Our New Graphic Design Classrooms

Hard to believe that the new Arts and Humanities building is currently under construction and will be completed in 2013. We will have a state of the art graphic design lab and classrooms. Our classrooms are on the top floor of the 3 story white building with our lab windows in the back. It is next to the rectangular silver sided building by the purple jacaranda tree. This will also be the new entrance to the campus.

Kathleen Fitzgerald at School of Visual Arts New York

It's great to stay in touch with our graduates as many transfer to some great schools to pursue advanced studies. Recently we caught up with SDCC Graphic Design alumni Kathleen Fitzgerald who is pursuing her graduate degree at the prestigious School of Visual Arts New York.

After graduating with a BA in Visual Arts from USD, I was still at a place in my design career that needed clarification. I did not know what direction to take and was eager and desperate to learn more. Along comes San Diego City College. City gave me the incentive to pursue graphic design and an awareness of execution and form that I was lacking. Through course selection, student collaboration, and professor feedback, I learned to combine my innovative and sometimes ambitious conceptual ideas with the power of design, to create harmony between form and content.

City also made it possible for me to reach a point where I was ready to apply for graduate school. Now, in my first year at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, I am engulfed in my studies and pushing to the extreme, mentally and strategically, to execute my best work. It's hard not to be motivated in a place like SVA, where the people I've studied and followed have become my professors and mentors. Students come from all backgrounds of study and from all over the world. The classes range from conceptual, to 3D, to placing emphasis on craftsmanship, and in turn, all influence each other. This program is, hands down, life-changing.

A favorite course of mine is Stefan Sagmeister's 'Can Design Touch Someone's Heart?' where we are assigned a specific target audience and have to create custom and, more importantly, appropriately designed products that become emotionally impacting.

Go after your dreams and take the time to do so when you need it. Passion and hard work lead to some impressive outcomes, and curiosity and intuition fulfill them.

Here's a link to a recent project she did giving back to the NY City bus drivers that was featured on CNN's ireport. Love this project...check it out.

Mexican Modern Painting: Wednesday December 7th at 10am

On Wednesday December 7th at 10am the SDCC Graphic Design History Class will be attending the current exhibition of Mexican Modern Painting at the San Diego Museum of Art. To learn more please visit this link to the San Diego Museum of Art. If you would like to join the group for a FREE docent led tour please contact Professor Candice López at candicemlopez@cox.net

This Friday December 2 at noon: Digitaria Tour

We've had so many amazing workshops this Fall Semester. We are now in the planning stages for our Spring events. As the AIGA SDCC Faculty Advisor I want to personally thank all the energetic students and faculty who have participated and helped create this dynamic forum to push our knowledge and skills. If you haven't had the chance to experience the magic for yourself there is an exciting studio tour this Friday!

See you at Digitaria this Friday at noon.

Saludos,

Candice López

Friday December 2: Digitaria Studio Tour

Senior Creative Director and SDCC Alumni Paul Drohan will showcase the work of this award winning, full service digital agency. They offer interactive strategy, design, marketing, technology, search, and analytics. Digitaria creates bonds between brands and consumers through modern technology’s multitude of interpersonal platforms. These meaningful relationships can only be created digitally, since only the digital platform allows for such unique interactivity with the masses on a personal scale.

Today, brands live digitally on so many devices it has become borderline impossible to control. Companies now depend on elite marketing communications companies to be the digital brand stewards. It’s no longer only about strategies that embrace a brand’s core attributes, it’s about ensuring a true understanding of how that brand is living, breathing and prospering across digital platforms. Digitaria is platform agnostic, and have built an extraordinary team of diverse skill sets and capabilities. That rare combination and balance inspires seamless and effective work across all platforms.

Digitaria. 350 10^th Avenue, Suite 1200. San Diego, CA 92101-12 noon to 1:30pm

Portfolio Building Workshops

Here's an update for students hoping to get a jump start on their portfolio building.

