Butte Digital Art & Design

First Day of School and the End of HP's TouchPad

2011-08-22T07:21:00.000-07:00

This morning starts a new semester for our college and students. As I read the headlines of Streaming Media's Website, the first thing that catches my attention is "The TouchPad is Dead." I didn't even know it was alive, and now it's gone. HP's TouchPad was launched in early July and is now being discontinued and companies such as Best Buy are sending them home (250,000 just from Best Buy). The

On-demand world

2011-08-11T13:54:00.000-07:00

We're becoming an on-demand design industry. On-demand books, magazines, clothing, shoes, 3-D models. Now you can get your own temporary tattoos or buy the paper and print your own. Check out: Tattly to see a company that has started their own business making and selling designer temp-tats. The company used design friends from StudioMates for their tattoo designs. I'd never heard of Studio

Back to school and Blogging all the way.

2011-08-08T09:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome back. School starts on the 22 of August. Am I the only one who thinks Summer vacation seems to have gone way too fast this year. This will be an exciting semester. I'm teaching a couple of new classes this semester: T-shirt Design, and Photoshop for the first time in nine years. I'm also preparing a few new elements to add to my projects for students this semester. After reading an

Your ARTS Education stARTS Here!

2009-09-03T01:32:00.000-07:00

School is back in session after a pretty hectic summer vacation. A lot of time was spent getting the new ARTS building ready to go, ordering new equipment, and trying to be ready for the opening day of the Fall semester.Last Saturday we had the Opening Celebration of the building and it was a huge success. Over 300 people showed from the community, Butte students and faculty, and local artists.

2009-04-21T22:23:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I've posted, but I've been surfing a lot and it's time to share.A couple of weeks ago I re-designed my art portfolio as a magazine and uploaded it to magcloud.com. You have to see the quality of the printed piece they sent me five days later to get the full understanding of the opportunities it opens up for designers. The company prints its magazines using an HP Indigo

FREELANCER RESOURCES

2009-03-15T13:49:00.000-07:00

It's interesting how the blog world works. I just read this great post from NOUPE that lead me to the Design Cubicle, which sent me to the Freelance Switch Web site. Freelance Switch grabbed their idea for the list from the I Help You Blog. However the final links and blogs come about, this link to "101 Essential Freelancing Resources" is a great source for any designer, especially students

MORE JOB SEARCH SITES

2009-03-08T20:33:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of job search sites for those looking for employment. Thanks to Graphic Fetish for this list. Contact me with other sites you may know of that I could list.1. Freelance Switch2. CoroFlot3. Talk Freelance4. Project for Hire5. GURU6. 99 Designs7. Authentic Jobs8. Smashing Jobs9. Freelance Job Search10. iFreelance11. Freelance Jobs for All12. Solo Gigs13. All Freelance14. No Agencies

BLOGGING and GOOGLE READER

2009-03-01T21:44:00.000-08:00

WELCOME TO THE BLOGOSPHEREIt's taken me a while, but I'm finally surfing the blogosphere. I've limited myself to design and advertising-related blogs, but this hasn't stunted my options for great blogs in any way. Currently I'm subscribed to more than a dozen blogs that are pretty amazing for their content.Graphic Fetish is the most recent blog I've subscribed to–within the last ten minutes. The

MY IN YOUR FACE DESIGN STUDIO

2009-02-22T23:21:00.000-08:00

I talk about having a design studio, but very few people ever get a chance to make it to the studio to see where I do my creating. I just uploaded images of the design studio to Flickr. I'd like to say it's not always so messy, but it's how I work (organized chaos).The images feature my collection of vinyl toys, art on the walls, book binding equipment, and my large library of design books.Check

FREE TEXTURES

2009-02-21T11:09:00.000-08:00

This is a quick posting to let students know about this site I just came across.TEXTURE KINGTexture King has a huge number of free high-quality textures to select from, and they are all categorized for easy navigation and search.Check the site out and start designing.-Daniel

STUDENT PROFILE 2: DANIELLE BLIXT

2009-02-20T18:51:00.000-08:00

At the beginning of this current semester I decided to introduce CrowdSpring.com to my Art-32 Typography students. None of my students had used the site before, so it was a new and exciting entry into the design industry and the use of speculative design projects.Daniel Blixt, a second-semester student in our design program here at Butte is currently enrolled in the Typography class. After

One Trick Pony

2009-02-20T11:09:00.000-08:00

Greetings all. As I'm sure most of you know by now I am a new student at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. I attended Butte College for 2 years before moving on to further my design career. There was a time when I held the idea of a design career as impossible, and something that really wouldn't amount to much as far as making a living. I was wrong. During my

URBAN ART: SHEPARD FAIREY

2009-02-02T21:06:00.000-08:00

There's a chance you may not know Shepard Fairey's name, but unless you've been without a TV or any kind of news in the last few months, you'll recognize his art shown at right.Fairey's iconic image of President Barack Obama has been shown on newscasts, plastered on walls and telephone polls across the nation, and featured on magazine covers such as TIME and Esquire. Just last week, an original

