HOW TO ENTER THE BDA COMPETITION STEP BY STEP

Enter this FREE international student design competition!
Go to:
www.promaxbda.org/secondNav/aboutUs/StudentAllianceGroup/PromaxBDAStudentDesignAwards.aspx


Click ENTER NOW.



FILL OUT ALL THE INFO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CONTACTS




ONCE YOU FILL OUT THIS FINAL INFO YOUR PASSWORD WILL BE SENT TO YOU WHERE YOU GO BACK TO THE MAIN SITE AND ENTER YOUR NAME AND PASSWORD TO ENTER THE CATEGORIES YOU WISH FOR THE COMPETITION:

BDA/Promax Student Competition IMPORTANT UPDATE

This is great news for you!
You do not have to be a member and you can enter more than one category.
Please do. It's a great chance to be recognized internationally for your work.Go to:
www.promaxbda.org
use the pulldown menu for Competitions and go to Student Competition.
Create your own profile. Enter Georgia State Unversity instead of company name.
Enter all the categories if you wish.
The competition is open NOW and closes on May 21, 2010, so what are you waiting for?

Here is the email I got today from the Competition Coordinator:

Hi Stan,
The student competition is actually a no-fee competition.
It is best if the students can create their own profiles and enter the competition in this way, they do not have to be members to participate and there will not be any fees for them to do this.
When they are entering the competition they can list their school under “company name”.
Yes, they may enter into more than one category.

Please let me know if you have further questions.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Jessica K.
Awards Coordinator
1.310.789.1501

May Day Exhibition in NYC

May 01, 2010 — May 29, 2010
18 Wooster Street, New York

Deitch Projects is pleased to present May Day, an exhibition of new work by Shepard Fairey, as its final project. Titled not only in reference to the day of the exhibition’s opening, the multiple meanings of May Day resonate throughout the artist's new body of work. Originally a celebration of spring and the rebirth it represents, May Day is also observed in many countries as International Worker's Day or Labor Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations coordinated by unions and socialist groups. “Mayday” is also the distress signal used by pilots, police and firefighters in times of emergency.

With energy and urgency befitting the title May Day, Fairey captures the radical spirit of each of his subjects, using portraiture to celebrate some of the artists, musicians and political activists he most admires. Says Fairey, "These people I'm portraying were all revolutionary, in one sense or another. They started out on the margins of culture and ended up changing the mainstream. When we celebrate big steps that were made in the past, it reminds us that big steps can be made in the future."

Many of the steps Fairey refers to involve the advocacy of the working class, put forth in the songs of Joe Strummer and Woody Guthrie and the writings of Cornel West, and among the works of other heroes portrayed in May Day. International Worker's Day celebrated in nearly 100 countries throughout the world, commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago when a peaceful rally supporting workers on strike was disrupted by a bomb, and then a barrage of police gunfire. Because of negative sentiment surrounding the incident, U.S. President Grover Cleveland decided it was best to avoid celebrating the day, but it is precisely such sentiment that Fairey believes must be voiced: "It's a day to express frustration with the powers that be, but also a day for activists to pursue ideals." In May Day, he does both, with images supporting free speech and bemoaning the U.S. two party political system, pushing for renewable energy and critiquing corporate propaganda.

In Fairey's mind, the persistence of difficulties across all of these arenas—political, environmental, economic, cultural—points to that third meaning of May Day: a distress signal. "By now we thought we would be in post-Bush utopia, but we're still having to call attention to these problems,” he remarks. Like any mayday call, however, the sounding of the alarm also brings hope for help on the way. "If we stay silent, there's no hope,” Fairey muses. "But if we make noise, if we put our ideas out there, then maybe we can make a change like the people in the portraits have done."

Shepard Fairey is the man behind OBEY GIANT, the graphics that have changed the way people see art and the urban landscape. Fairey’s art reached a new level of recognition in 2008, when his “HOPE” portrait of Barack Obama became the iconic image of the presidential campaign and helped inspire an unprecedented political movement. As Shepard Fairey’s body of work reached its 20-year mark in 2009, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston honored him with a full-scale solo retrospective, which drew a record number of visitors for the museum. Entitled Supply and Demand, the exhibition shares its name with Fairey’s career-chronicling book, now in its second edition (Gingko Press). The exhibition traveled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and will move to the Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, on view through August 22nd, 2010.

