Stacy ([info]young_raven) wrote,
@ 2008-04-27 22:41:00
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Current mood: cheerful

Updatey Thing
The last couple of weeks have been busy-busy. I'm staying pretty much caught up on homework - there's been lots of it. Reading, project work, presentation (ugh) for design history. I really detested that last bit; she made us each stand up in front of a class of fifty people and give a short presentation on an 19th century artist or designer. I'm ok with talking to small groups, especially when teaching a class, but it was horribly intimidating to get up in front of that many people and speak. Still, I didn't embarrass myself horribly, and all one had to do to get an A on this assignment was to stand up and do it.

My other two classes are going ok, although I'm struggling a bit with the studio assignment. We're doing campaigns for a political cause or issue of our choice. I'm doing a poster and sticker for the Cascadian secessionist movement, heh heh. The problem is, I really want to do something simple and elegant and my skills aren't quite to the level where I can achieve my vision as yet. This is the sort of thing I'm inspired by:

Woodstock
World War I propaganda poster
The Beggarstaff Brothers Chinatown poster
Fabu Asian modern

I'll post some of my designs online so you can see what I've been playing with. Something I've learned on this one is that when you get stuck in design, change the format. My early versions were 11x17", and now I'm playing with 8x17". The long narrow shape is challenging, but more interesting.

The typography class is going better, I think. I've discovered that it's actually really fun to create typefaces. I designed two more than I actually needed, as well as upper and lower cases for the two I'm presenting in class. All I needed was two typefaces, either upper or lower case, not necessarily both. The two I'm going with for class are called "stewie" and "wartzenall". You'll see why when I get around to posting them ;-)

So life has mostly been school, but some very neat SCA stuff on the horizon. I've also been a bit more active. Yesterday I strapped on my pack basket and walked down to TJs, then came home with about twenty pounds of groceries on my back. Fun stuff. And now I'm off to bed, since sleep is good, right?


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[info]rockharp
2008-04-29 04:27 am UTC (link)
Good to see you yesterday at the crafts shows. Let me know if you need any background or graphics info for your Cascadian project. I've been involved for years in the local Cascadia groups and own the domains freecascadia.org and cascadiacommons.org...

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[info]young_raven
2008-04-29 05:08 am UTC (link)
It was good to see you too. :-) I'm relatively familiar with the background of the Cascadia movement, although not nearly so active as I'd like to be. As design students, we're supposed to be generating our own graphics, although I'm referencing the Doug Fir flag pretty strongly. Mostly in color choice, although one version I'm working on has fir trees in the background. If it would be ok with you, I would love to put freecascadia.org on the poster so that people who see it will visit your website. The last step of the project will be to put the posters out in the community. If you like the finished product, I'd be happy to have you put it up on the websites.

Orignally, we had to come up with three ideas for the campaign. My three were the Beijing Olympics, Banned Book Week 2008, and of course, Cascadia. I was strongly tempted to go with something more mainstream for the sake of my portfolio, but so many people in the class were fascinated by the idea of Cascadia and had never heard of the movement before, I had to go with it.

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