I am pushing the due date back 2 days. We will have 1 final review (although your work should be near final at that time) on Tuesday April 5.
Please have all work ready for 8.30am on Tuesday. Please bring in:
1. 1 full-size full color 2-sided mockup of your folded train schedule (with poster on the backside).
2. 22 x 34" black + white print of your poster mocked up. This can be tiled together if need be.
The final will be due on Thursday April 7. Please bring with you on Thursday:
1. Your final poster printed full-size in color at 22 x 34", mounted on black board (flush on the board)
2. Your time table printed full-size in color at 11 x 17" mounted on black board (flush on the board).
3. The pocket time-table (including time-table and poster) printed and folded.
If you are interested in submitting your poster to the Gallery Exhibit competition, let me know. I'm going to post the submission requirements this weekend.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Information is Beautiful
Here's a great website to checkout regarding Information Graphics. You're dealing with typographic information, but this can help to inspire as you work on your project. Notice how color and simple graphic elements help to organize the information.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Due Next Thursday, March 31
For next Thursday, bring in the following:
1. 2 full-color 11 x 17"print-outs of your train schedule. You must have one mock-up that is 2-sided (with the poster on the other side) and folded, and one that is 1-sided printed flat.
Regarding your train schedule, it is important that you figure out the following things at this stage:
A. How is your train schedule going to fold? This will prove very important as you tweak your text. You'll want to note where the folds occur in relation to the type. The text, ideally, should cross the folds. There may be some cases, especially with larger headlines, where this is more difficult, but in general, be conscious of the folds in relation to the text.
B. What is going to be your cover and back cover? This should be full integrated into your page design by this point.
C. Finally, keep in mind page composition. You don't necessarily need to have the table in the upper left-hand corner. How could the title, key and other additional information be incorporated into the composition in an interesting way.
2. 11 x 17" full-color print of your poster mocked up along with your train schedule.
3. 22 x 34" black + white print of your poster mocked up. This can be tiled together if need be.
1. 2 full-color 11 x 17"print-outs of your train schedule. You must have one mock-up that is 2-sided (with the poster on the other side) and folded, and one that is 1-sided printed flat.
Regarding your train schedule, it is important that you figure out the following things at this stage:
A. How is your train schedule going to fold? This will prove very important as you tweak your text. You'll want to note where the folds occur in relation to the type. The text, ideally, should cross the folds. There may be some cases, especially with larger headlines, where this is more difficult, but in general, be conscious of the folds in relation to the text.
B. What is going to be your cover and back cover? This should be full integrated into your page design by this point.
C. Finally, keep in mind page composition. You don't necessarily need to have the table in the upper left-hand corner. How could the title, key and other additional information be incorporated into the composition in an interesting way.
2. 11 x 17" full-color print of your poster mocked up along with your train schedule.
3. 22 x 34" black + white print of your poster mocked up. This can be tiled together if need be.
Sketchbook assignment for the week
Find a haiku of your liking. Haikus tend to take aspects of the natural world as their subject matter. Explore creating hand-lettering—playing with the words phrases, and entire haiku over your three spreads. Feel free to incorporate graphic form and type within your sketches. Feel free to pull certain words or phrases out of the haiku to focus and develop.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Obsessive Collection of Train Schedules
Go to this link to find an extensive collection of Amtrak train schedules dating back to the 1970s. Consider what is working and what might not be working so well.
Well-designed Amtrak train schedule
Here's the image of the train schedule that Shanleigh showed in class. There's an elegant simplicity, good hierarchy and nice use of rules to separate the space in this design.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Sketchbook assignment for the week
Designers often communicate political or social messages about events going on in the world (remember the site: design for haiti). This is a small way we can help, and maybe visualize what people are feeling. React to what's going on in Japan right now. Consider message and metaphor.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Lance Wyman
http://www.lancewyman.com/
Check out Lance Wyman's site, for this class, and for general inspirations for your other classes. Notice for the 1968 olympic logo how he combined the sybolic nature of the aztec ruins and the graphic nature of pop art he had come across in nyc into one.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Visit to the Gallery at 10am on Thursday
This Thursday, March 3rd, we'll meet at 10am at the Grand Circle Gallery.
