What's the POINT

A big well done to everyone for their efforts to put on an excellent end of year show!

Don't forget to finish off your blog postings for the final chapters of our reading and reflections on that as we discussed in class.

Please check the timetable and be available to take your work home on Monday Nov 9.

many thanks

Julie

Minutes from End of Year Exhibition Meeting – 22 October 2009

Staff Present: Sarah Pirrie, Carole Wilson, Peter Houtmeyers, Bobbie Ruben, Leon Stainer, Marlene Kranz, Katherine Racines

Students Present: Amy

Discussion Points:

• High School Group e-mail invitations – Katherine to draft e-mail
• Three POINTS:
• See the Exhibition (tours by Staff)
• Meet the Artists (student floor talks and demonstrations)
• Creative Arts courses and careers (speak to lecturers)
• POINT web banner to be e-mailed to art organisations for distribution to their mailing lists. This includes:
• DVAA
• 24 HR Art
• Arts NT
• Ausdance
• Northern Editions
• Community Arts
• Tracks
• Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre
• MAGNT
• Prizes – Staff to confirm prizes and winners
• On opening night:
• Associate Professor Bill Wade – Introduction and Welcome
• Karen Brown from Karen Brown Gallery – Guest speaker
• Marlene has been contacted by ABC. They will film a documentary on shoe making, hopefully on opening night.
• Professional photographer to be hired to capture photos of artwork, exhibition spaces, etc.
• Catering is confirmed. This includes a paid bar.
• Students to do poster and flier runs around campus and around town.
• DVAA logo was left out of marketing material, however will appear in the NT News advertisements this Saturday and next Wednesday.
• All tracking well!

Next Meeting: 12pm, Thursday 29^th October

Countdown to the exhibition...

It’s show time and as you will all be aware we are going to need a concerted team effort to complete the last assessment item of the year – the successful design, production and execution of the end of year exhibition. We will need to use all our skills in collaboration to achieve a successful end result

Individual activities and things we need to do

Personal content for the graphic design exhibition – Bill Wade, our head of school is asking for 7 individual portfolio pieces from which we can select content for the show. These 7 pieces need to come to class Tuesday October 20.

Here are a few key dates

Thursday 15 October – Deckchair cinema advertising delivered

Friday 16 October – Shane / Peter / Julie – start banner printing, priority to pieces that need finishing for installation

Monday 19 October – A3 posters arrive – students will need to take some, individually, and start putting them up

Tues 20 October – collaboration class, last chapter of reading and wrap up of the blog / reading – students bring in initial selection of work for show

Wednesday 21 October – Brochure/poster delivered to CDU office – sent out to invited guests. Students to pick up an amount to distribute to their friends, potential employers and guests

T- shirts to be screen printed – we need volunteers to help – see Tim or Bobbie

Thurs 22 October – ­3D / content ­ - finalise and publish content for web – including Bee/Bec documentary trailer, print, finish and begin installation of banners

Friday 23 October – Photography exhibit installed upstairs hallway

Tuesday 27 Oct – install banners, navigation system, material, lanterns …

Wed 28­ October all students to finish installation of personal artwork for display in studio

Thurs 29 – We open at 6:00 – you all need to be here by 12:00 to finish off anything that remains

Monday 2 November ­ - 12:00 GD/MM workshop and discussion in Design studio – all students will need to be here for lunch hour to meet potential students and be available to talk about their work.

Friday November 6 – 5:00 pm Take down work/banner/navigation system and remove from CDU - all students will need to be here to help

Monday November 9 ­ - assessment finalised

Have we forgotten anything.. please tell us!

