GD222 News - Spring 2008

This Spring 2009, GD 222 will be offered as a hybrid course, partly in-class on Wednesdays, 6-8:50pm, and partly on-line. We'll use Adobe Flash CS4 to create animations, banner ads, cartoons, and Web interfaces. Those of you who have Flash CS3 should be OK, but older versions are probably too outdated for some of the important features of Flash that we will cover in this course. I check e-mail fairly regularly, so let me know if you have any questions.

I will update the syllabus and schedule regularly, so please don't do any assignments early unless you check with me first. If you want to get started early:

Textbook for Spring 2009 - should be available at the campus bookstore or online

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CALL FOR ENTRIES

Attention all Associate, Bachelor, and Masters Degree candidates with an interest in the visual arts, currently enrolled at a West/Southwest Regional public or private college or university. No matter what major, if you paint, illustrate, sculpt, design, draw, photograph, or just create art, you are eligible to enter the 2nd Annual Fine Art Finals West/Southwest Regional Scholarship Competition.

* Please note that photography is also being accepted in this year's competition *

Media accepted include:

Drawing - graphite, colored pencil, pen and ink, marker, pastel, charcoal, etc.
Painting - oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, etc.
Printmaking - etching, lithography, screen-printing, etc.
Sculpture - clay, ceramic, plaster, marble, glass, wood, resin, porcelain, metal, etc.
Jewelry - gemstones, precious metals or other materials, etc.
Fibers - textiles, fabrics, yarn, natural & synthetic fibers, etc.
Photography - traditional & digital.
Digital Art - see our information page for details.
Graphic Design - traditional & digital, see our information page for details.

This scholarship competition is dedicated to the promotion of talented and gifted emerging artists at the collegiate level and awards their mastery of technique and excellence of artistic achievement. Finalists and Winners will be selected based on quality, originality, and the creativity of their work.

First Place:   $1200
Second Place:   $600
Third Place:   $300

Two Honorable Mentions:
$50 each

Entry Deadline:
Postmarked by Friday, May 8, 2009

For Entry Forms and Entry Rules, please visit our website: click here

For Competition "Call for Entries" 11x17 (Tabloid Size) Posters to display in your school, please download and print from website: click here

To see the results from our previous competitions, including
the First Annual Fine Art Finals West/Southwest Scholarship Competition of 2008,
please see our website: click here

West/Southwest Region includes the following States:
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii,
Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma,
Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, & Wyoming

Entry Deadline:
Postmarked by Friday, May 8, 2009

For more information, please visit us online:
www.fineARTfinals.com

Or check out our blog for news, updates, and artist interviews:
www.fineARTfinals. blogspot.com

Upcoming Conferences

Adobe FlashForward Conference

The 2009 Conference date is not set yet, but it is usually in September. This is the largest Flash user conference in the world. I will not be able to attend, but I will try to post related events of interest as they occur.

Last year's conference highlighted the work of John Maeda. Some of you may already be familiar with John Maeda's work, but many may not. He does some very interesting, very simple, interactive widgets. He seems to have a sufficient understanding of enough prototyping tools like Flash and PHP that he just creates these little 'ditties' of design simplicity. Honestly, some of them aren't that interesting (don't tell anyone I said that), but alot of them are, and there are so many! Check out his work at the following links:

http://www.maedastudio.com/

http://www.media.mit.edu/~maeda

http://lawsofsimplicity.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maeda

Here is an article from the Chronicle on the need for Web Design programs to solicit input from industry :

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3582/colleges-get-poor-grades-on-teaching-web-skills

Here is the corresponding survey, "Teach the Web," website

http://teachtheweb.com/interviews/

COMPUTER CLUB MEETING

Cuyamaca College has a computer club that meets regularly. I will post details about the club soon.

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COMPUTER CLUB MEETING

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- William James

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