We will not be meeting at MassArt beforehand, but I would be there on time at 10am.
If you'd like to grab a bite to eat beforehand, Flour Bakery is across the street, at 12 Farnsworth; it's just a nice place to visit if you like pastries, and if you get to the area a bit early.
Plan on it taking 40–45 minutes to travel from MassArt to the Gallery on the subway.
The directions below show you how to get there from the South Station stop off the Red Line.
Please meet at
Grand Circle Gallery
347 Congress St, Boston MA 02210
DIRECTIONS
Subway
Take the Red Line to South Station. You'll come out next to the Federal Reserve building. Take a right and walk along Summer Street to the water. At the bridge, take a left onto Dorchester Avenue and walk down til you hit Congress Street. Take a right onto Congress Street, crossing the bridge (passing the Children's Museum). Continue two more blocks. 347 Congress Street will be on your right.
Driving Directions from MassArt by Car
1. Head southwest on Huntington Ave toward Francis St
go 0.3 mi / total 0.3 mi
2. Turn left at Tremont St
go 0.6 mi / total 0.8 mi
3. Turn left to stay on Tremont St
go 0.5 mi / total 1.3 mi
4. Slight right at Melnea Cass Blvd
go 0.9 mi / total 2.2 mi
5. Continue onto Mass Ave Connector
go 0.4 mi / total 2.6 mi
6. Turn left at I-93 Frontage Rd
go 0.3 mi / total 3.0 mi
7. Take the ramp onto I-90 E
go 1.0 mi / total 4.0 mi
8. Take the Congress Street exit toward Summer Street
go 0.2 mi / total 4.2 mi
9. Turn left at Congress St
Destination will be on the left
go 0.2 mi / total 4.4 mi
10. There is hourly garage parking located at 17 Farnsorth St. as well as meter parking available on Congress St.
347 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210
We will not be meeting at MassArt beforehand, but I would be there on time at 10am.
If you'd like to grab a bite to eat beforehand, Flour Bakery is across the street, at 12 Farnsworth; it's just a nice place to visit if you like pastries, and if you get to the area a bit early.
Plan on it taking 40–45 minutes to travel from MassArt to the Gallery on the subway.
The directions below show you how to get there from the South Station stop off the Red Line.
Please meet at
Grand Circle Gallery
347 Congress St, Boston MA 02210
DIRECTIONS
Subway
Take the Red Line to South Station. You'll come out next to the Federal Reserve building. Take a right and walk along Summer Street to the water. At the bridge, take a left onto Dorchester Avenue and walk down til you hit Congress Street. Take a right onto Congress Street, crossing the bridge (passing the Children's Museum). Continue two more blocks. 347 Congress Street will be on your right.
Driving Directions from MassArt by Car
1. Head southwest on Huntington Ave toward Francis St
go 0.3 mi / total 0.3 mi
2. Turn left at Tremont St
go 0.6 mi / total 0.8 mi
3. Turn left to stay on Tremont St
go 0.5 mi / total 1.3 mi
4. Slight right at Melnea Cass Blvd
go 0.9 mi / total 2.2 mi
5. Continue onto Mass Ave Connector
go 0.4 mi / total 2.6 mi
6. Turn left at I-93 Frontage Rd
go 0.3 mi / total 3.0 mi
7. Take the ramp onto I-90 E
go 1.0 mi / total 4.0 mi
8. Take the Congress Street exit toward Summer Street
go 0.2 mi / total 4.2 mi
9. Turn left at Congress St
Destination will be on the left
go 0.2 mi / total 4.4 mi
10. There is hourly garage parking located at 17 Farnsorth St. as well as meter parking available on Congress St.
347 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210
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