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February 25, 2005

Assignment #6: Leaving [pronoun] Mark

The last of the weekly assignments is set up to be a real humdinger, brave pirates. The components/parameters are as follows:

TITLE: This is what you are responding to. It might be useful to reflect on what this means, who it implicates (by virtue of your chosen pronoun) and, oh yes, why it matters. We are expanding the site to be about downtown Raleigh instead of just the squares for this project, so please consider what you have learned and let this title be a guiding force/inspiration in some way.

PROCESS: You have all researched artists and designers working with chance operations, procedural, or other systematic ways of generating work. What excites you about this? How can you set up a system of process for generating content, visual or otherwise, in a similar fashion? The idea is that you cannot know the results when you set out. Embrace the unpredictability of this process, while setting yourself up for "success." This is a difficult balance.

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS: Please collect at least ten reproductions of archival documents relating to Raleigh. These will serve as part of your image bank. They may or may not be used in your final product, but they will help nurture your explorations by providing another set of materials to which the data generated by your process might relate. Additionally, select a pair of typefaces that speak to the notion of "then" and "now."

Go to it. Dive in. Trust yourselves. Make, make, make.

Posted by Maggie Fost at 03:42 PM | Comments (56)

Process, Chance Operations, Etc.

A thread to which you may post and discuss links relating to artists/designers working within this realm.

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February 21, 2005

Final Projects: Initial Discussion

Use this thread to bat around ideas about your final projects. Consider which projects may have suggested deeper exploration—or use something that excited you about the square(s) as a departure point. This is just the beginning of this conversation—details will emerge over the coming week.

Speak.

Posted by Maggie Fost at 08:20 PM | Comments (22)

Assignment #5: Backing Into a Poster

For this project, we will start with the form studies we did in class last Wednesday. "Read" the vocabulary you generated and look for feeling, meaning, emotion, physical responses.

Choose a play (either Shakespeare or Ancient Greek) that best fits to develop a poster for an outdoor production in Moore Square announcing the production by an outdoor company (avant-garde, community, youth, other?)

Please include:

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February 11, 2005

Gorgeous

Moods of the North Pole

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February 04, 2005

Assignment #4: Sister Cities

Raleigh is a sister city to Hull, England; Compiègne, France; Kolomna, Russia; and Rostock, Germany. For the purposes of this assignment, let's imagine that the councils of the respective cities have decided to focus on "town" squares as the theme for an exchange intended to promote the sister city program.

You have been asked to propose something for the citizenry of our sister cities that represents Raleigh through Moore Square. The work will be disseminated to each of the cities. For this project, Raleigh will be taking the lead with design and the other cities will follow the format, so your system should be applicable across cities and languages with that in mind.

Note: You will not be required to work with translation for this project; it's okay to create your project in English or use dummy text in foreign languages, but please acknowledge how translation might figure in. This issue alone is a big nut to crack (especially with the Cyrillic,) so don't go down that rabbit hole unless it's central to your concept.

Dates:

07 Feb: visual statement due
11 Feb: pre-crit
14 Feb: final crit; documentation due; ♥alentines due for extra credit

Posted by Maggie Fost at 12:20 PM | Comments (16)

February 01, 2005

Mus[e]ic

What are you guys listening to? How is (or isn't) this relevant to your work in studio?

Discuss.

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