Graphic Design Club Meeting 2/10/12

Graphic Design Club Meeting

2/10/12

Allegra Print Tour

Set up with Mike and Kelly

When? Tour?

Address: 1283 Industrial Dr  Saline, MI 48176
(734) 944-1404

Come here? Go to the shop?

Other trips:

§  Museum

§  Dinser’s Art Show (Tonight)

§  101 North Main Le Pop

§  ADDY Awards

§  Signal Return (Detroit)

§  Local attractions

§  Toledo Museum Trips

§  DIA

§  Eastern – Ted Talks

§  Type Design

§  March 8 Matthew Carter –Thursday 5:10pm (Free) Typography

§  Next Thursday Feb. 16th (Photo) Gregory Heisler at CCS (Portraiture/Cannon) 7pm.  Cocktail beforehand

Club Identity

§  Use current poster for branding/identity

Volunteer Tutoring

§  Helping people within the group

§  Community Outreach/ Photo Students, Animation Students, INP

§  Logo help

§  Consultations

Money Raising

§  Bake Sale

o   Cookie ville

o   Kim spending under $15 for white gloves

o   Sewn cookie suit

o   Bake sale for Winter Semester, Same location in lobby of GM building

o   April 18^th and 19^th

o   10am – 2pm

Portfolio Review

§  Portfolio all of the DMA

§  Team Leader - Lefttwich

o   Just GD teachers

o   $5 per Portfolio

o   Advertising

o   Set day to do this Mid –March (March 9^th at 5:30 pm)

o   Critic room

o   No limit to number of pieces

o   Critic type and logo, GD aspects of what their doing

o   Gala is April 25^th, 2012

o   Marketing team

§  Peer Portfolio Review

§  Kim in charge of money

§  Face to face instead of written reviews

§  Free food

§  Parking is easy

§  Friday

§  Honest reviews

Other guest people

Talk to other groups

Do pro bono

Serif Font v.s. Sans Serif

Bracketed v.s. Non Bracketed

Money issues with Pete ($30 under)

Next Meeting Feb. 24^th

GDC Meeting #4

Graphic Design Club

Meeting #4

1-27-2012

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Main Points:

1.    Discussed going to art shows/ museums/ special events

·      Visit a printing press and see the process

·      Going to certain AIGA events

·      Going to the Addy’s Awards (Ann Arbor Ad Club awards for graphic designers) on Thursday Feb. 9^th  http://www.a2ac.org/v1/Addys

·      Dinser’s show on Feb. 10^th

·      Toledo King James Museum

·      AIGA John Cantino workshop/talk

·      Signal Return (non-profit press shop)

These would all be great opportunities to network and learn more about the graphic design field.

2.    Discussed ways of raising money/promoting the club to gain members

·      Peer-portfolio review

a.     Book the critique room and charge anywhere around $10 at the door for the pluses and minuses of other student’s work

b.    Set up a system that would be used for critiquing work (using forms to explain things better in words and so that it’s written down in order to remember what’s been said)

c.     Have snacks and refreshments set up for students coming in

d.    Keep it “low-key” so that people don’t feel hesitant or uncomfortable about presenting their work/ work-in-progress. This will hopefully attract more people.

e.    Does not need to be a FULL portfolio, but can be select pieces, finished or unfinished.

f.      Involving more faculty members for critiques

·      Bake sale

a.     We did well with this last time so this would definitely have potential to happen again

·      Sending out a faculty email to announce the club to other classes

·      Setting up a screen-printing area to do screen-prints for students

Hey! Make sure to check the facebook group for an updated event for Feb. 10th and the meeting time for that day will be changed from the normal time to 6:30-7:30 in preparations for the event.

GDC Meeting #3.5

GDC Meeting 12/2/11 - Shot meeting, not a lot of people there.

Bake Sale recap:

$314 Profit. We did great!

Signal Return – Non-profit organization offering workshops by famous artists about printing & letterpress. Including

Bread, Pots & Book (bake bread, throw a pot & bind a book)

Food & Wine with some workshops

Etc.

TypeCon is at Hamilton Type this year (2012), it should be mid July.

GDC Meeting #3

Graphic Design Club

Meeting #3

11-18-2011

5:00pm – 6:15pm

Main Points:

1.    Discussed other options in order to make money for the club because holiday cards wouldn’t make much profit.

·      T-shirt designs (minimal color usage would be best)

·      Consider appropriate placement of your design on the shirt and recognize “trends” that would sell. For example: designs that reach from the back of a t-shirt to the front.

·      Consider sizes of t-shirts and those who may have to special order a size that isn’t available.

