for all kinds of information on printing large format projects, CDs, DVDs as well as regular print sizes.
(Only for use by CoA+A Students and Faculty for educational purposes.)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Corrected Public Domain Links
Wiki Public Domain
and also
and also
Note that they've changed their phrasing to "believed to be in the Public Domain"! Use your noodle!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The dangers of copyright trespass
An example of what can (and DOES) happen....
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Corrected Public Domain Link
Flckr Public Domain
and also
Note that they've changed their phrasing to "believed to be in the Public Domain"! Use your noodle!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
InDesign/Photoshop Project 2 – Recipe for a Recipe
Description
1) Think of a process that requires several different steps to complete. This could be anything from tying your shoe laces, to cooking an omelet, to overthrowing the world. Write down these steps and revise it as necessary so it is as clear, concise and/or poetic as possible. Your process must require at least five separate steps.
2) You will create the artwork and layout the text of your steps for an 4-16 page book which will convey a this "recipe". The "recipe book" should at least have
• front cover art and title plus your name
• back cover art
• one interior artwork spreading over two pages with the text of the "recipe".
This is the minimum requirement.
3) You must use one of the following layouts; each option uses an entire sheet of 13" x 19" paper.
• 1-fold 6.5" x 19" or 13" x 9.5", 4-pages (cover, back and two interior pages)
EASIEST OPTION, BUT MAY BE THE DULLEST!
• 1-fold 4.25" x 11" or 8.5" x 5.5", 8-pages (cover, back, and six interior pages)
MODERATE DIFFICULTY, BUT THE BEST OPTION OVER ALL
• Two 3-folds (accordian fold) 4.75" x 6.5" or 13" x 9.5". Arrangement of the two sheets is up to you, but both sides of both sheets must be used.
MOST CHALLENGING OPTION!
3) After you write down your "recipe", create a "dummy" of the book so you know where the text will be, and where the images will be.
4) Creating your images in Photoshop with the "dummy" at hand so you know exactly what sizes these must be.
5) I will demonstrate in class how to set up your InDesign file for the different layout options. Each option is different, so be sure to take good notes. Then lay out your images and text in InDesign.
For this project, you may use Public Domain images, but ALL images in your book must be digital collages created in Photoshop. (No "straight" or unadultered photos.) This should be a showcase of your Photoshop skills as much as your text layout skills. All public domain images must be cited when you hand in the work. I recommend keeping a text file and simply copying and pasting the URL link of the exact image into that text file. Then the text can be posted to the blog with your image on the day of critique.
Schedule
9/17 InDesign CS3 Essential Training
2. Workspace> Navigating your document, Rulers and measurements, View options
3. Getting to the Tools> Contextual menus
4. Creating a Document> New Documents, Saving documents, Using Undo, Margin and column guides, Layout adjustment, Ruler guides
5. Managing Pages> Inserting, deleting and moving pages, Creating and applying master pages
Homework: Text of your "recipe" is due.
9/22 InDesign CS3 Essential Training
6. Text> Text frames, Typing and editing text, Threading text frames, Text frame options, Text on a path
7. Graphics> Importing graphics, The Links panel, The Edit Original command, Frame fitting options, Transparency and Clipping Paths
8. Formatting Objects> Selecting Objects, Basic strokes and fills, Transparency, Drop shadows, Feathering
9. Managing Objects> Stacking objects, Editing frame and path shapes, Grouping and locking objects, aligning and distributing, Text wrap, Editing text wrap
Homework: Dummy of your "recipe" is due. Be sure you PRECISELY lay out where text and images will go and how they relate. This should be a DETAILED dummy. It may be scaled down by using letter size paper.
9/24 InDesign CS3 Essential Training
10. Transforming Objects> Rotating, Scaling
11. Character Formatting> Basic character styling
12. Paragraph Formatting> Paragraph formatting, Drop caps, Justification
13. Styles> Character styles
15. Color> Creating color swatches, Unnamed colors
16. Exporting> Exporting a PDF
17. Printing> All
9/29 Work on Project 2
10/1 WIMBA DAY. I will be instructing this class remotely with Wimba; you must be at a computer with InDesign, but need not be in our regular classroom. I will send an invitation via email to your UNCC email account earlier in the week. CHECK YOUR EMAIL and DO NOT LOSE OR DELETE THIS EMAIL. I will not send it again. This will be a work day, so we will use WIMBA to post works in progress and field questions and answers.
10/6 Work on Project 2
10/8 Work on Project 2
10/13 No Classes
10/15 Work on Project 2
10/20 PRINTING DAY - PROJECT MUST BE COMPLETE!
