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| The Python Of Finals |
| 2008-04-17 21:02:39 |
Everyone at school is feeling it. The great python of finals tightening it's grip. There is only two weeks left, and four weeks worth of work. People have stopped chatting, but instead sit quietly at their desks, staring zombie like into their labtops....
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| Essay on Herbert Bayer |
| 2008-04-11 19:32:56 |
I haven't covered it much, but I am also enrolled in CCA's History of Visual Communications class. The midterm was an essay, but with a twist. The highest grade a person could get is a B, if they just hand it in on normal paper. To get an A, it must be designed....
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| Tellmewhy |
| 2008-04-10 16:55:38 |
I just finished reading Tellmewhy: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company. I found this book The Great Overland Book Company, a cute little book store near my apartment in San Francisco. It really stood out from other other design books because, it is half novel, half design book. The novel portion describes the first two years on karlssonwilker inc....
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| Post Project Grade |
| 2008-04-10 14:02:50 |
Jason turned our poster projects back very quickly. And I got about what I expected, a mid B. It's a fair grade when you take into account my hundreds of sketches. Maybe I should take a picture of the giant stack, and post it. Anyone want to see?...
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| CCA Spring Fair 2008 |
| 2008-04-06 14:59:59 |
California College of the Arts Spring Fair may be one it's best kept secrets. Very few people I talk to know about it, but those who do say it's one of the best places to pick up original art.
Students, faculty, and alumni, come together to show and sell their work including t-shirts, paintings, ceramics, photography, sculpture, metal art, prints, books, glass, paper, textiles, and jewelry....
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| ABC3D Has Great 3D Typography |
| 2008-04-02 23:12:03 |
I ran across this video serfing about the net. It is really an adult take on the old children's popup book. The solutions are inovative and tell a great story. What the video....
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| My First Bad Critique |
| 2008-04-01 21:25:15 |
As expected my critique went very badly. Jason brought in a quest critiquer, who gave me very hard time. In part because I admitted to my dissatisfaction with my design, and I knew what was wrong with it. I always thought that showed poor charictor in a professor, if they jump on someone who knows what went wrong. Knowing what went wrong, is the learning process....
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| Yup. My critique went really b… |
| 2008-03-31 11:44:08 |
Yup. My critique went really bad. I committed critique hara-kiri. Afterward, people told me they felt really bad for me… ugg....
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| Discouraged By Poster |
| 2008-03-28 15:26:57 |
I am 30 minutes away from printing my large format poster, and I am very discouraged. I don't feel my design is good enough, though I have spent countless hours sketching, tracing, and digitalizing my current concept....
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| Its spring break, but the CCA … |
| 2008-03-15 22:27:39 |
Its spring break, but the CCA professors assigned homework anyway. "Break just means you don’t have to come to class, it does mean you d …...
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| My experimental type book is d… |
| 2008-03-13 14:24:19 |
My experimental type book is done. But the design bleeds on three sides, so I have to leave for school a few hours early, print it, and …...
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| Logo Grade |
| 2008-03-10 19:03:30 |
Jason handed back grades for our Graphic Design I logo projects. He is a strict grader. It was my impression that most people got B and C....
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| After Last Nights Debockel |
| 2008-03-10 18:27:32 |
I just realized how annoying it must be for those of you who are subscribed via email, to receive my Stream Of Thoughts. So I have removed it from the content that is send via email subscription....
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| I just got home, and I missed … |
| 2008-03-10 17:42:32 |
I just got home, and I missed the delivery of my new Macbook Pro. NO! I will have to wait until tomorrow....
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| There was a small hiccup in my… |
| 2008-03-10 01:14:57 |
There was a small hiccup in my twitter account when I upgraded my site. Sorry all who got spammed repeat RSS content....
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| Graphic Design I, Project 2 |
| 2008-03-06 16:45:44 |
Last week we started project 2 in Graphic Design I. Everyone was randomly given a band, for which we must design a poster in large format (24x36 in). The processes was very similar to the logo project. But there is a new added pressure, Jason Munn our professor, is a professional poster designer, and more than a little famous....
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| Illustrator 1987 |
| 2008-03-02 20:32:14 |
John Nack over at Adobe recently posted the orginal VHS video that was shipped with Adobe Illustrator 1.0. I was blown away by how little has really changed....
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| Final Logo Design For Graphic Design I |
| 2008-02-28 16:22:02 |
Here are the final renderings of the three logos designed for my first project in Graphic Design I. The three logos are for Secretly Canadian, a music label based out of Indiana. As a whole I think the three are very good, but the Canadian geese still need a little work to be complete....
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| First Final Project For Typography I |
| 2008-02-27 15:20:08 |
Over the first five weeks of class, everyone in Typography I has been working on creating an original type-icon from two existing letters and/or numbers. I started by sketching type together in my sketch book. Over the first two weeks I generated over a hundred different combinations. From those I choose three to experiment on. Eventually I settled on a combination of J and R....
