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What I did this week (21 feb 2014)
After a wonderful weekend at camp, I had a hard time getting back into school. Thankfully, motion graphics was as laid back as always—I made an animated gif of Jim Johnson. Danielle showed me some cool eyeglasses she found, and I made John wear them for a photo.
Tuesday was great. After a close call in traffic, I spent all of jewelry carving wax, which is as pleasant as fabricating sheet metal is aggravating. None of the usual crowd showed up for friendship lunch, but I met up with Dana and we spent my break looking at stuff in school galleries. After that, I went to senior ad. Tay, Jen, and I met up with Jason to record a voiceover for a video we are making. He did a marvelous job. In History of 2-d, I got back the test which I hadn’t studied for. I needn’t have worried about it at all…
Motion graphics was cancelled on wednesday, but it was just as well. I had a lunch meeting with Esther Hall, Columbus fashion design luminary, to get some advice for my thesis, then worked on a bunch of freelance stuff.
I did more wax carving on thursday morning, then spent my lunch break in the CCAD Archives office talking to Leah, the woman in charge of it all, who I think will prove to be a very helpful resource.
For the first hour of senior ad, we were joined by Micah White, “visiting scholar” and “activist”, who spoke casually on a broad range of things, including Occupy Wall Street, the nature of truth, how “everyone knows deep down that our planet is dying”, how authenticity in advertising matters more than honesty, and a bunch of other utter nonsense. I was not impressed and was glad when he left. After a quick photo-op with Theresa and Mohr, I got back to work with Tay and Jen on our One Show project.
Thesis, part 3: defining school spirit
I’m doing a really bad job keeping you up-to-date on my thesis project, tumblr. This is especially stupid because I’m being graded on these posts! Let me catch you up with what’s been happening:
Besides my work with the knitting machine, I’ve put a lot of thought into the rest of this project—all the CCAD stuff. A lunch meeting with Marcia Tabler a few months ago, she gave me the really excellent idea of creating a piece of collateral about history of CCAD. I’ve been planning to use all photos as part of an advertising campaign, but I really like the idea of making the photos into something permanent. Leah Fisher, CCAD archivist, has proven an exceptional resource. I went and visited her a couple weeks ago and spent over an hour looking at old yearbooks and course catalogs. Though there are already a bunch of photos scanned and posted on Flickr, there’s even more stuff in the archives that no one else has seen. She’s been very gracious to scan new things for me as part of my ongoing search for cool memorabilia.
I really enjoyed looking at old photos to get a feel for the way to school used to be, if nothing else. Printed materials from the 50s and 60s tend to look antique, but things from the 70s are charming and could still largely working a contemporary setting. The photo at the top of this post is a close-up of typography from the 1974 course catalog. Check out that body face: it’s an amazing, funky grotesk that looks almost-but-not-quite like Extended Helvetica. I’ve been really inspired looking at these old materials.
What’s next?
I have to develop a brand. What’s this thing going to be called? I’ve been tossing around a few ideas in my head. One top contender is “Hutton Club”, named for the old street where all CCAD’s first buildings were built. I also like names like “CCAD is ours” or “we are CCAD” because they sound less fashion-brand-y. So I need to work on that. I also need to make some sweaters! A lot of sweaters!
Day 77: thu, 20 feb 2014. Finding comfort in beverages.
Day 76: tue, 18 feb 2014. Jason helps us out with some voiceover work.
Day 75: mon, 17 feb 2014. Danielle Williams takes a turn styling, directing, and shooting today’s snapshot. Thankfully she has the best models in the world.