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Read your email!!!

Hi everyone,

I sent an important email out to everyone this morning! Make sure you check your email today. (FRIDAY, November 4th)

Andrea

POSTING THIS WEEK

Hi everyone,

You should be spending this week and weekend making your changes to your cubes but we want to see some progress this week, so we are asking you to post your next round of revisions on your cubes by 9:00am on Friday, November 4th. We can then give you some feedback before you finalize your cubes over the weekend.

Good luck!

Post Your Process

Remember to take lots of photos of your cube mock-ups as you work this week and post them to your blog to get feedback. Do this many times! Not just once. We encourage you to comment and give feedback on each others’ posts since we won’t be meeting as a class until next week. Here’s the class roster to make it easier for you to find and follow each others’ blogs.

Kaley Allison   
Martha Baker  
Laura Birch-Jones  
Lauren Cranston  
Amy Davis   
Kyle Davis   
Lilly Doherty   
Marie Eberwein   
Brayden Hill   
Lillian Kansaku   
Patrick (Patch) Leishman   
Justin Martinez    
Dominic Nieri  
Isabelle Nissen    
Oliver Padilla    
Evan Parcher    
Alysa Phan   
Carolyn Prisbylla    
Jun Yuan   

Thoughts on Design

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

– Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995

Tips for Posting

1) Most people have chosen good layouts for their blog but a few have picked ones with small image viewing windows. Please don’t go for a novel “Polaroid” look or something like that. Simple is best and please pick the layout with the LARGEST image space as possible so we can see them easily.
2) A few of you are taking photos of your printed sketches and uploading them to your blog rather than turning in your original digital file. Obviously, if you’ve created something in 3D then that’s the best way to do it but for everything else it’s a lot of unnecessary steps. We’d rather you either scan your images or simply export your sketches from Illustrator or InDesign in the proper file format and upload them. Plus, the original digital file, when uploaded, is clearer and easier for us to see than a photographed piece of paper. 
3) File formats for uploading: GIF or Jpeg when you export. Make sure when you export that the resolution is high enough so it wont be blurry on the web. 72 is about right. With a gif you should have no problem.

sorry for confusion

Please note! On the Tumblr blog I said you had to represent at least one of each category in your posts (text compositions and the descriptive word), but in the email I said simply post your top 3 sketches and a short reflection. If you have questions….email me!

Bloggers

Hi Everyone!

Make sure you set up your Tumblr account with your first and last name so we can see who is posting. (no nicknames, etc). In order to upload an image, you need to hit +Upload photo from above right (not the photo icon above)! The photo icon asks you for a URL.

Good luck and remember to post your 3 best sketches from (representing at least one from each category: type studies and the descriptive word)by 8:00pm on Sunday. Write a short reflection (why you chose the ones you did and the strength of each) to accompany the images. Also, post your AH HA moment in summary form.

Bring all sketches to class on Monday (all 20).

Good luck!