Field Trip To SHAPCO

We had a real fine day. Nov 1, 2011 was a fine day to go for a trip to the SHAPKO printing and to the Walker Art Center. Our First destination: SHAPKO Printing Inc. 524 North Fifth Street, Minneapolis.

One with the class.
Art 320,
Fall 2011,
Keith Christensen.

Who took this picture & why am I not in it?

I heard something about Designing is the No. 1 market in MN, after or before the MN Government. Correct me please, I am not sure about this one.*

Everyone would have verified this if they would have had the trip of the day.

Mike Hanley.
He made effort to take our group of curiosity around the press and explain to us what things are and how they work?

The employees were hiding from my camera. It's not my fault they said I could do it damn it !!!

These machines help stack the designs. Every stacks or a group are separated by code or special sign. You need to have a good eye to and a good pair of back to stand 12hrs, all night or day and try to play swan princess in here. The employees here go Tarzan.

Toxic, 230 V, and chop chop place ... Bring It On !!!

Interesting how things are put in black. A very well organized set of a design.
If you focus on the designs on the back wall and shake them, it makes a very nice eye-illusion.*

I Forgot to record his name. But he simply said, 'Is this place okay?' and stood for a pose.

He was checking every design and literally chasing the machine up and down which took almost the entire length of room it stood on.

This picture explains how every design is certified by the eyes. I saw this man, working faster than light, and completely trash the design even if it has a spot of difference. He was very willing to work in front of the camera. Now if only he wasn't shy to talk.

(Video I)

I couldn't get more while I got here, but here's a small clip.
(Video II)

Here you go, try another clip. (Video III)

Another clip on the picture for you. (Video IV)

This is a picture proof of what SHAPKO is all about !!!

Miss Dione Palmer and Keith exchanging gratitude.








I am sure we all had as much fun just walking around just as much we were "learning"






I enjoyed this day.

WALKER Field Trip

This was our second trip of the day ... after the SHAPKO tour, coming to the ever known Walker Center was a bonus to our field trip...

The Walker Art Center.

We got a personal insight on printing and design value from Greg Beckel. He was patient and gave us a worthy time and explained a lot of their work in progress and work done in general. Some of the books there were simple awesome. I'd be more than happy if I could ever get to work here myself.

Nicole Bowden, Mel Campbell, Sturat Geddes, Natasha Ludowyk, Penelope Modra, Jeremy Wortsman.

Is Not Magazine, Young Is Not Free, issue 4, November 2005 Mel Campbell, Stuart Geddes, Natasha Ludowyk, Penelope Modra, Jeremy Wortsman.

Is Not Magazine, Love Is Not Lust, issue 1, April/May 2005 Courtesy the publisher.

Mel Campbell, Stuart Geddes,Natasha Ludowyk, Penelope Modra, Jeremy Worstman.

Is Not Magazine, All The Glitters In Not Gold, issue 11, July 2008 Courtesy the publisher.

Julia Bron and Laurenz Brunner: Title of the Show, 2009.

Created for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany, Title of the Show takes selections of Born's work-books, posters, postage stamps-and enlarges them on the gallery walls. The walls were then photographed, becoming the pages of the accompanying catalog. The printed catalog is on view in the book case (no. 87).

One of the best examples of Branding. Something I like to do.

Jonathan Barnbrook, 17th Biennale of Sydney identity system, 2010.
He employs a mix of elements to create brans and sub-brands for a diverse of cultural events. The system is simple, but the results are complex, yielding a cabinet of curiosities that symbolizes on a ragtag civilization surviving in a turbulent age.

Design Museum identity, 2003, London

Illustration by Kim Tang, 2006 mobile construction by Timothy Rose.
When Alice Rawthorn was director of the Design Museum in London, she commissioned the London firm GTF (Graphic Thought Facility) to create a new graphic identity reflecting the museum's eclectic definition of design and its growing presence online and in the local community.

Kari Krause, The True Size of Africa, 2010.

This public-domain map helps people understand the scale of the African continent in relation to other regions of the world by fitting familiar geographic land masses inside an outline of Africa.

Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Brand New: Before and After 2006-2011.

Before and after presentation invite visitors to vote on the concept and execution of new logos for existing brands and to post additional comments.With user-supplied critiques that range from constructive to inane, these comment threads provide a unique forum on a ubiquitous design genre.

The Proletarianization (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/proletarianize) of design offers designers a new crack at materialism, a chance to reengage the physical aspects of our work. Whereas the term 'author,' like 'designer' suggests the cerebral working of the mind, production privileges the activity of the body. Production is rooted in the material world. It values things over ideas, making over imagining, practice over theory - Ellen Lupton.

I don't think this is crazy; not! the picture, no, NOT! the design. They just relate to me.

Daniel Eatock, Felt-Tip Prints, 2006/2011.

Felt-Tip Prints ask whether a poster needs to have a message at all. It consists of 300 markers left uncapped and standing; sheets of paper are balanced on the marker tips until the link has drained from the pens. The resulting stack of paper, each with its own pattern of ink absorption, becomes an edition of prints.

Experimental Jetset, Statement over Counter-Statement, 2011.

Founded by Marieke Stolk, Danny van den Dungen, and Erwin Brinkers, Experimental Jetset is a design firm based in Amsterdam.
... have aimed to present "a less cynical, more modernist, and more optimistic version of Susan Sontag's take on the modern poster as 'one part sentimentality, one part irony and one part detachment" (1970).

Edward Fella, various flyers, 2009.

"A poster is like a miniature of an event: a quotation-from life, or from high art. Modern poster collecting is related to the modern phenomenon of mass tourism. As collected now, the poster becomes a souvenir of the event" (1970) - proclamation: Susan Sontag.
By Seizing control of the means of production and distribution-becoming in effect both message and messenger-Fella's work presages other developments in the afterlife of the contemporary poster, contributing to the persistence of this iconic design genre.

I like dis ting !!!

As he is named.

Anthony Burrill. woodblock poster series, 2004-2011...
Oil and Water Do Not Mix, 2010.
... in which large-scale letter-forms spell out messages that admonish or uplift the reader.
... the poster is printed with silkscreen ink made from oil spilled in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico environmental disaster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46jhJA_zv7U

Aesthetic Apparatus, Untitled Test Prints, circa 2002-2007.
The overlapping words and images on these prints are the result of over printing a new poster design atop an old one, thus creating a visual record of different production runs. Typically discarded in the production process, these prints are preserved and arranged like a waterfall, alluding to the torrent and flow of production.

search: "make readies"

make-readies

Its not cliche' for me ... I love dis all color.

... now this layer not even adobe can create ...

Lust, Posterwall for the 21st Century, 2007/2011.

The virtual wall is a layered palimpsest of projected posters, older messages sinking to the bottom, new ones surfacing on top. In a millennial twist, the LUST wall display responds to the movements of passersby. While the modern poster strove to immobilize the viewer's gaze, this future poster senses and responds to your presence.
Instruction:

1. tweet a message and/or image using #posterwall* to generate a poster.
2. capture a poster on your mobile app store; for example, i-nigma or QR Reader (iPhone), or Barcode Scanner or QR Droid (Android).  ( please do research if you will )

Green Patriot Poster, Edward Morris and Dmitri Siegel.
Images for a New Activism, 2010.

Who designed this Poster? Answer if you know.*

Elliott Earls ... the letterforms and imagery explore the relationship between objects and image, 2-D and 3-D, handwork and digital construction ... namely, from left:
Cranbrook Fiber poster (2008), Cranbrook Ceramics poster (2008), Cranbrook 2-D Graphic Design poster (2008), Cranbrook Painting poster (2008), Cranbrook Architecture poster (2008).

Keith Christensen and Greg Beckel.

Graphic Design and The People behind it. Notice the image also has 'graphic design behind 'the people behind it'.






* All in red are for fun, play if you want to research some more.

Couple of videos at the Walker.