10/22 CRITIQUES
1) Think of a process that requires several different steps to complete. This could be anything from tying your shoe laces, to cooking an omelet, to overthrowing the world. Write down these steps and revise it as necessary so it is as clear, concise and/or poetic as possible. Your process must require at least five separate steps.
2) You will create the artwork and layout the text of your steps for an 4-16 page book which will convey a this "recipe". The "recipe book" should at least have
• front cover art and title plus your name
• back cover art
• one interior artwork spreading over two pages with the text of the "recipe".
This is the minimum requirement.
3) You must use one of the following layouts; each option uses an entire sheet of 13" x 19" paper.
• 1-fold 6.5" x 19" or 13" x 9.5", 4-pages (cover, back and two interior pages)
EASIEST OPTION, BUT MAY BE THE DULLEST!
• 1-fold 4.25" x 11" or 8.5" x 5.5", 8-pages (cover, back, and six interior pages)
MODERATE DIFFICULTY, BUT THE BEST OPTION OVER ALL
• Two 3-folds (accordian fold) 4.75" x 6.5" or 13" x 9.5". Arrangement of the two sheets is up to you, but both sides of both sheets must be used.
MOST CHALLENGING OPTION!
3) After you write down your "recipe", create a "dummy" of the book so you know where the text will be, and where the images will be.
4) Creating your images in Photoshop with the "dummy" at hand so you know exactly what sizes these must be.
5) I will demonstrate in class how to set up your InDesign file for the different layout options. Each option is different, so be sure to take good notes. Then lay out your images and text in InDesign.
For this project, you may use Public Domain images, but ALL images in your book must be digital collages created in Photoshop. (No "straight" or unadultered photos.) This should be a showcase of your Photoshop skills as much as your text layout skills. All public domain images must be cited when you hand in the work. I recommend keeping a text file and simply copying and pasting the URL link of the exact image into that text file. Then the text can be posted to the blog with your image on the day of critique.
Schedule
9/17 InDesign CS3 Essential Training
2. Workspace> Navigating your document, Rulers and measurements, View options
3. Getting to the Tools> Contextual menus
4. Creating a Document> New Documents, Saving documents, Using Undo, Margin and column guides, Layout adjustment, Ruler guides
5. Managing Pages> Inserting, deleting and moving pages, Creating and applying master pages
Homework: Text of your "recipe" is due.
9/22 InDesign CS3 Essential Training
6. Text> Text frames, Typing and editing text, Threading text frames, Text frame options, Text on a path
7. Graphics> Importing graphics, The Links panel, The Edit Original command, Frame fitting options, Transparency and Clipping Paths
8. Formatting Objects> Selecting Objects, Basic strokes and fills, Transparency, Drop shadows, Feathering
9. Managing Objects> Stacking objects, Editing frame and path shapes, Grouping and locking objects, aligning and distributing, Text wrap, Editing text wrap
Homework: Dummy of your "recipe" is due. Be sure you PRECISELY lay out where text and images will go and how they relate. This should be a DETAILED dummy. It may be scaled down by using letter size paper.
9/24 InDesign CS3 Essential Training
10. Transforming Objects> Rotating, Scaling
11. Character Formatting> Basic character styling
12. Paragraph Formatting> Paragraph formatting, Drop caps, Justification
13. Styles> Character styles
15. Color> Creating color swatches, Unnamed colors
16. Exporting> Exporting a PDF
17. Printing> All
9/29 Work on Project 2
10/1 WIMBA DAY. I will be instructing this class remotely with Wimba; you must be at a computer with InDesign, but need not be in our regular classroom. I will send an invitation via email to your UNCC email account earlier in the week. CHECK YOUR EMAIL and DO NOT LOSE OR DELETE THIS EMAIL. I will not send it again. This will be a work day, so we will use WIMBA to post works in progress and field questions and answers.
10/6 Work on Project 2
10/8 Work on Project 2
10/13 No Classes
10/15 Work on Project 2
10/20 PRINTING DAY - PROJECT MUST BE COMPLETE!
10/22 CRITIQUES
Monday, September 7, 2009
Wimba
If you are sick, but well enough to pay attention via internet or if classes cannot be held due to campus closing, we are expected to still have class as usual. To this end, we will be using Wimba, a web browser based distance education program.
NOTE: If this policy is ABUSED or if you are EXCESSIVELY ABSENT, I will recommend youwithdraw from the class/school. This is by honor code. Please don't waste my and your classmates time with petty laziness, since most of us are serious about our work here.
The steps for connecting to class are as follows:
1) If you are sick, email me as soon as you know you will not be able to attend. If you email be four or fewer hours before class, I cannot promise your participation.
