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Welcome back students! How about some design quotes to kick off our first week back to school?

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Helpful AfterEffects Tutorials

Download here: http://adobe.ly/1iWWFdo

Getting Started

Workspaces in AfterEffects

Creating Compositions

Crash course in AfterEffects

Animations

Changing Anchor Points and Shape Layers

Introduction to Kinetic Typography

Basic Typography Animations

How to Add Music into a Composition

Exporting from AfterEffects

Exporting to QuickTime

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Resources on Portfolio Building

What to Put in Your Portfolio

How to Build It

Where to Build It

Clam Shell Boxes

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Everything you wanted to know about hand built books

Making a Text Block

Japanese Stab Binding

Coptic Stitch Binding

Making a Book Press

Hard Cover Binding

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Motion Graphic by Mark Beninati - Graphic Design Process Show

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Please join us for a night of pizza, process and design!

For directions click here!

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Here are some shots from Saturday setting up the show!

The Show opens March 13th in Dugan Gallery at UMass Lowell 5-7pm

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Close up of the Process Wall

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Before, During and After Process Wall!

There was a date change for the show! The Graphic Design Process show opens March 13. Hope to see you there!

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Mark Saffie created this poster for the show!

The show will be March 3 at Dugan Hall, UMass Lowell!

Check out the website for more details!

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What is graphic design? Its all about the process! 

Come to the show The Graphic Design Process. Opening March 13th, 2014 in Dugan Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. 

[Edit Show Date Changed to March 11, 2014]

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The Lost Type Co-op provide the opportunity for users to pay whatever they like for a font, even $0

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UMass Lowell's Student chapter has begun working on the student show in March. Brandy and Kristin talk about how to design the show, from branding to installation.

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Why I Love Design

The pictures above are from the AIGA BoNE Show (Best of New England). Six months ago I would have cried curled up into a ball and try to change my major. I didn’t really understand what design was. I thought it was making images using photoshop that’s why I went to college, but there so much more in depth and beauty. But today I was inspired and I remembered why I didn’t quit design when my world came crashing down.

Design is revolutionary. And I mean that literally. 360 degrees. Nothing is new, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a complete blast. I saw so much that was do-able. If one just pays attention you can become an expert in design and marketing. Pay attention to trends and articles, read blogs and take notes. We’ve done white-space, clean cut, minimal, and then we’ve gone in the complete opposite direction where ever thing is loaded with something. Things are on slants, we broke the grid and not its sitting on the ground. It is limitless. And it is so cool when one realizes that.

I love design because I love plans. I love things that fit neatly and that starts at face value and plunges into clever meanings and concepts, but I love to say fuck you I do what I want and the concepts become more abstract and the form takes the lead over the function. I’ve posted a few of my favorite artists that were in the show. I hope to get in next year if AIGA Boston will have me, but until then I will write and create and be inspired by the home grown talent. 

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We're kicking off the planning stages for The Graphic Design Process Show!