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Your midterm exam will take place during class on Wednesday, April 22nd in the Anderson Hall computer lab. Please make sure you are able to log in to the lab computers and your MySCAD account before coming to class on Wednesday. If you have trouble with your net id it will need to be reset, and that may require help from Tech Support. It is essential that you are present and on time for the exam – makeup exams are given only in the most extenuating circumstances.

The exam will cover the Elements of Design and Unifying Principles of Design along with associated vocabulary. Questions will be fill in the blank, matching, and short answer. There will be several opportunities to analyze the composition of a given image using the vocabulary we have covered over the past five weeks.

In addition, your blogs will also receive a midterm grade. Please make sure all the following are posted on your blog by the time you come to class on Wednesday:

• introduction post with photo
• subdivision of a groundsheet post(s) including: 100 thumbnail sketches, 4 final pieces, critique notes, redesign with explanation
• exploration #1: concentration & isolation (include labels and explanation)
• repetition grid post including: motif sketches, cell options (motif placed in cell), min. 5 design options, min. 3 inking plans, final design, critique notes.
• blog inspiration post (including hyperlinks to referenced blogs)
• SCAD Museum essay
• Field Trip lecture post (if applicable)
• exploration #2: the black square problem (including labels and explanation)

By using only flat black squares, create a graphic image to express the meaning of each of the following six words (see below). Using only squares may seem to be a rather limited palette for expressing such diverse words, but consider how these squares can be expanded into a more comprehensive language by utilizing various design principles. You may execute this assignment in any media (construction paper, marker, digital, etc.) and post your results to your blog. Make sure you label each design with it’s corresponding word!

ORDER                              CONGESTED

INCREASE                        PLAYFUL

BOLD                                 TENSION

Join upper level students from Visual Effects, Fashion and Graphic Design as they discuss their work and how it relates to their Foundation Studies experience.

Friday, April 19th
Alexander Hall auditorium
2-3:30 p.m.

Title: SCAD welcomes Black Maria Film + Video Festival tour
Location: April 19 8 p.m. Arnold Hall Auditorium, 1810 Bull St., Savannah Ga. USA
Description: Named for the world’s first motion picture studio built by Thomas Edison in 1893, the Black Maria Film + Video Festival is an internationally recognized showcase of new and innovative short works by emerging and veteran independent artists. Black Maria entries have included films recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Association of Independent Film Animators. This year, SCAD is one of approximately 65 institutions included on the festival’s tour. The event is free for those with a SCAD ID; admission for the public is $5.
Date: 2013-04-18

Title: Appeariences
Location: April 18 5:30 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd., Savannah Ga. USA
Description: Intersecting appearance and experience, Neil M. Denari, principal of Los Angeles-based architecture firm NMDA, will argue that space, time and geometry are all eternal and extended, immediate and momentary and closes the gap between architecture’s resistive weight and media’s quicksilver speed. This event is free and open to the public and is presented by the School of Building Arts as a part of the school’s lecture series.
Date: 2013-04-18

On Wednesday, classes will meet at the SCAD Museum instead of in Anderson Hall. There are a number of exciting lectures taking place this week as part of SCAD Style week. Listed below are the lectures we will attend on Wednesday, but please click here for the full list of events. **Be sure to find me at the museum and sign the attendance sheet before the lecture begins!**

Remember that each time you attend a SCAD lecture, exhibition or event you should write a brief post about the experience for your blog. You are required to attend at least one event this term as part of your blog grade, but the more you are able to attend/experience the better!

While you are at the museum, take a moment to check out the current exhibitions and select a favorite piece. As homework over the weekend, you are each required to write a brief analysis of the composition of your selected work. Be sure to use proper terminology and address the use of the Elements and Principles of Design whenever possible. Leave a link to your post in the comments section below, and be sure to visit and leave comments on at least 5 other student blogs before class on Monday.

Wednesday, April 17th SCADStyle events
•  11:30 a.m. lecture by Keith Granet, design consultant: “None of Your Business: Why Creatives Must Build a Business Entourage”
• 3:00 p.m. lecture by Charlotte Moss, interior designer: “What Sparks Your Creativity?”
• 6:00 p.m. Conversation with Fern Mallis, fashion and design consultant, and Betsey Johnson, fashion designer

As homework this week, I would like each of you to do some research into artist/designer blogs and identify several you find interesting. You are highly encouraged to seek out artists/designers in your field of study or related fields. What makes some blogs stand out more than others? Are blogs more commonly found in some art/design fields than others? What did you hope to find that you could not? What did you find that surprised you?