Cheers julie and peter

END OF YEAR EXHIBITION OVERALL SCHEDULE

TUESDAY 20TH OCTOBER	-Printmaking Assessment 9-4pm - removing rubbish and excess furniture from building
WEDNESDAY 21ST OCTOBER	-Fibre /Textiles assessment 1-4pm -T-shirt printing 9am-12 (volunteers needed) - removing rubbish and excess furniture from building
THURSDAY 22ND OCTOBER	-Sculpture painting gallery and installation -Invitations to be delivered to venues around town (volunteers needed) -T-shirt printing 9am-12 (volunteers needed) - removing rubbish from building
FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER	-Photography installation - All student artwork not in exhibition should be removed from buildings
MONDAY 26TH OCTOBER	-Printmaking clean up and painting -Architecture installation of panels in theatre
TUESDAY 27TH OCTOBER	-Printmaking installation
WEDNESDAY 28TH OCTOBER	-Fibre/Textiles installation in theatre -Architecture installation in sculpture studio NB All exhibitions should be installed

Minutes from End of Year Exhibition Meeting – 15 October 2009

Staff Present: Bobbie Ruben, Carole Wilson, Julie Fairless, Peter Houtmeyers, Sarah Pirrie, Marianne Dyason, Katherine Racines

Students Present: Amy

Discussion Points:

· Catering numbers reduced to 250 people, based on number of students + 2 guests each

· Invitations will be ready by next Wednesday 21^st October

· Invitations to be sent ASAP – to be received by businesses Friday 23^rd or Monday 26^th

· 2000 invitations/posters to be distributed and 500 posters to be posted

· Label template – completed

· T-shirts have arrived for screen printing

· Security cameras in Orange 11 – Katherine to confirm with Security that they are working

· Opening Speaker – Potentially Karen Brown from Karen Brown Gallery

· Website – progress is slow – behind schedule – but it will be up by the start of the exhibition

· Lanterns on order – due to arrive next week

· Last minute sponsors will need to be acknowledged

· Work installation and clean-up dates:

o Thursday, 15^th Oct – Sculpture studio clean up

o Tuesday, 20^th Oct – Printmaking clean up

o Thursday, 22^nd Oct – Sculpture

o Friday, 23^rd Oct – Photography

o Tuesday, 27^th Oct – Printmaking

o Wednesday, 28^th Oct – Fibre/textiles

· Lynley to contact schools

· Need student “runners” to post up posters and a list of places

· Prizes – staff to meet next week to discuss

Next Meeting: Thursday, 22^nd October, 12 noon – 1pm

Brochure / Poster

The artwork for the brochure and poster is complete and is being sent to Uniprint.

Thank you all for your individual and collective contribution to getting this out the door and onto the press.

Third year Fine art brochure

Jo Green has designed the following brochure for the third year fine art catalogue.

3D Navigation - designa nd collaboration

Students from 3D design - Simone, Deb and Bee.

Can you please organise your files, images and notes about the 3D navigation design of the exhibition - basically the work you presented at the Thursday meeting - in a format that will communicate your intent.

The architecture and design students, who you asked to help, are expecting to receive something tomorrow; they are in class between 9 and 1 in Purple 11.

Class schedule for the rest of the semester

–The assessment items for the clustered unit Collaboration and Origination is a successful delivery of the end of year exhibition and a blog that links the reading, The Laws of Simplicity, with your work and learnings
–Attendance – students require minimum 80% attendance to get competency for the course, if you have missed more than 2 classes you will need to put in some extra work towards the end of the semester. Classes will run right up to the exhibition date in 5 weeks which commences October 29th

Law 8: TRUST: As usual please answer the following questions as succinctly as possible in your own words, post results on your blog
–Provide an example of a situation where you have to have trust – in the same vein as the author in his swimming lesson example. What made you trust in this situation and how did you feel?
–Where in our exhibition do we need to instill trust? Give examples. How are we going to achieve this?
–What strategies are used to instill trust? Examples? Where do we need to employ this in Point? How are we going to do this?
–If you could “undo” any aspect of the preparation for the exhibition to-date, what would you “undo”? With this in mind, what would would you change now in your preparation strategy to overcome having to “undo” anything?
Homework: How are you using the laws in relation to your contribution to The Point exhibition? Provide a short explanation and example for each of the laws so far. Use your work towards and your examples.

Minutes from Meeting - 1 October 2009

Staff Present: Bobbie Ruben, Carole Wilson, Julie Fairless, Peter Houtmeyers, Amy Zwetsloot, Katherine Racines, Catriona Stanton

Students Present: Simone, Amy [Big thank you to Simone for doing an amazine job selling the exhibition design idea!]

