Quick & Nerdy

Week 14: Rapping it up

2009-05-05T01:18:00.000-07:00

Week 14, we had a guest come in and we all did a little rapping. It was a fun last class.

are you even ready for this? you might not be.

check it out.

Week 2: Drugs Are Bad

2009-05-04T23:27:00.000-07:00

Our guest for week 2 was Keith, a programmer/designer/cool guy who came to work with us on a game. He provided us with a template for a game, based on Brick, and he taught us how to play around with the code to change the look of it.

We altered our games to be like some kind of drug.

Links to our games (will open in a new window):

Amy Shimoshige - Ecstacy

Valiant Teja - Weed

Cynthia Al-Hasbani - Crystal Meth

Suzanne Feyche - Ketamine

Danielle Camilo - Adrenaline

TEH MEME

2009-04-07T20:27:00.000-07:00

We had a guest come in, Juan Capistran, and work with us on a meme project. We broke into teams and created memes that hopefully will go viral. Try some of them out!

Word Jumble!

Yass, Cynthia + Val

Directions:

a) choose first word of the first 5 news feeds on ur home page. (including typos)

b) put them together in order to create a sentence.

c) google that sentence and go to images.

d) pick the 5th image u find

e) add the image to ur facebook and caption it with that sentence then tag the 5 friends.

Youtube image meme:

danielle, Vanessa, Jung, Maya

Directions

1. Go to YouTube

2. Go to "Most Viewed for the week"

3. Take the head from the first character you see

4. Take the body from the second character

5. Take the background from the third one you watch

6. Find the music related video and have your characters singing the song

7. Combine

8. Upload to Facebook and tag your friends!

So you wanna be a designer?
Facebook quiz

Take the quiz here!

by Amy Shimoshige, Satsuki Shibuya, Adrianne Read

Hazel taking our quiz

Davey taking our quiz as Satsuki supervises the quiz-taking

DAILY ZEITGEIST SANDWICH!!!
by Aaron, Mike, & Suzanne

Commemorate the day's hottest internet trends by making your very own culinary concoction of pop culture and random images. Here's how:

1. Google "sandwich" and choose your favorite image.
2. Pick five numbers between 1-100.
3. Go to www.google.com/trends, and go to "'Today's Hot Trends." Click "More Hot Trends", and you will see a list of 100. Pick out the five trends from the list that correlate with the five numbers that you just chose.
4. Google each trend and choose your favorite image from the first page.
5. Now you can create your very own personalized DAILY ZEITGEIST SANDWICH!
6. Just don't forget to put the date somewhere, and post your visual feast for all to see.

You sure as hell won't find this shit at Quizno's.

Week 11: Field Trip!

2009-04-01T04:20:00.001-07:00

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Originally uploaded by SHIMOSH

We had a field trip to the Postopolis! event at the Standard in downtown LA to see Michael Dear speak. Then we hung out and talked about grad school. 'Twas a good night.

Davey driving!

Michael Dear is a Professor of Geography at USC & he talked about how LA was built differently than other major US cities and argued that it is no longer the exception, but the rule by which cities are structured: from the fringes of the city inwards and a city center built afterwards.

Satsuki & Mike after the lecture. something was really funny.

Conversations

all smiles!

Week 10: Making Money on the Web!

2009-03-24T21:40:00.000-07:00

Week 10:

The guys from useallfive.com came to our class and told us the secrets of making money on the internet. The secret is to create content specific websites and generate money using ads, so we creat

ed graphics and compiled information for different design schools, then created some icons and infographics for the site.
We also used http://drop.io/designeredu to share information.

Visit the site here: http://designeredu.com

Yass Nassiri (Werkplaats Typographie)

Suzanne's 5 Icons of Death

Adrianne's info map

Mike's format icons

Amy Shimoshige

Satsuki Shibuya

Vanessa Hansford: money mapping

Valiant's icons

Week 9: Making Security Mad with Type

2009-03-10T21:34:00.001-07:00

Kristian Henson, art director at Studio One, came to our class to work with us this week. We chose a Notorious B.I.G. song title from a box and created environmental typography. As a result, most of us got in trouble with Security/Facilities.

Yass Nassiri

"Juicy"

Orbit Cinnamon Gum

Adrianne Read

"Do For Love"

D. CAMILO

Quote:
"Please Baby, One More Chance"

Amy Shimoshige

"Mo Money Mo Problems"

Davey: OMG!

Aaron Needham

"It Was All A Dream"

Cynthia Al-Hasbani

"You Can't See Me"

Silkscreened

Mike Pargas:

"Keep Ya Head Up"

Jung
"Big Poppa"
Letterpressed

Davey, Kristian, & Jung looking GANGSTA

Vanessa Hansford
'hypnotize'

Satsuki Shibuya

'Sky's The Limit'

Cash rules everything around me (Suzanne)...

Dolla dolla bill, y'all...

Week 7: Night Out in Silverlake

2009-03-05T01:10:00.001-08:00

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Originally uploaded by SHIMOSH

The class went out to Silverlake to take a bunch of pictures for a project. Click on the picture and be sure to check out some of the other pictures in the set.

