GRID TYPEFACE

GREAT MIND IN DESIGN: Stefan Sagmeister

INTERLOCKING PATTERN: WOODS

LAYERS

HIERARCHY + TYPOGRAPHY

BORDERS

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE

SEEING COLOR

AIGA Student UNITE 2017 @ UDA

On Thursday, March 9th I had the please of attending AIGA's Student Unite 2017 event.  Held at the Urban Discovery Academy, it is a wonderfully stimulating and functional location with a beautifully designed layout.  The event offered workshops that are fundamental for anyone interested in a career in design.  My first meeting was with City College Professor Bradford Prairie.  He gave very good tips on shooting and covered tools, software and photography basics.  He also offered additional help post event for anyone interested.  I found it completely inspiring.  Secondly our workshop titled "In-house Experience" was given by Angelo Outlaw, who shared a very useful perspective into working as an in-house designer.  Having worked for corporations and freelanced, I really connected with his insight and look forward to learning more about it.  Lastly, I was lucky to try my shot at the silk screening workshop given by local artist and designer Norman Ramos.  It was fun to learn the fundamentals of silk screening first hand and actually got to take a bag I screened myself.  Overall This was a very beneficial gathering for everyone involved.  I definitely would like to pursue joining AIGA and hope to become involved in future events.  Thank you to Mae Lin Levine and all who put this together.

TYPOGRAPHIC TEXTURE: STORM DRAIN

COLOR STUDY: INTERACTION

FALL PALLET COLOR STUDY

COLOR STUDIES: COLOR WHEEL

SCALE, DEPTH & MOTION

JESSICA HISCHE: A FRIEND OF TYPE

Jessica Hische is a typographic artist and letter illustrator.  Her shop Tittle Case is in San Francisco where she works and conducts workshops.  With her partner Erick Marinovich, a custom studio was created that best suited each others creative process and increased their professional outputs. She discussed her creative process which involves consistent rendering of "many iterations first" and analyzing of details.   She stressed "learning to look" and the importance of consistent growth from going over the details.  It gave me a new perspective on lettering vs. ornament and I look forward on exploring more this in the future. Overall, I found her work  and dedication to her craft inspiring and enlightening, gaining a new respect for her profession.

SCALE: T-REX, BABY, MOUSE

POINT, LINE, & PLANE

PLANE

POINT, LINE, & PLANE

POINT

POINT,LINE, & PLANE

LINE

UNITY

PROPORTION

SCALE

SYMMETRY

ASYMMETRY

CONTRAST

Sean Adams: Inside the mind of master graphic designer...

  Watching this video gave me some insight on the mind of a successful working graphic design professional.  It reinforced the importance to pursue further private education in the arts, and also the political strength behind recognized arts organizations. He is the national president of American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) founded in 1914.  They hold and curate a huge archive of works by some of the top designers. Besides going over AIGA's story, he talked about his path as a professional and suggestions for up and coming artists such as:

• Use your sources; teachers, peers, friends and other colleagues
• Learn from different media
• Explore blogs, trends and world cultures
• Design a focused portfolio: tangible and digital

He also explored topics like career paths such as teaching. Overall I think his message was that as an artist you never stop learning and growing; always evolving and moving forward.