The Type Studio Fall 2014
GrD
4020 ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY
CRN #84470
Stan Anderson, Coordinator, Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Monday/Wednesday 11a-1:50p
3 Credit Hours
Office 362 / Hours 10-11:00a M/W (or by appointment)
stananderson@gsu.edu
CRN #84470
Stan Anderson, Coordinator, Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Monday/Wednesday 11a-1:50p
3 Credit Hours
Office 362 / Hours 10-11:00a M/W (or by appointment)
stananderson@gsu.edu
404-543-4086
cell
www.TheTypeStudio.blogspot.com
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| Self Portrait Assignment by Jonathan Hart |
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| Timeline Assignment by Jonathan Hart |
Below is his description on his blog about his concepts from his blog: "Above are my concepts for a "self portrait." They are both a look at what lead me into studying graphic design. The Recycle Bin focuses on my life from quitting college in 2001 to today. The Guitar String delves more into what influenced me, especially early on, and lead me into design. While designing these, I took a difficult look at my past. I tried to remain upbeat and hopeful, but each are not without regrets. I want them to be a representation of honest mistakes and, ultimately, redemption."
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| Michael Pearce |
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| Michael Pearce |
The
Infamous Self-Portrait and Timeline/Information Design Project:
“Who am I anyway? Am I my resume, which is a picture… of a person
I don’t know.”
-A
Chorus Line
How do
you define yourself?
How do
you see yourself?
How do
you describe yourself to others?
How do you think you appear to others?
The first
time you meet someone and they ask you “So, What do you do?” What do you tell
them?
What is
the first descriptive sentence you tell them?
What kind
of photo do you put on your Facebook site? Do you change it often? Think about it.
If you should die today what photo would you want them to use for your obituary? Past or Present Photo?
When was the last time you looked long and hard at yourself in the mirror?
When was the last time you wrote in your diary or journal?
When you meet someone new, how do you tell them quickly about yourself?
Sometimes it seems so obvious but the reality is that we are very complex and unique.
If you don't take time to know who you are then how will others know who you are?
Sometimes we like to think that the "work speaks for itself" and perhaps in some instances it does, but a designer must also learn to speak on behalf of the work that we do for clients. We have strategies and concepts that sometimes go unnoticed by the public and the client. With our voices we can speak to the reasons and come to the defense of our work. Learn to speak up with confidence.
This project should help you identify yourself at this moment in time. August 2014.
Let this be a snapshot of who you are and how you want to present yourself to others.
This project will be hung in the display cabinets so that other students, designers and faculty can get a chance to know who you are and what you think is important to yourself as a new designer...and as a person.
Throughout your career as an artist/designer, there will be occasions when you will asked to submit an "image" (usually a photo) of yourself for a variety of professional reasons. This personal image of yourself might be used in tandem with an article you might have written, winner of a competition, a speaking engagement, a blog, a newspaper article, a gallery exhibition or even an interview in a periodical. This project will serve to demonstrate how you want to project yourself as a designer/artist at this point in your life. This project will make you take a good long look at yourself and where you are currently in your life. Perhaps you create an image of yourself that will possibly follow you throughout your academic career here at GSU.
The Self Portrait:
12x18 Double-Page Spread (Horizontal/Landscape)
Printed + Mounted and also on Blog
Self-portraits are not just a reflection of what they look like but also of how the artist interprets themselves and the world around them. It is perhaps the most personal story that the artist can tell and makes the self-portrait one of art's most important subjects. These types of self-portraits by artists/designers have quite a history. Since the fifteenth century and the advent of the mirror artists have modeled for themselves in their own works of art. Whether it is an in-depth exploration of the artist’s own psyche or simply as a model, the artist is clearly the cheapest and most available. Whatever the reason, most every artist, in every medium from painters to sculptors have attempted this exploration of self-image that is self-revealing.
Since the Renaissance, artists have used self-portraits to explore a basic question:
Who am I?
While a mirror or a photograph can tell a person what he or she looks like, that physical image does not reflect the whole self, the whole persona. Self-portraiture insists the artist embark on a journey of self-exploration in order to make decisions about how to represent him/herself authentically. For each self-portrait, the artist must ask: What expression, posture, clothing, background, colors, texture, and style best express the real me? Might those answers be different at any given time or on any given day? Self-portraits may also represent an artist’s quest for immortality, as a way to leave behind an image that will outlive the artist. Sometimes self-portraits are celebrated for their pure vanity (see Warhol images.)
