Interactive Guestbook

One of the guys at work showed me this link where a guy uses a wiimote and a laserpointer to create a giant tablet pc. I was thinking it would make a great guestbook! You have to first watch the video.

Interactive pen

Want to do some character study illustrations?

Hi peeps,

I'm interested in doing a series of 3-6 character studies. I thought for each character study, one person starts it off by doing the basic sketch plus any "inking" they want to do...then they hand it off to the 2nd person, who adds color and whatever else they want. That 2nd person would then turn around and do the original sketch + inking for the 2nd character study, "springboarding" off of the 1st character study. The end result should be a collection of character studies with an overall unifying "theme" of some kind (whether it be the colors used, or whatever, just...something), but with each of the collaborating pair being able to bring their own unique "take" to each facet of the process--whether it's the originating process of coming up w/the character and basic feel of the drawing, or the process of clarifying and interpreting the original drawing.

Let me share with you some of my inspiration for this idea (I'm not going to lie; I'm a fan of comic books/graphic novels; you'll see that in these links):

http://community.livejournal.com/killthehubble/
http://irtroit.com/category/art/
http://jou.livejournal.com/
http://dryponder.livejournal.com/

...

The above is inspiration only. We can go in crazier directions.

I'm also cool with doing all of the original drawings if someone feels like only adding the "extras"--which could be photo scans, texture, layers of images, watercolor, ANYTHING! You can go traditional, far-out, or anything inbetween. I'm open.

When is the next C0-lab show, btw?

Pecha Kucha

Hey everyone,
After the meeting last night here's some info on the nest Pcha Kucha night in SF. '[It], Vol. 20 will be hosted on December 18th at 330 Ritch.Theme is "Threshold".' Here's the link if you want more info. I think we should go as it's after finals and would get everyone on the same page as to what some of the ideas were.

Art-Crates

Hey guys,

I'm living out here in Boston right now, but that doesn't I can't make some stuff for this next show.

Anyways, have you guys heard of The Postal Service? That whole ablum was made by Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello utilizing the "postal service" to send beats and vocals back and forth to each other. On that note, I want to start a project with whomever is interested in making a piece utilizing snail mail.

A few ideas I have:
- was for someone to design an "art-crate" (a nice fancy cardboard box for shipping our work back and forth which will be on display too; of course it will have a nice big Co/Lab logo stamped on it). As for how many people, pieces, mail, and distance covered will be up to how ambitious we are.
- send "art-crates" to artistically conscious people to fill it with something awesome and ship it back to the show. A good way for those that have graduated and moved far, far away to still be active.
- ship "art-crates" to random people, the crates themselves will be the work. Also maybe send a shit-ton of them to one location at the same time!

Okay...I have used all of my brain-power for today and also it is time for me to get off work.

Let me know what you guys think...

-Semar

Blurb: Self-Service Publishing

Hey guys,

I don't know if you guys in Davis are getting ready for round 2 of the Collab or not, but Tracy twittered this site www.blurb.com and it's basically a self-publishing service that lets you print your own books for a relatively cheap price. After thinking of all the books that I wanted to print from my Design classes, I thought of the Collab. If you guys are still thinking of doing the Collab Process book from last year, this would definitely be a good place to do it.

From how I picture it, we would put the book together on InDesign or whatever, then have Blurb print one copy of softcover and one of hardcover as our "proof" to see how they look. We could fix whatever little things from the proof and print a bunch of copies for other Collabers to purchase as well as anyone who wants to buy it. This will no doubt take about a few months to put together and work through, but if we do this quick enough, we could have the mass copies printed about a month or two before the next Collab Show (assuming that it's held in May again) and sell them as a way of publicizing the next show, much like how the TV and film industries sell DVDs of the previous series movie or season right before the next one comes out or premieres!

So yeah, what do y'all think?

-Ivan

Davis To Pecha Kucha, Take 2

Anyone interested in Pecha Kucha next Tuesday? The theme is "close".

Typophile Film Fest 4 // October 25, San Francisco

party + typographic short films = fun
who's down?

One more thing, for anyone still in school (or still learning?). =)

cut and paste

This looks interesting. Anyone wanna go?

Designer Hangout

Hey guys, there's this AIGA organized event for designers (you DON'T have to be an AIGA member) at Zeitgeist, a bar in SF on 9/20, 6:30-8pm. It's just some place that AIGA points to every month so designers would have a predetermined known place to gather and hang out and chill and do whatever. I would like to go if there are a bunch of design people I know (y'all) going as well. Sorry for those who are not 21 yet, but AIGA does this every month, so I'm sure we could do something like this in the future. More information here: http://www.aigasf.org/events/event_lounge.html

Calling all Co/Lab'ers

Whats up folks? We are almost back in school (for those of us still in school) and this means we should think about kicking back into gear. I am willing to hold meetings at my place or facilitate meetings at some common place, like maybe somewhere on campus? I am really excited to start up projects again. Anyone else? Bueller?

Camping Trip? Healdsburg?

Hi, I just thought I'd suggest a weekend to go on a Co/LAB trip. How about in 2 weeks, Leave friday evening, August 17, and stay till sunday august 19? That way it'll be only a week into Summer session II and hopefully not interfere with work, school, etc.

So how about it? Suggestions for places to camp? or if we can go to healdsburg again Clayton? :)

Graphics

Anyone interested in doing some kind of small graphics project(s) this summer? Let's get some brainstorms going. If anyone is interested I can set up a get together at my house and we can have food, drinks, and hang out and talk about potential projects very informally. Contact over this blog works too. I would like to get something started with Co/Lab soon, however small.

Pecha Kucha night in SF

Hey, I don't remember if I ever told you guys about Pecha Kucha. It's a great casual show where anyone arts/design/archtecture/etc related gets 20 slides for 20 sec apiece to show their work. It's really relaxed - It's typically held in a club/bar with people eating and drinking and having a good time. I've been to the one in Tokyo, but we should go see the one in SF.

It's every month and the next show July 25th. We should check it out 'cause it'd be lots of fun. It'd be even better we went as a group and showed what we did for CO/Lab. It's something they'd love to see!
http://www.pechakucha-sf.com/

Here we go!

Hi there! I hope you all are having an excellent summer thus far - I know I am. Things with the Co/LAB have been somewhat on hold since our show, and I apologize for falling behind on the momentum. I'm still trying to get things together and pick up the pace for planning our next show. To be quite honest, with everyone in different places (myself especially) I'm having dificulty visualising what exactly to do next. Setting up this new blog is not to put last year's blog out of commission but repurposed for a fresh start in everyone's minds, with updated contributors and new posted work.

So, to begin: ProcessBook. Please round up all of your documentation of the show; video, photographs, sketches, etc. If you could make a digital copy for us to archive, that would be best. Who's in?!? *raises hand*

Milan