Digital Design

movements: CAM @ MCA Denver
Opening: August 30  6-8 PM

This show features students from all of the areas in CAM, including Digital Design. It runs through September 8th.

Adobe has a new product – Edge that is an interface for designing animation for HTML5.  Should be a great interface to use all of the great open source javascript libraries out there, i.e. jQuery, Mootools, but with a familiar After Effects style interface!

Join us for the 2011 BFA Thesis exhibition at Redline – May 10th-15th, 2011. Opening reception : MAY 12TH, 5-8PM

WWW.REDLINEART.ORG
University of Colorado Denver
College of Arts and Media www.camarts.org

Wednesday, May 11, King Center Recital Hall 6-8PM

Digital Visions 2011 showcases outstanding animation, motion graphic and film work created at the College of Arts & Media. Categories include Narrative, Documentary, Music Video, Intro/Promo/Trailer, 3D Animation, Motion Graphics and Experimental. DV 2011 will also honor the Best of Class (three from each category) including: Best of Production 1, Best of Production 2, Best of Production 3 , Best of Production 4 and Best of Digital Design
Prizes will be awarded for each category.

2011 Annual Juried Sculpture Club Exhibition

Pirate Contemporary Art
3655 Navajo Street, Denver, CO 80211
303-458-6058
www.pirateartonline.org
Hours: Friday 6-10 PM, Sat/Sun: noon -5 PM
Exhibition Dates: April 29-May 15, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, April 29 6-10 PM

Walter Ware III Peter Roach
Jessica Gross Caitlyn Canniff
Nic Berumann Joshua Stratten
John Henry Daniel Nilsson
Sara Lornitzo Melonie Mulkey
Laura Phelps Rogers Jeffrey Trayer
Matt Evans Lorraine Tryba-Detrick

Juried By Rian Kerrane & Michael Brohman

Dark Circus
Hosted by Slim sleepy shallows

Featuring Acts:

The Haunted Clown
Evil Unlucky Dooms-Day
Misfortune Teller
Scales and Tales
Extremely Van and Temperamental Bearded Lady

Congratulations to the four finalists in the Denver Day of Rock Poster competition, Nate Guerra, GwenAnn Hua, Skye Sant and Tyler Glasser. The judges had a difficult time narrowing down to just four, which is a great testament to the students who entered. All of the finalists are CU Denver design students in Design Studio II.

Vote now for your favorite design at the Denver Day of Rock website.

If you are interested in video game design a few of us are attending the Global Game Jam 2011 this Friday, Jan. 30 at DU. The concept is to design a video game in 48 hours in competition with artists and designers all over the world. Should be fun!

To register, you need to register both on the Global Game Jam site and on the Facebook page.

ADCD (Art Directors Club of Denver) hosts “The Old Spice Guys”!

The team who made these INGENIOUS commercials is coming from Portland!

ADCD Keynote Speakers – “Old Spice Guys” Buy Tickets
Thursday February 17, 2011 at 6:00pm
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
1600 Pierce Street
Lakewood, Colorado Get Directions
The Old Spice Guys go to Casa Bonita!

Wieden+Kennedy creatives Craig Allen & Eric Kallman bring ideas, insights, and a tasty reel of work for Skittles, Careerbuilder.com, and yes, the infamous “I’m on a horse” spot for Old Spice that has swept every major award show, has millions of followers on YouTube, and a slew of parodies. They just have one request. Being big South Park fans, they want to go to Casa Bonita. Wanna go with them?

Come hear them at RMCAD Thursday, February 17th at 6PM. We’ll then hold drawings for Casa Bonita vouches so you may go to dinner on ADCD with Eric and Craig. Just think. You’ll get to talk to the winners of the 2010 Cannes Grand Prix for Television AND enter the diabolical Black Bart’s Cave—all in one night! Wow!

The new website for the College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver is now live! The new design has extensive links to student work being created in the Visual Arts program, including Digital Design, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Music, Film and Theater. We have designed it to be a resource for current students and faculty so that we can see how student outcomes are directly linked to what students are doing in the courses. Plus, it looks cool!