Also, Check out www.deitch.com




OPENING SATURDAY MARCH 7, 6 – 9 PM DEITCH PROJECTS
WWW.DEITCH.COM
Ryan McGinness Works., an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Ryan McGinness, opens on Saturday, March 7th, at Deitch Projects’ 18 Wooster Street gallery. Like all of McGinness’s exhibitions at Deitch Projects, this show is not just a display of new works, but an experiential installation. Gallery visitors will enter the world of Ryan McGinness.

McGinness merges several of the most important directions in contemporary painting. His work combines all-over composition, inspired by Jackson Pollock and the mechanical silkscreen process inspired by Andy Warhol. The work also fuses naturalistic and contemporary pop culture references. His imagery derives form a broad range of sources: from dreams and hallucinations to song lyrics and fragments of art history. There is a push and pull between content and form, and between literal meaning and intuitive feeling. McGinness’s paintings represent his own mental landscape. His compositions reflect the infinite, ever-flowing continuum of the universe.

The opening of Ryan McGinness Works. coincides with the release of a new book of the same title, published by Rizzoli. The hardcover 296-page book is a process-revealing catalogue of recent works which includes a behind-the-scenes look at McGinness’s last Deitch exhibition in 2005. Included are texts and interviews by David Byrne, Tom Greenwood, Peter Halley, Greg Lindquist, and Jonathan T. D. Neil.

* Stan sez: If you want to buy ART now at a good price for future investment, Ryan McGinness is the one to buy. I'm serious. It's still affordable.

The Annoucement for your BFA Exhibition

The Georgia State University
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery announces the
SPRING 2010 GRADUATING BFA EXHIBITION
MAY 3 - 7

The Spring 2010 Graduating BFA Exhibition features work by 42 graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. Each year this celebratory exhibition represents for many of our graduates their first public exposure.

Our exhibition opens on Monday May 3, 2010 and continues through Friday May 7, 2010 with a reception on Thursday May 6, from 6 – 8pm. Student work will be on view in both galleries of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design located at 10 Peachtree Center Ave. Atlanta GA 30303 in the lobby of the Arts and Humanities Building.

FEATURED ARTISTS

DRAWING, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING: Whitney Cummins, Alison Hamil, Lauren Jefferson, Maryanna Kennedy, Jessie Kiehm, Lia Kramer, Abbie Meritt, Renee Randall, Heidi VonGarf, Barbara White

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Troy Bedingfiled, Joseph, Buckel, Chrissy Culver, Jason Dooley, Saideh Joodaki, Min Sun Kim, Kari Lennox, James Linehan, Nathan Linkous, Hung-Hsuan Lo, John McDuffie, John Milam, Shauna Perry, Mike Rogers, Mario Segarra, Zachary Silverman, Michelle Villasenor, Chia Lin Wong

PHOTOGRAPHY: Mary Harding, Sylvie Obadic-Mercer, Erin Palovick, Steven Wallace

ART EDUCATION: Katie Burnett, Stephanie Mercado-Bradford, Mareta Pettigrew, Ashley Young

SCULPTURE: Emma Adair, Alexandra Addleton

CERAMICS: Merrill Holmes, Esther Kang

TEXTILES: Yatta Andrews, Marletta Henry

Senior Designers in the 2010 Juried Exhibition: One More Time For Posterity

Hung-Hsuan Lo (Sandra)


Nathan Linkous



Troy Bedingfield


Min-Sun Kim


Mario Segarra

The Graduating Class of 2010: Simply the Best

Special thanks to Buffi Aguero, Tweet Design and Tiger!Tiger! and all-around bon vivant for being guest critic for our final senior portfolio project. And here's to each of you, The Graduating Class of 2010. Simply the Best.

Bedingfield, Troy H.
Buckel, Joseph R.
Culver, Christina M.
Dooley, Jason L.
Godbey, Justin P.
Joodaki, Saeideh
Kim, Min-Sun
Lennox, Kari A.
Linehan, James P.
Linkous, Nathan G.
Lo, Hung-Hsuan (Sandra)
McDuffie, John T.
Milam, John C.
Perry, Shauna C.
Rogers, Michael L.
Segarra, Mario A.
Silverman, Zachary S.
Villasenor, Michelle L.
Wong, Chia Lin

Top 5 Questions the Job Interviewer Wants YOU to ask!

From ABC News: By TORY JOHNSON
April 19, 2010

Nikki Gordon, a talent manager at 7-Eleven, says she always likes when a candidate asks simply:

#1"Why is this position vacant?"

You want to know why the position is vacant because it can give you insight into the nature of the job and the culture. Maybe it's newly created because the company is growing. Maybe someone was promoted from within. Both potentially positive signs.