Workshops with Candice López and Sean Bacon start this coming Friday.

11/18 from 2-5pm in V403A Identity and Packaging
12/2 from 3-5pm in V403A Identity Manual

[we start an hour later due to the scheduled field trip to Digitaria from 12-2.]
12/9 from 2-5pm in V403A Type Font Design
12/16 from 2-5pm in V403A Multipage project

The Living Principles: AIGA San Diego

Designing with the ENVIRONMENT in Mind

To learn more about this event that is FREE to AIGA members and students please click here.

SDCC Alumni Josh Higgins story in East County Times

As a bass player for the San Diego rock group fluf, Josh Higgins traveled the country touring with notable acts like Jawbreaker, Fugazi, Blink 182 and Sublime. His music led him to a career in graphic design and San Diego City College. His socially conscious work such as the So-Cal Fire Poster Project and Haiti Poster Project has received international recognition and the attention of important companies and clients.

Now Josh has a new boss. He works for the President of the United States and consults with him personally. "Josh doesn't have to pinch himself awake for the dream. He's living it. He is now responsible for the artwork and design of his whole re-election campaign".

To read about Josh's incredible story and his start at San Diego City College Graphic Design check out this article in the East County Times by Ray Wong.

Pictured above: Poster: Come Together by Josh Higgins

SDCC Graphic Design on Newscene

Thanks to Aliya Bora for putting together this fantastic story about the Alumni Portfolio Panel for Newscene. Presenters include SDCC Graphic Design alumni Desiree Aspiras, Larisa Mamanova, Sara Linden and Ying Jen Lai and interviews with Professor Andrea Singer and design student Brent Engelhart. To check it out please visit this link

This Wednesday: Nov 16th MiresBall Studio Tour

Wednesday November 16: MiresBall Studio Tour

Scott Mires, heads up MiresBall, one of the largest independent brand design agencies in Southern California. A trusted partner of leading national and global brands, MiresBall creates market differentiation by bringing together two powerful ideas—lifestyle and innovation. The agency’s expertise lies in developing and implementing fully integrated marketing campaigns encompassing positioning, identity development, messaging and print, packaging, tradeshow environment and Web design.

Mires Ball 2605 State St. San Diego, CA-12 noon to 1:30pm

San Diego City College Día de los Muertos Celebration

Take a look at the incredible celebration of Día de los Muertos-Day of the Dead that the SDCC Foreign Languages Department held on November 2, 2011. Bravo to Professor Rosalinda Sandoval for organizing such an authentic, lively, artistic and cultural event that included altar building, face painting, candy skulls, lectures and music.

Check out this short film and get inspired by the energy of this home-grown

Day of the Dead celebration.

Next year Graphic Design is building an altar! Who's with me?

Happy Halloween

What better holiday than Halloween to showcase innovative design thinking and technical skill. Getting things started with this incredible Mad Hatter costume and make-up by SDCC design student Gary Harding. He researched the film with Johnny Depp for authenticity and made the lined coat with tails and hat from scratch! That coat is going to look great with jeans after the party is over Gary. Thanks for sending this along.

Please share your costume with us as I will be posting them up all week long. Send them to: candicemlopez@cox.net

Pictured below is the artistry of: Christopher Torres and his friends as green soliders, a spooky Karla Trejo, Eva Sabile as a Zombie cat, Joseph Sanchez as a Zombie farmer, and Angie Solis who created this Zombie Wario costume for her boyfriend. Zombies were big this year.

Mai Dong sent along two shots to wrap it up followed by Ivonne Fernandez as Marie Antoinette.

Book Arts Workshop with Andrea Singer

Push your book arts skills this Fall.

Exposed Binding Four Piece Slat Book

Sat. Nov. 12th 10:00AM-2:00PM in Room T310

$5.00 materials fee

Enrollment is limited so please contact Andrea at asinger@sdccd.edu to reserve your space.

Participants should bring a folding bone, exacto knife and cutting mat.

