Beginning: Choose a Tutorial from this Page

You must complete one of the tutorials linked below. Make the tutorial your own!

Advanced: Make a Logo

Using information from the organization's website and the information provided, design a logo.

Theme that must be used as written: "Peace or Perish...Abolish War on Planet and Poor".

Logo must include an image(s) that connect the theme.

Logo must say "Ashville, NC" and "2014".

Here is a link to their merchandise, where you can get a feel for who they are in terms of images, colors, etc.

Work must be submitted to Ron H. word2ron@yahoo.com and Gerry W. (Gwerhan@gmail.com.

Beginning: Go Crazy!

Using the skills and techniques you've developed up to this point in class, make an interesting piece of art. Keep these things in mind:
Why are you making this piece? Do you have an emotional attachment to it?
How will you construct the piece? Is this piece of your own design, or will you follow a tutorial to get where you want? If you follow a tutorial, how will you make it your own?
What is the context of your piece? How is this incorporated into the work? the background? subject matter?
How will you push yourself to learn more?

Here are some good places to get inspired. Once you go to the specific link for the art look around at the other art there:

"Levitation" by  Louis Stilling.

"no" by betaguy435.

"Underpass" by  ematoma123.

Honors: Portrait Series

Using the skills and techniques that you've been developing this quarter, make a series of portraits. You must have a minimum of three images--but your best work will include more.

Here is a link to a National Press Photographers Association portrait contest, and this is a good place to start to see what great variety modern portraiture can take. Study the 1st-4th place winners.

Beginning: Do These Tutorials

Practical Photoshop technique editor James Paterson shows how to get to grips with one of the most powerful tools in your creative arsenal — the Brush tool. Click here to Watch & Learn

Make interesting vector shapes in Photoshop CS6: The introduction of vector shape layers in Photoshop CS6 has opened up a wealth of new possibilities. Here are some tips so you can make the most of them. Click here to Watch & Learn

Honors: Portrait Tutorials.

Do this one: Use brushes to enhance portraits.                             

David Mahoney explains how to bring realism, texture and beauty to your digital pieces using traditional mediums.

Do something similar to this one: Good and Evil.

Split a photograph into two sides.

Do something similar to this one: Surreal Portrait.

Using this tutorial as a reference create an amazing portrait.

Advanced: Poster Design

This is your chance to take part in the Graphic Design Festival Breda! This year the Poster Project is fully open to participation by seniors, startups, students and autodidacts. We challenge you to show off your talent. Design a poster and submit it before February 7, 2014.

A selection of 50 entries will be shown during the festival as part of an international outdoor exhibition in the city center of Breda. 

Brief

Graphic designers connect ideas, information and people. This is a great responsibility in a world where image affects people's behaviour and opinions. Using the maker revolution, financial crisis and social media uprising as an inspiration we can create transparant, sustainable and honest concepts for the future. As a designer you can contribute to this process by visually reviewing, researching, reflecting and reconnecting to political, economical, ecologic and social challenges. We ask you to display a personal way of handling these contemporary challenges and share this with a wide audience.

You’re free to choose a subject, but we challenge you to take on one of these attitudes:

Poet

You add a personal touch to everyday reality. Your visualization triggers the viewer's imagination. 

Journalist 

You reflect on news creating a compact and comprehensible context for today’s topics.

Scientist 

You dissect complex systems to create a transparent view on our environment. 

Agitator 

You provoke public debate shaping the viewer's personal opinion.

The poster does not serve as an announcement for the festival, but your design encourages discussion, presents a solution, calls for action or shows a different view on a contemporary challenge that you experience. Please keep in mind that the winnng posters are exhibited in public space.

Deadlines

02/07/2014: Upload your design

03/01/2014: Announcement of the 50 winners.

04/17/2014: Exhibition during Graphic Design Festival Breda

Specs

Send in your design ith the following specifications: PDF / A3 (29,7 X 42 cm) / max 5 MB / 200 dpi / CMYK color mode. Save the file as: <name-surname.pdf>. Winners have to submit a new file in size A0.

