Fall 2013

Welcome and welcome back to Independent Study / Practicum. As you know most of our classes have been off to a slow start, but not us! We are right on schedule. We will probably be meeting for the first time next week. 

In the mean time I need to collect everyones availability on Wednesdays. We will likely be meeting at the coffee shop on Coal Street, when convenient.

Include your blog address for the class and name of the class should be the subject in your email. (Yes, even if you already sent it.)

About the class:

If you had the class before, little has changed. Practicum is a project based class, that provides you the opportunity to work on real projects for real clients. With this in mind, you should be prepared for a wide variety of projects, and short deadlines. While the deadlines can be challenging the work load is normally relatively light, you should expect 2 to 4 projects. 

Currently we have nothing in the queue, when jobs come up they will be posted here. You will be informed of updates by email. However, it is your responsibility to keep up with the assignments even if for some reason you do not receive the notification.  

DDM Potluck n Movie Day

GREAT JOB in Santa Fe you two!

 
Just a reminder. Tomorrow is our end of the semester Potluck and Movie Day. If you can bring something GREAT we will be glad to eat it. If your just to busy with finals to think about it just stop by and have a snack, relax and watch a movie too if you have time. It should start around noon and go till around 5 (latter if you guys want).

Artist Lecture

There will be an artist lecture, this Tuesday evening by Nancy Fleming.  Nancy is a Roswell based artist who uses found objects from thrift stores to create her colorful and energetic installations. The Lecture will be at 6 pm in the Calvin Hall Auditorium 248-B.  There will be a reception for the artist in the Ingham Chapman Gallery immediately following the lecture.  All are welcome to attend and light refreshments will be served.  See you then.  John Zimmerman

Extra Credit to those who attend so be sure to sign in and tell me.

New Pages

There are 2 new pages added to the right >>>>
DDM Logo and Applied Tech Banner. Post your designs there on those pages.

Everyone should have a DDM logo by the end of next week March 6.
Everyone should have a banner design by March 13.

New rates for Adobe Cloud. You get the full Adobe Suit now for $19.00 a month, I believe Lightroom is included. If your interested them to make sure.

GAG email

gag.ddm@gamil.com

Assignment

Re-Design Applied Tech's Banner.

Go over to Gurly Hall and walk down the hall past the Art dept follow the hall around till you get to the stairs. There is a banner hanging over it. We need to redesign, or rather 'Design' it. The copy is to stay the same.

This will be a job for the Vinyl Cutter. So Illustrator, solid colors, try to stick to 2 colors (3 at the most). School colors; black, red, and/or turquoise.

This is not a rush job. Try to post some ideas by next friday.

DON'T FORGET OUR CONVERSATION BELOW! Decision, needs to be made friday or before.

Continued What Do You Think...

Lets see if this works better. If it keeps loosing comments let me know.

What do you think?

 It seems this was overlooked. Lets get a discussion going here...

Assignment 2: 
Since we have no projects right now, it would be a good time to think about and maybe work on our identity! A name and a logo, seems to be a good place to start. In the past we have just gone with DDM Design Studio. We can keep with that or come up with something new.We can keep the name, or change the logo. We can change the name and keep the logo, or adjust it to fit a new name. We can leave it all as is too. Give it some think about it, and write them here as comments to this post.

Post your thoughts or design ideas as comments to this post.

 Click HERE to see what an identity standards manual is.


BTY... Lets use our Google accounts to comments here. Just easier for everyone to know who they are talking to.

BLOGS BLOGS BLOGS

Thank you Rylen!!! 

YES! We need blogs here to!

You all know what to do... get doing it!

NOTICE: 
GAG Meeting will be postponed till next week. Same time, same place, same rules.

See ya then!

First GAG Meeting for Spring Semester:
This Wednesday, Feb 6th at 2 pm
DDM Class Studio/Lab

This should be a GREAT year for GAG! There are a lot of events coming up in our area and a lot for us to do. We also now have over $2000 in our account to do them.
 
Who MUST ATTEND...
Anyone expecting to get a degree in DDM are required to attend this and all meetings and participate in activities... the only exception is if you have a class or work at the time of the meeting or activity. (Work = a paid employee and scheduled to work at that time.) You can NOT miss classes for GAG meetings or activities (except field trips).  If you miss a meeting or event you are required to communicate with the officers, committees, or other members to find what happened at the meetings and how you can participate in any activities if they are planed.


WHO IS WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND...
If you are in Intro to Graphic Design (DDM 101) or Intro to Mac (DDM 110), or if you are just taking DDM classes as electives like Photography or video, your are welcome, and encouraged to attend and be a member of GAG but it is not required.


