DM Minutes!

Yeah so... I've been lazy. We've had two meetings, and I've only now gotten around to posting the minutes for them. What a slacker, right? But anyways, here they are.

DM Minutes (8/27)

Ellen Hatcher, Guest Speaker from Rebuilding Together Savannah.
-Use of fact sheet to help create a snazzy new brochure.
-Maintain green in logo.
-Show vibrancy and kindness is volunteers, and work they accomplish together.

Motion: Vote to take on brochure project for Rebuilding Together Savannah: All in Favor, none opposed.

Another project pitched- logo redesign. To be started after completion of brochure.

Motion: Reschedule all meetings to Second MONDAY each month, 12PM. All in favor, none opposed.

Club Dues: 10$ please get those to us ASAP.

AASU Day
-If you have ideas, please let us know, or shoot us an e-mail—we’d appreciate any and all involvement in this very important project for us.
-Things we’re considering currently: Popcorn Machine (if complementary again), Brownies, Postcards/Greeting Cards, Food, Templates for pictures. Gaudy Frames to put our work in (Justin says he can help with this! Awesome!)
-Things we need help with: Design, Construction, Helping Hands to maintain booth. Work to display.

12:54—Diana proclaims that she has hunger.



DM Minutes (9/8)

DUES! We need ‘em.

Rebuilding Savannah Brochure Responsibilities:
Photo Touch-up & Selection – Alex
Design – Jenni (with an I) & Amie (with an IE.)
Layout – Chris G.
General Assistance, Organization & Prep – Diana

Other Logo Project — Sam & Justin

AASU Day (Oct 22):
-Brownie Sugaring Party at Chris G. & Alex’s house on Tuesday the 21st of October. (The Day BEFORE AASU Day) 6PM—please come if you can help!
-Jenni is going to see if her husband’s band can come prior to end of AASU Day to play a few songs by our booth.
-Sam & Chris G. are looking to make templates for a themed photo-background of some sort, where people can come up and take pictures and then we can shop their faces onto it, and print it out for them.



Aaaand... that's pretty much it. Let me know if I've forgotten anything! :p

~LX.

Summer Task #3 submission!

That's right, you read that title correctly. Submission without the "s"

Haha. I figured I'd go ahead post it anyways, I went about a week after the deadline waiting for submissions but they never came in.


So here's mine:




I've always wanted to do one of these old retro ads because they fascinate me...especially the old tobacco ones despite my not being a smoker.

I had a blast doing it and I'm looking foward to this next semester with Design Matters. This concludes the official Design Matters Summer Tasks.

See you all at the Block Party on Monday!

- Chris

The Design Process

I saw this today and thought it was really great.

Stop signs are one of the many things we take for granted. It's hard to believe that there was a time before the stop sign existed, and that someone had to invent it. The Process is a fun short about how things would have turned out if it were designed by committee.

- Chris

7 fonts that should die

I forgot one of the uses we established for this blog was to share things with each other that are design-related.

Well, here's a quick and funny one that Alex and I were talking about earlier today:

7 Fonts that should die

He and I both agreed that Comic Sans should most definitely be added to that list (that is, if it already isn't dead...we can only hope)

If you guys find anything fun or useful that is design-related, post it up here and share it with us.

- Chris

Summer Task #3 -- Advertise!

Hey Guys,

I've decided to go ahead and propose the third official Design Matters Summer Task. This is one that my friends and I used to do a long time ago for fun way back when we were first taking an interest in digital art.

I would like everyone to make a magazine advertisement.

Well, what are the stipulations, you ask? None, really. Like all of the other summer tasks, this is very open ended. This is not a magazine layout or a spread. This is a one page ad for a product, service, business, etc. Thumb through any magazine that's close to you to draw inspiration. You can advertise anything you want and design in any style that you'd like to.











I'm going to go ahead and give everyone more time to complete this one since the last task had such a low turnout (more than likely due to the time frame). I'll go ahead and make submissions due on August 9th. That give you 12 days, not counting today. If you feel like you could do more during that time, by all means, do more than one. Or if you didn't already submit one, go ahead and submit a website design for the 2nd summer task.

Unfortunately, this will be the last summer task because school will resume shortly after this project's completion.

Good luck everyone, and I hope to see some ads from everyone in the next 2 weeks

- Chris

Summer Task #2 Submissions

Hey again, everyone.

So, perhaps I went and made the 2nd summer challenge a bit too short. I blame the boredom of summer and having to wait around for 12 days feels like an eternity so as impatient as I was feeling, I may have jumped the gun.

We only got 2 submissions: Raphyel and myself.


Raphyel Jordan



Chris Gibson


Short video showing how it would look while browsing the site


Both of us agreed that we had fun coming up with our ideas and executing the project itself so if you still want to come up with a design, by all means, keep working at it. I'll take them whenever you're done and post them up here. We'll just remove the deadline for the challenge.

- Chris

Gig Poster submissions!

Hey Everybody,

just wanted to go ahead and show off everyone's gig poster submissions for the first official Design Matters Summer Task.

Raphyel Jordan



Diana Holliday



Jimmy Taylor




Chris Gibson







Alex Sandoval




Well, that's it. Hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did and also learned a few things along the way. I know I did. Good Job, everyone.

- Chris