Blog Assignments

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

404-543-4086 cell

www.TheTypeStudio.blogspot.com

BLOG ASSIGNMENTS:

These are weekly assignments that I’m asking everyone to complete and put on your individual blogs/websites/tumblrs. You should also be putting your own work and process on the blogs.  What you are thinking about or doing or seeing in and out of class.   

Blog Assignments (You should start posting by Monday September 8th and runs for the next 15 weeks)

I'll be checking every Sunday evening prior to the Monday class meeting. If you get behind you need to catch up asap.

Week One:
Select 5 pieces of your work from the 3000 courses (GrD3000/GrD3150/GrD3200) that you feel was
responsible for your acceptance into the graphic design program.

Week Two:
Good and Bad Design. Show your favorite and least favorite Designs. It might be print, film, or mixed media. Give credit to the work.

Week Three:
Find a variety of contemporary trends in graphic design that you have an opinion about.
This might be video, print, multimedia and all faucets of visual communication that could even include stage design, exhibition design, costuming, photography, fine art, stage design, broadcast design.

Week Four:
Find any type of artistic work that truly inspires you as an artist. There are no limits here.
Be specific. It might be work you aspire to or work you find confusing and yet appealing.

Week Five:
“Block of Type” is a project that should encourage further investigation of type in a very limited area.
This project in the past has had many names such as “Type Detective” and “Font Hunt.”
You are expected to document an area (or a city block) or area thereabouts which is rich with
Typography. Type that has been forgotten or has become part of the environment or is required for the benefit of society. Nothing is off limits in this exercise.

Week Six:
Personal Workspace. A visual of where you work when you leave the classroom. It might be a particular table in a coffee shop or in your room where you’re organized everything around you in order to be creative. It’s wherever you feel most comfortable designing. You should be able to talk about it in class.

Week Seven:
Books, Periodicals, Printed materials that have you have recently read or investigated. Find one moment in those materials which might have inspired you to create a fresh new design for yourself.

Week Eight:
Complete this sentence:
“Each week I feel as though I must check in at/with…….”
This again relates to what are your habits as a designer. It might be someone, someplace or something that keeps you coming back for encouragement or gives your renewed energy to continue creating.
Share those places you feel you must visit every week to stay in touch with art, design, business, etc.

Week Nine:
Day in the Life
Armed with still camera or video camera or even a tape recorder, I want you to document a day in your life that is centered around being creative (every day should be, right?) You can document your personal experiences during that day as it relates to whom you are and what you aspire to be. Length and content is up to you. Presentation to class.

Week Ten:
Archiving Photos/Images/Illustrations/Drawings/Designs on Flickr/Pinterest or another site where you can pull from later during other projects. Think of it as a Deposit Box of Images you can eventually use. These should be your own work.
Start a Flickr/Pinterest account (which is free) and start archiving images and work on this site suitable for future use in searching for a job or internship. Build weekly on this site and add additional photography and work each week. At the end of the semester we will examine the work together.

Week Eleven:
Best in T-Shirt Design:
Put up some of your favorite T-Shirt designs from your own collection or those you find on the web or in print that you would consider works of art. (your definition of that.)
You might even want to create some designs for yourself with a specific

Week Twelve:
The AIGA 100 Years Retrospective was a show recently at MODA here in Atlanta. It was a select retrospective of 100 years of international designs. Themes include dissent, liberation, sexism, human rights, civil rights, environmental and health concerns, AIDS, war, literacy and tolerance, collectively providing a window to an age of great change.
Define your own series of posters that visually communicate an idea that is important to you and your life and lifestyle as a young designer and citizen of the world. Newsworthy. Then create one of your own. Define a cause and then create a design.

Week Thirteen:
Compilation of your favorite Album/Music/Posters artwork (CD) and why you love them.

Week Fourteen:
This is what You collect. Demonstrate items that you might collect.
It might be artwork (paintings/drawings) or other items that give you pleasure as a visual artist.
Collecting work and living around that work is important to creating a “creative nest” where you can draw inspiration.

Week Fifteen:
Vision Quest:
Dreams or Visions or Wishes and how they affect you as an artist. Write down your dreams and create illustrations or drawings from those as a collection for one week.