This video is just a sample of something that is as small in the video is recorded on the wall. I was trying to capture the similar frames, it takes time but you will get it for sure.

(Video V).

It must have been very much fun putting this work together. I am not exactly very sure if the video was timed or programmed, but it seemed to move follow the movement of the object in front of it.

(Video VI).

AIGA Presentation in SCSU

Jennifer Price and John Printy representing AIGA Minnesota, came down to the Kiehle building in SCSU today. We time out of our class to hear them talk and introduce to us what AIGA stands for and how can it be helpful to us students, current and after graduation.

We had a real good time not just with the AIGA presentation, but also munching down on those cookies Professor Haeinn Lee brought for everyone.

Meet Miss Jennifer Price. She is the Co-Director of Education. She introduced AIGA to us. Aiga was founded in NYC in 1914. In 1977 AIGA Minnesota was founded. Out of the 66 chapters around the country AIGA MN is the 4th largest group. She also told us there is a AGIA in China. AIGA has approximately 22,000 member with about 9,000 students and 240 student groups.

Mr. John Printy is the Education  Committee Member and also the Assistant Professor of Art and Graphic Design at Northwestern College in Saint Paul, MN. He added after NY, Chicago and San Francisco, AIGA MN has over 1,300 to 1,400 members of which almost 600 are students. AIGA is more of an Inclusive than an Exclusive organization. The only regret today was, we weren't able to meet Jamie Larson, who is the Student Representative to the Board. Despite, this presentation went very nice.

I had the chance to sneak up my camera from the far corner of the room to capture couple of their slide shows. Who enters AIGA? Absolutely anyone who is interested with Art and Design.

This slide shows us the later version of our progress. From working up as a student to emerge as an artist to having established a career we current students have a chance to be part of AIGA in a professional level.

Couple of advantages of being an AIGA members are presented right here. As John Printy mentioned this is a chance for us to learn more and the professionals to give us back.

This is a slide of proof that AIGA can come cheap to students or non-students to become a part of it. There is also an easier way to apply, online, which we can see underneath the advantage slide.

This slide was rather funny. Miss Price compared our expenses on random stuffs, and her boots to the amount of money we would ever spend on AIGA; a good cause. It does make sense, I am NOT a member of AIGA (I can't afford it, but next time I think I'll skip going to the bars, but lets see what the weekend has to offer ... I joke I joke I kid I kid ... !!!) I just need a job that can help me maintain my status in and off school.

This slide simply explains our costs with relations to continuing our membership after graduation. It is important to maintain our integrity all our life, same goes with AIGA. Committing to a membership is as important as being a family, and everyone in family develops better with better involvement of its members.

What can AIGA give us? (I missed a couple of words on this slide but you can catch up with this on the videos' link just below.)  

There are also couple of other advantages joining AIGA besides the learning and developing factors. AIGA also provides its members with benefits and discounts that a lot of artist and designers could use. Of Course the health insurance is always a plus point.

Just a quick snap of a portfolio book that was passed around the room. Didn't get to observe much of it, but it sure had very good printing and designs within it. Impressive enough for me to take a quick picture of it.

AIGA also provides activities that gets it members involved in different terms and gets them together. Classes aren't the only places to learn. The activities like lecture series, shows, luncheons are special time for anyone to get together and share their knowledge; if not even get to know each other time is always a good one.

Mr. Printy had this slide explained. He gave us an example of a certain person who randomly met a person at a random place and after sometime got a random phone call for a job offer. Networking 101 isn't always random, but it is always more than a reason for 50% of the jobs we get in today's time.

These are couple of web links where we can get a hold of AIGA. One should definitely check them out. 

Just wanted to take a picture of Miss Price's business card.

At the end, nothing brings smiles to people's face than a group picture. The best part, our Professor was the camera person and it was my camera. Y A H O O !!!

Before I end this blog, I have to include a line that I adored throughout the presentation.

"AIGA is with you for your entire career,starting now."

These are the links to the videos from today's presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLdiSDsWdrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCjB4vGbFDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G154fhTb8vs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBIBVmLtz9g