2. Post your work on the Photo Bucket site - see blog for specs - test and make sure your images upload OK - images should be less than 1mb
3. Make sure all your work is uploaded to Course Folder
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Portfolios for July 1 5p
Colophon for books
A brief description of publication or production notes relevant to the edition.
For instance:
Produced by (your name) in Digital Design Foundations, Summer 2010, University of Pennsylvania, with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS4, and printed on the HP Z-6100 plotter and the XEROX 7760 laser printer.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Course Evaluations
Please fill out course evaluation form.
Another Hair Silhouette Method
Here's a more recent Adobe tutorial on silhouetting and painting hair.
Please excuse the annoying narrator.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Photoshop calculations
I'm having a bit more luck using Photoshop calculations for masking. Here is a tutorial that I used: http://www.deke.com/content/photoshop-top-40-feature-33-calculations
For Monday, June 28
For this evening we'll spend some time on Project 5 and the rest of the class will be open for any work you want to do. I want everyone to photograph themselves to get the project started - I'll have camera and tripod ready.
I will get to school around 230 and will be available to advise and will have bookbinding materials available if you need anything
Please read the essay for discussion this eve - Post Human.Jeffrey Deitch.pdf
Check out the masking demo in Course Folder: 04_maskinghair.mov
Visual resources are here. More here. And fashion photographer Erwin Olaf here.
The Dove ad that exposes photo manipulation in advertising is here.
I will get to school around 230 and will be available to advise and will have bookbinding materials available if you need anything
Please read the essay for discussion this eve - Post Human.Jeffrey Deitch.pdf
Check out the masking demo in Course Folder: 04_maskinghair.mov
Visual resources are here. More here. And fashion photographer Erwin Olaf here.
The Dove ad that exposes photo manipulation in advertising is here.
An extensive history of photomontage is here.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
For Monday, June 21
Project 4 visual research: look at books, fold paper, do some web research about book forms, narrative structures, etc.
Make some rough sketches and small models for the journey book project
Read the essay - 'book essay.pdf - and be ready for discussion
Submit final and studies (pdf) for project 3
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Artists' Books Resources
Booklyn - Samples and how-to folding and binding from the Booklyn Artists Alliance
Image above is from one of Comberg's projects - Surrender Dorothy - a printed book with embedded barcodes that, when scanned, play short video selections from The Wizard of Oz movie. More of his work is here.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Pattern Swatches
Since I didn't have a chance to show Yang how I did the pattern swatches because of a computer malfunction, I decided to post how to do it on the blog. It is a very simple yet powerful way of adding patterned backgrounds to objects.
Our Photo Bucket site...coming soon
We need to start getting some of your work on the web - here's the Flickr site from last semester, FYI.
Reading for Monday, June 21
The reading, in the Course Folder is titled 'book essay.pdf' and is an encyclopedic citation on the origins and evolution of the book form. Be prepared to discuss on Monday.
We'll meet in the Rare Book Library at 430p, Wednesday, June 16 to see samples fromm the artists' book collection.
Monday, June 14, 2010
David Salle's Memory
David Salle's work reminds me of the issues in project 3 - memory, space, childhood, composed rectangles - but all with a disturbing sensibility... more here
Sunday, June 13, 2010
The Coolest Beer Commercial Ever!
Motionographer.com has really cool things to look at every now and then, and yesterday I found a really cool commercial that does some wonky things with perspective, but I think it's relevant to our perspective project nonetheless.
Check it out!
http://motionographer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Sapporo_Legendary_web.mov
Check it out!
http://motionographer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Sapporo_Legendary_web.mov
Adobe Illustrator Perspective
I noticed that there were pre-set perspective grids in Adobe CS5. Not sure if it works for CS4 or other versions.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Video tutorial for the Photoshop CS4 Vanishing Point Tool
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0019
Photoshop Intro
Photoshop Intro
* Open the sample image _MG1716.jpg in Course Folder>Public>Project 3 and Save on Local Data
* Check out the Photoshop work space, Toolbar, and Menu Bar - there's a lot of similarity to Illustrator
* With your image open, explore Photoshop by doing some of the following:
* Save As .tiff
* Open Layers window and Unlock Layer by double clicking on lock icon
* Create a New Layer
* Working in Layer 0, do some editing of the image:
* In the Image Menu change the Canvas Size to 11 x 8
* In the Image Menu play with all of the Image Adjustments to get an introduction to editing color, contrast, and other effects
* Go to the Tool Bar and look through the tools - I'm particularly interested in you using the Pen Tool and other tools that will make a path.
* Try drawing a path (around some image detail) with the Pen Tool or Magnetic Lasso or other tool and then go to the Path dialog box and select Make Selection - when you have pixels selected, Copy and Paste the selection to make a new part of this industrial architecture.
* Also, look into Photoshop Help and play with the Eyedropper, Clone Stamp, and Eraser tools and explore some Filters - particularly Blur - and in the Edit menu, play with Free Transform and the functions within Transform
* Copy images from another image and Paste into Photoshop and Copy an object from Illustrator and Paste as Smart Object or Pixels.
* Finally, Save with Layers as .tiff or .psd so we can all see your 'creation' on Monday
DDF links
Here are the links I've collected on my Digital Design Foundations Delicious account - I think the CG Textures might be useful - you'll probably have to sign up for a free account.
The Penn Library Online Image Collection is also useful.
The Penn Library Online Image Collection is also useful.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Summer 09 images
The Secret Life of Plants
This is a 1979 new-agey documentary about the perceptual abilities of plants. It was an early example of time-lapse film making of plants, to show sped-up growth of plants.
The all-instrumental soundtrack was done by Stevie Wonder, and was one of the first albums to be recorded digitally. He also used one of the first digital synthesizers for a lot of the music.
I found the entire film on Google Video. I think there's some cool stuff in here about consciousness and nature, not to mention the representation of nature using digital And analog technology--like what we're doing!
Not sure I believe all of the ideas in here, but its an interesting exercise in thinking about the inner world of plants.
The Secret Life of Plants
The all-instrumental soundtrack was done by Stevie Wonder, and was one of the first albums to be recorded digitally. He also used one of the first digital synthesizers for a lot of the music.
I found the entire film on Google Video. I think there's some cool stuff in here about consciousness and nature, not to mention the representation of nature using digital And analog technology--like what we're doing!
Not sure I believe all of the ideas in here, but its an interesting exercise in thinking about the inner world of plants.
The Secret Life of Plants
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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