NM 490
PROSEMINAR & PORTFOLIO
instructor: curt cloninger
email: ccloning at unca dot edu
office: Owen 311 (office hours are online, by appointment)
location: university of north carolina at asheville
* indicates an offline media object

class-specific | individual project: art | individual project: design | portfolio



intro
syllabus
rough project calendar
attendance and grading policies
Sister Corita Kent's 10 rules

major assignments
individual project (+ either creative brief OR grant proposal)
portfolio (+ creative brief)

required text
Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process* (Cloninger) [on server]



artist documentaries
alfredo jaar : william kentridge : james turrell : cindy sherman : kara walker : mel chin : an-my lê : ann hamilton : janine antoni : martin puryear : fred wilson : marina abramović : mark dion alfredo jaar : william kentridge : james turrell : cindy sherman : kara walker : mel chin : An-My Lê : ann hamilton : janine antoni : martin puryear : fred wilson : marina abramović : mark dion

all art21 artist documentaries

art practice
What It Really Takes to Be an Artist (Fernandez)
the big lecture 2006 (thompson)
america we stand as one (madalone)
this ain't no picnic (minutemen)

art process
Whitehead on adventure
Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules (Kent)
Sentences on Conceptual Art (Lewitt)
new media department student learning outcomes and objectives

grant proposal
assignment
Creative Capital application information
"emerging artists / emergent medium" call for proposals [inactive] (walker art center)
rhizome microgrants [inactive] (rhizome)
Intro to Funding for Art Projects (landsman)
no longer interested* (lambert)



on strategy
hot-wiring your creative process* (cloninger)
surfing the creative process (cloninger)
experience design* (shedroff)
oblique strategies: cards || list (eno/schmidt)
catalogue of strategies* (gerritzen et al.)
other books by mieke gerritzen

design practice
milton glaser interview (curtis)

design process
a bad creative process

1. pre-design
CREATIVE BRIEF
pre-design deliverables: creative brief
creative brief questions (goto)
creative brief sample (goto)

2. design
exploratory sketching (katavolos)
random noun generator
theme/concept:
mockups: fresh styles covers + spreads (segura inc.) | fresher styles covers (hit studio)



deliverables
creative brief
portfolio

theory
web site usability basics (cloninger)

tools
wix [site hosting / templates]
indexhibit [site hosting / templates]
moo [business cards]
media temple [site hosting]
goDaddy [domain name registration / site hosting]

logo design
armin hofmann on logo design
paul rand logos
saul bass logos
cartype: car logos
a look at 30 other corporate logo redesigns (nudd)
Business Card Design: Better Than A Plain Ol' Business Card (neville)
custom letters [hand lettering] (veen)

design firm sites
stefan sagmeister
milton glaser inc.
open
second story
seguara inc.
the designers republic
cuban council
brand new school
mk12

networking
creative mornings asheville
creative mornings (international)
the media arts project (asheville)

professional development
client brief vs. client budget
W.A.G.E. : Artist Fee Calculator
corporate politics 101 diagrams (Scher)
web designer survey findings (a list apart)
Selling Design: An Online Reading List (Zeldman)
AIGA: Standards of Professional Practice
Careers at Pixar
How to Write a Web Site Creative Brief (Watson)
Choosing Work Samples When Applying for Art Grants
What Can I Do with a Major in New Media (UNCA NM department)
UNCA Career Center

graduate schools
Cranbrook Academy of Art: 2d Design
Tisch ITP + IMA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
RISD: Digital + Media
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
Institute Without Boundaries (bruce mau design / george brown college)
Carnegie Mellon: Master of Design
UCSD: MFA
MIT: Art, Culture, and Technology
California Institute of the Arts
UCSC: Digital Arts and New Media
Pratt: Graduate Admissions
Parsons: Design and Technology
Parsons: Fine Arts
Parsons Paris
NC State: Masters of Graphic Design
NC State: Masters of Art + Design
NC State: PhD in Design
Transart Institute
UCSD PhD: Art History, Theory, and Criticism
EGS: Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought

inspiration
how a designer grows (tselentis)