Dear Students,

Enclosed is the application for the Senior Show. Your faculty encourages you all to enter…and it’s the very first time we are having this event. This is a great way to end your education at EMU- a show with your peers highlighting those about to graduate.

First Annual Senior B.F.A. Exhibition
Feb. 11 – March 6
Ford Art Gallery
Reception: Mon., Feb. 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

This exhibition will display the work of art majors graduating during the 2007-2008 academic year. It will be a culminating experience for those pursuing the B.F.A. in art and will allow the art department to showcase the richly varied work of its graduating seniors.

Requirements to enter this show:

1. You must have at least 100 credits but you don’t have to be graduating this semester.
2. You can submit 1 to 3 pieces
3. Selection of work done through professors. This means you should talk to your professor about which pieces you should submit.
4. Work must be dropped off on Thurs., February 7 with the application(s) filled out.

bfa_senior_app.pdf

Questions should be directed to either Jen Locke (jlocke1@emich.edu) or Andrew Maniotes (amaniotes@emich.edu).
Best,
Andrew Maniotes
Jen Locke

Okay, after talking with all you guys in crit today and getting lots of really good feedback, I questioned my approach. I decided, why not put a spin on this?… maybe a drug company hired me because they were sick of drab, borring design. Anyway, after apply suggestions from the class, I redid the packaging for my product and came up with my swiss imspired design. I know minor tweeking is still nessessary -just not at the moment!

Take a look. The syringe will be placed on the same angle as the blown up version.  Scale-wise, the needle would stick out at the white line pointing towards the benifits if all works out as planned. Please let me know what you guys think. I will post the brochure when it’s ready.

Thank you,

Matt

For everyone who hasn’t seen the work by Takashi Murakami (who both myself and someone else I saw in the lab are doing projects about right now). Murakami and his studio Kai Kai Kiki Co., Ltd. made this short video to promote Murakami’s Superflat monogram design being put out by Louis Vuitton. Superflat being a Japanese pop-culture inspired art style that Murakami is credited with creating.

I don’t think this was intended for American audiences though, which is too bad. It would be awesome to randomly see this on TV one night.

I’m designing a product and brochure… the product is basically an injectable fluid to give you instant gratification for whatever you want. I’m trying to make it look medial and realistic even though reading the type indicates otherwise. I sometimes have trouble with the standard brochure format, but I want to keep with it for this project…so please, any feedback would be nice… (save the Britney jokes though… she is more or less a place holder for now). Also, I want it to look very clean, but I’m not sure a white background would work so i blew up the more interesting portion of the Necrosis logo and gave soft coloring for a background… not sure if this is working or not.

Dear Students,

The first annual BFA exhibit is coming up soon!  February 11th.

This is a SENIORS only show. The FIRST one we have ever held and something we have been pushing for for a long time. It will be hung in the University Gallery at. Be a part of EMU history.

If you are a senior with around 100 credits, you are elligible.Think about 1-3 works that they you want to install for the exhibit. 

We will send along information soon about how we will go about working with you for spotting and installing.

This is a GREAT opportunity to show your work to the public, friend, parents, etc …and a nice way to end your time at EMU.

Come on people … do like Alan and Sarah said and TEAR THAT SHIT UP !  ;)
Best,

Andrew Maniotes

Jen Locke

 
I came across this project recently, found it absolutely intriguing…artist Olafur Eliasson created this piece, a laser-cut negative space rendering of his house in 85:1 scale. 452 pages of just laser cut pages. As this technology becomes more readily available, imagine what designers can do with books when we have to consider the spatial experience more and more. You can read more about it here: http://www.origamitessellations.com which seems to be a great site for paper craft/engineering artwork.

This semester we are hoping to set meeting times and locations that make the most sense to the greatest number of students. We would also like to know what can be done to make the AIGA Student Group more usefull for the whole design program. To help us do this, please take a minute and fill out the Winter 2008 Survey.

At Draft FCB in NYC

Thank you EMU graphic design professor triumvirate!  No doubt the projects you guys gave helped me get my foot in the door… also they said the web experience I had was helpful.  It’s a 10-week internship, so now I just have to find a subway tunnel to live in for a while…