Spring 2012 Graphic Design Classes

In an effort to help our students plan ahead for our Spring schedule of classes we are listing them here. Schedule is subject to slight change.

FULLY ONLINE:

Graphic Design History 118 with Candice López

3 sections: 49949, 71260, 78607 for 8 weeks 1-23 to 3-17.

Digital Media 125 with Julie Warren

2 sections: 95046, 73440

ON CAMPUS AND PARTIALLY ONLINE:

Basic Graphic Design 100 with Andrea Singer

74541 on M/W 9:35-12:40pm in V403A

94411 on Tuesdays 12:45-3:50 in T310 and partially online

Typography 106 with Amy Becraft

71258 on T/Th from 1:00-4:05pm in T309

Illustration 120 with Blair Thornley

71318 on M/W 9:35-12:40pm in C213

Intermediate Graphic Design 1: Page Layout 124 with Amy Becraft

70583 on T/Th 9:35-12:40pm in T309

Digital Media 125 with Julie Willis

71246 on M/W 12:50-3:55pm in T309

Intermediate Graphic Design 2: Identity Systems 133 with MaeLin Levine

66162 on M/W 5:40-8:45pm in T310

Portfolio B: 148B with Sean Bacon and Candice López

74535 on M/W 9:35-12:40pm in T310

Studio Practices: Book Arts 149 with Andrea Singer

95487 on M/W 1:00-4:05pm in T310

Studio Practices: Portfolio Building 149 with Candice López

58022 on M/W 1:00-2:40 pm and partially online for 8 weeks from 1-23 to 3-17.

Advanced Typography 206 with Amy Levine

88001 on T/Th from 5:40-8:45pm in T310

Portfolio Building Orientation: Date Change Nov. 3 at 2:30pm

Update: Thanks to Paul Drohan for such a great presentation. I'm posting these photos taken by Eugene Brown from the event last Thursday.

Paul Drohan, SDCC Alumni and Creative Director of Digitaria will be on campus to talk about designing a type font and poster at an orientation to CRN 58022: Studio Practices: Portfolio Building to be offered Spring 2012 by SDCC Graphic Design. Paul is an alumni and a decade ago won first place in the AIGA Student Portfolio Review that included an original font and poster.

This dynamic 8 week hybrid class that meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1-2:40pm in V403A and online. This class will target design students who will be taking portfolio in the Spring of 2012 or the following year 2013 and want to work intensively to build four substantial projects for the book. Led by portfolio teachers Candice López and Sean Bacon our projects will include:

1. Designing an original type font and a project to showcase it.

2. An intensive study of identity clustered by style and technique and study of micro-trends in logo design and packaging. Development of an original identity to be applied to iconic packaging for the portfolio. This branding can then be applied to a variety of applications.

3. and 4. A great challenge for students is creating substantial collateral pieces. In this class students will develop two; including an identity manual and will then choose between an annual report or magazine design.

If you would like to find out more about this exciting class please join us for the orientation in T310 on November 3rd.

AIGA SDCC Coming in November

Join the SDCC AIGA student chapter and the design history classes for an in-depth visit to an impressive exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art on November 1st at 2pm in Balboa Park. Students can gain free admission and a docent guided tour to and incredible exhibition of Great Spanish Masters from the Perez Simon Collection. Enjoy works by Dali, Picasso, De Chirico, Magritte, Miro, Sorrolla and many others.

To learn more about this exhibition and view short films on some of the pieces in the show please visit this link:

El Greco to Dali. If you would like to join us and get FREE admission to this dynamic show please RSVP to SDCC Professor Candice López at calopez@sdccd.edu

Tuesday November 1: FREE admission to the San Diego Museum of Art to see the exhibition El Greco to Dali. San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park at 2pm

Thursday November 3: Paul Drohan, Creative Director of Digitaria

Paul will be joining in T310 for the Portfolio Building Orientation to discuss how he designed a type font. We get started at 2:30pm.

