2011 Juried Student Art Exhibition (Designers)

I will be putting up more photographs from this years Juried Student Exhibition.
In the meantime, enjoy all the work submitted by those in the graphic design classes this semester.

Congrats Jon!

Congratulations to Jon Hart for being awarded the 2011-2012 Susan Babush Graphic Design Scholarship. This annual scholarship is awarded each year to a deserving graphic design junior who has demonstrated the love and dedication to their chosen profession. This award is voted on by the full time graphic design faculty. Congratulations Jon!
(In recent years the Susan Babush Scholarship recipients have been Sean Stanley (Senior) and Nathan Linkous (Alumni.)

Jon also has design work in this years 2011 Juried Student Art Exhibition. Jon was also responsible for designing the graphics (wall graphic and post card invitations) to this years exhibition.

Congrats Adam Bueb and John Hallman!

Congratulations to Adam Bueb for winning the Directors Award at the 2011 Juried Student Exhibition on Thursday evening in the Welch Art Gallery. A great typographical calendar composition that is timeless. (no pun intended.) Congrats Adam!

Congratulations to John Hallman for winning a Jurors Award during the opening reception for his work.

Film Titles Site

http://www.watchthetitles.com/

Thanks to Adam for finding this one!

Film Title Project: Due: Monday April 25

Film Title Sequence Project
I know time is limited but you should have enough time to produce a short film or television title sequence as your final project in Film,Video and Telelvision Design.

Think Hitchcock (Saul Bass) or David Lynch or Tim Burton when it comes to starting this project. Think back to some of your most favorite and interesting visual treatments for a film. You should be familiar with the film or TV series you are choosing and then figure out a style that is comparable and tied to that film or series in its mood or attitude or genre.

Check out www.artofthetitle.com

The film or television series you choose can be from an independent film company or a major film corporation.If you know of someone who is shooting a film and asks you to assist in the film titles then that is fine too. Only you will make that choice as to subject matter.

-You must include 10-12 title credits (Director, Actors, Director of Photography, etc.)

-The entire length of the film title sequence can be from :30 to :60 seconds.

-You have the option of including at least 10 seconds (minimal) of original footage from the original film…this original footage can be interwoven throughout your sequence or can possibly be used at the end of your sequence as the sequence moves into the original movie itself.

-You can recreate the original film title sequence but in your own way.

-You can use stop-motion or flipbook or a mix of any style you wish.

-You can use the original film company animation prior to your own opening title sequence.

-You can create your own music or use the soundtrack from that movie or any other movie that you feel best represents your concept. You can also sweeten your audio with sound effects or visual design elements (lens flare, type explosions, etc.) You can video original footage or create collages ala old school and then create images frame by frame.

-You can use any technique, any software or hardware you want to use is up to you. (Possibly Studio3D Max or After Effects or Final Cut Pro or direct shoot from a digital camera,etc.)

Again, sometimes when you have too many options the focus or message of the film trailer can get lost. Stay simple in concept, but big in production and creativity.
The last day of class will simply be a "Film Festival" of your work. Popcorn provided.

Inspiration

“Grant Wood saw a house in Iowa that he decided to paint along with ‘the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.’ He chose his sister and his dentist."

Summer Internship Available: Just In

It is at thinkbrighthouse.com for the summer for a student who has after effects skills.
contact me asap. Looks cool to me.
Move on this quickly.

I'll forward the info to Liz as well.

NEW and IMPROVED Student Juried Exhibition List:

PRESS RELEASE :
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Galleries
Press Contact and images:
Stephanie Jang, Assistant, Welch School Galleries
sjang3@student.gsu.edu (404) 413-5257

“13th Annual Juried Student Exhibition”, student work featured at the
Welch School Galleries, Georgia State University

Exhibit dates: April 4-15, 2011
Reception & Awards Ceremony: Thursday, April 7, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
The 13th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, will be on view from April 4
through 15 at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Galleries at Georgia
State University. A reception and awards ceremony will be Thursday, April 7,
5:00 – 8:00 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
Juror Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at
the High Museum of Art, has selected 60 works in a variety of media submitted
by undergraduate and graduate students of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art
and Design.

