Saturday, December 5, 2009

7-10pm
Contemporary Arts Center
900 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130 AWARDS EXHIBITION
December 6-13, 2009
Contemporary Arts Center
900 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

No event would be complete without an awesome raffle prize, and we are very happy to announce that Adobe™ has graciously provided us a copy of CS4 Design Premium Edition for our grand prize! This would make a great holiday gift for yourself or that special designer in your life!

Just a reminder but the deadline for t-shirts is this wednesday. Lets try to knock this out so we can get some t-shirts made before the end of the semester.

Here are some links that might help you

http://outlawprintco.com/

http://www.graniph.com/en/

http://www.thesmallstakes.com/

http://www.designsupremo.com/

http://godmachinedesigns.blogspot.com/

http://www.designbyhumans.com/

http://www.threadless.com/

http://www.emptees.com/

Also Keep in mind that the deadline is Wednesday! If anyone needs any help or feedback on your designs let me know i am glad to help!

Just a reminder that we are going to meet on Wednesday at 3:30pm in RM 114C. We will be taking about T-Shirts for the Art Department. So come prepared with some ideas and sketches would be a great plus if you have any. Here is a Brief outline for the rest of the rest of this month.

Oct 14th – Meet for t-shirt design / brain storm ideas

Oct 21st – 2nd round for t-shirt designs

Oct 28th – Deadline for t-shirt designs ( this will give us enough time to get them printed ) Keep in mind that this

could be a potential piece for your portfolio and designing t-shirts is always fun!

Events include:

1. Lunch at Avenue Pub at 11 a.m.
www.avenuepub.com | Menu | Map: 1732 St. Charles Ave.

2. American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print exhibit at Tulane at 1 p.m. | Free admission
tulane.edu/~newcomb/currentex.html | Woldenberg Art Center’s Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane Map: 55 Newcomb Pl.

3. Typeface film at Canal Place Cinema at 3 p.m. | $9 general admission | (Tickets will be sold 30 minutes prior to the screening.)
typeface.kartemquin.com | 20th Annual New Orleans Film Festival | Map: 333 Canal Street

The Meeting was mainly just to keep looking into ideas for a t-shirt design. If you are unable to attend the meetings and want to help with any design work email me your ideas and i will present them at the next meeting.

Thanks!

Ideas:
Diagram of a eagle with a cross section of a brain linking back to the creative process?
Native American Inspired eagle with art supplies?
Typographic eagle?
Morphing a eagle with objects to make something conceptual?
Great American Seal (the eagle seal) worked over with art objects?
Giant eagle head with a call to action?

Notes:
Eagle
talon
feather
powerful
good vision

Flight
feathers
balloons
air
wings
planes
gravity

Copy that we can try to incorporate:

BOLD CREATIVE DETERMINED

Helpful links:

http://www.emptees.com/

http://grainedit.com/

http://www.ridetherockett.com/

We will be discussing the plans for the semester and welcome any new members wanting to join. I hope everyone can make it!

On this occasion, designers reflect and hope that an international network can contribute to a greater understanding between people and can help to build bridges where divides and inequities exist

Thursday, April 23
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Mississippi Power’s 1st Floor Conference Room
Corner of 30th Ave. and Hwy 90, Gulfport

Come prepared to show your very best portfolio and or resume work. Don’t worry, we won’t let you starve; there will be snacks and drinks.