"Please Take Out Your Wallets"

Hello everyone,

Come and join us for a fun product design exercise wendesday 9/2/09 at 4:45 in room 815. Students will pair up with a partner to interview and evaluate each other’s wallets. Students will take notes on what they like and dislike about their partners wallet and also what they keep inside their wallet. After the interviews, each student will then design and make a wallet for their partner with the provided materials to suit their needs.

We hope to see you there!

Ai iDSA

Cookout Pictures!

All School Cook Out

Hello everyone,

Come and join us next Wednesday 8/26/09 at the all school cook out. It will be taking place at Markward Park 26th and Pine starting at 12:00 Pm and ending at 3:00 Pm. We will be teaming up with the graphic design club doing T-shirt screen printing and T-shirt stenciling during the event. If you would like to volunteer your time and help us out that would be great! Also their will be a shuttle bus running during those times. Afternoon classes will be canceled on Wednesday, morning will still be in session and we will not be having a meeting due to the cook out event.

We hope to see you there!

Ai iDSA

Rendering Competition Recap

This weeks meeting involved an exciting and challenging rendering competition. All members where asked to sketch and render their depiction of a camera. Everyone had 45 minutes to do their best work in hopes to win one of three prizes. A group of judges agreed on the three best renderings and each of them walked away with a gift certificate to Blicks art supply store.

1st place Brian Nzomo
2nd place Joshua Cahoun
3rd place Connor McGoey

Great job guys!!!!

Marker Demo

In this meeting Connor demonstrated a few tips and tricks to bring out the best in all of our renderings. He started off with a basic coffee table sketch that soon turned into a great piece for his collection. Connors first step to the demonstration was to shade to all sides of the table with three levels of gray marker. He then went in with a white pencil to add a glare effect to the surfaces. He showed the club that with a simple shadow underneath the object and a brightly colored vinyeght in the background, we can make a simple rendering come alive. Connor finished off his drawing with a solid black border and his signiture to make it his own.

Rendering Competition Pictures!

Rendering Competition

Hello everyone,

Come and join us for a marker rendering competition, Wednesday 8/19/09 room 815 at 4:45 pm. You will be given one hour to complete your drawing. After all the drawings are completed they will be critiqued and judged. Prizes will be awarded to first second and third place contestants.

We hope to see you their!

Also next Wednesday 8/26/09 is the all school cookout so their will not be a meeting.

Second Meeting / Marker Demo Pictures

Second Meeting

Hello Everyone,

Announcing our second meeting of the summer quarter, Wednesday 8/12/09 in room 815 at 4:45 pm. During this meeting, we will be discussing upcoming events and the results from the design charette’s brainstorming session.

During the meeting their will also be a demonstration on marker rendering and perspective drawing, preparing us for the rendering competition the following week 8/19/09.

We hope to see you their!

Design Charette's Recap

Some of the design problems went as followed. A Teacher who lives in California and needs a cargo bag, a gangster who is at the Zoo and needs a Nerf gun, a race car driver who is on a dance floor and needs a lighter, a football flayer who is on a plane and needs a toaster, a doctor who is in class and needs a lamp, a janitor who lives in Amsterdam and needs a binder and a construction worker who is in the restroom and needs a tea pot.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this event!

Design Charette’s

Hello Everyone,

Announcing the first Ai iDSA event of the summer quarter Wednesday 8/5/09 at 4:45 pm in room 815. Come and join us for a fun brainstorming session. During design charette’s students pair up into groups to come up with interesting designs on the spot to fit a specific user. The groups then present their sketches to show how they have solved the design problem. This quick and fun brainstorming session also focuses on teamwork.

We hope to see you there!