Friday November 4: Rafael López Studio Tour

Illustrator Rafael López will share his illustrations that are a fusion of strong graphic style and magical symbolism. His children’s book illustrations for Book Fiesta! won the 2010 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award given by the American Library Association. His 2008 poster Voz Unida was an official poster at Artists for Obama. He has designed 8 stamps for the United States Postal Service and created 3 paintings for Oprah Winfrey's school in South Africa. His studio is in a renovated car garage in the East Village.

Rafael López Studio. 843 Tenth Avenue. Studio C. San Diego, CA-12 noon to 1:30 pm

Wednesday November 16: MiresBall Studio Tour

Scott Mires, heads up MiresBall, one of the largest independent brand design agencies in Southern California. A trusted partner of leading national and global brands, MiresBall creates market differentiation by bringing together two powerful ideas—lifestyle and innovation. The agency’s expertise lies in developing and implementing fully integrated marketing campaigns encompassing positioning, identity development, messaging and print, packaging, tradeshow environment and Web design.

Mires Ball 2605 State St. San Diego, CA-12 noon to 1:30pm

Alls Well with EL

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and SDCC Graphic Design sent an email to community colleges that had been devastated and flooded by this disaster. We hoped to bring a displaced student from the region to San Diego where they could continue their studies. Reaching out to the campus and community we were able to secure free housing and generous support to pay for food, books and enrollment fees for a worthy student. His name was Elton Fletcher and last week he re-connected with us to share his story.

Highest highs and lowest lows

I remember the day I first spoke with Professor Lopez. It was five days after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and I was totally in a daze. I received an email from Professor Pecquet at Nunez Community College where I had been attending school. It said "EL you need to contact Candice Lopez ASAP." And that was the call to my adventure. But before I could go I had to make sure my family was safe. The three months that followed was filled with family fun, birthday parties, daily trips to Wal mart and a lot of prayers. And by Thanksgiving my family returned to Louisiana.

After New Years I drove out west. It was an eye opening experience. A two day drive with a layover in El Paso. Then I arrived in San Diego where that night I met a cool dude named Brody Alpert. He gave me a run down on the lay of the land in SD. The next day I met Sondra Lognado. She took over my car to give me a city tour and we visited San Diego City College. The following day David joined us and we all had breakfast at the Hash House and a tour of some of the art hotspots in SD. This was only the third day in San Diego and already I had made three amazing friends.

Two weeks later I met Professor Lopez at Cafe 222. I must admit I was very nervous. I didn't eat a thing. I'm a little shy. She has a great aura and it's very bright. We talked about Katrina, my family, her family, and about this new start as an artist. This was something I had always wanted to pursue but never have the opportunity. She told me, "the time is now so dig in." From this meeting my life as an artist was re-born and it was the magic key for me. This was my calling. That following year I jumped into to the pool of art and design students at City College and never looked back. San Diego City College was that spark I had been questing for. That year I was not only educated but found my calling in life. I made so many new friends that I'm still in contact with till today.

Today my family is all back in New Orleans-back in the 7th Ward Columbia Parc. I'm currently in Dallas where I work as a print and web graphic designer at Collin College in the Art Department. I'm pursuing an MFA at the University of Texas Dallas in Sculpture and Emerging Media and Communications. When I'm done in three years here's hoping I will be making my return to teach art at City College.

Thank you San Diego City College for having me and treating me as one of your own.

Thank you for the adventure.

EL Fletch

SDCC Graphic Design is on facebook

San Diego City College Graphic Design is now on facebook. Check it out.

AIGA SDCC Studio Tour to Visual Asylum

The AIGA SDCC Student Chapter invites you to an exciting studio tour this Friday.

If you can join us please meet at Visual Asylum at noon.

Friday October 21: Visual Asylum Tour

MaeLin and Amy Levine have both served as AIGA San Diego President.

