MMAS 490
PROSEMINAR & PORTFOLIO
instructor: curt cloninger
email: curt at lab404 dot com
office: Karpen 146. MWF 11:30-12:30
location: university of north carolina at asheville
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class-specific | proseminar related | portfolio related


CLASS-SPECIFIC

intro
syllabus
rough project calendar

major assignments
online portfolio & business card
research project

required text
Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality* (ed. packer/jordan) [cf: companion web site]
Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for Print and New Media Designers* (cloninger)


PROSEMINAR RELATED

project
McLuhan assignment
writing a thesis statement [cf: argumentative thesis statements]
writing center handouts [nb: argument and thesis statements]
the citation machine (warlick)

primers
The New Media Reader* (ed. wardrip-fruin and montfort)
Cyber_Reader* (ed. spiller)
Overview of Media Art (ed. frieling/daniels)
introducing the book (naerum)

culture and art
human browser (bruno)
Understanding Media (mcluhan)
finger gloves (horn)
from "The Eternal Now" (lapham)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (benjamin)
The Society of the Spectacle (debord)
Theory of the Dérive (debord)
May 1968 graffiti
On The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time [433 MB, avi]
get your war on (rees)
banksy (banksy)
surveillance camera players
TRUE
The Death of the Author (barthes)
Simulacra and Simulations (baudrillard)
The Temporary Autonomous Zone (bey)
culture jamming (dery)
a hacker manifesto [version 4.0] (wark)
institute without boundaries | application [pdf] (mau)
massive change (mau)
AIGA: : standards of professional practice
AIGA: design business and ethics series

technology
A History of Information Technology and Systems (butler)
Foreseeing the Future: The legacy of Vannevar Bush (malone)
Revenge of the Right Brain (pink)


PORTFOLIO RELATED

deliverables
creative brief
online portfolio & business card

theory
MTIV* (curtis)
the proof is in the process (shaw)
AIGA: process of designing solutions
designers: time for change (mok)
answers for students (sagmeister)
web site usability basics (cloninger)
mockups: fresh styles covers + spreads (segura inc.)

logo design
armin hofmann on logo design
paul rand logos
pentagram logos
folkert gorter logos
rubin museum of art logo studies (glaser)
step-by-step logo (green)
noteworthy identity work (spaeth)
a website about corporate identity
cartype: car logos

design firm sites
faust ltd.
sagmeister inc.
we work for them
hi-res
milton glaser inc.
flat
open
second story
seguara inc.
the designers republic
superfamous
cuban council
speared peanut
brand new school
motion theory
mk12

tools
lorem ipsum generator
free resources: toolbox
pay resources: toolshed

inspiration
how a designer grows (tselentis)
designer news
more designer news
design observer
speak up
link-o-rama
i.d. magazine
how magazine
you work for them