Rooks received a MA in modern art history, theory and criticism and a BFA at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has lectured on postwar and
contemporary art at museums and universities across the United States, and
conducted public interviews with various contemporary artists. Rooks served as a
curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Contemporary
Museum Honolulu, the Honolulu Academy of Arts and most recently, Haunch of
Venison in New York.
Welch School Galleries director Cynthia Farnell says, “ With 174 entries this year,
the competition was tremendous. The sheer volume of high quality student work
being made in the program is impressive. Iʼm looking forward to the awards
reception with great anticipation.”


Participating artists :
Pattie Acevedo,GrD Senior
Sarah Adams, GrD Junior
Lucas Alvarez, GrD Junior
Dennis J. Andersen
Tamara Argo
Andrew Boatright
Melanie Bostwick, GrD Senior
David Bowen
Adam Bueb, GrD Junior
Julian Cano, GrD Sophomore
InKyoung Chun
Bethany Joy Collins
Brooke Creef, GrD Graduate
Eric Davis, GrD Sophomore
Katherine Davis,
Stephen DeLorme, GrD Junior
Tiffany Forrester, GrD Junior
Charles Gary, GrD Junior
John Hallman, GrD Junior
Jonathan Hart, GrD Junior
Cherisa Hawkins, GrD Senior
Alexandria Hepburn, GrD Sophomore
Jonathan Herrington, GrD Junior
Yoochung Hillard
Tanjina Islam, GrD Sophomore
Robert Johnston
Grace Kim
Liz Kinnamon
Rachel Lambert
Laura Martin
Brian McLean
Faith McClure
Lynx M. Linh Nguyen
James OʼDonnell
Melissa OʼSteen
Jesseca Patrylo
Christine Rivera
Brittany Settoon
Laura Sharp
Aubyn Stafford
Shane Thomas, GrD Senior
Fenton L. Thompson
Zachary Timms

The exhibition is supported by the generosity of Binders Art Supplies and
Frames, MOCA GA, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center,
Art Papers, Rosaʼs Pizza, Spruill Center for the Arts, Sensational Subs, Ciao
Bocca, and the GSU Student Activity Fee.
The Welch School Galleries are located at 10 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. For more information visit the
web site: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwgal/

Fun NIght at MODA

New Project Deadlines for Semester

Wednesday, March 23rd: Work in class on Kinetic Typography. Must have some type moving on screen. Jason Dooley, Alumni to visit along with GSU Reporter/Writer and Photographer from GSU for MODA Article.

Thursday, March 24th: MODA Night 6-8pm for you.

Monday, March 28th: Work in class on Kinetic Typography

Wednesday, March 30th: Pre-Critique on Kinetic Typography. Work in Progress. Everyone will show something in class.

Monday, April 4th: Finish Work in Class on Kinetic Typography.

Wednesday, April 6th: Critique Showing of Kinetic Typography. Must post to vimeo or Youtube as part of completion of project.

Monday, April 11th: Work in class on Film Titles.

Wednesday, April 13th: Work in class on Film Titles.

Monday, April 18th: Pre-Critique on Film Title Treatment in class. Everyone must show a work in progress.

Wednesday, April 20th: Finishing up work on Film Titles in Class.

Monday, April 25th: Final Critique and Showing of Film Titles.
A DVD of all the work completed during the semester must be turned in for final semester grade. No DVD, no Grade.
(Film Posters (2 Posters), MODA (all Mac files and final Quicktime),Film Title files and output Quicktime movie.)

MODA Museum Visit on Sunday: A Preview

I got the chance to visit the new MODA museum today, Sunday, around 2pm and it was quite the scene on Peachtree Street... as there were over a hundred motorcycles parked along the street along with the food vendors and visitors pouring out onto the sidewalk from the new museum. They were giving free Ducati rides to anyone brave enough to jump on the back of a bike. Great energy and lots of fun. I loved that all this was happening in the shadow of the High Museum across the street.

Once I entered the new MODA gallery I met Brenda Galina, the Executive Director, and she took me on a personal tour of the new facility bragging about the videos and the print and collateral work created exclusively by GSU Designers. I was impressed with the museum as we moved throughout the gallery spaces where all the Italian Motorbikes were located.

