Channels poster

Here is the handout and a sample poster from the past. 
Notice the list of images to "collect"....

Telling Visual Stories

Movie posters are a great place to look for examples of visual storytelling...... look how these images use color, values, shapes, blurred and sharp focus, and even the camera angles to evoke a mood in the poster.

See more here @ http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-best-movie-posters-of-2011

Chris Ware’s poster for the movie "Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives"

Jeremy Saunders’ design for "Burning Man"

Neil Kellerhouse's design for "The Girlfriend Experience"

This last poster is by Neil Kellerhouse.
See more of his work here @ http://www.kellerhouse.com/#/?item=WORK

Inside Illustrator Blog

Nice site to get some ideas and tricks for using Illustrator- from the source!!


Here is the link @http://blogs.adobe.com/infiniteresolution/

Cover letter and Address

Here is the address:

Prescott Powers
Woodstock Academy
57 Academy Road
Woodstock, CT 06250

Here are some samples ofcover letters, or letters of introduction for you to use.....

Your goal is to introduce yourself to a possible client..... perhaps explain what you do as a designer or creative person, how responsible you are, how creative  you are....etc.

Close with a sentence saying how you look forward to meeting with the person...

Here is another designed for students....

Great Tutorials Here!!!

Matt found these tutorials and other goodies!! Wow!

See it @ http://vector.tutsplus.com/

Modifying Strokes

Here's a great video about using the WIDTH TOOL  to change the thickness and shape of a line, or stroke....

Check out the computer that guy has too!!!!!!!

See it here @http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html

Shapes Builder Tool!

This makes it EASY to create more complex forms out of piled up simple shapes!!!

Here's a link to a video demo! @ http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/features._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_types+of+work_sl_for+design.html#content-dotcom-en-feature-illustrator-shape-builder-tool4

Here's the tool's icon

To use the tool, simply click and drag over the selected shapes you want combined, the computer does the work for you.

Here's the starting shapes- notice that I selected  them!

Here I've clicked and dragged with the shapes builder tool across two shapes..... You can alaso try holding the OPTION key to make it "erase" overlapping shapes.

Then the resulting combination of the shapes!!! Super Easy!

Try it out!

Designer of the Week! Sagmeister

One of the most creative designers working today, Sagmeister's work lures you into an interaction with the design.

See more of his work here @http://www.sagmeister.com/ 

and here @http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sagmeister.html

Sagmeister's card

And here's a video of the designer talking about his work...

follow this link@ http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design.html 

SELF PROMO PROJECT

Here's the handout for our first project!

Take some time to explore some of the sample images and the links posted too-

Examples Of Self Promo's

Here are some examples to get your brains cookin'!

This is Max Mercier's stationary design... very creative!

See more of this branding design here @ http://www.commarts.com/exhibit/Identity/troubadour-brand-identity.html

Another nice idea here @ http://www.commarts.com/exhibit/Identity/neolab-corporate-identity.html

This design for New Hat. Notice how it worked the paper edges too.

All these samples came from this site @ http://www.commarts.com/creative