Website up for the Pressing South Exhibition
July 24, 2009
The website has been launched for the Pressing South Letterpress Exhibiton that took place at UNC Wilmington this year. Take a look at letterpress prints from artists in the southeastern U.S., including myself and several of my ECU cohorts.
"Testify" by Courtney Barr
"To Plant a Tree" by Craig Malmrose
"Ladies Who Pool for Kerry" by Hatch Show Print
Intro to Graphic Design: Stamp Project
May 31, 2009
Introduction to Graphic Design Student Work
Sophomore level
Production Class Field Trip
May 31, 2009
Last fall my Pre-press Production class worked together to create a poster that would promote the LSU School of Art. LSU Printing Services was generous enough to donate printing for our project, and to give the students a tour of their facilities. I think it was a rewarding experience for the students to see their poster printed from the digital plates to the final product on a professional four color press. Thanks especially to Kenneth Watson, Steve Radcliffe and Mark Forstall for helping make this project a reality!
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- Mark explains how digital plates are made
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- Students look at digital plates for their poster
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- Mark tells the students about digital presses
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- Students touring the LSU Printing facilities
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- Students learn about the sheet-fed offset press
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- Mark demonstrating the Roland 700
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- Mark explains the press-check process
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- Mark demonstrates the guillotine cutter
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- Students tour the finishing room (folders, cutters, & staplers)
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- checking prints for accuracy
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- students learning how to do a press check
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- students viewing the final posters
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- students viewing the final posters
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- posters coming off the press
The final poster design:
1551 Basic Design: Curved Line Project
May 26, 2009
Curved Line Project
Freshman level, Spring 2009
Requirements: Create an abstract composition using only curved lines. The width of each line must be consistent from beginning to end. There is no restriction on how many curved lines are used to achieve your composition.
1551 Basic Design: Final Project
May 5, 2009
Typography Student Work
April 3, 2009
Class: Typography, Junior-level, Fall 2008
Project: 7 Squared
Project: Summer Postcard
Project: Newspaper Design
Project: Typographic History
Pre-press Production Student Work
April 3, 2009
Class: 4526 Pre-press Production, Junior-level
Project: AIGA Disaster Preparedness Poster Competition
Disaster Preparedness Posters
Project: Ecological Footprint Poster
Project: Group Poster
AIGA New Orleans | Student Portfolio Review
March 24, 2009
http://www.aiganeworleans.org/2009/events/01/01/student-portfolio-review
The 2009 AIGA New Orleans Portfolio Review will be held at The LITE Center in Lafayette, Louisiana on Saturday, March 28, from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. The afternoon features a keynote presentation by New York artist, designer, and technologist Joshua Davis at LITE, a state-of-the-industry 3-D immersive visualization research facility located on the UL Lafayette campus.
Basic Design: Figure-Ground exercise
March 23, 2009
Class: 1551 Basic Design (freshman level, pre-entry to the Graphic Design program)
Exercise (in class): Figure-Ground Reversals
Requirements:
Create a 4-inch square composition that shows figure-ground reversal. Use abstract shapes (non-representational) and fill the entire picture plane. Outline shapes with a technical pen and fill in larger areas with plaka, gouache or india ink.
Figure-Ground exercise
Basic Design: Texture Project
March 23, 2009
Class: 1551 Basic Design (freshman level, pre-entry to the Graphic Design program)
Project: Creating Texture with Vinyl Lettering
- Create an abstract composition derived from letterforms but which shows little or no remnant of their origin.
- Each composition much demonstrate at least two design principles.
- Use the materials to create actual and/or implied texture.
- Make maximum use of the specific characteristics of vinyl letters: flexibility, dimensionality, directness, and the negative space of the sheet.
Vinyl Letter Project
