The OVC

Early this week I had a project where I wanted to get some quality paper. Of course I remember from our class visit there was a magical room in a hidden commercial building by the old Texas Stadium.

Read the rest of this entry →

Sorry OVC buds, It’s looks like I caught a major case of dropping the ball and forgot to inform everyone that we are watching the Academy Award winning art documentary Beautiful Losers tonight at 10. We’ll be in the big computer lab on the 3rd floor. There will be popcorn! Anyway it’s a great film and really I’m not sure if it’s won an Academy Award, I just kind of said that, but it’s won other less prestigious awards! Come see it and tell your friends, everyone’s invited! Here’s the trailer.

Hello Everyone!

Last semester we had a mega-inspiring iChat with the spectacular Frank Chimero. Now that you all have had a significant amount of time to forget everything he said, we are posting the video! So if you’re down and out on design this will perk you right back up.

Untitled from whitney phillips on Vimeo.

That’s right folks, the OVC is adding a

component into the website to allow us to be more of a social network and really do some amazing things. Right now it will just be on this one blog, but in the future look out for ALL users being able to have a blog here at the OVC.

What does that mean for you?

Read the rest of this entry →

HEY. this post is just to remind you about what you should love:
1. CORGI’S
2. THE OVC
3. SETH WHITTON FOR TEACHING US ILLUSTRATOR TRICKS THIS THURSDAY.

why should you love these things?
1. they are free
2. sometimes they are soft.
3. they are very helpful in the VIS COMM department.

SO TO EQUATE;
be in room 368A at 5:00 PM tomorrow, FEB 11 for a free Adobe Illustrator tutorial / tips / Q&A session. For free and for love.

THE ILLUSTRATOR TUTORIAL HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR MARCH 2 (ITS SNOWING IN TEXAS Y’ALL!)

BUT, you should stick around on TUESDAY FEB 16 at 5:00 PM for an Adobe Photoshop advanced tips/ tricks session!!!

Also: there is an updated spring 2010 calendar for your reference. can you find it? the link probably says “spring 2010 calendar”, just saying.

This wednesday we will be having our first meeting of the year. Going to be more of an intro meeting, letting everyone know whats going on and what our big plans are.

We will be going over the different roles of the OVC, some of the events and ideas we have planned, and some opportunity to help out fellow students and the community at large.

Right after there is a meeting of the Dallas Society of Visual Communicators (http://www.dsvc.org/) and many of the officers will be trying to carpool to that event. They charge $10 for nonmember students, but its a resource worth looking into.

Expect some new changes in The OVC website coming soon, buddypress 1.2 went beta so its about to get exciting!!

The AIGA monthly meeting will be held February 4th at 7:00 pm in rm 2109 the Visual  Resource Commons

STUDENTS ARE FREE! Register  through the dallas.aiga.org page
(links to eventbrite) and use the discount code” utahost” (no quotes)

Don’t forget to register at the link above or it’s five dollars at the door!

Its time for part 3 of our fascinating journey into Wordpress and in this installation we will be going over what Wordpress is, a bit of history on the project, and my own experience with it. Then we will be going over how to install Wordpress and get it all up and running on the default template. If you have not already read them, you should go back and read the INTRODUCTION and the first post on HOSTING.

Read the rest of this entry →

Milton Glaser if a famous New York illustrator and graphic designer that has remained influential and respected amongst or very critical community of creatives and thinkers. Check out these features on campus to learn a bit more about the man and his work! You’ll find a couple of other useful events listed here as well.

Awesome sauce! So for this series I decided to use a real life example to teach everyone the ins and outs of real world web design. In this article I will be focusing on starting the journey and getting your hosting situation lined up.. Read the rest of this entry →