But maybe it's vacant because of high turnover. You don't want to discover on Day One that you're the eighth person in six months to occupy that desk. So if the answer is about turnover, that's a clue to you to probe a bit more. Pam Webster at Enterprise Rent-a-Car says she likes when candidates asks:
#2 "What is the company culture like?"

Company culture means what is it like to work at that company -- the vibe, the atmosphere, the values, the work styles and preferences -- and what it's like to be immersed in that environment every day.

Success isn't only about performing your particular position; it's also about how you fit into that environment. They're sizing you up for cultural fit, and you should be doing the same with them. They want to know what makes you tick and what ticks you off.

And you'll want to know that their culture is one that you feel is conducive to your success. Is it one you'd be proud to be affiliated with every day? Are the company's values aligned with your own?
A great follow-up question to ask is:

#3"If you could change one thing about the culture, what would it be?" This is a polite way of asking what's wrong with this place without actually saying that. And it can give you insight into something you wouldn't have otherwise learned.
One woman told me the answer was, "I'd change the hours -- everyone works 'til 8 p.m. and it's grueling." You need to know that before accepting an offer.

Rich Deosingh from the staffing firm Robert Half says he advises jobseekers to ask:

#4"How are candidates evaluated and what's the measure of success?"

I want everyone to put this on his or her "must ask" list. It's a perfect way to show that your priorities are in the right place. It's all about succeeding in your book. Every manager and every company has a different method of defining success and a different method of evaluating performance.

This line of conversation allows you to showcase your track record of success and it enables you to tout your desire to meet their measurements of success. What manager wouldn't like to have that conversation with an applicant?

Another "must ask" that you should end the interview with is:

#5 "What are the next steps in this process?"

You'll want to know if you'll be expected to interview with others. Is there any kind of testing involved? When will they make a decision? When do they hope to bring someone on board? Is there more information or materials you can provide to support your candidacy? Who will you hear from and when? If you don't hear, when and how should you follow up?

This ensures that you're able to manage your own expectations and it gives you a handle on the company's timeframe, so you don't leave the interview waiting and wondering.

Tiger! Tiger! The Poster

The Most Exciting, Controversial, Ginormous, Revealing, Creative Final Critique for The Most Happy Graduating Senior Class of 2010!

Flat Stanley welcomes you to your final senior portfolio critique!
Arrive early... unless you can slide under the door like Flat Stanley.
Do not be late!

There will be Millions of dollars, new cars and trips to the Grand Caymans to be given away for those who arrive early. Courtesy of Bernie Madoff and Goldman Sachs.

Flat Stanley has the clue to who will be your guest critic.

Robert Rauschenberg: Still one of the Best

His work continues to inspire me as a designer and artist.
He lived his life fully committed to his work, his friends and his sense of adventure and exploration.

For Zach

Take A Look at this site: Here today, gone tomorrow

I can only keep this up for a few days. Please don't share this information with others.

I wanted to share this with you from one designer to another. I am currently serving as an invited judge for the 2010 BDA/Promax competition which I think is always a great honor. It reinforces my belief that the BDA/Promax organization continues to be in the forefront of all the other design organizations as it focuses itself on celebrating not only the on-air product we get to see but the achievements of grahic designers, producers, editors, writers and the like. This is the North American promotional and marketing area of the judging competition. This is one of the 200+ entries that demonstrates how MTV allows it's creative employees to submit and enter their work on a site they set up for them. It showcases how they work and think.
This is only up for a few days so take a look. I gave it a big thumbs up for embracing their company designers, editors, writers,etc.
Many of the entries are video based design promos but there is also a large number of website designs as well that are key to the success of many of the network shows. A few are below:


http://mainevents.mtvn.com/Genius_Bank/projects.php

Below is their creative brief for their entry:
"As a company full of innovative thinkers and doers, MTV Networks wanted to give its employees a creative outlet to display their talents, inspire creativity and promote the diverse, innovative culture of the company. Our solution: a site aimed at all U.S.-based employees of the company — both those who work in creative departments as well as those in more corporate divisions — that is a digital playground where employees upload their personal videos, writing, photographs, artwork, music and more. The site captures the attention and imagination of this busy, Web-savvy audience and stands out as a grassroots, un-corporate-like resource, and was created on a shoestring budget with a small core team. The result is a site with a unique, offbeat vibe that conveys a distinctly MTV Networks attitude. It has generated buzz around the company and resulted in more than 200 uploads and over 3,000 project views in just three months since its launch."

