Communication Design II

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WELCOME

The Communication Design concentration at Skidmore College consists of Communication Design I, Communication Design II and Advanced Communication Design(which is a repeatable course). Students often apply for internships for additional experience.

The pre-requisites for Communication Design are Communication Design I, Visual Concepts, Drawing and Color. Photography, English, additional drawing courses, new media and computer science courses are highly recommended.

For those art majors who may want to concentrate in the Communication Design sequence I recommend that you start the sequence in the spring of the year, as Communication Design II is most often offered in the fall and Advanced is only offered in the spring. This provides for the greatest continuity with the program and software.

PAST EVENTS

Ellen Lupton
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Ellen is director of the MFA program in graphic design at
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, the
editor of _D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself_ (2006) and curator of
contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
in New York City, where she has organized numerous
exhibitions, each accompanied by a major publication,
including the National Design Triennial series (2000 and
2003), _Skin: Surface, Substance + Design_ (2002), _Graphic
Design in the Mechanical Age_ (1999), _Mixing Messages_
(1996), and _Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home
to Office.

Ellen had lunch with several design students and also looked at their portfolios.
Ellen was the Malloy Visiting Artist and gave a lecture at Gannet on Design

Willie Cole

March 3, 2009

The 2009 Malloy Visiting Artist Lecture was delivered by sculptor Willie Cole, on. Tuesday, March 3, in Gannett Auditorium. Cole is renowned for imbuing elements of nature, industrial culture, and West African religion and mythology into sculptures made up of household objects such as steam irons, bathroom fixtures, old electric irons, and bicycle parts. “I want the objects to have a life of their own: I think that is what makes them real,” Cole has said. “When a piece gets to a point where all the parts are put together in the right way, it has a power of its own and you know not to mess with it.”

A New Jersey native, Cole took Saturday children’s art classes at the Newark Museum and majored in fashion design at Newark’s Arts High School. He went on to earn a BFA at the School of Visual Arts and study at the Art Students League in New York City. As the 11-year-old “man of the family” for his mother and grandmother, who worked as housekeepers, he had picked up broken lamps and other appliances on the street to repair and re-use; as a young man, he filled his rented loft in Newark’s Ironbound district with industrial leftovers, thrift-shop items, and street-found castaways and began to turn them into artworks. During a 1988 residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Cole’s discarded industrial goods began to come together in ways that one critic described as “assembling artifacts from a throwaway culture into iconic artworks.”

Willie spent most of the day with Communication Design students.

Josh Hirsch and Big Spaceship

Josh Hirsch from Big Spaceship, came to visit our classes in Spring of 2009. Most inspiring was the amount of handwoerk that went into each of their projects, including this one for a previous Adobe Max. Our own Charlie Whitney '06 and Toph Brown '09 are currently working there.

William Bardel-Information Design

On Monday, November 24, 2008 from 1:30-4:30, Wil Bardel of Luminant Design wil be conducting a workshop with the CDII class as a part of the Art Department Flex Fund program. At 4:30, in the Seminar Room, there will be an open session for anyone who would like to see and hear about Will's work. Please join us for an "informative" session on a very timely subject.

William Bardel is an information designer whose work involves improving access and understanding of complex ideas and environments. While working at software, architecture and design firms, Bardel has designed sign systems and maps for cities, airports, and mass transit, along with annual reports, infographics, dynamic information displays, and statistical data visualizations. He holds a Masters of Design degree from Carnegie Mellon University, a BA in English from Kenyon College and has studied information design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Bardel has lectured on urban wayfinding and dynamic mapping at Carnegie Mellon University and on design drawing at CHI 2007 with Mark Baskinger. The O’Reilly Press published his writings on design and visual perception in the book Mind Hacks. His company, Luminant Design, is based in New York.

Th Communication Design II class is curently working with Erica Fuller, Skidmore's Sustainability Coordinator to create a campaign for a competition between dorms to reduce electricity comsumption-watch for more! The logo for the competition entitled Skidmore Unplugged was created by Yovana Gruissem and Alex Citrin.

Register to VOTE by October 10th. Register to Vote posters were created in the COmmunication Design II class and featured around campus, on the SGA website and Scope Online. SGA reported at the Faculty Meeting that over one hundred students had already registered to vote.

Free Cone Day, Spring 2007

Bookbinding for Digital Output

Deb, Deb, Resa, Matt, Jordan and Geli at the Perella Gallery in Johnstown, Spring 2007.

Tyler Hicks visited Communication Design classes Spring 2006.

Senior Show 06

Canoeing Adventure May 2005:

DEBHALL

Associate Professor of Art

AR227 001
Saisselin 111

On Sabbatical Fall2010

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Jane Clausen "09 gives

Josh from Big Spaceship

a thumbs up.

SUSAN MILLS

visited Communication Design classes and shared her bookbinding expertise. Spring 2007

TYLER HICKS

visited Communication Design, classes and shared his experiences covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a photographer for the New York Times. Spring 2006

STEVEN HELLER

visited Communication Design classes and addressed questions on branding and design. Fall 2005

Student Comments:

"...typography goes deeper than aesthetics; it serves as an unconscious method to propagate thoughts and emotions in any sort of endeavor."

"Overall I found his lecture a font of information, some of the topics he mentioned
I actually want to investigate further."

TOM GASEK

Animation Artist for Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromet, and many other animated movies visited classes Spring 2005