Your findings should be posted on your own blog (remember to leave a comment and link here as soon as your post is up.) Be sure to include hyperlinks to the blogs you reference. (You can insert a hyperlink by highlighting text within the body of your post and then clicking on the toolbar box that looks like a link of chain. If you hover over the box it says “Insert/edit link”.)

Problem: Combine principles of form and repetition on complex grids

Materials: Regular tools, templates, tracing and/or layout paper, illustration board

Final size: Exactly 10”X10”, inked on white, cold-pressed illustration board

Method: • Draw any regular, repeatable form and use it to pierce a second, larger form.

• Draw a basic grid with at least 25 identical spaces, measuring exactly (Use a t-square, triangle, ruler and pencil to layout the grid.)

• Use photocopies of your motif to place in each cell of your grid and then play around a little! Shuffle your tiles around to create an interesting design , then take a quick photo so you can come back to the design later. You must come up with a minimum of 5 design options before class on Wednesday. Remember that while the grid lends itself to the creation of pattern, you are not limited to that sort of regular design. Try to subvert the grid and see what happens!

• In class on Wednesday we will develop multiple inking plans for your selected design. Remember to document all of your inking plans to post on your blog later!

• Once you have your final design worked out on tracing paper with pencil, get it approved. Then proceed to your finished piece.

To Finish: • Transfer the design from a piece of tracing paper onto a piece of illustration board.

• Ink it PERFECTLY with your technical pen and India ink, filling in the positive shapes. Make sure your inked areas are solid – no stroke marks or lighter patches should be visible.

• Take care in doing your final rendering to measure your grid and your forms so they are identical from one grid square to the next. Also, consider where you place the design on the illustration board. Remember that you are choosing how people respond to your work. Is it clean? It should be spotless. Is it centered? If not, be sure the placement was a decision and not an accident. Are the inked lines even and smooth? Are the measurements correct? Did you erase the guide lines that you may have drawn on the illustration board?

Tips: Guide lines can be drawn very lightly with a hard (2H) pencil, then erased with a white plastic or kneaded eraser. Brush the eraser crumbs with a clean tissue or clean dust brush. Transfer your drawing from tracing paper onto illustration board by covering the back of your drawing with pencil lead from a soft (2-6B) pencil, then tracing over the lines you drew. Allow time for the ink to dry so you don’t smudge and have to start over. There are ink erasers at the art supply stores but the most effective is an electric eraser. Or don’t smudge!

Title: Blue Sky Studios presentation
Location: April 10 8 p.m. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St., Savannah Ga. USA
Description: Join Blue Sky Studios animator Jeff Gabor to discover what it’s like to work at this Academy Award-winning animation studio.

Blue Sky Studios, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, is searching for summer interns in the following disciplines: animation, visual development, story, lighting, materials/fur, production engineering, production management, layout (pre-vis/camera and staging), compositing/stereo, and effects.

Attend this presentation to learn more about internship and job opportunities at the studio behind the “Ice Age” movies, “Robots,” “Horton Hears a Who!” and “Rio.”

This employer presentation is free and open to those with a SCAD ID. Alumni are welcome if they have their ID to gain access to the building.

Send an email for more information. View the latest schedule of employer recruiting visits.

Presented by the office for career and alumni success.
Date: 2013-04-10

Title: “Manufactured Culture: Thomas Kinkade and Damien Hirst”
Location: April 9 5-6:30 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art Theater, 601 Turner Blvd., Savannah Ga. USA
Description: Anthropology professor Susan Falls and art history professor Capri Rosenberg will discuss the production of artistic value and the similarities between blue chip artist Damien Hirst and the self-proclaimed “most collected artists in America” Thomas Kinkade. Although Kinkade and Hirst have drastically different artistic styles, Falls and Rosenberg will explore the artists’ commercial similarities and the nexus of big money, big art and big culture. The event is free and open to the public.
Date: 2013-04-09