Visual Asylum is an award winning strategic design firm. Partners and SDCC Professors Amy and MaeLin Levine will talk about creating branded experiences for clients and their end customers that work, across all media. Their clients include very large institutions as well as many small start-up enterprises. This dynamic firm is collaborative, creative and results oriented.

Visual Asylum. 2970 5^th Avenue, Suite 220. San Diego, CA 92103-12 noon to 1:00 pm

San Diego City College 2011 Faculty Exhibition

Luxe Gallery

October 20 - November 18, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 20th, 5 - 7 p.m.

5th floor/ Career Technology Center/ San Diego City College

1081 16th Street, San Diego, CA

Doug Dailard, Dave Eichinger, Yoonchung Kim, David King, Candice Lopez, Cynthia Lyons-Dailard, Wayne Hulgin, Terri Hughes-Oelrich, Andrea Singer, Anna Stump, Blair Thornley

Art Center at San Diego City College 10/20 at 2pm

Did you know that over 100 students from SDCC have gone on to get a higher degree at the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena?

Would you like to find out more about this incredible school, how to transfer and prepare a portfolio for admission? Here's your chance. Join us next Thursday October 20th at 2pm in Room T310. Julie Caruso, Assistant Director of Admission of Art Center will be on our campus to show you the work of design students and answer your questions.

Please join us in Room T-310. See you there.

AIGA San Diego Membership Bash

The AIGA San Diego Membership Bash
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
6:00PM – 10:00PM

3rdspace
4610 Park Blvd, Unit 3
San Diego, CA 92116
619-255-3609
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Come mingle with fellow designers and discover what drives each of them. You´re invited to join us for some great eats and music by DJ Marc Larson. You´ll also have the chance to hear about what we´ve got planned for this year. So come catch up with some old friends and make a few new ones. We hope to see you there.

Members: Free
Guests: $20

The venue is in University Heights (between Madison Ave & Spalding Pn Ave & Spalding Place), so all parking is street parking. Be sure to arrive early in case you have to hoof it a block or two.

You need to RSVP so go to this link.

See SDCC Portfolios this Friday 10/14 at noon!

Friday October 14: Alumni Portfolio Panel

This is a unique opportunity you simply can’t miss. Connect with amazing alumni and view some of the best portfolios to come out of SDCC. Panelists will not only show their finished books but talk about the experience of creating them, what worked and what didn’t and offer specific tips and suggestions to help your process. Panelists include award winners from the AIGA San Diego Review. We will be joined by extraordinary alums Desiree Aspiras, Ying-Jen Lai, Sara Linden, Larisa Mamonova, Paola Meraz and others. Paola got a scholarship to Art Center and will be driving from L.A. to talk about her experiences there and transferring for further study in graphic design. Get inspired, get thinking about your own portfolio!

V403A on the 4th floor of the new photo building at 16th and C street. 12 noon to 2:00pm

We want your feedback. Take this quick survey.

Graphic Design Students,

The leadership of our AIGA SDCC student chapter has created this brief survey that we hope you will take to tell us what you want in terms of events and workshops in the Spring semester. It's quick and easy and you can let us know what you want to learn...
advanced digital media workshops, pre-press classes, or tell us your thoughts.

We need your input and please tell other students in your classes to give us their opinions. To take the survey this brief 9 question survey please click this link.
Thanks to the AIGA SDCC leadership committee and Jasmine Jiminez for putting this together.

Steve Jobs: Innovative Thinker and Dreamer

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of innovative thinker-a true genius who understood what we wanted even before we did. Steve Jobs.

He helped create the Macintosh computer that revolutionized graphic design and the world. He reinvented the portable music player with the iPod, and introduced a way to legally sell music online with iTunes. The iPhone changed the way we use cell phones and the iPad was a breakthrough that gave breath to the electronic tablet market. At one point in his life he quit school but enrolled in one course at Reed College to study calligraphy. “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.” Jobs said.

