hey guys! just to let you know,
LAB OPENS = SUNDAY APRIL 30th, 10:00 am -

5:00 pm

if you have any problems getting into the lab, please call me (sarah) 734 277 1962.
if you would like to come on saturday night or you don’t have a computer and want
to be let in at another time please e-mail me (jalliso1@emich.edu).

good luck with exams!
see you around,

Sarah Allison

Ponoko allows you to design products such as jewelery and furniture using vector software. You design your pieces, select your materials, and then send the file to them to be manufactured on demand.Plenty of examples and further explanation can be found at their site:http://www.ponoko.com

Hello everyone, my name is Ryan Myers. I was a design student at EMU three years ago and have been checking back here for the past couple months partly to see what current EMU students are digging up around the web and partly because it provides a source of inspiration to see a group of students so involved and interested in design. Ryan Molloy is letting me post here in hopes that I can shed some light on life after school and also to share with you some things I find interesting and or inspirational. That being said, here are some links to job posting sites and sites to create a profile with portfolio of your work.

Job Postings + Profile:
Computer Love
Behance
Coroflot
Creative Hotlist
AIGA
KROP
VIRB

So I hope you guys find these sites useful. I look forward to talking with all of you!

EMU Friends of the Library need our help. They are having a contest and need us to do the following:

1. design a bookmark
2. design for a 11″ x 8″ canvas bag (2-3 colours) 
3. design a new logo for them

Each category will win a $100 gift certificate. These designs will give back to the EMU community as they are using them for a fund raiser to make the library better. Not only do you have a chance to win some money but you have the opportunity to give back to EMU. There are a few restrictions you must remember:

• bookmark and canvas bag must say “EMU Friends of the Library”
• your name and graduation year will appear on the design
• you can  have a printed piece to put in your portfolio
• they really want your design to “POP”
• let’s show the library how supportive we are

if you need to ask my any questions, please e-mail me or reply to this. my e-mail is jalliso1@emich.eduif you would like to visit EMU friends of the Library website go to http://brand.emich.edu/fol

okay i hope i got your attention. you need to come to the aiga meeting this week (on thursday) at 8:00….

we need you to come out and brain storm some ideas for the portfolio review that will be held at EMU

this year.  you need to come out, its pretty fun. get involved…. care.

There is a little girl back home (in Brockville Ontario) that was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her name is Lilly and she is one-years-old. There is going to be an art exhibition in Toronto where all art sold will go towards her medical bills as she comes from a family that isn’t well off. I’m looking for people who would be interested in donating paintings or creating paintings, photos, posters, ect. for the exhibition - but there’s a catch: the exhibition is called “Lilies for Lilly” so all art should be of a lily or lilies. If you can have the items for me before February 16th 2008 that would be sweet. If you can frame it that would be even better but if not I can pay for it to be framed.

Canadian Sarah (ask around if you don’t know who I am)

I thought I’d share a website I like to frequent, www.youworkforthem.com. This site is full of great designy stuff you can purchase including books, posters, fonts, and stock art.  I really like to check this site out from time to time just for inspiration and to nose around.  There’s a lot of great stuff here worth checking out. There’s a couple of fonts and books here on my wish list if anyone’s interested.   They also have a flickr pool in which people post design they created using YWFT products here. 

As promised I would post some resources for the 460 class in respect to resumes and portfolios. It is a list in progress, so you may want to check back from time to time to see if anything has been added.

sometimes you just get lost when designing something new. sometimes i just lose creativity after pushing so hard class after class plus work each day. i found the answer!

this book is amazing reference/inspiration! just simple ideas and helpful tips that are right in front of your face but you forget to include in a project, i know i do it all the time.

click on the book itself to get transported to the amazon page where you can look inside at an excerpt and whatnot. this book is actually available at our bookstore at the student center- so if the excerpt doesn’t do it for you, check it out page by page. plus this is one of many in the “workbook” series! well, i was impressed.

So I’m going to sound like some teen that just got a picture in the mail from some pop artist but this is way cooler. I always talk about how mathematical art inspired me to go into graphic design and computer science. Everywhere I look and find that kind of at and know that’s what I want to do is by Ben Fry. I totally look up to him as an artist and am amazed at everything he’s done. I found his e-mail address on one of his websites and figured it couldn’t hurt to send him an e-mail. I wrote to him about how I found out about him and how he’s inspired my work and asked if he ever takes interns and what kind of advice he could give me… I kept thinking, in my eyes, this guys is a celebrity and I’ll probably never hear back but last night I actually got a personalized e-mail back responding to my questions and giving me advice! I actually heard back from the guy who’s inspired it all!! I’m crazy excited and told my mom I’m going to frame the e-mail lol… Anyways I just wanted to tell all of you that in hopes it inspires you guys to contact those artist who’ve inspired you… It turns out these guys are actually human and maybe write you back, and who knows how many doors it could open if you just take that chance… Good Luck and please let me know if you have similar things happen. It would also be cool to know who inspires you so I could check out their work as well…