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Posts from ‘September, 2009’

Satan’s Camaro artist lecture; tonight after class!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=254750735050
Thursday, September 24
7:00pm
Satan’s Camaro is the lovechild of eighties rocker Nikki Sixx and teen pop
star Tiffany. Based out of a bathroom in a Sheetz Gas Station in Hagerstown,
Maryland, Satan’s Camaro is committed to bringing you art that is better
than now.
http://satanscamaro.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/satanscamaro/

3D Printed Marketing Campaign from FOC for ASICS

A fascinating case of an extremely limited edition of 3D objects + packaging printed together to support a marketing campaign.  If this doesn’t blur your notions of the boundaries between art and design, at least a little, you’re not paying attention.
via Fabaloo

Hopes and Dreams…

Here is a tag cloud (click for big) of the top 100 words compiled from the list of reasons you in the History and Theory class gave for wanting to study design.  The size of the words relates to the frequency of their appearance across all the responses.  Common words like “a,” “an,” and “the” [...]

Wings 3D

This is the 3D software I recommend that you start with; it is free, open-source, and cross-platform (it will run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux).
It has fairly low system requirements, so it will run pretty well even on older and slower machines.
Download the stable version from Wings3D.com
A good set of tutorials is available [...]

Protected: Meggs Chapter Two (password same as Chapter One)

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Expectations for H&T Team Presentations

From your Team’s assigned  Chapter in Meggs:

Identify significant artifacts
Introduce the people who appear in the chapter
Discuss the tools and technologies
Explain the major stylistic characteristics of the time period(s)

The format of the presentation itself is completely flexible.  You can make a web-site, a slide presentation,  a video, a radio-play, a game show, a book, an animation, [...]