For many years a popular discussion question in our Travel by Design and Portfolio Preparation course featured his commencement speech at Stanford and if you've never heard it or want to get inspired all over again click here. Thinking back to our first lab in 1988 when students would stand patiently in line to use our cherished 6 Mac SE computers it makes sense that even the skies of San Diego are filled with tears tonight.

SDCC Alumni Lauren Casgren-Tindall connects from Rotterdam Holland

At SDCC Lauren's bright spirit, positve attitude and passion for packaging stood out. Building a successful career in design is a journey and we wanted to catch up and find out how this determined designer ended up in Holland. The year she graduated from City was really tough, as the bubble had burst and jobs were not easy to find. In Lauren's wise words she "left no stone unturned". She began her career in San Diego doing graphic design for a furniture company and got the basic experience she needed before moving to New York. She applied for every kind of job even ones she was not yet qualified for in hopes her work would be seen. Although she wasn't sure if it was the best approach, it worked and she got an interview for an art director position at Victoria's Secret. She was truthful in her interview and was offered a graphic design position instead thus getting her foot in the door of the beauty packaging world. That led her a few years later to her dream job at Avon designing fragrance bottles and packaging.

"No matter how tough the job market is, it only takes one person to take a chance on you. I was an average designer when I graduated from City College, but with teachers like Candice and MaeLin they instilled confidence in me and as I soon learned I would get better. Confidence, curiosity, and passion are the keys to success". About a year and a half ago, Lauren left Avon to move to Miami as she wanted new challenges. There she freelanced for Benihana and started Logohaven.com designing logos & branding, before deciding to take a short summer course in product design in London/Milan. Afterwards, she wanted to live in Europe for a while, and stopped in Holland, where with luck and hard work she got a business visa to begin her own design company. Creme de Mint Design is located in Rotterdam, Holland and she is working with a couple of Dutch partners on projects, including a tea product line. She also works within a media company at the Creative Factory an inspiring space where they put 150 companies into a shared space that helps you build your network. Check out this link to see some of Lauren's amazing packaging design work for fragrance and beauty products.

Trip to Inscriptu this Tuesday October 4: 12-1

Thanks to the many students who attended our Tips and Techniques Workshop this past Friday. Our next AIGA SDCC activity is the perfect complement to that event and a terrific opportunity to push your designs to the next level by creating unique effects.

Tuesday October 4: Trip to Inscriptu Tour

Clyde, Michael and Chris will showcase the incredible range of design techniques to make serious eye candy for your portfolio. Inscriptu can do laser engraving, rotary engraving, vinyl cutting and many other special effects. This is the perfect follow up to the Tips and Techniques Workshop in September. Here at SDCC we are big fans of Inscriptu because they really take the time to work with our students to help them realize the full potential of class projects. Thanks for being there.

Inscriptu: 3138 5^th Avenue. San Diego, CA 92103-12 noon to 1:00pm

Become an AIGA San Diego LINK mentor

The AIGA San Diego LINK Art Program is starting up for 2011-2012 and is looking for mentors. The program consists of workshops lead by local designers/illustrators/artists that allow the students to get a glimpse of what is possible in the arts. Watch this youtube video for details.

The workshops run between the months of October and March on Saturdays between 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. If you are interested in mentoring, please arrive at 8:00 AM for the mentor orientation on Saturday, October 8, 2011. The program is located in the East Village near trolley and bus lines for easy access:

Space 4 Art/ 325 15th Street/ San Diego, CA 92101

We hope you can join us at the Orientation to see how you can make a difference! This year will be one of our best yet. If you would like to receive fliers to hand out please send an e-mail to: directorlink@aigasandiego.com /Sondra Lagnado AIGA LINK Art Program Director/ Phone: 619.565.6337/ aigalinksd.org

AIGA SDCC Workshop on Techniques and Tips

All students are welcome to the next AIGA SDCC workshop Techniques and Tips on Friday September 30 in T310 from 1:30-3pm. Sean Bacon and Norman Ramos will be showing you how to make eye candy for your comps with techniques like laser engraving, embossing, faux foil stamping and much more. If you want to find out how to make your portfolio soar and your classmates and teachers ask how did you do that? you have to attend. Cultivate your creative edge at this incredible workshop.