What is GAG?
GAG stands for Graphic Arts Group. Currently we are loosely affiliated with AIGA, American Institute of Graphic Design,  (click here for student member ship page, membership not required at this time). This is one of the issues that we will be discussing at future meetings. Basically, our group is about helping us learn more about the field of graphic arts (graphic design, photography, illustration, animation, video, etc.), help us as students to participate in and travel to events related to our field, and get to know each other and begin to developed a professional network for our selves to help us once we have graduated.


We need Officers: (President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer.). Ideally officers students who are in or have taken at least Page Layout I.

Added incentive for being an officer... 
Positive - You will receive extra credit at the end of the semester in any of my classes.
Positive -  I can promise you that this is a GREAT opportunity to add strengthen your resume, and will help you get a job after you graduate. 
Negitive - We will loose all that money that you have all worked so hard to get if we don't have officers by the end of the meeting.

Note: If you are interested in being an officer but can not attended the meeting contact; Michelle (michelle.eriacho@gmail.com), or Rylen (jackrabbit1492@gmail.com).

Practicum/Independent

Hello, and WELCOME to 2013's Practicum Class Blog!

This class is designed to give you a start in professional work and practices in the field of graphic arts. We will be doing real projects for real clients here, and will try to work as if we are a bouquet arts studio (small design business). Most of the time we will be doing work for the school but we may do some for outside clients as well.
   
At the moment we have no projects on the calendar, so we have no assignments yet. I emphasis YET, as when they come we need to get on them, and out the door (so to speak) as soon as possible. Sometimes there will be a very short deadlines, so be prepared. You will get the assignments and most all info for the class here. So SIGN UP FOR EMIL NOTIFICATIONS OVER THERE >>> where it says 'Follow by Email'.


Assignment 1: 
Send an email from your Gmail account... the subject is to be: Practicum. Your name is to be in the body. This is very simple, send as directed.

• Due: As soon as you read this.

 
Assignment 2: 
Since we have no projects right now, it would be a good time to think about and maybe work on our identity! A name and a logo, seems to be a good place to start. In the past we have just gone with DDM Design Studio. We can keep with that or come up with something new.We can keep the name, or change the logo. We can change the name and keep the logo, or adjust it to fit a new name. We can leave it all as is too. Give it some think about it, and write them here as comments to this post.

• Due: Friday Yes. you have to share your thoughts. There are no wrong answers except not saying anything.

Finding Projects:
This is not part of the class, and you are not required find work for us to do. However, some students in the past have and it has worked out well. If you come across a project that you think would be good for us to do, or want to look for some you are welcome to do so. Check with me before you make any promises! Most of the time the answer is yes, but we do have some constraints as to what we can and can't work on. As a rule community events, organizations, UNM stuff, tribal stuff, etc are usually fine, professional folks are where things get into some gray areas. If you should talk to someone about us doing a project, do not tell them that it is free, we work for donations to GAG so that we can attend professional graphic art events and buy equipment.

Film Town Hall Meeting TODAY

Note: NOT required... Only if your interested.

Reminder: Film Office director Nick Maniatis will discuss the state of the New Mexico film industry – including an update about legislation, the outlook going forward, and the opportunities available to New Mexicans.  The meetings are also intended to provide an open forum for each community to share information about their educational programs, film related businesses, and issues of concern. The Town Halls are free and open to all, including students, local filmmakers, businesses, and the general public. The NM Film Office is collaborating with local film liaisons, schools and chambers of commerce in conducting these even

Possible casting audition for extras in movies. 4:30

more info...

Time: 4:30pm

Where: Gallup McKinley County Chamber of Commerce

NEW JOB!!! :D

Come up with ways of telling people to turn off the lights and save electricity. 

The UNM-G wants to put signs that fit around light switches that remind people to turn off the lights and unique ways of telling them so. Our job is to come up with them. The designs should wrap around single and double light switches so they need a hole to fit both sizes. Maybe think of using the switch as part of the design. We will be reviewing these in 2 weeks.

Get started!

Link to Lynda.com tutorial site. Log in with your UNM ID.

lynda.unm.edu

Practicum students NEED to attend this. If you are not in the Portfolio class yet it will give you a better idea of what you will need to do. 

AIGA Student Portfolio Review

at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design

Event April 21, 2012

 Santa Fe University of Art and Design

Portfolio Reviews with the Pros Saturday April 21, 2012 Santa Fe University of Art and Design Room THAW 509 Sponsored by AIGA New Mexico ...

All DDM students are are invited and encouraged to go.

All Portfolio students are REQUIRED TO GO WITH A PORTFOLIO

We will be trying to arranging a tour of the sometime the day of the event and may be arainging tours of studios or press houses the day before if we can do over night. Talk to the GAG officers for details and let them know ASAP if you are interested. If all is approved this will be a free trip paid for by GAG.

for more info talk to me (The Chad) and/or... http://newmexico.aiga.org/

So far, during finals week the lab will be open.

Monday and Tuesday 8:am – 3:pm. 

Still waiting to hear about the rest of the week. If you have work to do don't count on it being open the rest of the week.