HOT OFF THE PRESS!

Wooooooooooooot! Catherine sent me a scan of HOW Magazines spread for the award we won!! I'm going to do some photos of the piece myself later just super geeked right now.

AN EVENT FOR WHAT'S NEXT!

I'm almost done with this two year program at MCAD! WOOOT! Come check out some of my work next Wed from 6-8PM (The opening reception)!!

CGD Award Winning Piece

Last Friday I found out that myself along with my other three classmates received an award from HOW Magazine. Below is what we were emailed.

"It’s my pleasure to inform you that your project Certificate in Graphic Design Brochure, which you submitted in the Student Work category of HOW’s recent Promotion Design Awards, was chosen as a Merit winner. Congratulations!"

The piece will be printed in the October issue.

Just noticed the colors on the photos are waaaaay off! I'll throw some 'right' color joints up a lil later.

**update peep the real colors here on my flickr page

Redesign of Emil Ruder's "Typographie"

In the middle of March my typography class had an awesome project assigned to it a collaboration project. When it was first assigned the class (four of us) were super excited about redesigning the classic typography book, “Typographie” by Emil Ruder. The weeks went by and some of us felt less and less motivated by the project and it turned almost into a chore. Well last night we busted out the final piece!


As a group we collectively decided to take the book and make it into a box that would be able to travel to different libraries to be used as an education tool on typography. A lot of love, sweat and tears, YES TEARS, went into this project. The box sits 12”x12”x3” with an amazing pattern made by Mz. Molly Hein based off the cover of Ruder’s book. Inside the contents are:

-A bellyband that wraps around the box. Designed by Catherine Grothe. (I don’t have any pictures of this oops :( )



-A motion graphics piece, which has been formatted to a DVD and stuck to the lid of the box. Designed by Catherine Grothe & Matt Van Ekeren.







-24”x24” With quotes from the intro of the book in regards to the practice of typography according to Emil Ruder and on the other side a duo-toned image of Emil Ruder. Designed by Christina "C-Rocka" Rimstad.



-Three Pamphlets about the history and development of typography over the years. They are also in a square format (I don’t know the dimensions off the top of my head) and are in an accordion fold. Designed by Mz. Molly Hein and Matt Van Ekeren.



-Sheets of paper to use to make a message with the stamps in the box. Designed by Catherine Grothe.






-A set of stamps along with some symbols of the UNIVERS 65 Bold typeface. Designed by Christina "C-Rocka" Rimstad.

Check out some more images of the process on my Flickr page here.

CGD Deisgn

The remaining four members of the program I'm in at MACD were all asked create a redesign for the CGD (Certificate in Graphic Design) program brochure. We all had to create a different concept/designs and then the director would chose one or elements of this one or that one. After one concept was chosen we were asked to create 2-3 different designs and mock them up. We had maybe a week to bang it out. All four of us have full time jobs as well as our other class we have on Saturday to make time for so this project to say the least was a bit of a challenge.

The four of us students broke off into two groups and began our creative processes. Molly Hein and I came up with a “border book” design to make the trading cards an extra element to the design while not straying from the important content. The cards in this design will tear off effortlessly due to perforation and offer up handy tips to prospective students as they prepare to commit to the program. After extensive image research along with studying the way advertising took place in the late Fifties into the Sixties we came up with what you see. Creating the “campy” look they pulled borders from old fanzie Elvis trading cards and mimicked some of the off-registered printing that often took place in that era of time.

We also found that it would be best to make the most of the “campy” feel by using a cream/tan color paper to give the cards a vintage feeling. Other elements in the piece are the hand drawn header type treatments, handy tip images and the MCAD building. Keeping the piece only to two colors we went with Pantone 332 U, a sea foamy green. The final size of the piece folded down will be 4”x6”. A wafer seal will be used to close the piece for ease in the mailing process.

Although our particular design elements were not chosen our format concept was chosen. Below is what Miss Molly Hein Design and I created.

What it will look like once you break the seals...



Opening



Flip it...



Flip some more...



Keep Opening it...



Almost there...



Open Front...



Open back...



Some of the hand drawn stuff I did...

Introducing The Fab Four

The latest in reality TV The Fab Four is four students that are currently attending the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Watch as Catherine, Molly, Matt and Christina face one of their biggest challenges to date, the re-design of a program brochure. Stay tuned for more details!

**Logo/Image created by Molly Hein Design.

Motiongraphic Piece for Obama

Shout out to Molly Hein Design for sending me the link to this youtube. I'm diggin the way it looks and MC Yogi isn't that bad...peep.