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| Stream Of Thought |
| 2008-02-25 19:31:24 |
So I had a cute idea a few hours ago. What if you I used twitter to microblog while I am at school, and to post rand stuff like how much homework I am really doing... or not doing... and run it as an aside next to my normal ramblings? With just a little research and a brand new twitter account, my new concept is already up and rolling....
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| No Internet For Eight Days |
| 2008-02-25 15:55:43 |
Thanks to poor service at AT&T, I have not had internet for eight days. Today my internet is finally up and running, after no less than a dozen calls to AT&T....
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| One Week Until Final Critiques |
| 2008-02-12 00:32:58 |
The graphic design classes really have three finals, one for each of the three major projects per semester per class. They are all equality important. I know this should make me less stressed. But I am a perfectionist, so I am more stressed....
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| CCA Annual Graphic Design Lecture |
| 2008-02-08 14:49:19 |
It looks like there was some sort of mixup. The calendar broucher that the school mails out and stocks around campus, says the Graphic Design Lecture would be on Feb 2, but the website and email newsletter says it is on Feb 16. The latter correct.
As far as I can tell it we bill in [...]...
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| BusinessWeek Lists CCA As Top Design School |
| 2008-01-31 11:26:06 |
Many of the people who find CCA Confidential are looking for the answer to a question, "is CCA a good design school." I still can't answer that from personal experience, this is only my second semester, but BussinessWeek has taken a shot at it....
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| Wall Critique Of Logo Concepts |
| 2008-01-30 21:21:41 |
I realized today I haven't been keeping you all up-to-date on my projects. In Graphic Design I, I have sketched more than 200 logo ideas for the record label Secretly Canadian. Today I choose 9 of my best for a wall critique in class. The critique went better than I expected. From the nine, four stood out as working possibilities. Here they are:...
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| I Feel Like An Ass |
| 2008-01-28 21:37:34 |
I haven't followed up on the Makeshop topic because I feel like an ass. On Thursday I sat around waiting for the makeshop to begin. I think I waited 30 or 40 minutes. By that point I was a little angry. There had been so many issues with getting into the Makeshop, the website, and scheduling, I just couldn't believe no one was there....
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| CCA Graphic Design Makeshops |
| 2008-01-24 11:47:45 |
The CCA Graphic Design coricullum used to include some instruction on comp making, package comps, and digital portfolio photography. I believe it was part of the Tools classes, but that part of the classes has been removed, and is now offered as free independent ungraded seminars....
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| First Semester Finished Part II |
| 2008-01-13 19:29:13 |
In an effort to help those who take these classes after me, I am going to give a full postmortem for each class, a score between 1-10, and who I think should take it. 3D Visual Dynamics with Christina Lee. Intro To The Modern Arts with Dr. Celeste Connor. Intro to the Arts with Lynn Robinson. 4D Visual Dynamics with Bayete Smith ....
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| First Semester Finished Part I |
| 2007-12-18 21:08:12 |
Finals week proved to be harder than I thought, main because Dr. Connor assigned a take home exam for Into To The Modern Arts, which amounted to a 10 page paper....
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| Smells Like Finals |
| 2007-12-05 10:31:45 |
Finals week starts next Monday. But for me it feels like they are already done. Last week proved to be the most difficult this semester, and all my teachers have lightened the load for these two last weeks....
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| CCA Student Stabbed Near Her Home |
| 2007-12-05 09:57:37 |
This is a scary story I just found in the San Francisco Chronicle (link), apparently one of the female German exchange students attending CCA was walking to the local 7-Eleven in the Outer Sunset and was attached and stabbed several times by a homeless person....
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| Looking Lantern I |
| 2007-12-02 15:07:24 |
I have been killing myself on my class projects over the last week. Everyday has been a 12 or 14 hour work day. I am exhausted. I have been spending 6 to 12 hours a day in the 3D studio building my favorite piece of this term, a box I call "Looking Lantern I."...
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| CCA Alumna On Project Runway |
| 2007-11-21 14:18:02 |
The CCA website is touting its newest famous Alumna, Simone LeBlanc. If you tuned into last weeks episode of Project Runway, you probably know Simone's design skills were found to be lacking, and was the first contestant to be eliminated from the competition....
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| Irony At World Savvy Jam Session |
| 2007-11-19 11:50:31 |
The latest assignment in my 4D Dynamics class, was to go to World Savvy Jam Session at the SoMa Arts Center on Saturday morning. There we interviewed young high schoolers about the topic of this years Jam Session - Power....
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| Art In Game Play With Crayon Physics |
| 2007-11-16 14:11:17 |
I just found the coolest little freeware game, Crayon Physics. Basically you are given a visual problem, and you solve it by drawing. So cool! The creator, Koonigames, is about to release a new version, Crayon Physics Deluxe, with tons of levels and many more shapes and actions to draw....
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