Crap Detector!

Print Production: Rest of the Semester

Monday, April 21st: Progress check over work so far. Work day in class. Johnny Cash Posters DUE!
Monday, April 21st at 5:30 / Johnny Cash Poster Judging (just so you know)
Wednesday, April 23rd: Pre-Crit. Bring in print outs and materials.
Monday, April 28th: First Final Meeting Time from NOON to 3 pm. FINAL CRIT!
Tuesday, April 29th: Second Final Meeting Time from NOON to 3 pm. Final Project with revisions DUE!

Product Shot Phobia

You have spent sleepless nights working on your project...it deserves to be documented and documented well! Yikes! How do I do that? I don't know how to take good product shots!

Click on the following links for some helpful product shot hints.
Photojojo is a fabulous online photo DIY resource newsletter. Check out their post about Shooting to Sell: Taking Better Photos for eBay, Etsy & Instructables.

Here is another post by Photojojo, but it is about photographing food! : Photojojo: The Ten Tastiest Food Photography Tips.

Here are some cool camera modifications that you can do yourself that might help you with those pesky product shots (esp. if you don't have access to a pro studio).

Photojojo: Reduce, Reuse, Diffuse: Make Your Own Flash Diffuser from an Old Film Container.

Strobist: How To: DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio.

Etsy :: The Storque :: Photographing your items.

Lighting for Product Shots.

Packaging Sites

Here are the two sites I was talking about in class:
TheDieline.com: The Leading Package Design Blog

and AIGA Design Archives (search for packaging).

Print Production: Brad! You Win!

Congratulations to Brad Henderson! His poster was picked by the women's studies department at Mississippi State to represent Vanita Gupta's upcoming lecture.

They loved it! They loved it!

Word from Women's Studies is that they were impressed by all of the posters.

Good Job Print Production!

more details on the Vanita Gupta talk:
Vanita Gupta, nationally known civil rights lawyer and the counsel for the Tulia 38 is coming to campus next Monday, March 24, 7pm in Lee Hall auditorium! To learn more about Tulia, watch this short video "Scenes from the Drug War":
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/tulia-texas-scenes-from-the-drug-war/3893405366

Poster Info for Print Production

Vanita Gupta, "Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere": Civil Rights and Women's Rights in the 21st Century
Monday, March 24, 2008, at 7pm in Lee Hall Auditorium
Sponsored by the Gender Studies Program, the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, the Department of Political Science, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

background info after the jump.

Print Production: Women's History Month / Vanita Gupta Poster

Today we are going to have Susan Rensing from the Gender Studies department at Mississippi State come and speak to you about their speaker Vanita Gupta and about Women's History Month. Have questions ready! This is your chance to get information and ideas for your poster.

Due Dates:
Monday 18th: Pre Crit on Poster / Bring in full size print outs of a poster you consider to be finished
Tuesday 19th: Attend the Jim Coudal Lecture at 7 pm in Giles Jury Room
Wednesday 20th: Workday on Poster / Intro next assignment
Monday 25th: NO CLASS / WORKDAY
Wednesday 27th: Poster Due and Mounted

Almost 700 Business Cards

Check out this flickr set of almost 700 Business Cards. This link made the rounds this summer and it deserves to be looked at again as a starter point to help you get into gear while thinking about your personal ID assignment. Even if you are not in my print production class, this should be a link that you bookmark.

Spring Semester 2008! Books!

Hey Hey Book Buying Time!

GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY: You MUST purchase the following book

Get this ASAP. I will start lecturing from it immediately. Please get this edition and not an earlier, cheaper one.

GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY: Please try to purchase this book

Only used copies are being sold on amazon. This book is cheap! It is good! You will be happy you purchased it!

INTERMEDIATE COMPUTING: You MUST purchase the following book

PRINT PRODUCTION: No need to purchase any books at this point. If you have book money that you are just dying to spend, check out the books on the right hand side of the blog.

Print Production: Promote the MSU graphic design department!

For your last assignment you will be creating a poster advertising the graphic design department at mississippi state. The winning design will be printed at the MSU print shop during the week before finals week. You will be required to use the caad logo and the msstate logo.

Poster size: 17"x13" (you may choose to arrange your poster horizontal or vertical) layout in Illustrator in which to place and design your work; create a 1/8 inch bleed. Max paper size is 13 3/8 x 18 1/8

DATES:
Monday, November 12th: Paper Lecture and handouts/ Start sketches for MSU GD poster
Wednesday, November 14th: David from MAC papers in Birmingham will be here to talk about paper and handout samples...wheee!
Friday, November 16th: Workday on posters. Review thumbnails and concepts.
Monday, November 19th: No Class/ Portfolio Review
Monday, November 26th: Pre-Crit on Posters
Wednesday, November 28th: Posters Due and Term Test
Friday, November 30th: Print Shop
Monday, November 3rd: Print Shop/ Farmer's Market Meeting Tonight!!!

Print Production: Sequential 1.2.2

For Print Production Presentations if you need it:

Link: Sequential 1.2.2.