Time to Design Shirts for GDSA!

The screen printing field trip is on! We’re planning on having two trips, each a group of 15 people on Friday, October 19th, and Friday, October 26th. Both trips will be at 2pm at Giraphic Prints. YOU MUST BE A MEMBER OF GDSA TO PARTICIPATE! I’m going to organize a carpool with three drivers as the dates approach.

This will be an opportunity to tour a local screen printing shop, learn about the screen printing process, and hand pull your own shirt with this year’s design! All you have to do is bring your own shirt! As people sign up, I’ll post more details.

That being said, it’s time to choose a design for GDSA 2012-13! Designs should be vector.ai format and be only two color (pantones). You can think about what color shirt the design will work best on for a third color, but remember everyone might bring different colored shirts on the trip! (DO NOT INCLUDE “LSU” IN YOUR DESIGN, THERE’S A STRICT APPROVAL PROCESS WE WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH)

We’ll be voting and choosing a design for this year’s shirt at the October 3rd meeting. Bring your designs printed out.
Here’s a site to mock up your designs:
http://www.shirtmockup.com/

Harmen Liemburg Ultralight, Show in a Box Loyola Thursday Sept. 20th

Harmen Liemburg will be speaking at Loyola Thursday, September 20th at 12:00 p.m. followed by an exhibition opening at 5:00 p.m. Professor Doubleday and his graduate students will be heading to New Orleans for the events if you need a ride!

Ultralight box Construction

Ultralight show at UNCC

September 20th – October 18th
Opening Reception, Thursday September 20th, 5-7 p.m.
Intimate Walk Through of work in Diboll gallery: Thursday, September 20

The Ultralight : Show in a Box will offer 45 original screen print works by Harmen Liemburg installed in the Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery. This lecture and exhibition series will illustrate Liemburg’s concept of transforming of exhibition spaces through the use of printed matter, the Ultra Light Show in Box will re-invent itself at Loyola.

Harmen Liemburg (nl 1966) started his career as a cartographer. To keep his appetite for graphic representation alive, he sought a larger menu of expression. He went to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and became a member of a new breed of designers, one that is closely linked to the world of art, education and museums.

Liemburg is obsessed with screen printing, and uses the medium to create unexpected results. his style emphasizes the narrative aspect of images and theoccasional beauty of everyday vernacular like logos and packaging design, that are woven together through collage techniques.

His projects are primarily linked to the transformation of exhibition spaces through the use of printed matter. In his lectures and workshops he works to convince students to start working by turning off their computers, but simultaneously shows how to digital tools can be linked to analogue printing processes. Besides being a graphic designer and graphic artist, he’s also a design journalist, mainly for the dutch magazine items