THE BUSINESS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

2009-01-29T22:24:00.000-08:00

If you're looking for a late-starting class this semester, I'll be starting my Business of Graphic Design class in early February. The class will be M/W, 9:30 am-11:30 am. Look for flyers announcing the class next week.In other business news, my current issue of Graphic Design USA arrived this afternoon. When I grabbed it out of the mailbox, the first thing I noticed was the cover; great look and

FINDING A JOB

2009-01-22T21:30:00.000-08:00

With the economy in dire straights and companies across design industries announcing freelance hiring freezes, this seems like a good time to offer up some valuable ways for our current and past students to find potential employment.One of the questions students ask me on a regular basis is "How do I find a job in the design industry?"This is always a great question, and I want to offer some

ART IS WORK: MILTON GLASER

2009-01-19T20:17:00.000-08:00

I recently purchased a great book featuring the work and writings of renowned designer and artist, Milton Glaser, titled "Art is Work". Glaser is known for his posters, illustrations and logos, such as the "I Love New York" logo that has become a recognizable icon for New York, and has been replicated around the world.In the introduction to "Art is Work", Glaser discusses the defintion of Art:"If

STUDENT PROFILE 1: SHERI HAMILTON

2009-01-12T13:11:00.000-08:00

We get a lot of great design students taking classes in our Digital Art & Design department here at Butte College. Every week I'm going to post profiles of current and past design students.Our first Student Profile is Sheri Hamilton. At the age of 24, and after three and a half years, Sheri graduated with a Graphic Design and Multimedia degree from Butte in 2006.Sheri was one of our top design

CRAIGSLIST JOBS AND DTG

2009-01-11T09:18:00.000-08:00

Last week I was out at Butte designing and producing t-shirts for our Recruiting department's Campus Orientation students. Since last semester, Campus Graphics (our in-house design organization) has produced about 300 shirts for Butte College special projects. Last year our students also designed and produced over a hundred shirts through our MSP66A Super Graphics class and other design classes.

Macworld review

2009-01-10T19:26:00.000-08:00

Last week I attended the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. This is reported to be the last conference that Apple will attend. I don't know if this is such a bad thing. Apple really didn't need to be at this conference as a vendor since there was nothing new to announce. I think it was the first time in years that I remember seeing empty slots at the Apple booths, where you could just walk up and

SPRING 09 CLASSES AT BUTTE

2009-01-05T21:29:00.000-08:00

We're less than a month away from the new semester and all of our classes are filling up fast. The classes with space still available are: DAY CLASSESDigital Video (4 spaces left) - Dennis Wickes instructor2D Flash Animation (3 spaces left) - Dan Seward instructorIntro to Multimedia (2 spaces left) - Daniel Donnelly instructorSuper Graphics (12 spaces left) - Dylan Tellesen instructorArt 32

BECOME AN ADAD BLOGGER

2009-01-04T18:36:00.000-08:00

I just received an e-mail from a current student, Sean Orozco, who said he would like to help with our blog. This is exactly what I'm looking for. I want a large group of students and faculty to become bloggers for ADAD. I am also hoping to begin adding other designers that I know as bloggers.Students in our program are constantly looking at new sites, new technologies, and new software. I want

WOMEN IN DESIGN AND MULTIMEDIA

2008-12-31T08:37:00.000-08:00

Green Fashionista posted a really great comment this week regarding her noticing the gender inequality at the Pentagram design firm: "I find it interesting that only 2 of the 17 partners at Pentagram are female..."On the eve of the New Year, I think this is an important topic to consider in going forward into 2009 and beyond. Six years ago when I started teaching in the Design department at Butte

DESIGNING INTO THE NEW YEAR

2008-12-29T08:53:00.000-08:00

It's just a few days before the New Year, and as I sit here surfing from site-to-site and seeing all of the amazing designers and design sites I keep coming across and bookmarking on my DELICIOUS, I wonder how many of our students and faculty are designing during the break?During that first week back to school every semester, I ask students how many designed something, or who played with design

RISD: RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

2008-12-26T09:54:00.000-08:00

If you haven't heard of John Maeda before, now is the time to start doing a bit of research. There's a great interview on the Fast Company Web site. Maeda is the current President of RISD, the Rhode Island School of Design.Maeda's background includes BS and MS degrees from MIT, he's considered a world-renowned graphic designer who pioneered the use of computers used for art, and he initiated the

WELCOME TO THE ADAD BLOG

2008-12-25T15:14:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the Art/Digital Art & Design (ADAD) department's blog. This space is going to become a resource for our students and instructors to discover all of the great things that are happening in the ADAD department. We'll also use the space to feature amazing artists and designers, cool Web sites and resources found while surfing the Web.First up: A new Mac lab for DAD. Long live the Mac, the