Terms & conditions

1. You give permission to exhibit the poster during the festival and following presentations.

2. You give permission to use the design for promotional purposes.

2. You give permission to print a limited editon; one for display, one for you and a maximum of 5 for sales.

3. You allow the proceeds of the sale will to be donated to the project.

4. You declare to submit your design under Creative Commons 3.0 license.

5. You promise to submit new or previously unpublished work.

6. You can only submit via our website.

7. You can submit a maximum of three entries per designer/studio.

Process

During the festival the process is key. We are very interested in your process, sketches and inspirations. Please share these as pictures, videos, links or short texts on our facebook eventpage.

FAQ

Is there more information about these attitudes? 

- Sure, read our digital book 'Perspectives in visual storytelling'

Can a submit a silk screen print of 3D posters?

- Sure, please get in touch by email to make arrangements.

My pdf file is too large for uploading!

- See this instruction to reduce your file size.

I would like to contribute multiple posters.

- No problem, but make sure you number the files.

You can find more information about GDFB 2014 on the website or read the text about the festival theme here. If you have any questions about the briefing of the poster project mail to info@gdfb.nl

- See more at: http://www.graphicdesignfestival.nl/en/programma/open-call-reflect-poster-project/#sthash.WDCVnuFc.dpuf

Advanced Free-for-All

If you choose to to the below project I will work with you to write the proposal. If your proposal is accepted you will earn no less than a 94 in the class regardless of whether you finish the project this quarter or not. You must still do the blogs and work on your proposed project.

This is your chance to take part in the Graphic Design Festival Breda! This year the Poster Project is fully open to participation by seniors, startups, students and autodidacts. We challenge you to show off your talent. Design a poster and submit it before February 7, 2014.

A selection of 50 entries will be shown during the festival as part of an international outdoor exhibition in the city center of Breda. 

The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice, to respect history lest we forget it and to understand cultural difference as our strength - not our weakness.

Through grants, scholarships and special projects, The Alexia Foundation supports photographers as agents for change. With this aim the Foundation offers production grants to students and professional photographers to give them the financial ability to produce substantial stories that drive change in the effort to make the world a better place.

The Foundation welcomes proposals for still photography or multimedia projects.

Student applicants are encouraged to consider projects that explore cultural understanding in or near their local community. While the Foundation does not discourage proposals on topics outside the students’ region, no extra weight is given to these topics when determining winning Grant recipients. Rather, the Foundation believes applicants are more likely to complete a story closer to their school or home than one that requires travel.

Please note that the application deadline for the professional grant is January 13, 2014. Student grant deadline is January 27, 2014.

No entry fee for student applications.

Eligibility

• Student Grants: Applicants must be duly enrolled full-time students in an accredited college or university in the U.S. or abroad in a degree program at the time of application as either graduate or undergraduate students.

Prize

• Student Awards: Grants are given for First Place, Second Place and, at judges’ discretion, Award(s) of Excellence. Grants do vary between undergraduate and graduate students. Students also get scholarship opportunities.

Winners of the Professional grant and the Student grant will be announced on March 1, 2014.

ART-repreneurship

 Forward Thinking Initiatives’ Youth Entrepreneurship Academy

                          Presents:   ART-repreneurship for Teens

A unique, after-school adventure for middle and high school students, interested in music, art, dance or theater.

In cooperation with the St. Petersburg Greenhouse, St. Pete Chamber, Creative Clay Studio,  Florida Craftsman Gallery,  St. Pete Opera Company and St. Petersburg College

Forward Thinking Initiatives (FTI), a Tampa Bay non-profit that has been teaching youth entrepreneurship for nine years, is partnering with The St. Petersburg Greenhouse to help foster youth entrepreneurship in the community. FTI and the Greenhouse are set to launch the first, youth entrepreneurship academy program on February 17, 2014. 

The kick-off program will be ART-repreneurship. When you are working in the arts, it’s not always apparent that YOU are the product you have to sell.  If you want to be a fine artist, designer, dancer, musician or actor you must also have the business skills to promote your own work.  This program is designed to help teens who aspire to become artists, back up their artistic abilities with business skills that will support their passion.

What students will learn:

How to launch your own business in the arts

Website development for artists

How to market yourself/your portfolio/your product for school or career

Understand if your idea is a real opportunity?

Meet professional artists/entrepreneurs and learn how they got their start.