Discussion Points:

· More sponsors/donations acquired – Adzu ($500), Sprout, Cross Cultural Art Exchange ($250)
· Stan at E-print has offered free banner printing through Simone
· Catering still under negotiation
· Ideally, cut-off date for logo submission – Friday 2nd Oct or next Tuesday/Wednesday – to allow time for them to be included on promo material
· Website homepage is live http://point.cdu.edu.au
· Draft of invitation/poster looks great
· Navigation system will include plenty of banners, cloth, floor stickers, lanterns
· White lanterns from Spartys - $9.00ea. Total cost for 27 is $243. Lanterns will need to be painted.
· Fabric costing - ??
· Require 80 x t-shirts for each student involved
· T-shirts will be printed on campus
· Opening speaker – Carole to invite VC to open the exhibition
· Deckchair Cinemas has agreed to play a trailer - $33 for two weeks

Next Meeting: Thursday, 8th October, 12 noon – 1pm

press release

Corporate communications and Carole are collaborating to create a press release

Press release part 2

Corporate Communications are working with Carole Wilson on a press release.

Press release

We need to start writing a press release... anyone willing to take up the challenge?

Minutes from End of Year Exhibition Meeting – 24 September 2009

Staff Present: Julie Fairless, Peter Houtmeyers, Bobbie Ruben, Katherine Racines

Discussion Points:
• Gold Sponsorship from Judith Trezise of Zise received!
• Need more sponsorships and donations.
• Website http://point.cdu.edu.au is in progress!
• First draft of homepage looks great.
• Peter and team are still awaiting content – images and 250 words about courses from students’ perspective.
• 1st October – “Off The Leash” will be released featuring “Point”.
• Peter and team will be working on a 10-second promotional animation.
• Sponsorship logos and electronic artwork – Julie to send Katherine the specifications, and Katherine to follow up with sponsors.
• Carole and Bobbie to contact galleries for sponsorship.
• Australian Institute of Architecture has agreed to sponsorship.
• T-shirt quote $9.50ea. How many t-shirts do we require?
• Planning and finalisation of “navigation system”. Mapping of journey from start to finish. Considerations include banners, how many, where, number of ushers, etc.
• Idea of lanterns to mark paths. Costing?
• Architecture students to help with this planning.
• Who will open the exhibition?
• Deadlines approaching for advertising and publications.

Next Meeting: Thursday, 1st October, 12 noon – 1pm

http://point.cdu.edu.au

Congratulations we are live, with a holding page.
Well done to everyone who contributed to getting this up there.
By the time Off the Leash is published, October 1, we need a functioning web site.
Thanks to all who have been posting and working with Google docs.
It's going to be busy from now until we open on October 29.

Things to do ...

Greetings collaborators,
Please read the previous post which has notes from the last exhibiting meeting.
Collectively and individually you will all need to start making notes about what has to be done in order to achieve a professional end of year show.
These notes will need to be compiled into a single document - think Maeda's SLIP - on Google docs and deseminated to the group.
We will need comprehensive plans that detail what has to be achieved, how and by whom....?
Please bring this collated and collaborated information to class on Tuesday 15.
Cheers Julie

Minutes from End of Year Exhibition Meeting: 3 -9 - 2009

Staff Present: Carole Wilson, Julie Fairless, Peter Houtmeyers, Bobbie Ruben, Marlene Kranz, Sarah Pirrie, Marianne Dyason, Katherine Racines

Students Present: Ryan, Amy, Andy, Andre, Nena

Discussion Points:

