Here 'tis

This is the meeting place for the design a week for the summer challenge. This is just a preliminary message to anchor the blog. I have made a flickr group here, http://www.flickr.com/groups/1087902@N25/ that should take you to the group page. I made an assumption about this, I assumed that everyone is 18+ so I made the group 18+ for extra creative freedom.

I would like to say a few things about my ideas for this project; I don't expect that all of these designs will be polished and perfect. If nothing else, I expect that will be an opportunity to shake out our bad designs without our GPA on the line. The prompts will be simple, sometimes vague, but completely open to interpretation. The important part of this exercise is to get an appropriate response to your intent in your design, not to find the perfect response to the prompt. Keep in mind, we are only taking a week to finish these solutions, so try to figure out your intent as soon as possible.

An idea that I have been kicking around for this project is a possible reward for participating for every week. It isn't really a reward in the sense of getting fabulous cash prizes, but a reward of controlling the final product of this challenge. I would like to put together a book that represents the work from this project and I feel that it is only fair that those who participated all the way through get a say in it. I am not certain how that would be handled, but we have time to work it out.

As for the logistics of the challenge, I was thinking that I will give the first prompt sunday the fourteenth and the first design will be due the next saturday, the twentieth. And it will follow in that manner, sunday prompt and saturday deadline until it ends. I would like this to go at least as long as summer term, butI think that it would be best to go until fall term. We could break it into two challenges as well.

I was thinking that using the 8x10 size would be convenient because most of our printers won't print bigger than 8.5x11 and it would make them read better in book format if we are going to use tabloid sheets.

Typing this, I realized how serious I sound. I feel that it is important to have a single person to organize this project. I would like to say, however, that I do not intend to take the role of instructor or judge. I just want to get this going and provide the prompts and whatever else pops up.

I hope that everyone is okay with this and if not, please leave a comment.