That Obligatory Quarterly Post Where I Tell You What Classes I'm Taking And At First You Think They Sound Really Cool But Then You Read Everything I Have To Finish In Eleven Weeks And Wonder Why I'm Not Insane (Legally, At Least)
Before our Thursday seminars at PC, a few students are randomly selected to entertain the crowd for a couple of minutes each. They're notified a week in advance, so often a lot of creativity and humor are poured into the presentations. Although I haven't gone yet, I've already filmed and edited my presentation. My roommate Howard went today and did a cool slideshow of pictures from his recent hiking adventures in Colorado. Another PC writer, Josh DiMarcantonio, also went today and asked me to film his performance. And here it is. (Quicktime, 9.1 MB, 1:51). Pentagram's Kit Hinrichs is briefly in the video, and his speech today was nothing short of brilliant.
This will undoubtedly be the busiest quarter I've had so far at PC. Two branding classes have about a gallupazillion projects each. For Systems and Information Design, I will be taking a city (probably St. Petersburg, Russia) and saving it from losing its identity in today's globalization. After writing a brand platform that explains my mission and values for the city, I'll be designing signs, a map, a cultural book, banners, a trademark/logo, color palette, typographic system, photograph and illustration styles, paper choices, two brochures, a stationary suite, a print ad, an office environment, city employee uniforms, vehicles like the police cars and public transit system, a website, informational kiosk, and television ad. For Brand Communications, I'm working with a writer to brand the American Institute of Architects. The deliverables for that class are a brochure, print ad, website and 60-second commercial. In History of Design, taught by Hank Richardson (president of PC), I'll be designing a chair and posters and maybe a bridge and God knows what else. I'll spend all quarter working on just two logos in Symbols, Logos and Metaphors, so they better be good. After Effects is my sole computer class - Adobe's professional motion graphics program. I'll probably end up doing an Okay Samurai Multimedia TV Promo for my final project there.
So that's life as a fourth quarter Portfolio Center student. Sleep will be at a premium, arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome will be omnipresent, and I will probably drop-kick a kitten at some point simply as a stress relief. Is it crazy to say that there's nothing else I'd rather be doing?
Thursday, July 8 at 6:47 PM
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