Production:
Be creative. Think outside the norm. Be Bold. Be Brave. Be Insightful. Be True.
How you wish to create this is up to each of you. It might be a really creative formal head shot or a series of images of you in various color palettes (again Warhol images), it might be a painting, a paper collage, a drawing, mixed media, film or video, print (Polaroid transfers/cell phone photos), high contrast b/w decal or spray transfer, image from video, etc. You might wish to present only a portion of your body (cropped images that are stitched together via thread) or a full-length image. Depending on your concept of who you are, it might be a classical pose (Rembrandt) or a contemporary depiction (see Lucas Samaras); it might also be an altered image of another famous self-portrait (cut-paste); and lastly, it might be an image of yourself on black velvet (ala Elvis) Or in the pop art version of Warhol.
Experiment. Be Bold. Be Brave.
You can be daring or bold, but most importantly be honest and creative. You have permission to make this self-portrait however you wish (paint-by-number, arts and craft glued beans and macaroni, etc.) It might be a video that runs over and over on a TV set-flickering and edited.
*NOTE: All of these images will be displayed for others to “see” who you are and hopefully create a sense of conversation and spark enlightenment as to your new status as a Graphic Design major at GSU.
Questions to be answered (either stated or implied) and you can interpret these questions by answering them however you wish and designing them as such in your double-page landscape spread.
The Specs:
-You can use any typeface/font you wish or varieties thereof
-You can use any type of paper stock (weight,color, texture)
-12x18 Horizontal Layout
-Does not have to appear as a Double-page Spread with a seam down the middle.
-You should also have 3-5 pieces of previous work that you designed incorporated into the self-portrait piece.
-The following info should be included someplace in some manner on the spread:
LATIN NAME: an alter ego type of name/tongue n'cheek/ example: Overworkus Supersoncius
DESCRIPTION: Brief description about yourself, your designs and you you became interested in graphic design and what inspires you (minimum 100 words)
PERSONAL VOICE: How you see yourself in the design world. You might quote yourself or interview yourself here about how your own "voice" as a designer might influence others.
DISTINCTIVE MARKINGS: Brief description in your own words about what you think identifies your own work from others thus far. Color, type choices, compositions, or other factors which signals that you own your work.
HABITAT:Where you work as a designer (at home, coffee shop,car, pup tent, etc.) or anywhere you feel you do your best work. Can identify time and place and days of the week as well.
CONTACT: your website or blogsite or your address. Wherever you might be reached.
PART TWO
The Personal Timeline via Information Design Project:
12x18 (Vertical or Horizontal)
Printed + Mounted and also on Blog
If you
have ever had the pleasure to read “The Artist Way” by Julia Cameron then you
will begin to
know that
the direction you are heading creatively might be based on your past. I do
believe that each of us have the ability to create our own reality. Both good
and the bad. All of us determine our creative paths. You are creating an
open-ended map of your past, present and future.
“See it.
Believe it. Achieve it.”
By
creating your own personal creative timeline via Information Design of how you
got to where you are right now at this moment is critical to knowing where you
might want to be in the future. This timeline should demonstrate (in any method
you wish) how you got to where you are. It should reinforce all those “forks in
the road” and those painful and ceremonial decisions you had to make to end up
as a Junior in the Graphic Design Department at GSU. What will you do the next
two years? Who will rise to the occasion and who will falter? Will you be a
leader or a follower? Everything is at
play during this pivotal time in your life.
How will
you link your past to your future?
Who will
show up on your visual timeline/information design?
Will it
be a historical timeline of names, places, dates or will it be more esoteric?
(colors, shapes, etc.)
It is
important to retrace your steps and those people and places and events that
changed the course of your life.
Are you
the master of your own path or have others guided and coached you?
You can
depict percentages of time in areas that you might have spent drawing/listening
to music/
Reading/sports/
etc. All this leads to your timeline and how you got here at this very minute.
Be
creative.
Take this
seriously because I have seen this type of project actually change artist for
the better.
For every
action, there is a reaction and you are a part of that kinetic energy that
moves us through time and space.
Use any
method you wish to complete this project
You might
want to do a video, compose a song, create a printed document or a one act play
just to name a few.
Presentation
must be professional.
*Your name
should appear on the timeline infographic someplace.
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