I found this while looking through Deviant Art. Makes you think. ;)

Animation Video

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

found this video…. not a bill orielly fan but i thought the video was worth posting…http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8d0df7680d

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.

http://www.redbullartofcan.com/?#config/home.xmlA co-worker of mine at the chamber has Red Bulls stacked all over his desk, when I asked him what he was doing saving all of them he said he is entering a contest. You have to check some the gallery pictures out they are incredible! 

Just reminding my fellow seniors to apply to graduate by wednesday, jan 23rd!!!

Yeah so I was pretty pissed off when I walked all the way up to the lab in the freezing cold on Sunday to find out it wasn’t even open. It should be posted or emailed when its not going to be open normal hours.