Hello all existing and new Visual Communications majors! The 2013-2014 academic year is about to begin. Hope you all are ready. We have some action-packed, assignment rich courses ready for you this year. Don't forget to find the course blog for the courses you are taking this year. I have already updated the ART219 Illustration blog. If you don't already have one, go ahead and start a blog of your own. There are several available for Free - Typepad, Blogger and/or Wordpress. I think Matt, Ping and I all require you to blog for our classes. Anyway, stop in and say hi when you get onto campus. Other than the JBA students this summer, I haven't had too many students stop by. Have fun with what summer you have left. Rusty
Just For Fun
August 02, 2013
November 08, 2011
Typeface Documentary
Everyone should be very excited! Next week AIGA will be presenting the documentary Typeface! It will be in Baldwin Hall Auditorium at 7pm on Tuesday November 15th. We will have Jim Moran as a guest speaker for a question and answer and open discussion after the documentary.
Here are some photos from the making of the letter-pressed posters to enjoy!
Jim inking of the first color run
With the second color
Krisitne inking the letter-press
Poster with the third color
Last one!
The finished poster!
September 30, 2011
August 05, 2010
May 04, 2009
Art student creates invisible car with cool paint-job
Sara Watson, who is studying drawing at the University of Central Lancashire (Uclan), took three weeks to transform the car's appearance.
April 20, 2009
We Love Typography!
From the creators of I Love Typography come We Love Typography...kind of like a ffffound, but for type and curated by super type lovers! You can search by subject, color, style, designer - just search! just look! the site is FILLED with inspiration!
April 18, 2009
Love it, love to hate it, or hate that you love it?
Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.
Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.
The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: "Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, 'We don't serve your type.'" On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare.
The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web. The mission: "to eradicate this font" and the "evil of typographical ignorance."
You can read the rest of this article in The Wall Street Journal.
April 01, 2009
Graphic Design Reality T.V.
C.M.Y.K. America's Top Graphic Designer, the new reality-competition series, is seeking graphic designers throughout the United States. The winning designer will have fresh ideas using traditional and new technology, handling anything from a logo design, to a layout for a high-end magazine full of text, to a podcast, and on to designing a traffic-stopping billboard.
