Cellar Roots, EMU’s student literary magazine, is looking for two graphic designers–one to design advertising (which would be more of a year-long gig) and one to design the book (which would be a more focused assignment, mostly working in the winter). They are looking for students with a little experience, though are always willing to give students new to the process a chance.

I don’t know about compensation, but in the early and mid 90s Cellar Roots was make waves in many design publications. It had quite the exposure, I knew about it even before I came here.

Contact:
Alicia Vonderharr
Editor-In-Chief
cellarroots.editorinchief@gmail.com
www.emich.edu/cellarroots

This website is very cool…doesn’t look like it has gotten updated in a while, but still sweet

http://www.detroit-graffiti.com/

(image below from there)

An Alumni sent me this. I don’t have any other information so send to the email below.

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Hey Andrew,
I work for a company called Your Memory Lane, find us at www.yourmemorylane.com We only use Illustrator to design our stuff. Do you have any students whom you would say are ADVANCED with Illustrator? We are looking for someone that can come in to the position who doesn’t need help learning how to use Illustrator, but can be shown how we do things. We are looking to gear someone up for what we expect to be a huge Christmas this year. Oh yeah, this is a PAID position.
Brooke
bsrochon AT yahoo dot com

It seems that since school began I, as a graduate student, have been giving a lot of thought to what/how/who design is or isn’t. After reading the articles from Ryan’s class (on design, and his “what is design presentation”) and ones from Andy’s seminar (articles dealing with manifestos that classify design as “less worthy” if it is for commercial purposes vs. something like educational, informational, signage or otherwise)… I’ve been looking for answers. I’ve found something from AIGA’s web site to share: http://designing.aiga.org/.

Just food for thought.
I haven’t “designed” any conclusions except that this seems to tie in closer to “product design” (which was my undergraduate major). I feel them meshing together more each day.

I just had to share that I have a feeling “we” (designers) are getting “stuck” in the current state of some motion graphics.
It bothers me that I look around me and see all of this really neat design work and I can’t think of anything for myself to do as a project because I always want to copy it, not exactly of course… but mimick it none-the-less. I know that is the best form of flattery, but in the back of my mind I feel that I am not creative to think of my own “real big new thing.”

For me, I seem to be getting more intrigued by motion (with letters) which for me began with the opening sequence of the movie “Stranger than Fiction” (if you haven’t seen the movie, it’s quite alluring). One of my goals is to be more 3d and “interactive” about graphic design and I like that (although the text isn’t tactile) the text is in a state of flux and development changing around it’s environment.

This led me to look for other motion media that exibit similar characteristics of moving type where I found the following site: www.fakepilot.com/work/

and 2 sequences to the IKEA scene in “Fight Club”and this one at youtube as well, being the second.

If you know of any others, post em and let me know. :o)

Here are two interesting film projects that are worth noting…

I Met the Walrus
I Met the Walrus is a film produced by Jerry Levitan who in 1969, when he was 14, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. The interview was recroded with a reel-to-reel tape deck. Director Josh Raskin has created an extremely interesting film using this audio. It is entirely animated using pen sketches by James Braithwaite and digital illustration by Alex Kurina. It seems to not only capture the cultural zeitguist of the 60’s but also makes the content meaningful for today’s audience.

The Shock Doctrine
The Shock Doctrine is a film by Naomi Klein which examines the CIA’s use of shock to control/manipulate human subjects. The motion work, by Foriegn Office, is a blend of stencil graf and instruction manual. While I am not a fan of the Banksy graf style they use, it still is an interesting project worth noting. More on the film here: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film.

It seems to be an growing trend, there are many other recent documentary films, such as An Inconvinient Truth, and shorts, like Trusted Computing, making use of motion design. It will be interesting to see how this genre of documentary film making evolves in the future.

There seemed to be some interest in this so I figured I’d post it for those interested. Reactable is the instrument that was used during the Bjork concert.

Here is a vid of a performance using it:

Also you can check out their website for more stuff: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/

My favorite poem….one of those things that awakens a creative urge in you. The first few stanzas will hook you…and make you want to drink wine, scream at the moon and create stuff for the pure joy of it…

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Howl   by Allen Ginsberg

For Carl Solomon

who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night

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These are amazing. Slow motion video of some of the best dancers in the world has been recorded at 1000 fps so that 5 second motions are stretched out into 10 minute video portraits. The example on the exhibition website is great, and I would love to go to LA to see this.

The website: Slow Dancing

The Artist: David Michalek

This is an article about what it means to be a photographer specifially, and an artist in general. It deals mostly with being concious of your audience, so it’s worth the read no matter what type of artist you are.

NOTE: The article in reference has been removed at the request of the author.