FINAL PROJECTs

Your Final project is the PROPAGANDA poster. The final design must be printed (3 copies, 1 to turn in) as well as posted to your blog by midnight, December 7th.

The final .ai files for the propaganda poster as well as the band flyer are due to me in email form (jherring@uwf.edu) by midnight, December 7th. I should be able to open and see them complete, this means you should email any downloaded fonts and externally linked images as well.

I will be in the lab 11/30, 12/2, and 12/7 to help you finish and print. There is no longer any mandatory attendance for the semester. Good Luck and Happy Holidays.

FINALS: Final Blog Posts

History/Research Blog:

If you have completed the research blog post for the PROPAGANDA project, then you are finished with your history blog for the semester.

Projects Blog:

Your Band Flyer must be posted in original form, corrected form, and "at large" photo, taken of the flyer, posted somewhere on campus.

Your Propaganda poster must be posted in original form and "at large" photo, taken of the flyer, posted somewhere on campus.

PROJECT III: Disseminate Propaganda

Project III will begin with research:

Take a look at wikipedia on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Choose one technique and find two examples from historical propaganda as well as two examples from contemporary advertising that use this technique. Describe how the technique is used in each of the examples. (your examples can come from anywhere except this wikipedia page)

Your own propaganda poster must use a variation of this strategy.

Your own propaganda poster must include your own illustration (traced photos yes, live traced photos no).

Your own propaganda poster must insight behavior you endorse.

The type and image should be well integrated. In our new graphic design utopia neither image nor type will serve the other; both will be an equal part of the compositional make-up of your design. (remember constructivism, forget WWII)

Get started on the research and sketching out ideas. More to come...

PROJECT II: Postmodern Band Flyer

To complete this project you will need to make corrections/updates based on comments from the class critiques. If you had decided to forget the experience altogether due to the trauma induced by the experience, ask a classmate for suggestions. Once you have made an update, post to your projects blog - with an explanation of the update. Also print three color, tabloid sized copies on the laserJet. Sign one copy and turn it in to me. Take one copy home to you dog. The final copy gets posted somewhere under the watchful gaze of the public eye. Take a snap with a cellphone camera, your great aunts Polaroid, or any other instant image-making machine you can find. Post this snapshot to your blog as well.

Apples, Bananas, and something to wash it down

No Blog Post This Weekend

Be prepared to discuss your project in relation to the original style/movement that inspired you.

Project II Critique is Monday November 9th

Your projects should be posted in .png format with a solid background no later than 8:45 AM Monday, November 9th. Remember that attendance as well as participation is mandatory.

Be prepared to discuss how and why your project uses as well as varies from the original design style.