DIGITAL STUDIO: TEXT AND IMAGE - COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO - SPRING 2007

Wednesday, 8:30 - 12:20, room 1103, 600 S. Michigan

WELCOME TO DIGITAL STUDIO: TEXT AND IMAGE

This page will be your main resource for materials for this class. There are downloadable handouts regarding assignments and instruction as well as the syllabus below on this page.

 

MY APPROACH

This course is heavily based on the individual student’s ability to conceive and develop a single body of work throughout the semester. With Digital I and Digital II as prerequisites, it is assumed that you already have the technical skills to produce high quality digital scans, captures and prints. Technical instruction in this class will be tailored to the needs and skills of the students and will/may include advanced masking, color management, advanced sharpening, retouching/manipulation and the use of text tools in both Adobe Photoshop and Indesign.

The main focus of this class is learning to use your technical skills to create meaning and concept in a cohesive body of work. Students are expected to show work for critique every two weeks for feedback on project development.

The conceptual focus of this class will be on text and image with readings, discussions and student presentations revolving around the use of text with all forms of two-dimensional imagery. Students may choose to use as much or as little text in their work as they wish, but it is expected that extensive thought be put into any and all text included, even if it is just titles.

 

 

DOWNLOADS

SYLLABUS

• Syllabus for Digital Studio: Text and Image, Spring 2007.

ASSIGNMENTS

• List of Text and Image Artists
• Artist Presentation Guidelines
• Final Project Proposals
• Writing an Artist's Statement

INSTRUCTIONAL

• Digital Workflow
• Digital Jargon
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Resolution
• Setting White, Black and Neutral Points
• Advanced Sharpening (hi resolution print version)
• Advance Sharpening (low resolution screen version)

LINKS TO RELEVANT ARTICLES

• Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson from The New York Times Magazine, April 24, 2005.
• Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, National Endowment for the Arts, July 8, 2004.
  
  

PATHS

Use the two JPEG images below to practice using Paths (Pen Tool). Trace the outlined logos as best you can to create a vector graphic. Start with Viacom, then move to the Coca Cola logo when you feel more comfortable.

• Viacom Path (less difficult)
• Coca Cola Path (more difficult)

MATERIAL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKING IN PUBLIC SPACE

Photographer's Rights PDF

A very helpful single sheet printout written by Bert P. Krages II, a lawyer who specializes in this type of law. Print this out and keep it in your camera bag if you photograph in public spaces. If someone gives you a hard time for photographing in a place you know you have a right to be, this may help you out (but these days it may not).

Photographer's Rights Letter to NPPA

A more in-depth, and perhaps more official, document written by Kurt Wimmer and John Blevins of Covington & Burling to the National Press Photographers Association in August of 2005. The letter outlines very specifically the rights of journalists on public streets. A good document to have both a digital and a hard copy of somewhere handy.