2011/6/13

1. Check the cooperation and plan for class From the last week, ensure the plan for class.

- Summer School
…Check the number of students who is willing to go to the Summer School. Participate as a supporter for students from Tohoku. Stay for one month in Seoul,Korea. Prepare the presentation afterwards.

- Italy
…Check the progress of video production for our website in University of San Marino, Italy (St. Mario University)

- UNICEF
…Christmas Project Description for project participants to make Christmas ornaments. Also, there is a bus tour around December for students who is willing to visit Tohoku.

- Mizuguchi Tetsuya　
…Description to participate in a workshop held by Mizuguchi Tetsuya at Musabi Shinjuku Satellite during the next semester. Plan to create a promotional video for Eastern Japan. The class will participate as a supporter.

- Documentation of Tohoku
…SThe class will participate in JAGDA's project by Nagai Kazuhumi to communicate the current situation in disaster area. Receive the information of Tohoku area and make it useful for our website as a source. Based on the directions that he will give us, the project will start around July. by next year of March, three books per 100pages, will be published in three different series. We organize the information, things asked by designers in Tohoku, help them uploading their information, translate in English or Japanese, and actually visit Tohoku area for interviews, if possible. Furthermore, the students who have their families in that area, could possibly be the partners for project and ask them for the interview.

- Check the roles Discuss about what they have been doing in past month.

2. Research

Two pairs prepared a small presentation on Mizuguchi Tetsuya, FABRICA, JAGDA, Nagai Kazuhumi, and Mizuguchi Tetsuya.

- Mizuguchi Tetsuya

Born in 1965, Hokkaido, Japan. Creator and producer of Q Entertainment Inc. as a co-founder and president, chief creative officer. Part-time faculty of art department in Japan University and media design department in graduate school of Keio University and visiting faculty of Kanezawa Insititute of Technology. Share common concept of combining visual senses of music and video. Well known in aboard as a game creator. Also, work as a music producer and songwriter for music unit of "Genki Rockets". Created one of his main work "Space Channel 5" at Sega i 1990. It is the music game where it has the comical and pop setting with musical, singing, dialogue, dance, and comical elements. It was his first of fusion-oriented music and game which continues afterward. The character in the game "Urara" , used in the CM for the U.S. MTV "MTV award 2000" . Michael Jackson also appears as a character of "Space Michael".

"Rez" is the shooting game of music game with the setting of computer world. Spin the music with the music operation and the player feel pleasant as if they are playing the music. Awards: Honorary Mention of Prix Ars Electronica Interactive Arts category in Europe, 2002/ Grand Prix award for sound design and digital content sector in Japan METI entertainment/ special prize of Japan Media Arts Other representative works include "Sega Rally Championship", "Lumines" and "N3".

In 2006, selected as the "Digital 50" of the U.S. producer association (PGA). (one notable producer in the world digital system of 50) Begin the music unit of "Genki Rockets" as a producer and creates the hybrid of music and visual representation.

In 2010, held the live performance using as a #D light-emitting diode in collaboration with Sony. It was the first time of showing the live 3D music video of "make.believe". Other works include,

2002 J-phone (Softbank in present) interface design

2009 docomo prime series "N-07" sound design (design director as Kashiwa Sato)

URL：mizuguchi.biz/v2/html/

- FABRICA

International Creative Lab established by Luciano Benetton in 1994, Italy.

It supports the rich creativity of young artists from all around the world, in new ways of communication by collaborating the culture and industry. Eligibility is granted to creators under the age of 25, in worldwide. The scholarship students selected among the applicants, where they actively practice to learn for one year.

Composed by eight departments of Graphic Design/Photography/ New Media(Web)/ Design/ Music/

Film&Cinema/ Comic/ Design Managazine (COLORS)

For young creators of FABRICA, We asked to provide the innovative ideas based on the social needs highlighted by the earthquake. The ideas will be introduced on the web site.

URL：www.fabrica.it/

- JAGDA

Japanese graphic design association. Having a common language of visual expression, spread out Japanese design into the world but not limiting to social or professional areas.

The members include the chairman of Mistuo Katsui, the vice chairman, Kenya Hara, Shin Matsunaga and many other famous designers. The management committee include Kashiwa Sato and Kazuhumi Nagai.

Publications: Issue various publications on annual book of Japanese Graphic Design, Q&A, newsletter and many other.

URL：www.jagda.org/

- Kazuhumi Nagai
Born in 1961, Tokyo Japan. Graduated Tama Art University of design department in 1985. Worked as a art director, senior creative director at Hakuhodo. Established Hakuhodo Design Inc. in 2003 as a president. Activity include from strategy to advertising in total. Received Creator of the Year in 2004, and Tokyo ADC award in 2005. Through the activities of the project「disaster＋design」, expand the possibilities of design.
URL：www.h-plus-design.com/1st-earthquake/index.html

「TAP PROJECT」is to provide clean and safe water to the children around the world. Since the earthquake in Japan, changed its original destination of Madagascar, Africa to support the disaster area of eastern Japan.
URL：www.tapproject.jp/news/2011/earthquake/

3. Brush up from last assignment

-Video Team

Theme: "What would you do when the earthquake happens?"

Based on what they had from last class, they brush up the quality of video by focusing on story line. Assuming that the earthquake happened, captured Japanese people`s variety of reactions. The class suggested to change the angle of view on object, speed of each scenes and so on. Edit the video again based on the suggestions and complete it by Thursday.

- Group of two Web Teams

Theme: "What would you do when the earthquake happens?"

Based on what they had from last class, they brush up the quality of video by focusing on story line. Assuming that the earthquake happened, captured Japanese people`s variety of reactions. The class suggested to change the angle of view on object, speed of each scenes and so on. Edit the video again based on the suggestions and complete it by Thursday. Group of two Web Teams

4. Devision of Roles

Decide the members to contact AXIS, PechaKucha Night, FABRICA and ect. Also, decide the team members for overall direction (User interface), layout, graphic direction (Illustration, icon, logo, and color). Video team is continuously work on what they have been created from.