Sunday, April 1 lab hours

Just a reminder the lab will be open to you on Sunday, April 1 from 5 to 10 pm. Linda Quigley and I will be available to help with your assignments during that period.

The assignment is due at the end of class on Tuesday, April 3.

The assignment is posted on this blog: Major project 2

A new blog from the Society for News Design

The Society of News Design is a resource students should learn about. This blog is their latest venue for communication. Check it out:

SND Update Blog

Eric Volz links

Last week we were brainstorming about ways to cover the Eric Volz case. Here are the primary links that tell his story for reference.

Friends of Eric Volz

Free Eric Volz MySpace page

Online Vision coverage

The Professional Organization for Editors of Magazines' top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years

This is a link to the ASME's Top 40 Magazine Cover. This site has great reference material. Remember there is nothing new under the sun only rearranging everything that has come before. So look for inspiration.

Reminder about Sunday, March 18th

Just a reminder the lab will be open to you on Sunday, March 18th from 5 to 10 pm. Linda Quigley and I will be available to help with your assignments during that period.

The assignment is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, March 20.

Photography resolution

I've found a couple of good tutorials on image resolution. Read them, but don't get stuck on the math. Try to understand the concept, and we will talk about it more on Thursday.

Tutorial 1-photographer J. Nevins

Tutorial 2-Vivid Light guide

Tutorial 3-"Dummies Guide to Resolution"

Cornell University has a site that explains resolution, file formats, and compression.
Link

Thanks to Michael Krouskop

I enjoyed class Thursday, and was delighted to hear about Michael's varied career as a photographer. Here's a link to his Web site so you can see more of his photography:

deluxelight.com

blue eyes magazine

This is another very interesting documentary photography site. I find it inspiring.

LINK

--and one more from a consortium that includes the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

LINK

Best of Photojournalism

This site has winning web, still, and video photojournalism.

Careers in photojournalism

This is a good resource from the National Press Photographers Association.

LINK

Assignment for Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007

Right click title to download.

What is photojournalism?

Mark Hancock, a newspaper photojournalist, asks and answers the question:

What is a photojournalist?

A journalist tells stories. A photographer takes pictures of nouns (people, places and things). A photojournalist takes the best of both and locks it into the most powerful medium available--a single frozen image.

Photojournalists capture "verbs."

Read more of his insights here

Top 10 Internet Tools for College Students

Here is a helpful link for you: the top 10 internet tools for college students.

click here

NewsVine

I just discovered a new news website that has great interactivity. It is much nicer to look at than google news, but has some similarities.

www.newsvine.com

design=reporting 101

Check out Jamila Robinson's Web site. As the home editor and a home designer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she has great thoughts on news and design for newspapers. Go to her handouts page and download some of her tips.

Brush your teeth with your other hand

"To shift your brain, brush your teeth with the other hand." Josh Awtry, assistant managing editor for presentation at Salt Lake City Tribune, says to do such a routine task in a new way can be translated to many other things in your life (except shaving!) particularly thinking about telling stories in new ways. Interesting. THINK.

SND conference

OK, you thought we were just being nice by giving you this nippy February day to work on your assignment for Tuesday? You're wrong! We are in snowy Lansing, Michigan, at a Society of News design conference. The first session was "ALTs Rock" -- ALTs being alternative story forms. The second was "The Short Form Gospel,"again looking at new ways to think about story and to present it so it's both informative and interesting. We are learning a lot of really cool stuff we will bring back and share with you. As we hear about cool links I will post them.

Here are the first two--

Design Hawg
Josh Awtry

2/06/06 assignment/lecture

lecture
assignment

Design Magazines

I have placed some Communication Arts and How Magazines on the bookshelves in the Vision office. Feel free to use them, but please don't take them out of the office.

On Tuesday after class--from 12:30 until 1:30--I am working with anyone interested in learning more about Quark. Let me know after class if you are interested. We will be working in the Vision office on the Macs.

Some software, training sites

Quark tips and tutorials
The Official Quark site
Don't forget you can get student discounts on most software.
Creation Engine - my favorite online software store. They cater solely to the education market.
Lynda.com-A great training site for all kinds of software. You pay $25 per month and get unlimited access to training videos.
The organic grid - an article about grids and design.