Here is what will be covered:

Vinyl Cutting -- Setting up files where to do it
Glass/Mirror Etching
Faux Foil Stamping
Iron Ons to create tags
Materials available at Staples -- Window Cling Decals
Rubber Stamps and Polymer plates
Inscriptu/Laser Engraving

This workshop will be FREE!

SDCC Alumni Chris Do grabs an Emmy

SDCC Graphic Design Alumni Chris Do got the 2010 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for the Ravenonettes "Heart of Stone" video.




My graphic design career began at San Diego City College, where instructors including Candice Lopez were instrumental in preparing me for continued training at the Art Center College of Design. I attended SDCC in 1990, and in 2 semesters, with the support and encouragement from Candice, completed my portfolio and gained admission to Art Center. The program, even in its early stages, taught me valuable skills that I use to this day as Founder, President and Executive Creative Director of Blind Inc.

What began as a two person operation has flourished into a bicoastal enterprise serving a range of clients that include McCann Erickson, Electronic Arts, Deutsch, Chiat/Day, Amnesty International, FCB, DDB, Fox Sports Net, MTV, G4, Land Rover, Sony, Microsoft, Gnarls Barkley and Justin Timberlake. With offices in New York and Santa Monica, Blind creates visual narratives fusing art, design, technology and culture for broadcast television, film and interactive media. SDCC fostered the passion for creative excellence that drives both the work I do and my vision for the future.

Click this link to see more compelling motion graphics by Chris Do and Blind that fuse traditional film-making, animation, photography and typography.

Golden Section Workshop Videos

Our opening AIGA SDCC workshop of the Fall semester was a hands-on experience creating golden section grids. Special thanks to Sean Bacon for breaking it all down for us.

Here are the videos he promised to walk you through root 2, 3, 4 and 5.

INTRO

http://online2.sdccd.edu/faculty/sbacon/goldensection-intro/goldensection-intro.html

ROOT 2

http://online2.sdccd.edu/faculty/sbacon/goldensection-root2/goldensection-root2.html

ROOT 3

http://online2.sdccd.edu/faculty/sbacon/goldensection-root3/goldensection-root3.html

ROOT 4

http://online2.sdccd.edu/faculty/sbacon/goldensection-root4/goldensection-root4.html

ROOT 5

http://online2.sdccd.edu/faculty/sbacon/goldensection-root5/goldensection-root5.html

AIGA San Diego City College FALL 2011 Student Chapter Events and Workshops

I'm genuinely excited about a great line up of workshops and events put together for our San Diego City College American Institute of Graphic Arts student chapter. I want to thank the faculty members, alumni and design community partners who are making these incredible opportunities possible. Join us this Fall to grow both what you know and who you know.

Candice López, AIGA SDCC Faculty Liason

Click here to get information on joining or renewing your membership in our AIGA SDCC student chapter. When space is limited on some of the tours and workshops priority will be given to AIGA SDCC student members. All events/workshops are FREE unless otherwise noted in this listing.

SEPTEMBER

Saturday September 17: Golden Section Workshop with Sean Bacon

Join SDCC Adjunct Professor Sean Bacon as we explore the magic of the golden section and discover principles of geometric composition that will make your layouts soar. This classic proportioning system will change the way you think, plan and organize your design concepts.

T309 Graphic Design lab-12 noon to 1:30 pm

Friday September 30: Techniques and Tips Workshop with Sean Bacon

with special guest Norman Ramos

Portfolio Prep instructor Sean Bacon helps you discover some of the best special techniques you can use to add the ahhhh! to your design comps such as laser engraving, embossing, faux foil stamping and much more.