3) Click the URL: http://67.202.211.176/launcher.cgi?room=mtg_hdfreema link in the email sent to you. (This link will be different, for everyone, so don't try to click on the link from here in the blog.)
NOTE: If this policy is ABUSED or if you are EXCESSIVELY ABSENT, I will recommend youwithdraw from the class/school. This is by honor code. Please don't waste my and your classmates time with petty laziness, since most of us are serious about our work here.
The steps for connecting to class are as follows:
1) If you are sick, email me as soon as you know you will not be able to attend. If you email be four or fewer hours before class, I cannot promise your participation.
2) If class is cancelled, I will email the whole class at your UNCC email address. Check your email before the start of class since set up may take a few minutes.
3) The email will look something like this:
You have been invited to join a Wimba Classroom session.
// Room Info
Name: Meeting Room hdfreema
URL: http://67.202.211.176/launcher.cgi?room=mtg_hdfreema
// Time and Duration
Start Time: September 7, 2009 at 8:00 A.M. EDT
Duration: 120 minutes
// Phone Access
Dial-in number(s): Phone - (201) 549-7623
Phone PIN: 06217918
4) A new window will open. Where it says "Participant Login" type in your First and Last Name. (You should not need the username and password option.)
5) If Wimba has never been used on that computer before, use the SetUp Wizard (it will prompt you) to set up your browser to the correct settings. Simply follow the instructions.
6) You will then enter a window will say "Welcome to Meeting Room hdfreema." You're here!
7) Lower left hand corner: chat window. Lower middle-right, window saying who's in class and icons for raising your hand, saying yes or no, and emoticons.
8) You will, at some point, see my screen and hear me lecture. To warn you, the screen refresh is VERY SLOW. Keep ALL other applications on your computer closed and try to use the fastest bandwidth available to you. This is NOT an ideal teaching situation, but it will carry us (hopefully) through an emergency situation.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
2 credit Installation Art Workshop/Class
International Installation Artist, Sonja Hinrichsen, will be a Visiting Artist–in-Residence at UNC-Charlotte’s College of Art and Architecture, in conjunction with an artist residency at the McColl Center.
Sonja will be working on an installation project “Mapping Charlotte” and is offering a Special Topics Class (3000 Level – 2 credit class) at UNC-Charlotte for students who wish to collaborate with her. The project will focus on Charlotte, its history, recent and historical events and people, city architecture, social / demographic structures and much more - based on the artist’s and the student’s interests. The project will involve working with media such as sound, video, photography and performance based events carried out at selected locations in and around the city. This collaborative project will result in an exhibition / installation in Rowe Gallery.
Participation : While there are no special skills required, participation in this project is competitive and interested students must fill out an application form.
Application Deadline: Friday 18th September – email to: sonja@s-hinrichsen.net
Students will be notified: by Friday 25th September.
Class will meet on: Fridays 10 – 12.50 in Macy 107,
Classes start on: October 2nd (a one-day workshop), Oct 9th, 16th 23rd, 30th and 6th November. Extra student participation will be needed from 6th – 19th November to install the exhibit (times to be determined with Sonja)
Exhibition opening: Thursday 19th November, 5 – 7.30pm, Rowe Gallery
Public Lecture on ‘Mapping Charlotte’ : Friday 20th November , 11am, Rowe 130
For application forms email Janet Williams: jwill416@uncc.edu
Sonja will be working on an installation project “Mapping Charlotte” and is offering a Special Topics Class (3000 Level – 2 credit class) at UNC-Charlotte for students who wish to collaborate with her. The project will focus on Charlotte, its history, recent and historical events and people, city architecture, social / demographic structures and much more - based on the artist’s and the student’s interests. The project will involve working with media such as sound, video, photography and performance based events carried out at selected locations in and around the city. This collaborative project will result in an exhibition / installation in Rowe Gallery.
Participation : While there are no special skills required, participation in this project is competitive and interested students must fill out an application form.
Application Deadline: Friday 18th September – email to: sonja@s-hinrichsen.net
Students will be notified: by Friday 25th September.
Class will meet on: Fridays 10 – 12.50 in Macy 107,
Classes start on: October 2nd (a one-day workshop), Oct 9th, 16th 23rd, 30th and 6th November. Extra student participation will be needed from 6th – 19th November to install the exhibit (times to be determined with Sonja)
Exhibition opening: Thursday 19th November, 5 – 7.30pm, Rowe Gallery
Public Lecture on ‘Mapping Charlotte’ : Friday 20th November , 11am, Rowe 130
For application forms email Janet Williams: jwill416@uncc.edu
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