Weekly Announcements 04/11/2017
Mandatory Meeting – Tuesday, April 18th
Please set a calendar reminder for our Department Mandatory Meeting on Tuesday, 4/18 at 4:00pm. Your attendance is required at this meeting. We will meet in Shore Gallery. Your classes will be dismissed in time for this and Printmaking will adjust times. We have a few very important things to communicate.
Student Competition – Entries due Monday, April 24th
Our annual student competition entries will be due on Monday 4/24 between 9-4:30 in Shore Gallery. All instructions for entries and hanging requirements are in the blog post linked below. Please read carefully. All students are required to enter this competition. Entering the student competition is your “application” for one of our scholarships. The pieces selected to hang in the show will be unveiled at the show opening reception on that Friday, 4/28 at 5:30.
http://blogs.acu.edu/artanddesign/competition/
Final A&D Chapel – Thursday, April 27th
We will have our final chapel for the year at the end of the month. Our speaker will be Jill Maxwell. You will not want to miss this!
Reviews
We will open the calendars to book appointments for your reviews closer to the actual date. Please keep checking email and messages sent from the review courses in Canvas. Just an FYI for your calendars.
Foundation Reviews (first year reviews) Thursday, May 4th
Concentration Reviews (second year reviews) Friday, May 5th
Junior Graphic Design Reviews (third year reviews) Monday, May 8th
33rd Instagram Competition Winner
Weekly Announcements: 4/3/2017
Review Preps – Foundation/Concentration Reviews
Foundation Review Students – DMC 141 at 11:30 on Tuesday!
Concentration Review Students – DMC 141 at 11:00 on Wednesday!
It will be very helpful to attend this group prep time so we can cover questions and new instructions.
FREE Concert THIS Friday!
Gather your friends and go out to support ACU Cabinet as they present this free concert and free food to the first 300 students.
Unwritten Senior Show – THIS Friday, April 7th
Senior Show, Unwritten, opens this Friday at 6:00! Come out and support seniors Carli Scheevel, Kennedi Ross, Megan John and Marley Berry!
Mandatory Meeting – Tuesday, April 18th
Please set a calendar reminder for our Department Mandatory Meeting on Tuesday, 4/18 at 4:00pm. Your attendance is required at this meeting. We will meet in Shore Gallery. Your classes will be dismissed in time for this and Printmaking will adjust times. We have a few very important things to communicate.
Final A&D chapel – Thursday, April 27th
We will have our final chapel for the year at the end of the month – more details to follow.
32nd Instagram Competition Runner Up
Christi Lim is the Runner Up for the 32nd Instagram Competition! Great shot from the A+D Spring Break NYC Trip of the Brooklyn Bridge! Thank you again, Hance Taplin, for judging!
Interactive Design Workshop
Interactive Design Workshop
Led by Andy Pratt & Paige Baumgartner
April 6th – 7th
8:30am – 4:30pm
This workshop is a bootcamp of sorts, compressing into a two-day experience what a student may typically receive in an internship setting. It will focus on cutting edge practices and processes used in developing today’s top interactive media. The workshop explores everything from software and tools to techniques for working with clients. It’s an amazing opportunity for our students to build their knowledge, skills and resume in the fastest growing segment of the graphic design field.
About Andy Pratt
Biography
Andy has fifteen years of experience creating award-winning interactive media. He is an Executive Creative Director for Favorite Medium, a global design and technology agency with offices in Seoul and Singapore. Prior to this, he worked as a creative director at Funny Garbage, an interactive agency in New York City. This position afforded him the opportunity to work with some of the largest brands in the world, including the Smithsonian read more…