sure you have exhausted all resources including your classmates. It will reflect in your grade if you can't figure it out. This is something you must know how to do as it will be asked of you a lot. It is part of being a problem solver and digitally literate.
ADVICE: the challenge is to get design done and all parts that go along with it on time today before leaving. As you are designing I would suggest you write the statement too as ideas and reasons for doing something come to you.
Do not wait until 1:30 to read the rules and try to get everything else done. You will not be able to and will fail.
More than half of your grade is based on following the rules and completing all parts before the bell rings.
This test is not just about your design.
You can use ideas from other projects you've created, however remember you can only use images and illustrations of your own and not taken off the internet or from another source.
You can design the poster in Photoshop or Illustrator or both. You can draw or paint everything and then scan it in. I don't care.
Have fun and again make sure to read everything. Having your headphones on listening to music will not help you with this project at all. You need to understand what you are reading and follow directions.
Before proceeding with creating your design please read all rules. If you feel like reading more than proceed to look at the rest of the documents. But you must read rules first.
You will have the entire day to complete your design, format it, write your copy, get your transcript, stuffit and send it to me. We will not revisit this project again. You must complete all phases of project today. Make sure to come in Wednesday with accompanying release form signed by your parents. This is part of your test and will be counted against you if you don't have it Wednesday morning.
THIS IS A TEST Your grade will be based on 1. What you design today, 2. Your understanding/comprehension of rules, 3.how proactive you are in getting all parts done correctly and following rules as listed. 4. Your understanding of compression and different formats 5. Your written accompanying statement. 6. turning everything in to me today. 7. having all elements ready to send to AI (including release form, on wednesday)
YOu should be able to access your highschool transcript through infinite campus and generate a pdf of it. THis file along with your design, statement in word, and release form will all go into one folder which you will then compress using Stuffit. Read the rules carefully. I would like for you to compress the folder today and send it to me without the release form (as you will need your parents to sign this first) but with everything else in it. It's part of your grade. If you don't know how to compress read the rules (there is a link in there to find out how). If you don't have stuffit on your computer, download it. It's free. Be proactive and solve the problem.
If for whatever reason you find it difficult to send me something, you must send me an email asap and explain why. Before you email me make sure you have exhausted all resources including your classmates. It will reflect in your grade if you can't figure it out. This is something you must know how to do as it will be asked of you a lot. It is part of being a problem solver and digitally literate.
ADVICE: the challenge is to get design done and all parts that go along with it on time today before leaving. As you are designing I would suggest you write the statement too as ideas and reasons for doing something come to you.
Do not wait until 1:30 to read the rules and try to get everything else done. You will not be able to and will fail.
More than half of your grade is based on following the rules and completing all parts before the bell rings.
This test is not just about your design.
You can use ideas from other projects you've created, however remember you can only use images and illustrations of your own and not taken off the internet or from another source.
You can design the poster in Photoshop or Illustrator or both. You can draw or paint everything and then scan it in. I don't care.
Have fun and again make sure to read everything. Having your headphones on listening to music will not help you with this project at all. You need to understand what you are reading and follow directions.
video tutorials through apple clinic
please go to this website or subscribe to podcasts through itunes. I will be referring to these tutorials as we move along.
http://www.appclinic.com/screencast/
any questions just ask.
http://www.appclinic.com/screencast/
any questions just ask.
field trip tomorrow
please visit all three sites and prepare 2 questions you might want to ask for each place. thanks
burgess advertising and marketing
Garrand
Maine Magazine
Space Gallery
Dunstan Letterpress Printing
schedule so far
burgess 10:00 am
Garrand 11:00 am
lunch 12:00 pm
Space Gallery 1:00pm or 3pm
Maine Magazine 2:00 pm
visit leterpress printing place and then beach in scarborough
or visit meca or walk around portland and photograph
burgess advertising and marketing
Garrand
Maine Magazine
Space Gallery
Dunstan Letterpress Printing
schedule so far
burgess 10:00 am
Garrand 11:00 am
lunch 12:00 pm
Space Gallery 1:00pm or 3pm
Maine Magazine 2:00 pm
visit leterpress printing place and then beach in scarborough
or visit meca or walk around portland and photograph
all students must enter one or more of their poster designs into the HOW poster competition
please go to this link and enter poster design contest.
you should one or more of these green fest poster, type design poster, sebago lake music festival poster, advocacy campaign poster from last year.
there is no fee and HOW magazine is a very well known and prestigious design publication. If you get your work printed here it is great exposure and recognition.
I am requiring each student to enter at least one poster.
you should one or more of these green fest poster, type design poster, sebago lake music festival poster, advocacy campaign poster from last year.
there is no fee and HOW magazine is a very well known and prestigious design publication. If you get your work printed here it is great exposure and recognition.
I am requiring each student to enter at least one poster.
Rubric for Green Fest
Please go to this link and fill out rubric for your typeface poster.
Please go to this link and fill out rubric for your greenfest poster.
rubric
Please go to this link and fill out rubric for your greenfest poster.
rubric
Design Jobs
STEP1:
Here are some links to specific jobs in Maine related to Graphic Design
please look at all of them and answer questions on job search form (which is in lessons and handouts) for one of the jobs.
1. Graphic Design Assistant
2. Graphic Designer
3. Senior Designer/Art Director
4. Graphic Artist/Screen Printer
STEP 2:
Do specific job title searches in your interest area on the websites below. For example search "illusrator" or illustration, graphic design, graphic arts, production, photoshop expert, motion graphics, photography, web design etc...
do two different job search forms from these below.
go to these websites
http://www.coroflot.com
http://www.creativehotlist.com
http://www.monster.com
http://www.behance.com
http://www.aigadesignjobs.org
http://www.krop.com
http://designrelated.com/jobs
http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/categories/1
Here are some links to specific jobs in Maine related to Graphic Design
please look at all of them and answer questions on job search form (which is in lessons and handouts) for one of the jobs.
1. Graphic Design Assistant
2. Graphic Designer
3. Senior Designer/Art Director
4. Graphic Artist/Screen Printer
STEP 2:
Do specific job title searches in your interest area on the websites below. For example search "illusrator" or illustration, graphic design, graphic arts, production, photoshop expert, motion graphics, photography, web design etc...
do two different job search forms from these below.
go to these websites
http://www.coroflot.com
http://www.creativehotlist.com
http://www.monster.com
http://www.behance.com
http://www.aigadesignjobs.org
http://www.krop.com
http://designrelated.com/jobs
http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/categories/1
Student statements for project
Please post both your students statements for the typeface poster and the energy festival here.
College application and portfolio requirements
Please respond to this post with the colleges you are applying to, what your major/s might be or interest and a link to the each colleges portfolio requirements.
I would like to see what is being requested in order to best determine how you can create a portfolio to apply right now.
Also please subscribe to graphic design two so I can then close this blog off to only my gd2 students and no one else. When you subscribe please choose a name that anyone can read and understand it is you. FOr example meganagd2. If your name isn't available then add gd2 to the end of it.
Thanks
VV
I would like to see what is being requested in order to best determine how you can create a portfolio to apply right now.
Also please subscribe to graphic design two so I can then close this blog off to only my gd2 students and no one else. When you subscribe please choose a name that anyone can read and understand it is you. FOr example meganagd2. If your name isn't available then add gd2 to the end of it.
Thanks
VV
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