May 2020

Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and MOCA’s ‘Art in the Streets’: Your quarantine must-see!

This week’s challenge is to explore designing and making art from 3-D materials! Anything can become your media with a little creativity, can’t get to an art supply store? No problem let’s look at how to make something from safety pins, trash or even using a banana as the canvas! Join us Friday at 2:00

AIGA Eye on Design covers the world’s most exciting designers—and the issues they care about.

Adobe Create Magazine has design inspiration and tutorials for creatives. Go to Adobe Create for great how-tos for graphic design, photography, illustration, UX design and more!

Challenge #1 May 18- May 22 Most of us are used to drawing with dark material on white paper; Photoshop even starts out a new document with a blank white “paper” and black as the reset color of choice. This practice has trained us to start each new design/illustration, even a thumbnail by adding dark

The weekly challenge will help you to grow as a designer and illustrator by introducing you to new modes of thinking and new media too. Each weekly challenge will be introduced on Monday’s 2:00 zoom class with an explanation, visual samples, and suggestions on media; how to make or where to buy.

You have until Monday, May 10th at noon to email Sally or Emily your top 2 T-shirt designs. Our official two classes shirts will be announced at Monday’s zoom meeting.

Option B Thumbnails due: 5/6 2020 One of the best techniques I know for design and ideation (generating ideas) is to create small, rough sketches in pencil, known as thumbnail sketches or just thumbnails. A thumbnail is a quick drawing of an idea—just enough to allow you to think things through, for the competition, you have selected Please research it, think

Before you select a name to brand your own graphic design studio it’s important to think about the vibe you want to give off and how that vibe will both attract and repel potential clients. What if you don’t know exactly what your Graphic design vibe is?  Well, that’s where a mood board comes into

KCAD’s Annual Student Exhibitions, which normally transform the campus into a massive gallery space, will also be presented online and promoted broadly to a global audience on social media. Starting at 4 pm on Tuesday, May 5, the following exhibitions will be available to view at kcad2020.org: ·       Master’s Thesis Exhibition – Featuring the fully-developed work of

Mountainfilm On Tour uses the power of film, art, and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world, I had tickets for everyone in the CTC Graphic Design class to go see the films at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts, but since that’s not an option this is the next best thing… Thanks