Design

Learning Outcomes: Automated Batch Process

October 30, 2009 in Design, Learning Outcomes, Uncategorized

Photoshop’s automation feature is designed to make your life easier. Staring at a folder of a hundred pictures that all need to be resized? No problem. Need to convert 50 images to black and white? Set it up, let it run, come come back in ten minutes. It works like this; you open the first image of the series, and record the actions. You save the process, then apply it to all your other images. Easy enough concept, now I’ll walk through it and show you what it looks like.

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Step Enlarge Images for Better Results

September 8, 2009 in Design, Learning Outcomes

Step enlarging is a process I use for enlarging digital photographs to enormous sizes with fairly good results. The advantage of step enlarging is that you are enlarging the image in very small steps, which gives the computer smaller bits to work with and forms cleaner lines as opposed to enlarging an entire image all at once.

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INTERACTIVE DESIGN: EMU Marketing Exhibit

August 20, 2009 in Design, Learning Outcomes, Web Development

Artists’ Reception | Fri, Oct 16th | 4-7pm | Adell McMillan Gallery

UPDATE – Show Website: id.uoregon.edu

Darrel Kau, Director of the UO Cultural Forum, offered us an opportunity to exhibit our work in the Adell McMillan Art Gallery. Needless to say, we jumped on it.

This was an ambitious project for us. While the designers had experience creating small exhibits through their classes, none of us had executed an art installation that included a 34′x9′ wall, six 8′x8′ display cases, and a 17′x11′ display case. The challenge was to create an exhibit that reflected our collaborative work style, gave props to the designers and programmers, showcased how we advance student learning, and gave those viewing the installation an engaging, interactive experience.

We like this kind of challenge, and we made it work. Big time. Read more…

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The Slice Tool : Best thing since sliced bread?

February 6, 2009 in Design

What the slice tool does?
The slice tool is a tool that connects into save for web. You slice your docuemnt into peices and then each slice is saved as a separate image. This is a huge time saver when you are coding a website from a Photoshop Design.

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Obama Stencil Effect

January 30, 2009 in Design

Brief Background
My main source of insertion for the Inauguration Poster came from the Shepard Fairey “Hope” Poster we have all seen so much of. This is a quick tutorial on how I created the stencil effect for the poster.

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Learning Outcomes: 10 Things I learned in a year at EMU Marketing

November 21, 2008 in Design, Learning Outcomes

Working at EMU Marketing has been one of the best experiences at University of Oregon, and has given more portfolio material then I can keep track of. After working there for a year I’m looking back and thinking about what I’ve learned.

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Evolution of the Civil War LAN Poster

October 19, 2008 in Design

One of the project I recently finished up was the poster for the Civil War Lan. This poster had originally been designed as a spin-off of the emu lan 3.0 poster. However the design ended up not working out so well. Lee asked me to look into doing a kind of “capture the flag” themed poster.