How galleries select their artists

Career opportunities in the arts

Cost:     $260 for the full program

Dates:  Monday, February 17 – March 27, 2014

Time: Kick Off from 1-3 pm (President’s Day) and all other days  4:30 – 5:30 pm

Locations: (various locations see registration link for details)

To Register: http://stpetegreenhouse.org/youthART-repreneurship

Contact Debra Campbell for a class schedule at 813 760-7860 or email dcampbell@forwardthinkinginitiatives.com

ART-repreneurship Class Schedule

Class 1   Kick Off    Monday,  February 17,  1:00 – 3:00 pm.  

   At Creative Clay Studio, 1124 Central Ave. St Petersburg

1.     Introduction to all the young artists

2.     How to come up with a business idea

3.     Create a company from soup to nuts.  Students develop a wearable art product, or other creative arts concept to form a company  (complete with pricing and marketing strategy).

Class 2   Thursday, February 20,  4:30 - 5:30  pm.

   At the Greenhouse, 440  2^nd Ave. N. St Petersburg

1.     Discussion about what is an entrepreneur.

2.     Create a “pitch” that can be used as a resume (creative resumes, videos)

3.     Interviewing for a job in the arts

Class 3   Thursday, February 27, 4:30 – 5:30 pm.

   At the Greenhouse, 440 2^nd Ave. N. St Petersburg

1.     How to spot an opportunity.

2.     Packaging your portfolio

3.     Panel of artists talk about how they market and sell their work

Class 4   Thursday, March 6, 4:30 – 5:30 pm.

Florida Craftsman Galleries  (Meet promptly at 4:30 )   501 Central Ave. St Petersburg

1.     Meet the Executive Director and Gallery Manager of a top St. Pete gallery.

2.     Learn about art trends, how to sell art and how a gallery operates

3.     Tour the Art Loft and see 18 artist studios

Class 5   Thursday, March 13, 4:30 – 5:30 pm.

At St Pete College (downtown campus) 244 2nd Avenue N. St.     Petersburg

1.     Artist Website Development

Class 6   Thursday, March 20, 4:30 – 5:30 pm.

At St Pete College (downtown campus) 244 2nd Avenue N. St.     Petersburg

1.     Artist Website Development

2.     Artist panel talk about marketing themselves and career skills

Class 7  Thursday, March 27, 4:30 – 5:30 pm.

   At St Pete Opera Company,  2145 1^st Ave. S.

1.     See theater management up close

2.     Q & A with professionals in the performing arts

Other FTI Greenhouse Programs for Teens (coming soon)

Entrepreneurial Thinking  Build a Business for Teens

Green Business at the Greenhouse

Toys and Games Serious Business

Business and Technology

The Business of Sports

International Trade

Beginning: Complete one of the following tutorials.

Each of these is equally challenging. You are to make the tutorials your own by using different images. For example, in the first tutorial you can replace the plane with a elephant.

Tutorial 1:

Tutorial 2:  

For this tutorial you must make the creature different creature. Here is one example of how the creator of this image changed the tutorial:

Tutorial 3:

Make your text different.

Honors: Portraiture

This quarter you will focus your work on portraits. They may be self portraits or portraits of friends, family members, pets--whoever you can get to sit for you. You will employ a variety of techniques and principles to do so.

Your first task is to review the below web links and make a blog post stating your thoughts, reactions, suppositions, etc.

This web page is presented by photographer Eddie Bonfigli and, as he states, "is intended as a brief and general outline of how" he approaches portraiture.

I like this page because the information given contradicts some of what Eddie Bonfigli. I think that this information is just as valid.

Finally, Digital Camera World gives this sound advice on ways to avoid making common mistakes when shooting portraiture.

Due Friday, January 10, is the blog post with your newly-gained insight and three stunning portraits.

Advanced: Enter the Kaufman Kamp T-Shirt Contest

It must contain the words " Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Kamp" or "SKAK", must say "Maryville, TN", "19th Annual" and have a cool, Kamp feel. 

If your design is chosen you get fame and glory and $150.00. If it is not chosen, it may stay on file at Flatpik Central for future use and at that point you will get fame and glory and $150. All artwork becomes property of the Kamp and we will not mail it back. Send JPGs or original art to steve@flatpik.com or PO Box 1020 Alcoa TN 37701.

Contest ends January 15, 2014. Have fun and thanks for entering. Good luck and let the brush strokes begin.

Here is a link to past t-shirt designs: