For Friday, October 1st

ARGD 3010 - We are embarking on a new project! Our premise is "Cultural Roots: how indigenous art uses shape and line to create iconic images." For Friday I mostly want to see you sketching and playing with various treatments, designs, cultural art, and your interpretations of it, as well as print outs of your inspiration and research.
     For Monday we will explore how what we create could be applied to a website or blog design in three ways: 1) A header including your name; 2) a background pattern (we will study how to do that at Design Sponge); 3) a border treatment or content break design. (You can also use a design as a small favicon - the image some sites have at the beginning of their url.) None of this will actually make it to a computer - we're still exploring. Through our drawings and applications we will examine ancient influences and how they can apply to our modern world.
     Here are some links to get your wheels turning: Ancient Art; indigenous art; Ancient Cultures; History of Tattoos; Cave Paintings of Lascaux; Ancient Web; Virtual Egyptian Museum; hex signs; folk art. (More leads are under "comments.")

ARGD 3050 - It was so fun to see your updated Prada ads - good job everybody! And we're already well into our new project: "Halloween Soda Flavors & Can Images: think of a name and an image to go with it." I was already loving the creativity you were all showing and look forward to seeing your designs on Friday.
     Did you know: there is an odd Soda shop that prides itself on carrying obscure brands called Galco's Soda Pop Stop.
     Along with your drawings, please bring in a print out of another illustrator you would hire for the project. (I didn't say this in class, so Monday will be fine if you don't have time.)