·      Keep prices in mind and what would realistically sell to people. ($10-$25)

2.    Discussed concerns for the bake sale.

·      It would be best not to claim that anything that is made is gluten or allergen free because the club does not want to be responsible for any issues that could arise if one of these allergens were accidentally added.

3.    Talked about the identity of the club

·      As a group, used a collective group of words to describe the club.

·      Start sketching logos for the club. This is a website of a helpful website for inspiration: www.logopond.com. Logos will be discussed further during the next meeting.

Miscellaneous fun things:

Thanks to Gino for bringing in snacks for everyone!

This is the mind map that was put together during the meeting.

GDC Meeting #2

Graphic Design Club

Meeting #1

11-11-2011

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Main Points

i. Intro

• Jakob informs new members who we are, what we hope to accomplish, etc.
• Notes by Sam due to Monet's absence
• Next Meeting in one week! 11/18 (same place, same time)

ii. Holiday cards

Dates of sale

11/28-11/30

Want to sell

• holiday greeting cards (5 for $5)
• gift tags (10 for $5)
• assorted baked goods

Printing

• Kristi in charge or printing -- will find out pricing and specify size (of cards and gift tags) and make a post on the facebook group
• 200 cards total ( 40 packs of 5)
• Suggested printing options
• Allegra Print Imaging ** - probably the one we will go with since it is local
• gotprint.com
• cafepress.com

Card designs, gift tag, and poster design due by 11/15

Card designs & gift tags latest date accepted - 11/18

Card design/gift tag suggestions and restrictions

• set up designs in CMYK (orange looks terrible in CMYK, keep that in mind)
• pretty card on outside, but will remain plain on the inside
• nothing religious
• keep to things like "holiday wishes," "seasons greetings," etc. 
• no christmas trees (generic pine trees are ok, just nothing on them. snow ok)
• acceptable ideas: snowmen, cardinals, snowflakes, sleighs, etc.

Gift Tags

• Kristi will put up specs
• need designs
• 10 for $5
• will use bakers twine on them

Assigned Jobs

Bakers

• Kim: white chocolate & macadamia cookies, dark chocolate cookies, 7 layer bar, m&m cookies
• Beth: mint cookies
• Sam: brownies
• Britney: pumpkin crumb
• Kristi: will either make or buy something
• additionally Beth will see if she can get us some Expresso Royale coffee to sell.

Poster Design - Due 11/15

• Britney & Hafsah
• text for poster: WCC graphic design club Holiday card sale Nov 28-30

-Schedules for table duty are posted on the gmail calendar

Request forms - Sam

Need forms for

• bake sale: table, chairs (3), student center cafe
• lock box
• money for prints
• soda and water to sell or $ for soda and water

Misc

• suggest selling next year when students are registering

iii. Logo or tag for our group

• want something to maintain consistency
• get cards done first then work on logo afterwards

iv. peer review portfolio

• discuss when cards are done

v. Workshop & talk @ Grand Rapids by John Contino

• May 17th
• unsure of pricing
• talk is free
• look into student rates as date gets nearer

GDC Meeting #1

Graphic Design Club
Meeting #1
 10-21-2011
5:00pm – 6:30pm

Main Points:

1.    Chose officers within the club.
Results:
President - Jakob (coordinates with all of the officers and handles issues)
Vice President - Gino           (coordinates with the president)
Treasurer – Kim Wilds (handles money and fundraising)
Secretary – Monet (note-taking and posting notes on the blog)
Events Coordinator – Samantha (handles events, permission slips, organizing, coordinates with the treasurer)
Marketing Team – Peter & Alex (designing club posters and social media updating)

2.    Discussed what members and officers expect out of the club as a whole.

• Peer Portfolio Review
• Everyone can submit their work and have it critiqued by members for improvement and input outside of class and instructor critiques
• Building portfolios, marketing/branding yourself
• Promoting the club and fundraising for the club
• Etsy T-Shirts
• Creating holiday cards and calendars
• Portfolio review
• Having a bake sale
• Keeping current with the facebook group
• Talks/Events/Speakers
• Bringing in speakers from CCS, U of M and various other places to talk about design, illustration, typography, etc
• Taking trips to museums together (potentially trips to other states)
• Films/building a library
• Bringing in films and literature about design, illustration, design etc.
• Photography annuals, design annuals, illustration annuals
• Topics/projects not done in class
• Improving design skills and testing creativity

Miscellaneous fun things:
Pizza, pop and breadsticks were so kindly supplied for everyone by Julia G, thank you!
Alan introduced us to his adorable little girl, Daisy. Aww! :)
Jakob almost broke the projector screen. Aww :(
Everyone introduced themselves by telling two truths and a lie.