The College of Arts and Media (CAM) at UCD is very pleased to invite you to attend any of four premiere performances of Galileo.the father of modern science. This exciting new piece will play at 7:30 and 9:00 PM on Wednesday, January 19 and Thursday, January 20 in the Dome of Gates Planetarium, which is located inside The Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS). Attendance at all performances is free of charge but seating is limited and reservations are required ( see the end of this Announcement for details ).

Seating is limited and by reservation only due to the limited seats in the Gates Planetarium Theater. The public is welcome, with a Reservation available for each show below:

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Thursday is a video release party showing DS III videos and music:

Thursday, December 16 · 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Crossroads Theatre
2590 Washington Street
Denver, CO

**ALL AGES!!**

$5 cover -or- free with valid UCD student ID

Music Videos created by UCD Digital Design students for:
The Heyday
Glowing House
MTHDS
Regret Night
John Common
My Body Sings Electric
The Hollyfelds
Leslie Brown

Live Performances by:
My Body Sings Electric
Leslie Brown
Glowing House
& Special Guest

Tonight (Friday) on Channel 7 the lead news item at 5PM will be an interview with Michelle Carpenter and her students in Design Studio III – a zombie awareness piece. Check it out!

The Art Directors Club of Denver (ADCD) is accepting entries for its annual competition, The Student Show. In the past, categories have included Graphic Design, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design – Poster, Graphic Design – Packaging, Publication, Editorial Design, Traditional Illustration, Print Advertising, New Media/Web, Direct Mail, Photography, Logo/Identity. Prizes have included $1,000 scholarship, Wacom Intuos tablet, iPod, Adobe Suite, and ADCD membership. Not to mention recognition by the professional design community!

It would be great to see some Digital Design students entering this competition, there have been many winners from CCD, RMCAD, Ai and Metro in past years.

Thanks for sending this Rassamee!

Nice article about scientific and medical animation recently posted in the NY Times. Over the last decade, medical animation has improved dramatically from a simple accessory to a valid, accurate teaching tool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/science/16animate.html?_r=1

Here’s a great article about our Design Studio III course – http://www.heyreverb.com/2010/11/05/news-college-courses-never-used-to-be-this-cool/. Congratulations Michelle and the gang!

For those of you interested in entering the Student Art Exhibit, please get your entries in by this Wednesday, Nov 3rd.

Flare is a free ActionScript library for creating visualizations in Flash. I’ve added a link to the Interactive Links page, this tool could be a lot of fun to work with and has the potential to create some very exciting visualizations as can be seen from their demo pages.

An excellent list of books related to:
Art and Design
Computer Graphics and Visualization
Philosophy of Vision
Vision Science
Visual Culture
Visual Literacy

Hi All,

I understand that there have been some issues with text objects using the NetRender render farm. As with Illustrator, InDesign or any other software package, text used in your document must be installed on the machine that is doing the imaging/rendering. In order to be sure your file will render correctly, please either use standard fonts (Helvetica, Garamond, Gill Sans, etc) or try making your text editable (effectors will not work on editable text). To test and see if the font is installed on the render farm machines, please make a quick 60 frame low resolution render using the font(s) you want to use and send to the render farm well in advance of using it in your project. If there are issues after this, email the font to me (travis.vermilye@ucdenver.edu) and I will install the font on the machines.
When using a render farm it is imperative to have your files ready to render well before they are due. This is the ONLY way to allow time for testing and to be sure your files render correctly. Waiting until the night before it is due to render will NEVER (well almost never) work.

Turns out that ugly and hard-to-read fonts are actually better when it comes to learning. Who would’ve guessed that?

The Brief is an art director’s event that is happening tomorrow night:

The Brief is a student design competition simulating a late night at an ad agency. A design brief will be developed by Jay Roth, a Sr. Copywriter and ADCD Chairman, for our beneficiary client DAVA, a local arts-education non-profit focused on serving underprivileged youth. Intercollegiate teams of four students (a Senior, Juniors and a Sophomore or Freshman) will be directed by senior creatives from the local design and advertising community through three hours of pencil and paper concepting and digital execution culminating in a client presentation.

The Brief is open to design and advertising students at all levels. Each team will have minimum one laptop (not required to participate) with the focus on traditional concepting – thumbnail-sketches and mind-maps followed by digital roughs. In addition to receiving valuable real world experience, and networking opportunities with local professionals and with each other, student winners will receive scholarship money.