Suzanne wonders, why wait until 2012?

When you can just cross the street?

"Dance Dance Revolution!"

Yass Nassiri

"Fine Lines"

Mike Pargas

"Rat's Under the Roll-up"
Adrianne Read

"REPETITIVE PLACES"
D. CAMILO

Amy Shimoshige
Behind the scenes:

Valiant Teja
"On the Edge"

Wk 5: My Song Is The Best

2009-03-04T12:57:00.000-08:00

Arguments for the best song(s) in the world:

Satsuki Shibuya:
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Ryuichi Sakamoto

Suzanne Feyche:

Tootsee Roll

69 Boyz

Adrianne Read

Kiss

by Prince

Mike Pargas:

Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

Yass Nassiri:

Breathe Me

Sia Furler

Amy Shimoshige

Triumph of the Ill (Hitler rap)

Whitest Kids U'Know

Danielle Camilo:

Come on Get Higher

Matt Nathanson

Valiant Teja
Sweet Jane
by Lou Reed

Week 1: Mental Maps.

2009-03-03T20:20:00.001-08:00

Week One: Mental Maps using blueprints.

cyn

Satsuki Shibuya

Adrianne Read

Actual Printed Piece

Mike Pargas

Valiant Teja

Amy Shimoshige

Illustrator

The actual printed piece!

Mike and Valiant

Suzanne, Cyn, Danielle, Mike, Valiant

yass nassiri

{a night at bj's restaurant in westwood}

printed piece

D. CAMILO

Vanessa Hansford

What's inside Suzanne's head?

Week 6: Environmental Graphics

2009-02-21T23:39:00.001-08:00

Week 6's assignment was to use a space on a wall on the 6th floor and create some kind of environmental graphic for it. We used the physical space to create something surprising or appropriate/inappropriate messages/images. Good Times.

Valiant Teja

Mike Pargas

Amy Shimoshige

Valiant and Mike measuring their wall.

Pargas point!

I BELONG

TO THE (blank)

GENERATION.

My shadow looks at the writing on the wall. (Shadow=Amy Shimoshige, writing=Valiant Teja and Mike Pargas)

the _(Jon and Mike's weird faces)_ Generation

What a nerd.

lol~ luvin' the pics mike.

creator: { satsuki shibuya }
location: g's bathroom side wall

SUZANNE IS WATCHING YOU!!!

no, seriously...

by: Vanessa Hansford

by: Adrianne Read

We All work together!

cyn

pffffahahahaha

too brilliant.... the tongue

ps: this wouldn't load at the end. weirdo

Yass Nassiri

{big brother is watching you!}

Week 4: CD covers

2009-02-21T23:07:00.000-08:00

Week 4 was design a CD album. We had a guest from Stones Throw Records, Jeff Jank, who brought us some CD jewel cases that we used to design album art for. We all wrote down the name of a band (real or fake, music or a CD of speeches was acceptable), and pulled out the names from a box.

Amy Shimoshige:

Jeff and Adrianne are arranging t

he CD's.

More arranging.

Davey approves? disapproves? I can't tell.

Takin' pictures!

Check out our sh!t.

"Things Said By Davey," a CD by Davey Whitcraft (it doesn't really exist).

A quote said by Davey on the first day of this class. The CD would just loop this quote over and over until you become depressed.

Side view. There's a little line drawing of him on the right side.

i would want a copy of the OG Davey CD.
for realz.
creator: { satsuki shibuya }artist: david guetta
concept: disco meets faces

yep. so many faces. can u find yours?

color!
you go girl!
oh yes. she is stalkin' u mike. what are you thinking 'bout vanessa? :)

pretty dope!

Creator: Mike Pargas

Artist: Pink

Concept: Raw meat vs. Watermelon

Adrianne Read

Artist: Will Smith

Album: Big Willie Style

Vanessa Hansford
SeX pisTols

Valiant Teja
Michael Jackson
"Black and White"

final

process

Yass Nassiri

{made up band : FUNK DABAWAMA!}

concept: absurd

D. CAMILO

{Joy Division: She Lost Control}

concept: B&W, bringing back original design style

Prince's "Erotic" Limited Edition CD single cover by Suzanne.

Top: Outside Cover

Bottom: Inside Spread

Week 3: Silkscreening Shirts

2009-02-21T22:24:00.000-08:00

Our assignment for week 3 was to silkscreen a secret onto a shirt.

We made stencils out of newsprint, taped it on a screen and went for it.

Amy Shimoshige:

Satsuki's eating something before we start.

Chillin'

I like to smell my shirts before I silkscreen them.

Cuttin'

Cuttin' part 2

Suzanne is taping down her design.

Satsuki and Suzanne working hard.

I silkscreened it in black, so you can't see it. it's a secret!

i def. can't tell you my secret!

creator: { satsuki shibuya }
title: forest

seriously a secret.

my lovely model vanessa + her tongue. :p

It's no secret what Suzanne has:

It's even advertised on found images.

Adrianne Read

Yass Nassiri

{it's my secret....}

D. CAMILO

Mike Pargas

Vanessa Hansford

Urkel reps Quick & Nerdy!

2009-02-20T22:26:00.000-08:00