Alt Park Service Logo

Here's our whiteboard, capturing our brainstorm for qualities/symbols that might show up in an Alt National Park Service logo/bumper sticker.

Here's a link to the two current designs: https://www.facebook.com/AltUSNationalParkService/posts/1744594322535299

There are two things due this Thursday _

1. Have your twelve pencil (or photoshop) sketches for the AltNPS logo/bumper sticker

2. Select some sort of data set (that is either researchable, or something that you could generate through your own personal poll/study) that you'd like to make an infographic of. Here's the link to a collection of 100 infographics of the past decade, for inspiration:

https://www.visualnews.com/2016/04/18/100-best-infographics-last-decade/

Links for Isometric drawing

Here is a downloadable isometric grid:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jg0onc9kchqdiye/isometric-grid.ai?dl=0

Google "isometric vector art" to see examples. We'll be working on a collective isometric grid project.

Welcome _ Spring 2017

Welcome to the blog for Intermediate/Advanced Digital Darkroom, for Spring 2017.

Here's a link we'll be using today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/with/11307148704/

And a little bit of context for the link:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into-public-domain.html

Example of a british library remix:

And here are some more public domain links:

https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/?f%5Bdrep2.isMemberOfCollection%5D%5B%5D=DREPIHM

https://publicdomainreview.org

https://digitalcomicmuseum.com (need to register)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Next class, we'll be starting a "composite drawing" at poster size. This will build on your knowledge of brushes in Photoshop – a tracing/drawing project, in which you'll composite two photos, and then use the composite as a basis to trace out an illustration. You won't have to composite the two photos perfectly -- since you're ultimately making a drawing, you can correct discrepancies of lighting at the drawing stage, and a lot of the tell-tale details that you need to painstakingly correct when making two photos seem like one realistic photo can just be omitted at the drawing stage.

The theme for the drawing will be to take some figure or object and put it somewhere it doesn't belong. It could be a godzilla-size dog stomping through a skyline, a bird perched in an aquarium, someone practicing yoga at the top of a flagpole. The more impossible the better. The final drawing should be 11 inches by 17 inches, 600dpi -- it doesn't matter if it's in portrait or landscape format. Please come prepared with your photographic images at the beginning of next class -- if you want to shoot your own photos for this project, feel free.

If you'd like to download a copy of the syllabus, follow the below links.

This is the "Advanced" version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5rsg9pikmvbddk/17SpringDART430-1Lanier.doc?dl=0

This is the "Intermediate" version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gw1lxk0ydfsrpmb/17SpringDART330-1Lanier.doc?dl=0