T310 Graphic Design Classroom-1:30pm to 3:00 pm

OCTOBER

Tuesday October 4: Trip to Inscriptu Tour

Clyde and Chris will showcase the incredible range of design techniques to make serious eye candy for your portfolio. Inscriptu can do laser engraving, rotary engraving, vinyl cutting and many other special effects. This is the perfect follow up to the Tips and Techniques Workshop in September.

Inscriptu: 3138 5^th Avenue. San Diego, CA 92103-12 noon to 1:00pm

Friday October 14: Alumni Portfolio Panel

This is a unique opportunity you simply can’t miss. Connect with amazing alumni and view some of the best portfolios to come out of SDCC. Panelists will not only show their finished books but talk about the experience of creating them, what worked and what didn’t and offer specific tips and suggestions to help your process. Panelists include award winners from the AIGA San Diego Review. We will be joined by extraordinary alums Desiree Aspiras, Ying-Jen Lai, Sara Linden, Larisa Mamonova, Paola Meraz and others. Paola got a scholarship to Art Center and will be driving from L.A. to talk about her experiences there and transferring for further study in graphic design. Get inspired, get thinking about your own portfolio!

V403A on the 4th floor of the new photo building at 16th and C street. 12 noon to 2:00pm

Friday October 21: Visual Asylum Tour

Visual Asylum is an award winning strategic design firm. Partners and SDCC Professors Amy and MaeLin Levine will talk about creating branded experiences for clients and their end customers that work, across all media. Their clients include very large institutions as well as many small start-up enterprises. This dynamic firm is collaborative, creative and results oriented.

MaeLin and Amy Levine have both served as AIGA San Diego President.

Visual Asylum. 2970 5^th Avenue, Suite 220. San Diego, CA 92103-12 noon to 1:00 pm

NOVEMBER

Friday November 4: Rafael López Studio Tour

Illustrator Rafael López will share his illustrations that are a fusion of strong graphic style and magical symbolism. His children’s book illustrations for Book Fiesta! won the 2010 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award given by the American Library Association. His 2008 poster Voz Unida was an official poster at Artists for Obama. He has designed 8 stamps for the United States Postal Service and created 3 paintings for Oprah Winfrey's school in South Africa. His studio is in a renovated car garage in the East Village.

Rafael López Studio. 843 Tenth Avenue. Studio C. San Diego, CA-12 noon to 1:30 pm

Wednesday November 16: MiresBall Studio Tour

Scott Mires, heads up MiresBall, one of the largest independent brand design agencies in Southern California. A trusted partner of leading national and global brands, MiresBall creates market differentiation by bringing together two powerful ideas—lifestyle and innovation. The agency’s expertise lies in developing and implementing fully integrated marketing campaigns encompassing positioning, identity development, messaging and print, packaging, tradeshow environment and Web design.

Mires Ball 2605 State St. San Diego, CA-12 noon to 1:30pm

DECEMBER

Friday December 2: Digitaria Studio Tour

Senior Creative Director and SDCC Alumni Paul Drohan will showcase the work of this award winning, full service digital agency. They offer interactive strategy, design, marketing, technology, search, and analytics. Digitaria creates bonds between brands and consumers through modern technology’s multitude of interpersonal platforms. These meaningful relationships can only be created digitally, since only the digital platform allows for such unique interactivity with the masses on a personal scale.

Today, brands live digitally on so many devices it has become borderline impossible to control. Companies now depend on elite marketing communications companies to be the digital brand stewards. It’s no longer only about strategies that embrace a brand’s core attributes, it’s about ensuring a true understanding of how that brand is living, breathing and prospering across digital platforms. Digitaria is platform agnostic, and have built an extraordinary team of diverse skill sets and capabilities. That rare combination and balance inspires seamless and effective work across all platforms.

Digitaria. 350 10^th Avenue, Suite 1200. San Diego, CA 92101-12 noon to 1:30pm