In one gallery three videos that Katia Lord produced were all playing simultaneously on the gallery walls. One video that Katia produced that included typography really stood out...it was front and center on the wall. Yes, I know everyone was there to see the Italian Bikes, but I was there to celebrate your videos and print work...your creativity.

Brenda Galina told me the plan was to change the videos out from time to time for variety. Depending on what day you visit the videos might be different. Details are still being worked out during the museums first weekend opening.It was great to see firsthand all the creative work each of you created. I didn't realize that MODA is only second in the country as a design museum to that of Cooper Hewitt in NYC. Not bad, eh?

Not many students have work being shown in a museum. Hello? Reality check!

The video monitors throughout played a lot of informational graphics for the museum and their upcoming exhibitions which I think were created by Primal Screen. The T-shirts and the other collateral printed materials were created by senior designer Shivani Kapoor. These images were everywhere.

In the larger, more open gallery space the video created by Tiffany Forrester and Adam Bueb was playing along with the music. It really set the mood for all the visitors mulling around the gallery space. Fantastic.

For me it was one of those defining moments that educators like myself live for as we get to celebrate the achievements of our students. These are defining moments as each of you move from student to professional designer. I don't take any of this lightly because I know of all the hard work and dedication each of you put into your work and it showed in the new MODA museum.

You'll see on Thursday when we all visit the new MODA together.

Check out the Museum of Design Atlanta on Facebook

Opening Night at MODA on Saturday Night complete with a Full moon.
Looks like they are using a lot of Shivani's designs (Tshirt/Poster) and still looking for any sign of the videos you all did for them. I did get an email from Joe stating that he would like to compile some of your videos into one sometime in the next few weeks so stay tuned. So many times an exhibition will start and then they'll "resolve" the details in the days ahead. Here are some photos courtesy of MODA facebook.

Lots and lots of photos here for you to see the museum before Thursday.













Article courtesy Howard Pousner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Design museum moves forward
By Howard Pousner
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

In recent months, as construction dust flew around the Museum of Design Atlanta’s storefront space on Peachtree Street in Midtown, not coincidentally across the road from the High Museum of Art, folks peeked inside wondering what the place was going to be.

Informed that it was the future home of Atlanta’s design museum, the curious almost all responded, “I didn’t even know we had one.”

Yes, we do — since 2003, in fact, when the Atlanta International Museum of Art & Design metamorphosed into MODA, dropping the global art aspect that had been its main thrust to focus on design. It became the only museum in the Southeast dedicated exclusively to the study and exhibition of that topic.

MODA organized or hosted a steady stream of significant exhibits, on everything from the modernist architecture of Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer to the animation of Atlanta-based Cartoon Network, that drew praise from critics and in-the-know patrons but a paltry trickle of visitors.

When she switched from board member to executive director three years ago, Brenda Galina said it “took, like, one second” for her to determine that the museum’s hard-to-find location — with gallery space on two floors of Peachtree Center’s Marquis Two tower downtown (next to the Marriott Marquis hotel) — was a serious issue.

“We were down there really dying, and I said, ‘OK, either we step this up or we close the museum,’” Galina recalled. “You can’t keep holding on when nobody knows you’re here.”

Well, with its opening today on Atlanta’s most famous thoroughfare, across the street from the Woodruff Arts Center and near other Midtown cultural powers, MODA will be suddenly hard to miss. It hopes to transform from a barely hanging in there shoestring entity into an essential institution that not only represents, but rallies, the city’s growing force of design professionals.

“A rebirth or renaissance” is how MODA board President Bruce McEvoy, an architect and associate principal of Perkins+Will, refers to the museum’s new post at Peachtree and 16th streets.

“This is the exact type of location we’d always talked about,” he said. “Not only are we in the cultural corridor of Atlanta, but we also have this fantastic pedestrian traffic and storefront presence now, which was always a dream of the museum.”

McEvoy and Perkins+Will — which had purchased the six-story building for its 220-person Atlanta office, renovated its top four floors and moved in late last year — had more than a little to do with realizing that dream.

Perkins+Will not only contributed the design of the museum space, converting a street-level surface parking lot underneath the Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library’s Peachtree branch (which remains), but ponied up $1.5 million for the transformation.

MODA will operate rent free for three years and then will pay a graduating fee for several more years before its lease rises to market rate. As it gets on firmer footing, it’s expected to begin to pay back part of the $1.5 million, too.

