DigiInk:Valentine Card Sale

Our campus has a newly formed design club, digiInk. 
They launched their first fundraising effort today which continues tomorrow on campus.
Custom Designed Original Valentine Cards (signed by the artists)

Screen Printing in GRHD100

Our Fundamentals of Design and Color class (the foundation course in the Graphic Design Program) created individual designs and screen printed them on t-shirts and sweatshirts. Great work in a first core class for them!

Ri • val Competition

ri • val

a friendly rivalry competition in traditional/digital illustration

The conclusion of the competition is nearly upon us.

Students go against their “rival”, head to head in an traditional/digital illustration

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Rules and Regulations

1. Character must be fully rendered.
2. Character must display a weapon/power/ability.
3. Character needs to be in a dynamic pose.
4. Illustration can be presented traditionally or digitally.
5. Must include a reference page (Separate from the actual drawing) that has at least 3 references you used for your character.
6. Must be originally created/designed.
7. Submissions must be submitted tabloid (11 in. X 17 in.) size.
8. Submit Artwork BOTH electronically and physically to Tuan Hua on Friday, May 04, 2012 at 10:00AM

DesignFest 4.5 recap

DesignFest 4.5
2012- The Beginning or The End?
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Westwood College South Bay played host to it's annual DesignFest 4.5 On December 9th, 2011.  The exhibit which included work from current Visual Communications and Game Art Students as well as Design Alumni examined the potential future coming in a post 2012 world.  Is an apocalypse inevitable or could we be on a path to a beautiful Utopian future?

As guests entered the exhibit they were welcomed by recorded and projected video messages as well as live uniformed DF 4.5 Guides whom greeted them and offered a tour of the event.  The first stop of the tour was the theme room, which showcased a  progression of artistic possibilities leading from light utopian visions to a dark and destroyed future.  Guests were then lead to a life drawing room with an apocalyptic heroine modeling for live drawing sessions. 

As the tour progressed, guests were led to a gathering place with food and music provided by  DJ.  The final stop on the tour was an artist alley. Graduates Matt Alarie, Erika Gomez, Johnny Gomez, Rodrigo Lopez, David J. Martinez, and Ulmar Palacio where all on hand to display and discuss their portfolios, demo reels, and current work.  The artists sold posters, prints, and t-shirts which were screened on site.
Thank you to all the students who submitted work, the DesignFest 4.5 committee, students Nathaniel Charpentier, Dijon Herron, Karen King, Brian Parungao, Aaron Stanfield, Enrique Reyes, Laura Rosales, Kat Wiechart, Faculty and Staff Advisors Alicia Gorecki and Tuan Hua, Design Department Chair Anna Tuason, and to the administration for allowing us to showcase our amazing students!

2012 the beginning or the end?

2012 the beginning or the end? 
Annual DesignFest 4.5 is happening 
Friday December 9th, 2011 from 7-9pm
at Westwood College Commons Area.
19700 S. Vermont Ave.
Torrance, CA 90502

Please join us as current Westwood South Bay School of  Design Students and Design Alumni exhibit work that illustrates the possibilities 2012 holds.  There has been speculation that 2012 will bring a range of transformative or cataclysmic events.  The DF4.5 guides will lead you through the apocalyptic  and utopian potential futures these artists have envisioned.

Along with the varied media related to the theme, the event will also feature non themed work, a graduate artist alley including work from Matt Alarie (Game Art), Erika Gomez (Game Art), Johnny Gomez (Game Art), Mathew Joseph (Game Art), David J. Martinez (Game Art), Rodrigo Lopez (Visual Communications), Ulmar Palacio (Game Art), plus a costumed model for life drawing, snacks, beverages, and dj.

This event is open to the public and artwork will be for sale.

 

CALL FOR ART

This call is open to Current Design 

Students as well as Alumni

The submission Deadline is
November 30, 2011













The show takes place
December 9, 2011 
7-9pm

DesignFest 4.5 : 2012 the end or a beginning?

DesignFest 4.5 : 2012 the end or a beginning?

Event will take place on December 9th, 2011 from 7-9pm.

planning committee members:
Enrique Reyes
Leonel Mercado
Jaimie Govan
Kat Weichert
Brian Parungao
Karen (cookie) King
Laura Rosales
Dijon Heron
Nathaniel Charpentier
Aaron Stanfield

Faculty and Staff Leads: Tuan Hua and Alicia Gorecki