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volume through volume.
Our class had the privilege of working with two AIGA members, Lisa Blevins and Grant Little, on a voting initiative for AIGA50, AIGA’s Chattanooga chapter. Our objective was to design a logo and look and feel for a campaign focused on getting everyone in Chattanooga’s AIGA to register and vote. We worked very hard as [...]
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quiet/loud.
The objective for this project was to create two panels of images that evoke a sense of words with opposite meanings: quiet and loud. The process lent itself to a great deal of experimentation in Photoshop with things like duotones, halftones, etc. For my “quiet” panel I chose to use a photograph of a quiet [...]
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field trip to rmg.
Our trip to RMG/National Print Group was extremely informative. We were able to get an in-depth look at all aspects of the printing process. Learning about prepress steps was helpful because being able to provide the right files will save time and money. RMG had three enormous printers which were fascinating to see. We also [...]
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visiting artists.
Last week our class was able to have a discussion with UTC’s visiting artists, Ryan Wolfe, Mark Andreas, and [dNASAb]. It was nice to be able to hear each artist talk about his work and explain the process he goes through from concept to completion. It was good to hear [dNASAb] say that daydreaming is [...]
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chattanooga times free press.
Our class was fortunate enough to be able to tour the Chattanooga Times Free Press facility. We saw the entire process of the newspaper making process from start to finish; from concept and design to final print production. The printing process they use is flexography, and I found learning about it to be the most [...]
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freitag design-a-truck contest.
Frietag, a company that recycles used truck tarps by making bags out of them, is holding a design competition. The objective is to design a tarp to cover a semi-truck using only black and/or white ink on a black, white, gray, green, or yellow background. The tarp should convey the idea of “transit” in some [...]
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