“They have given us a grace period to get ourselves together, and I think that’s absolutely right,” Galina said. “If we can’t get ourselves together by year four, we shouldn’t be here.”

The executive director believes MODA can eclipse the 10,000 annual attendance downtown in the first month in Midtown.

She takes as a positive sign that a “$9 for Design” promotion, launched last year after the move was announced, brought in 450 new members, more than doubling the existing ranks of annual supporters.

McEvoy is optimistic that additional foundation and private funding will follow. “When the community sees the shows we bring to the city and the gift that MODA is providing, I don’t think there will be any question about the level of support and commitment,” he said. “We’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘We want to see you on your feet, we want to see you prove yourself and then, absolutely, we’re with you.’”

Perkins+Will decided it wanted to be literally with MODA in Midtown after McEvoy proposed the idea to firm president Phil Harrison, another design museum board member. The architecture firm had been in the neighborhood for more than three decades, occupying a converted Midtown house that had been expanded several times and then leasing an additional floor in the Earthlink headquarters across Peachtree.

The architects knew that the street-level parking beneath the building and the horseshoe-shaped drop-off driveway, both favoring commuters over life on the sidewalk, had to go.

“It’s not what we’re about as a firm,” McEvoy said. The general idea was to replace it with something “that could become an asset to the city.”

Different prospects were pondered before McEvoy proposed a new home for MODA, a notion Harrison quickly embraced.

Giving MODA a new lease on life was “walking the talk,” McEvoy said. “We’re not just telling our clients to [give to the community]. We’re doing it first.”

Atlanta attorney Robert Edge, who heads the Loridans Foundation, which has granted MODA prior operating support, gives kudos to the architecture firm. While Edge said he can’t predict the museum’s future support, he added, “It is a good thing to have a resource like MODA available as part of our community’s cultural offerings. Its chances of survival should increase markedly with its move to a nice facility in the vicinity of the High.”

The 9,000-square-foot space is bright and open, spacious and sleek, emphasizing exposed concrete, energy efficiency and tall ceilings — 12 feet high in the first gallery and, down a wide central corridor, 25 feet in a viewing space built out from the back of the building. Floated ceilings, or “clouds,” hide lighting, audio and the video projection equipment that will help interpret exhibits and make them less static.

With its doubled gallery space, MODA, which does not have a permanent collection, should no longer have to turn away major touring shows. The museum “should give any curator coming down the road the flexibility to tell whatever story they’d like to tell,” McEvoy said, “or set up whatever conversation they’d like to set up.”

The inaugural show is “Passione Italiana: Design of the Italian Motorcycle,” featuring 11 masterworks of Italian motorcycle design — by makers including MV Agusta, Ducati, Bimota and Moto Morini — loaned from the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Leeds, Ala., outside Birmingham. The show will explore the ingenuity and technological advancement expressed in Italian motorbike design, with interpretive stations placing that in the larger context of fashion, industrial and furniture design.

Galina said future exhibits will approach design from the broadest definition. “I want to [bring] things new to Atlanta as much as possible. Honestly, anything is design. The crazier the idea, the better we like it.”

MODA’s across-the-street neighbor, the High Museum, is also quite keen on design. As part of its ongoing collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, the High will open the 150-piece show “Modern by Design” on June 4, focusing on MoMA’s 20th century design collection-building and taste-making. In conjunction with that exhibit, the High will present works by seven artists represented in its own 2,200-piece decorative arts and design collection.

MODA officials have met with Woodruff Arts Center President and CEO Joseph Bankoff and High Director Michael Shapiro about the possibility of shared programming and audiences, and came away encouraged.

“When the opportunity arises, hopefully we’ll be able to work together,” Galina said.

McEvoy believes the two institutions can be a “catalyst” to raise appreciation in Atlanta for all sorts of design — graphic design, fashion, architecture, interior design, industrial design and more.

“If Atlanta is going to be the city we all know it can be, culturally, I think it has to catch up with some of its competitors,” he said. “With MODA having its rebirth, it can join the ranks of some of these great Atlanta institutions like the High that really contribute to the city’s momentum.”

The fact is that MODA, the little design museum that barely had a present, now has designs on a brighter future.