Monthly Archives: July 2007

Day 14 – July 20th

Friday again, and our final day of process on the grid/typographical hierarchy project for Stacy. Kyle and I brought in 50% scale versions of our posters, and other folk brought in digital and print copies of their own projects. Obviously, another critique ensued. Everyone’s work is looking very good, many of us are moving straight …

July 28, 2007 – 8:55 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Typography | Comments (0)

Day 13 – July 19th

We critiqued each other’s sketches today. It looks like we have 5 people doing websites, 5 doing books, and just Kyle and I tackling the posters. Everyone made a good showing – I know now that doing a book or website would in no way have been easier. If anything, the poster, while it contains …

July 24, 2007 – 9:22 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Typography | Comments (0)

Day 12 – July 18th

Our second day of class with Stacy Rohrbach found us getting into the grit of our assignment. We are to take a badly written 11 page “Brief History of Type,” and create either a poster, website, or book to contain it. Most importantly, we are to use typographical hierarchy to make the essay as readable …

July 24, 2007 – 9:02 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Typography | Comments (0)

Day 11 – July 17th

Today was our first day with Stacy Rorbach, and a really interesting day it was. Stacy has a background in design (she’s actually a graduate of our program from back-in-the-day), but has focused most of her career on teaching, and I have to say it shows. Stacy has an easygoing and involving manner in the …

July 24, 2007 – 8:01 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Typography | Comments (0)

Day 10 – July 16th

Our last day of drawing! I know I shouldn’t sound so excited, but I figured out what my problem is last night (while working on my finished perspective drawing for over an hour): I don’t mind sketching – in fact it can be quite fun. When I have a need to get something out quick, …

July 18, 2007 – 10:01 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals | Comments (0)

Day 9 – July 13th

Our second Friday!  And more drawing class…   We briefly critiqued each other’s perspective-cube drawings – I was surprised to see that we actually have a few very good drawers in the class.  We then spent most of the class discussing our assignment for the weekend – to create a candle holder.  The candle in question …

July 18, 2007 – 9:25 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals | Comments (0)

Day 8 – July 12th

We had our first of three days with Eric Anderson today. In contrast to the last to faculty members, Eric is a laid-back and soft-spoken industrial designer who is helping teach us how to draw. I must admit that I wasn’t too excited about this – I hate to draw. I don’t mean sketch, sketching …

July 12, 2007 – 5:45 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals | Comments (1)

Day 7 – 7/11

Our second (and last) day of digital photography with Dylan today. We spent the first part of class in the building’s lighting studio where we talked through the basics of photographic lighting. Most of it was review for me, having learned these things as a teenager helping my mother out at photo shoots. One juicy …

July 11, 2007 – 4:11 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Photography | Comments (0)

Day 6 – July 10th

We had our first class with Dylan today. Dylan is a fine arts photographer who also acts as the CMU Design digital media expert (read: has access to every bit of technology in the building). Dylan proved to be another fine teacher – fast talking but clear, full of nervous energy but engaging. He gave …

July 10, 2007 – 4:18 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Photography | Comments (2)

Day 5 – July 9th

I think that we were all a little disappointed that today would be our last day with Karen Moyer. Between her deep and broad design knowledge, unstoppable exuberance, and impish grin she has made us all very happy to be studying at CMU. The day began with a critique of our last two typographical hierarchy …

July 9, 2007 – 7:18 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Photography, Typography | Comments (0)