Interactive Website Designs in the competition:

Take a look at this website for art direction/animation/design for Crime 360 for A&E:
http://www.aetv.com/crime-360/evidence-locker/

Tattoo Highway website for art direction/animation/design:
http://www.aetv.com/tattoo-highway/thomas-portfolio/

The Cleaner website for art direction/animation/design:
http://www.aetv.com/the-cleaner/william-banks-files/

Sons of Anarchy website for art direction/animation/design:
http://stage.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/soa_submissions10/

NipTuck website for art direction/animation/design:
http://stage.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/niptuck_submission10/

Always Sunny website for art direction/animation/design:
http://stage.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/sunny_submission10/

Burning Man 2010

I have my ticket. Do you?

The Trustworthiness of Beards: For John, Troy, Nev and Justin

Beards as Indicators of Trustworthiness
One way of proving your trustworthiness is by earning it the old-fashioned way. The other way, apparently, is by simply growing a beard.
courtesy: www.good.is/post/beards-as-indicators-of-trustworthiness

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a study in the Journal of Marketing Communications, which found that among bearded and clean-shaven men, the bearded men were generally deemed more credible.

The study showed participants pictures of men endorsing certain products. In some photos, the men were clean-shaven. In others, the same men had beards. Participants thought the men with beards had greater expertise and were significantly more trustworthy when they were endorsing products like cell phones and toothpaste.

As the Chronicle rightly made mention: The study looked only at neatly trimmed beards of medium-length.

Might this have implications for say, the recent graduate, new to the job market, or the academic, still hopeful for a tenure track position?

Furthermore, if men can grow facial hair and are considered more credible because of it, what's the female equivalent? Or dare I even ask?

BDA Student Competition

Everyone has to enter. You will not pass my class without entering this competition.
You can thank me later. :)
We'll talk about this in class but it's a wonderful competition that I know many of you can win. This is the last thing I will ask you to do I promise.

http://prod.promaxbda.org/secondNav/aboutUs/StudentAllianceGroup/PromaxBDAStudentDesignAwards.aspx

ENTER YOUR BEST WORK NOW!

The PromaxBDA Student Design Awards Competition 2010 Is Open!

Does your work need a platform for exposure? Do you think your creative is strong enough to bring home a golden Muse? Now's your chance to showcase your skills! Submit your entries for the annual PromaxBDA Student Design Awards competition. Not only do first and second place winners receive a Muse statue (it'll look great on your shelf!) but you'll also be recognized as the best by one of the most recognized names in the industry. In a tight economy, that's a big leg up on the competition. First place winners also receive an entire year of free PromaxBDA basic membership, which will provide you with educational workshops, networking opportunities and access to a community of like-minded professionals. The competition opens next week and closes May 14, 2010, so what are you waiting for?

You can enter your work into the following categories:

STUDENT ANIMATION & DESIGN - MOTION
Student pieces that clearly demonstrate the application of design principles such as the use of graphics, typography, animation and stylization of footage to convey message/information; :60 or less; no viewer reach; no charge with current student photo I.D.
Single entry; Video upload only.

STUDENT DESIGN PRINT
Student pieces that clearly demonstrate the application of design principles such as the use of graphics, typography and print design to convey message/information; no viewer reach; no charge with current student photo I.D.
Single entry; PDF upload only.

STUDENT - OTHER ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Student pieces which clearly demonstrate the application of design principles in such media as web, interactive games, mobile phones, Flash, DVD, email, sms, pda, etc. no viewer reach, no charge with current student photo I.D.
Single entry; PDF upload only.

MoMa in 2 minutes

www.detourdesign.blogspot.com

p.s. friend of mine worked on these painting in the rooms at the ACE Hotel in NYC
www.acehotel.com/newyork

Creative Resumes: Courtesy Huffington Post

www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/creative-resumes-ideas-fo_n_530920.html#s79604

www.erictabuchi.fr

www.designlicious.tumblr.com

www.rvlvr.net

RVLVR is an experimental project consisting of different artists using the same given picture material to create new artworks.

www.welovetypography.com

In the immortal words and music by EnVogue:
"feed your mind, and the rest will follow"

Gaming in Los Angeles sponsored by BDA

Helveticards

www.buzz-beast.com

Can you Draw a Lumberjack?

This actually was one of the first recollections of what I thought art school was all about...little did I know it was just a ploy to get you to come to this school. First impressions. Maybe this ad was what triggered Justin to become a lumberjack.