· Sponsorship Commitment Levels finalised – Set values: Gold $500+, Silver $250, Bronze $100
· Final Sponsorship / Donation Letter to be emailed out to staff
· Julie and her students have worked hard on the “Point” logo/image
· They will be making the display advertisement submission to “Off The Leash” today!
· Label Template – to maintain consistency of labelling, all to use this template to label individual work
· Labels – investigate idea of clear labels, Jac paper
· Content for website must be sent to Peter by 17th September. That is, any current digital photos, PDFs, blurbs, etc.
· Art students will meet with each discipline area to take photos for the website, however we may consider the option of hiring a photographer
· Artist’s Workshops – to be held every lunchtime (12 noon – 1pm) during the exhibition period
· Artists’s Workshops – Who, when, where:
Thursday 29th –
Friday 30th – Fashion, Fashion Room
Monday 2nd – Multimedia & Graphic Design, TBC
Tuesday 3rd –
Wednesday 4th – Third Year Students, Gallery
Thursday 5th –
Friday 6th –
· Catering – Bobbie and Carole yet to meet with Wendy Schubert
· Allocation of space to be confirmed but this is the plan so far:

Architecture/Design ................ Theatre
Third Year Fine Arts................ CDU Gallery
Second Year Fine Arts ............ Studio outside Carole’s office
Fashion.................................... Fashion Lab & hanging high in stairwell
Multimedia .............................. Design Studio (upstairs)
Photography............................. Upstairs Hallway
Sculpture................................. Sculpture Studio (downstairs)
Fibre/textiles............................ Large drawing studio (upstairs)
Graphic Design........................ Large studio (upstairs)
Printmaking.............................. Printmaking spare room (Building 9)
Honours................................... TBC
TBA........................................ Hallway (downstairs)
TBA........................................ Honours studios & area
The Bank Projection ................ TBC

Next Meeting: Thursday 17th September, 12 noon – 1pm

Announcing ... POINT, the logo

A big thank you to everyone for their considerable contributions and effort to get the new logo designed and ready for production. I realise it was a bit of a step learning curve at times ... welcome to the real world - where design actually has to communicate conceptually, visually and as be delivered to a client! You all collaborated and did it! Well done.

POINT - Identity and ad

We are trying to secure a full page ad to be published in Off the Leash - Anne Walter is negioting this. The deadline for the artwork is Tuesday September 1 - end of business.

I will find out the details of this today and let you all know.

Can we all come with ideas and energy Tuesday morning as we will need to deliver some ideas that we can apply and use for this project.

Bec and Leanne - thank you for all your considerable efforts last week - we will wrap it up tomorrow.

cheers julie

Minutes from End of Year Exhibition Meeting – 20 August 2009

Staff Present: Sarah Pirrie, Julie Fairless, Bobbie Ruben, Marlene Kranz, Marianne Dyason, Peter Houtmeyers, Anne Walter, Katherine Racines, Carole Wilson

Students Present: Amy, Ryan, Jo, Andre, Supaporn, Ailsa, Debbie, Simone, Bec

Discussion Points:

· Exhibition name changed to ‘POINT’. This is to allow focus on individual discipline areas, for example Multimedia Point, Fashion Point, etc. and it ties in with the idea of a creative arts circuit on CDU campus.

· Date of opening night changed to Thursday, 29^th October 2009, due to conflict with 24HR Art Exhibition on Friday, 30^th October 2009.

· Instead of 12 sponsorship letters, one sponsorship letter to be composed that details all discipline area exhibitions.

· Letter is to include details of sponsorship rankings – Gold, Silver, and Bronze, and also the benefits the sponsor will receive, for example Gold sponsorships will get a large logo banner, etc.

· Sponsorship letter to be forwarded to Anne so the CDU Foundation can review and approve.

· Potential sponsors list – all lists to be sent to Bobbie to collate and divide.

· Each student group will be given a list of businesses to approach for sponsorship, taking advantage of any direct contacts known by students.

· Julie and her students are working on a set of graphic designs for the exhibition. This is expected to be completed soon as advertising deadlines are approaching.

· Deadline for Off The Leash event listing is Tuesday, 1^st September. Basic Event Listing has a 60 word limit.

· Eilsa has a direct contact at Off The Leash who she will approach for free advertising, if not discounted.

· Prizes – staff to discuss prize sources

· Letter to be sent to Facilities requesting access and use of various CDU areas. Internal Non Teaching Room Booking Request forms to be completed and submitted.

