Week Seven

FOR CLASS:


Please come to class with a scanned in hand-drawing, ready to go in photoshop. This does not need to be the same drawing you use for the assignment - it can be super loose and simple.

At your option, you may also use the photo of a model, but note that this is not the requirement for the assignment due on Monday.

Begin experimenting with photoshop, and come up with questions. I may not have instant answers, but we can explore options together in class on how to get the effects you want.

okey dokey,
dg

Midterm Prep Notes

Hey guys - I hope midterm prep is going well. I will come by Wednesday sometime between 5pm and 7pm to check in with you all.

Some notes and reminders:

COLOR - I have seen a lot of you using a LOT of color. Please be careful. My recommendation would be that you use black + white + 2 (3max) other colors or less. Choose them carefully and make it look like you are using them deliberately.

WHITE SPACE - I have seen some layout grids where the student is trying to fill every single box with something. Remember, white space is your FRIEND, not your enemy. Less can be more here. Use it to give breathing room to important images or text and as compositional element in general.

GRID - Similar to the above, just because you have a grid doesn't mean you have to express it. The grid can take a back seat if you wish. If you are using a grid, it will come through in the overall proportions of the layout even if it isn't explicitly expressed (and example of a grid being explicitely expressed might be a "checkerboard" style layout.)

PRINT - Print in b/w first to check sizes and jaggies - it will save you later in case something comes out funny on the $$ color printers.

LOOK - Check out examples. Look around - Layout is everywhere - tshirts, magazines, posters in the hallways, your friends desk. Here is a link to 1500 architecture competition entries for the Stockholm Public Libarary. Many of them are quite decent and ALL ARE ON 2 BOARDS just like your midterm: http://www.arkitekt.se/s26256

Email me with questions and good luck!
DG

Help Session

This Sunday May 6, from 3-4pm I will be doing "office hours". Come find me - I will bounce between Haight and Methaney studios. I am particularly interested in helping with layout. As always, first come first serve.

Have a super weekend all yall funky monkeyz.

DG

Diagram Clarification

To clarify the diagrams from the original assignment post:

Diagrammatic Drawings

Taken from Assignment Two, create simple clear graphics demonstrating centralized, distributed, and hybrid organization from your previous Sketch-Up files. Based on the graphic techniques we have covered since that assignment was due, you will create three new graphics one from each one of those files.

HINT: Keep these very simple. In presenting their general organization, try an axonometric view (immersive perspectives are not appropriate here).

As these are diagrams, you may want to think about the use of color, and whether or not you have a ground plane and sky. You might want to rethink the sketchup defaults. What you may want to show is how these original compositions influenced your final one. Let me know if you have additional questions.

DG

Sunday Help Session April 29

SyberSuperStars:

This Sunday I will come in to give you help composing your perspectives. I will be floating between Studio Methany and Studio Haight between 3 and 4pm. Please come find me if I am not in your studio - don't just wait at your desk waiting for me to come to you. If there are lots of people needing help, I will start a list based on first come, first serve - so don't show up at 3:45 expecting that I'll have time for you.

I'm excited to help you all out. This is FUN stuff we are doing! Have a great weekend!

Dan Goldstein

Another Way to Cut Entourage

This tutorial demonstrates an additional method to cut objects out of photoshop which some of you may prefer over using the selection tools.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/cutout/cutout.htm

DG

For Week 4

Team:

-Please come to class with one "How to" question written on a scrap of paper, based on what was needed for the last assignment. I will collect these first thing.

-Keep playing around in illustrator, and feel free to do begin playing around in photoshop too.

DG

For Week 3

Supersyber team - For this Thursday:

-Please begin exploring which of the 3 schemes you want to develop into a section. Now is the time to begin thinking about structure and actually INHABITING the space, which is different from last week. You may modify an old scheme or create a new one for Thursday.

-All of you should begin messing around in illustrator for at least 15 minutes before lab. Try the help menu - I think there are some built in tutorials.

-Extra Credit: Post a completed illustrator tutorial you found online. Post the image, the url for the tutorial, and a few sentences describing the experience. Some can be found at: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?pid=8 but you can also just google around to find them.

-Those of you that couldn't drop your sketchup files into the lab network folder by Sunday midnight, don't worry about this time. Many of you didn't realize you need to be on campus or using VPN (VPN is a way to simulate you being on campus - look it up on the oregon computing page so you have to come to school at midnight every Sunday).

See you Thursday. I should have project 1 graded by then. You rock.

dg

Assignment 1 Comments and Help

Hey folks a couple things:

It is fairly difficult to offer help over emails, so keep asking friends to get help. You can also try the help link within blogger.

1-Those of you having problems uploading the template:
-are you using firefox?
-ask several friends, most of you have figured it out.
-try refreshing your page if things looks funny.
-remember you have to save your changes to make them appear in your blog.

2-Please post your images in the main blog window. Some of you have them posted in the sidebar. Please delete the sidebar images and post the images to the central element.

3-I have just updated all the student links. Email me if yours doesn't work as of now.

4-Those of you that could not get your images posted and emailed me images instead:
-Please try to get help posting your images from a friend as soon as possible.
-Try the tips listed in (1) above.
-The email you sent will count as your assignment not being late, but I will only grade posted assignments, so please post your assignment as soon as possible.

5-You should have 10 images posted. Some of you have less. Please fix.

Congrats (most of you) on completing your first cyber assignment.

DG

Assignment 1 Test Images

This is my elevation (above). Below is an immersive view:

This is a sample of what your assignment might look like.

Welcome

Hello section 7 - Welcome. I am your GTF, Dan Goldstein. Nice to meet you.