Creative Circus Invite

Emerging Media Workshop in NYC -BDA

BDA Student Membership

For those of you interested in joining BDA here is the email directions from Anush:

Hi Stan,
Please have your students create a new contact record online at: http://prod.promaxbda.org/membership/join.aspx
All they need to do is go with Step 1 - Create a new contact record that way they will receive their login info.
After the contact record has been created then I can make the arrangements to process their memberships.
The login info that they receive that will be their member login as well. They can change their username or password if they wish.
I will call you again to see how you would like to proceed with the membership payment.
They also need to scan their ID cards and then send it to me so I can keep them in their file.
Thank you,
anush payaslyan
manager member services
1522-e cloverfield boulevard santa monica, ca 90404
310.788.7600main 310.789.1509direct

LOAD and CTW Information for Graduating Seniors

We can complete this material which the University requires prior to your graduation during the final 2 weeks of class when you will have time in class to work on your portfolio prior to your scheduled Exit Review.

I will need the following from you by the last class period:
CTW Info:
You will produce a professional CD packet related to your "personal voice project."
Your packet will consist of a professional resume, an artist statement (Creative Brief) that addresses your project, a CD with a minimum of 5 jpeg images.

CD INSTRUCTIONS: Create and label three folders inside your CD as below.
Put the following content in each folder:

Folder #1 Label: Last Name_Text Files (Example: Smith_TextFiles)
Contents:
1) resume properly labeled
(Example:Smith_Resume)

2) artist statement properly labeled (Example: Smith_Statement)

3) image file list properly labeled
(Example: Smith_ImageList) Make sure the numbers of your list
coincide with the numbers assigned to jpeg files.
Format for this list is: italicized title of work followed by year; dimensions of work with height first, width second; then medium.
(Example: #1. Purge #5, 2008, 30” x 40”, digital chromogenic print)

Folder #2 Label: Last Name_300ppi Image Files (Example: Smith_300ppi_ImageFiles)
Contents:
10 jpegs at 300 ppi with 2000 maximum horizontal pixels
Label each jpeg with the number that coincides with the image file text list, last name, underline, first name, underline, title (Example: #1.Smith_Stan_LifeIsGrand)

Folder #3 Label: Last Name_72ppi Image Files (Example: Smith _72ppi_ImageFiles)
Contents:
10 jpgs at 72 ppi with 900 maximum horizontal pixels
Label each jpeg with the number that coincides with the image file text list, last name, underline, first name, underline, title (Example: #1Smith_Stan_LifeIsGrand)


LOAD info:
I will also need 10 jpegs of your work from your time at GSU (your can choose) with the following:

Label CD with first and last name, discipline, semester and year graduating.

* 10 jpgs at 150 ppi with 900 maximum horizontal pixels

Label each jpeg with last name, underline, first name, underline, title of work, underline, year
Example: Smith_Stan_LifeIsGrand_2009

A List of Printers For you...

Alphagraphics
34 Peachtree St
Suite R-1
Atlanta,GA
www.alphagraphics.com

Atlanta Letterpress
186 Rio Circle
Suite E
Decatur, GA
www.atlantaletterpress.com

Taylor Letter Service
385 Northyards Blvd
Atlanta, GA
www.taylorls.net

Craftsmen Printers
290 Collier Road Northwest
Atlanta, GA 30318
Atlanta,GA
www.craftsmenprinting.com

Presentech Digital Printing
645 11th Street
Atlanta,GA
www.presentech.com

Midtown Graphics
1220 Fowler Street
Atlanta,GA
www.midtowngraphics.com

Velocity Screen Printing
99 Elizabeth Street
Atlanta,GA
www.velocityscreenprint.net

Imagers
1575 Northside Drive
Atlanta,GA
www.imagers.com

Danger Press
675 Metropolitan PkwyAtlanta,GA
www.dangerpress.com

Dickson's Offset Printing
1484 Atlanta Industrial Way
Atlanta,GA
www.dicksons.com

Bumblebee Press Letterpress Printers
1025 Edgewood Avenue NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
www.bumblebeepress.com


Decatur Atlanta Printing
205 Swanton Way
Decatur, GA
decaturatlantaprinting.com

More to come....

More to come

A List of Printers For you...

Forthcoming.

High Concepts Revisited

Look what can happen if your sketch is good enough (Alas,The Guggenheim Museum) or when an ordinary object like an apple becomes more mischievous and menacing.
The difference between "solving the problem" and making the problem-solving idea more grand.
Reality

Formal Illustration






Sketch