· Security must be considered. Perhaps students to be given the responsibility to check exhibition areas on a regular basis.

· In next meeting, allocation of space to be discussed.

Next Meeting: Thursday 27^th August, 12 noon – 1pm

Minutes from End of Year Exhibition Meeting – 13 August 2009

Staff Present: Sarah Pirrie, Julie Fairless, Tim Growcott, Marlene Kranz, Katherine Racines

Students Present: Rebecca, Bee, Supaporn, Deb

Discussion Points:

Businesses/Donations/Sponsorship

• Gift Form and Donation Acknowledgments were distributed

• Every student to distribute these to acquire donations
• Donors can opt for their name to be published in a list of donors
• Students to collaborate in class to compile a list of potential businesses for sponsorship and donations
• To avoid doubling up, this information is to be collated and then divided so it can be decided who will approach who
• Students to build relationships with businesses and get contacts to approach for sponsorship/donations
• Direct contacts are good – who do you know?
• Katherine to get contact details of past sponsors
• Some businesses may give free advertising, such as Deckchair Cinemas, Birch Carroll & Coyle, some may give discounted printing, such as Colemans Printing who have done so in the past, or other donations
• CDU Foundation to receipt all donations of any amount for tax deductibility. Best if sponsor gives credit card details or a cheque.

Exhibition Letters

• Students to draft a standard letter for sponsorship – aim to complete by next Wednesday for review and finalisation
• Sarah will send an example to students
• Letter should allow for paragraphs to be added specific to exhibition
• Define what the business will get if they sponsor, including any promotional benefits
• Aim for 11 letters – one for each exhibition, plus one general letter for Point to Point
• Need to start sending out letters next week

Catering

• Must use Schubert’s catering –estimated cost for 500 people is $4500, need to negotiate a deal

Advertising

• Advertising costs – estimated $1,500, which includes:
• Display Ad in NT News (3 columns x 10cm) - $372
• Display Ad in Darwin Sun ~$200
• Advertising in Off The Leash - $750 for ½ page advert, event listing is FREE, Spotlight Listing is selected based on the merit of the basic listing submission

POINT TO POINT - IDEAS FOR IDENTITY

We are now entering a phase in which we will all need to be incredibly creative and productive. We will be putting into practice some of the ideas discussed in our readings especially around the Law 3.... time.

Everybody needs to bring 10 different ideas for the visual solution for our logo. Ideas need to be considered in relation to our class discussion on Tuesday.

The logos need to be completed to a standard that shows us your intent - this includes type, colour and scale. Logos should be coherent, conceptually and visually and will need to be posted on your blog for evalution. 10 different ideas!

We will finalise the identity next week in order to meet the deadlines for our promotions which accompany the exhibition. It's going to be a busy few weeks. You will all need to be available to be working out of classroom hours - especially on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

Reading for Tuesday, Law 4 - learn. And apply it!

POINT TO POINT

We have a name ... thanks to all who contributed to the brainstorming and discussion sessions.

The end of year show will be called point to point.

We will be working on concepts for this starting this week, bring all your creative energy to class please.

I would also like to have the students who need to do the unit on creating content to come to Thursday's class - hopefully this week? please let me know if you can make it. If this is too short notice then lets go for next week.

Don't forget this week's reading is about .... time!

cheers julie

Link to 3d design blog

Greetings collaborators and orginators,

Please have a look at the research work the 3D class is working on, you will need to collaborate with them. It will also help you with your brain storming work for next week.

http://3d-designcertvi.blogspot.com/

For next week, read chapter 2 - The Laws of Simplicity. There will be a quiz on the content!

You will also need to bring along a mind map from your brain storming session around the parameters of what further info we need to know in order to design and organise the exhibition.

Peter will be away next week, however we will have class as normal. He needs to be kept up to date with what we are doing via your blog posts. He will be checking them out when he is on the road trip.

cheers julie

Follow this blog

Please can you all become followers of this blog, I will post notices and announcements for the class here.

Next class

We will investigate the functions of blogger, learn how to link blogs, subscribe to others blogs and add content in the form of text and image.